2003年7月获北京大学环境科学学士学位，2008年7月获北京大学自然地理学博士学位，2008-2012年间先后赴美国俄克拉荷马大学和英国阿伯丁大学进行合作研究，2012年7月到中国科学院植物研究所工作，成立了高寒生态格局与过程研究组，2013年获得基金委“优秀青年科学基金”资助，2018年获得“国家杰出青年基金”资助，2024年获得杰青延续项目资助，连续5年入选“Elsevier中国高被引学者”。曾获“何梁何利基金科学与技术创新奖” “科学探索奖” “中国青年科技奖” “国务院政府特殊津贴” “青海省自然科学奖一等奖”等荣誉。担任植被与环境变化重点实验室主任、北京生态学学会理事长、中国生态学学会常务理事、中国植物学会/中国青藏高原研究会理事等学术职务；担任Journal of Plant Ecology共同主编，Journal of Integrative Plant Biology/《植物生态学报》副主编、Global Change Biology编委、National Science Review学科编辑工作组成员。培养博士和硕士研究生共17名，其中1名获基金委“优秀青年科学基金”资助，2名入选“博士后创新人才支持计划”，2名获“中国科学院院长特别奖”，1名获得全国生态学优秀博士学位论文，3名获得中国科学院优秀博士学位论文。

主要研究方向：

基于野外观测、控制实验、室内培养和模型模拟等手段，重点研究：(1)冻土生态系统碳氮磷循环；(2)生态系统对气候变暖的响应。本研究组每年招收博士和硕士研究生，热忱欢迎对上述研究方向感兴趣的同学申请或报考。

主持和参加的科研项目：

1. 国家杰出青年科学基金延续资助项目(32425004)，“全球变化生态学”，项目主持人，在研；
2. 国家重点研发计划项目(2022YFF0801900)，“我国冻土生态系统碳氮磷循环过程、机理及演化趋势”，项目主持人，在研；
3. 国家自然科学基金委员会卓越研究群体延续资助项目(32588202)，“生态系统对全球变化的响应”，项目骨干，在研；
4. 中国科学院战略性先导科技专项项目(XDA26020000)，“天然草地恢复技术与近顶极群落构建”，项目主持人，在研。

代表性论文(^#共同第一作者，*标记为通讯作者)：

2025

1. Gao XX^#, Zhang DY^#, Peng YF, Peñuelas J, Hautier Y, Loreau M, Niu YP, Yao ST, Wu Z, Li QL, Zhou LN, Liu Y, Liu XN, Wei B, Qin SQ, Song YT, Kang LY, Jiang L, Wang SP and Yang YH*, 2025. Grassland degradation alters plant and soil biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships. Nature Plants, doi: 10.1038/s41477-025-02147-x.
2. Li ZL, Kang LY, Wang L, Wanek W, Zhang DY, Wang GQ, Lambers H, Peñuelas J, Jiang MK and Yang YH*, 2025. Accelerated soil phosphorus cycling upon abrupt permafrost thaw. Nature Climate Change, 15: 1234-1240.
3. Qin SQ^#, Wang GQ^#, Zhang DY, and Yang YH*, 2025. Increased microbial carbon use efficiency upon abrupt permafrost thaw. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122: e2419206122.
4. Wei B, Zhang DY, Voigt C, Zhou W, Bai YX, Zheng ZH, Xie YH, Zhao CB, Wang FQ, Huang LY, Yang GB, Kou D, Peng YF, Luo YQ, Peñuelas J, and Yang YH*, 2025. Progressive decline in soil nitrogen stocks with warming in a Tibetan permafrost ecosystem. Nature Geoscience, 18: 997-1004.
5. Yang GB, Deng MF, Guo LL, Du EZ, Zheng ZH, Peng YF, Zhao CB, Liu LL, and Yang YH*, 2025. Characteristics of leaf nutrient resorption efficiency in Tibetan alpine permafrost ecosystems. Nature Communications, 16: 4044.
6. Huang LY, Qin SQ, Kou D, Ciais P, Xu XF, Peñuelas J, Xi Y, Yang GB, Song YT, Yao ST, Chang JF*, and Yang YH*, 2025. Spatiotemporal patterns of methane fluxes across alpine permafrost region on the Tibetan Plateau. Nature Communications, 16: 7474.
7. Bai YX, Peng YF, Zhang DY, Yang GB, Chen LY, Kang LY, Zhou W, Wei B, Xie YH, and Yang YH*, 2025. Heating up the roof of the world: tracing the impacts of in-situ warming on carbon cycle in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. National Science Review, 12: nwae371.
8. Zheng ZH, Zhao CB, Yang GB, Zhou W, Wei B, Xie YH, Peng YF, Chen LY, and Yang YH*, 2025. Partial offset of soil greenhouse gases emissions by enhanced vegetation carbon uptake upon thermokarst formation. National Science Review, 12: nwaf340.

2024

9. Wang GQ^#, Peng YF^#, Chen LY, Abbott BW, Ciais P, Kang LY, Liu Y, Li QL, Peñuelas J, Qin SQ, Smith P, Song YT, Strauss J, Wang J, Wei B, Yu JC, Zhang DY, and Yang YH*, 2024. Enhanced response of soil respiration to experimental warming upon thermokarst formation. Nature Geoscience, 17: 532-538.
10. Kang LY, Song YT, Mackelprang R, Zhang DY, Qin SQ, Chen LY, Wu LW, Peng YF, and Yang YH*, 2024. Metagenomic insights into microbial community structure and metabolism in alpine permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau. Nature Communications, 15: 5920.
11. Qin SQ, Zhang DY, Wei Bin, and Yang YH*, 2024. Dual roles of microbes in mediating soil carbon dynamics in response to warming. Nature Communications, 15: 6439.
12. Qin SQ^#, Fang K^#, Song YT, Kang LY, Wang SY, and Yang YH*, 2024. Linkage between temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition and microbial communities depends on soil fractions. Global Change Biology, 30: e17456.
13. Chen LY, Yang GB, Bai YX, Chang JF, Qin SQ, Liu FT, He M, Song YT, Zhang F, Peñuelas J, Zhu B, Zhou GY, and Yang YH*, 2024. Permafrost carbon cycle and its dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences, 67: 1833-1848.

2023

14. Yang GB, Zheng ZH, Abbott BW, Olefeldt D, Knoblauch C, Song YT, Kang LY, Qin SQ, Peng YF, and Yang YH*, 2023. Characteristics of methane emissions from alpine thermokarst lakes on the Tibetan Plateau. Nature Communications,14: 3121.
15. Li ZL^#, Xu WJ^#, Kang LY, Kuzyakov Y, Chen LY, He M, Liu FT, Zhang DY, Zhou W, Liu XN, and Yang YH*, 2023. Accelerated organic matter decomposition in thermokarst lakes upon carbon and phosphorus inputs. Global Change Biology, 29: 6367-6382.
16. He M, Li QL, Chen LY, Qin SQ, Kuzyakov Y, Liu Y, Zhang DY, Feng XH, Kou D, Wu TH, and Yang YH*, 2023.Priming effect stimulates carbon release from thawed permafrost. Global Change Biology, 29: 4638-4651.
17. Zhang DY, Wang L, Qin SQ, Kou D, Wang SY, Zheng ZH, Peñuelas J, and Yang YH*, 2023. Microbial nitrogen and phosphorus co-limitation across permafrost region. Global Change Biology, 29: 3910-3923.
18. Mao C^#, Song YT^#, Peng YF, Kang LY, Li ZL, Zhou W, Liu XN, Liu FT, Zhu GB, and Yang YH*, 2023. Patterns and drivers of anaerobic nitrogen transformations in sediments of thermokarst lakes. Global Change Biology, 29: 2697-2713.
19. Wei B, Zhang DY, Wang GQ, Liu Y, Li QL, Zheng ZH, Yang GB, Peng YF, Niu KC, and Yang YH*, 2023. Experimental warming altered plant functional traits and their coordination in a permafrost ecosystem. New Phytologist, 240: 1802-1816.
20. Bai YX, Peng YF, Zhou W, Xie YH, Li QL, Yang GB, Chen LY, Zhu B, and Yang YH*, 2023. SWAMP: A new experiment for simulating permafrost warming and active layer deepening on the Tibetan Plateau. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14: 1732-1746.

2022

21. Liu FT, Qin SQ, Fang K, Chen LY, Peng YF, Smith P, and Yang YH*, 2022. Divergent changes in particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon upon permafrost thaw. Nature Communications, 13: 5073.
22. He M, Fang K, Chen LY, Feng XH, Qin SQ, Kou D, He HB, Liang C, and Yang YH*, 2022. Depth-dependent drivers of soil microbial necromass carbon across Tibetan alpine grasslands. Global Change Biology,28: 936-949.
23. Feng XH, Qin SQ, Zhang DY, Chen PD, Hu J, Wang GQ, Liu Y, Wei B, Li QL, Yang YH*, and Chen LY*, 2022. Nitrogen input enhances microbial carbon use efficiency by altering plant-microbe-mineral interactions. Global Change Biology, 28: 4845-4860.
24. Li QL, Liu Y, Kou D, Peng YF*, and Yang YH*, 2022. Substantial non-growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region. Global Change Biology, 28: 5200-5210.
25. Yang YH^#, Shi Y^#, Sun WJ^#, Chang JF^#, Zhu JX, Chen LY, Wang X, Guo YP, Zhang HT, Yu LF, Zhao SQ, Xu K, Zhu JL, Shen HH, Wang YY, Peng YF, Zhao X, Wang XP, Hu HF, Chen SP, Huang M, Wen XF, Wang SP, Zhu B, Niu SL, Tang ZY, Liu LL, and Fang JY*, 2022. Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences, 65: 861-895.

2021

26. Qin SQ, Kou D, Mao C, Chen YL, Chen LY, and Yang YH*, 2021. Temperature sensitivity of permafrost carbon release mediated by mineral and microbial properties. Science Advances, 7: eabe3596.
27. Chen LY, Fang K, Wei B, Qin SQ, Feng XH, Hu TY, Ji CJ, and Yang YH*, 2021. Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales. Ecology Letters, 24: 1018-1028.
28. Yang GB, Peng YF, Abbott BW, Biasi C, Wei B, Zhang DY, Wang J, Yu JC, Li F, Wang GQ, Kou D, Liu FT, and Yang YH*, 2021. Phosphorus rather than nitrogen regulates ecosystem carbon dynamics after permafrost thaw. Global Change Biology, 27: 5818-5830.
29. Liu FT, Kou D, Chen YL, Xue K, Ernakovich JG, Chen LY, Yang GB, and Yang YH*, 2021. Altered microbial structure and function after thermokarst formation. Global Change Biology, 27: 823-835.
30. Chen YL^#, Liu FT ^#, Kang LY, Zhang DY, Kou D, Mao C, Qin SQ, Zhang QW, and Yang YH*, 2021. Large-scale evidence for microbial response and associated carbon release after permafrost thaw. Global Change Biology, 27: 3218-3229.

2020及以前

31. Kou D, Yang GB, Li F, Feng XH, Zhang DY, Mao C, Zhang QW, Peng YF, Ji CJ, Zhu QA, Fang YT, Liu XY, Xu-Ri, Li SQ, Deng J, Zheng XH, Fang JY, and Yang YH*, 2020. Progressive nitrogen limitation across the Tibetan alpine permafrost region. Nature Communications, 11: 3331.
32. Mao C, Kou D, Chen LY, Qin SQ, Zhang DY, Peng YF, and Yang YH*, 2020. Permafrost nitrogen status and its determinants on the Tibetan Plateau. Global Change Biology, 26: 5290-5302.
33. Qin SQ, Chen LY, Fang K, Zhang QW, Wang J, Liu FT, Yu JC, and Yang YH*, 2019. Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition governed by aggregate protection and microbial communities. Science Advances, 5: eaau1218.
34. Chen LY ^#, Liu L^#, Qin SQ, Yang GB, Fang K, Zhu B, Kuzyakov Y, Chen PD, Xu YP, and Yang YH*, 2019. Regulation of priming effect by soil organic matter stability over a broad geographic scale. Nature Communications, 10: 5112.
35. Zhang DY, Peng YF, Li F, Yang GB, Wang J, Yu JC, Zhou GY, and Yang YH*, 2019. Trait identity and functional diversity co-drive response of ecosystem productivity to nitrogen enrichment. Journal of Ecology, 107: 2402-2414.
36. Chen LY, Liu L, Mao C, Qin SQ, Wang J, Liu FT, Blagodatsky S, Yang GB, Zhang QW, Zhang DY, Yu JC, and Yang YH*, 2018. Nitrogen availability regulates topsoil carbon dynamics after permafrost thaw by altering microbial metabolic efficiency. Nature Communications, 9: 3951.
37. Ding JZ, Chen LY, Hugelius G, Liu L, Li YN, Qin SQ, Zhang BB, Yang GB, Li F, Fang K, Chen YL, Peng YF, Zhao X, Ji CJ, He HL, Smith P, Fang JY, and Yang YH^*, 2017. Decadal soil carbon accumulation across Tibetan permafrost regions. Nature Geoscience, 10: 420-424.
38. Li F^#, Peng YF^#, Natali SM, Chen KL, Han TF, Yang GB, Ding JZ, Zhang DY, Wang GQ, Wang J, Yu JC, Liu FT, and Yang YH^*, 2017. Warming effects on permafrost ecosystem carbon fluxes associated with plant nutrients. Ecology, 98: 2851-2859.
39. Peng YF, Li F, Zhou GY, Fang K, Zhang DY, Li CB, Yang GB, Wang GQ, Wang J, and Yang YH^*, 2017. Linkage of plant stoichiometry to ecosystem production and carbon fluxes with increasing nitrogen inputs in an alpine steppe. Global Change Biology, 23: 5249-5259.
40. Chen LY, Liang JY, Qin SQ, Liu L, Fang K, Xu YP, Ding JZ, Li F, Luo YQ, and Yang YH^*, 2016. Determinants of carbon release from the active layer and permafrost deposits on the Tibetan Plateau. Nature Communications, 7: 13046.
41. Ding JZ, Li F, Yang GB, Chen LY, Zhang BB, Liu L, Fang K, Qin SQ, Chen YL, Peng YF, Ji CJ, He HL, Smith P, and Yang YH^*, 2016. The permafrost carbon inventory on the Tibetan Plateau: a new evaluation using deep sediment cores. Global Change Biology, 22: 2688-2701.
42. Yang YH^*, Li P, Ding JZ, Zhao X, Ma WH, Ji CJ, and Fang JY, 2014. Increased topsoil carbon stock across China’s forests. Global Change Biology, 20: 2687-2696.
43. Yang YH^*, Fang JY, Ji CJ, Ma WH, Mohammat A, Wang SF, Wang SP, Datta A, Robinson D, and Smith P, 2012. Widespread decreases in topsoil inorganic carbon stocks across China’s grasslands during 1980s-2000s. Global Change Biology, 18: 3672-3680.
44. Yang YH^*, Ji CJ, Ma WH, Wang SF, Wang SP, Han WX, Mohammat A, Robinson D, and Smith P, 2012. Significant soil acidification across northern China’s grasslands during 1980s-2000s. Global Change Biology, 18: 2292-2300.
45. Yang YH, Fang JY^*, Ma WH, Smith P, Mohammat A, Wang SP, and Wang W, 2010. Soil carbon stock and its changes in northern China’s grasslands from 1980s to 2000s. Global Change Biology, 16: 3036-3047.
46. Yang YH, Fang JY*, Tang YH, He J-S, Ji CJ, Zheng CY, and Zhu B, 2008. Storage, patterns, and controls of soil organic carbon in the Tibetan grasslands. Global Change Biology, 14: 1592-1599.