1. The biogeographical pattern of soil microorganisms and their ecological mechanisms in response to environmental changes

2. Research on the core microbiome of dominant forest plant roots and its regulation on plant growth

Member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the CAS, 2021

1. Kai Fang, Na Tang, Jia Liu, Xiaoying Zhang, Heliang He, Wenqiang Zhao, Yongping Kou*, Qing Liu*, 2024. The influence of soil factors on protist community dynamics during plant succession in subalpine natural and planted forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 191: 109365.

2.Lin Xu^#, Yongping Kou^#, Wenjun Xiong, Chaonan Li, Ping Zou, Bingjie Jiao, Zhenfeng Xu, Bo Tan, Minjie Yao, Bingchang Zhang, Xiangzhen Li, 2023. Soil depths and developmental stages of biological soil crusts are more important than shrub cover in structuring prokaryotic communities. Catena 232: 107436.

3. Yang Lin, Jiangtao Xiao*, Yonging Kou*, Jiaxing Zu, Xinran Yu, Yuanyuan Li, 2023. Aboveground carbon sequestration rate in alpine forests on the eastern Tibetan Plateau: impacts of future forest management options. Journal of Plant Ecology 16(3): rtad001.

4. Kai Fang, Yan Jiao Liu, Wen Qiang Zhao, Jia Liu, Xiao Ying Zhang, He Liang He, Yongping Kou*, Qing Liu*, 2023. Stand age alters fungal community composition and functional guilds in subalpine Picea asperata plantations. Applied Soil Ecology 188: 104860.

5. Xiaoying Zhang, Wenqiang Zhao, Yongping Kou*, Kai Fang, Yanjiao Liu, Heliang He, Qing Liu*, 2023. The contrasting responses of abundant and rare microbial community structures and co-occurrence networks to secondary forest succession in the subalpine region. Frontiers in microbiology 14: 1177239.

6. Yongping Kou, Chaonan Li, Bo Tu, Jiabao Li, Xiangzhen Li*, 2023. The responses of ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms to different environmental factors determine their elevational distribution and assembly patterns. Microbial Ecology 86(1), 485-496.

7. Xiaoying Zhang, Wenqiang Zhao, Yongping Kou*, Yanjiao Liu, Heliang He, Qing Liu*, 2023. Secondary forest succession drives differential responses of bacterial communities and interactions rather than bacterial functional groups in the rhizosphere and bulk soils in a subalpine region. Plant and Soil 484(1-2), 293-312.

8. Xiaoying Zhang, Wenqiang Zhao, Yanjiao Liu, Heliang He, Yongping Kou*, Qing Liu*, 2022. Dominant plant species and soil properties drive differential responses of fungal communities and functions in the soils and roots during secondary forest succession in the subalpine region. Rhizosphere 21.

9. Yongping Kou, Wenqiang Zhao, Yanjiao Liu, Yanhong Wu, Jiangtao Xiao, Xiaohu Wang, Haijian Bing, Qing Liu*, 2021. Diversity pattern and divers of methanotrophic gene distribution in forest soils across a large latitudinal gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 2004-2015.

10. Yongping Kou, Yanjiao Liu, Jiabao Li, Chaonan Li, Bo Tu, Minjie Yao, Xiangzhen Li*, 2021. Patterns and drivers of nirK-Type and nirS-Type denitrifier community assembly along an elevation gradient. mSystems 6.

11. Yongping Kou, Kai Wei, Chaonan Li, Yansu Wang, Bo Tu, Junming Wang, Xiangzhen Li*, Minjie Yao*, 2020. Deterministic processes dominate soil methanotrophic community assembly in grassland soils. Geoderma 359: 114004.

12. Wenqiang Zhao^#, Yongping Kou^#, Xiaohu Wang, Yanhong Wu, Haijian Bing, Qing Liu*, 2020. Broad-scale distribution of diazotrophic communities is driven more by aridity index and temperature than by soil properties across various forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29(12): 2119-2130.

13. Haijun Liao, Chaonan Li, Yingwei Ai, Yongping Kou*, 2020. Gut microbiome is more stable in males than in females during the development of colorectal cancer. Journal of Applied Microbiology 131(1), 435-448.

14. Yanjiao Liu, Xiangzhen Li, Yongping Kou*, 2020. Ectomycorrhizal fungi: participation in nutrient turnover and community assembly pattern in forest ecosystems. Forests 11(4), 453.

15. Yongping Kou, Chaonan Li, Jiabao Li, Bo Tu, Yansu Wang, Xiangzhen Li*, 2019. Climate and soil parameters are more important than denitrifier abundances in controlling potential denitrification rates in Chinese grassland soils. Science of The Total Environment 669: 62-69.

16. Yongping Kou, Jiabao Li, Yansu Wang, Chaonan Li, Bo Tu, Minjie Yao*, Xiangzhen Li*, 2017. Scale-dependent key drivers controlling methane oxidation potential in Chinese grassland soils, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2017, 111: 104-114.

17. Yongping Kou, Kai Wei, Guanxiong Chen, Zhenyu Wang, Hui Xu*, 2015.  Effects of 3, 4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate and dicyandiamide on nitrous oxide emission in a greenhouse vegetable soil. Plant Soil and Environment 61(1): 29-35.

18. Yongping Kou*, Xiaoying Zhang, Wenqiang Zhao, Na Tang, 2022. Quantity and activity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria and their contribution to ammonia oxidation in farmland soil of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology 28(04):883-889.

19. Yanjiao Liu, Dandan Fan, Xiangzhen Li, Wenqiang Zhao, Yongping Kou*, 2020. Diversity and network features of fungal community in the soils of planted and natural Picea asperata forests. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology 32(4): 1441-1451.

20. Yanjiao Liu, Qing Liu, Heliang He, Wenqiang Zhao, Yongping Kou*, 2024. Characteristics of structural and functional changes of soil prokaryotic microbial communities in Picea asperata plantations of different ages in subalpine regions. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology Accept.