*corresponding author
2025
Wu, H., Yang, Q., Chen, J., Lu, M., Ren, W., Xiong, Y., ... & Kong, D. (2025). Divergent leaf-root coordination between mangroves and non-mangroves. Journal of Plant Ecology, rtaf023.
Vallicrosa, H., Fleischer, K., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Fernández-Martínez, M., Cerny, J., Tian, D., Kourmouli, A., Mayoral, C., Grados, D., Lu, M., Terrer, C. (2025) “Nitrogen deposition and climate drive plant nitrogen uptake while soil factors drive nitrogen use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems” EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3661.
2024
Ma, S., Lu, M., Yang, G. , Zhi, Y., Ouyang, Z., Huang, N. ,Zhou, C.* (2024) “Carbon-negative transition by utilizing overlooked carbon stock of landfills” The Innovation Geoscience
Jing X., Classen A. Li, D., Lin L., Lu, M., Sanders N.J., Wang, Y., Feng, W. (2024) “Unraveling microbial community structure-function relationships in the horizontal and vertical spatial dimensions in extreme environments” Ecography e07118
Lu, M.*, Wang, L.*, Wang, L., Guo, Q., Fei, S. (2024) “Shifts in ecological patterns under global changes” Landscape Ecology 39(4),1-7
Lu, M.*, Zhou, C., Wang, C., Jackson, R.B., Kempes, C.P.* (2024). “Worldwide scaling law of waste production in urban systems” Nature Cities, 1, 126-135
SFI Press, Phys.org, ScienMag, Wissenschaft.de, Techzle, WasteManagementReview, InsideWasteWeekly, Envirotec
Zhang, Y., Cao, J., Lu, M., Kardol P., Fan, G., Kong, D. (2024) “Origin of bi-dimensionality in plant root traits”. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 39(1), 78-88 CoverArt
2023
Vasconcelos, V. V.*, Marquitti, F. M. D.*, Ong, T.*, McManus, L. C.*, Aguiar, M., Campos, A., Dutta, P., Jovanelly, K., Junquera, V., Kong, J., Krüger, E., Liao, W., Lu, M., Mittal, D., Pascual, M., Pinheiro, F., Rocha, J., Santos, F. P., Sloot, P., Levin, S., Terpstra, S., Su, C., Taylor, B., Tilman, A., Tekwa, E. W., Zhan, Q., Yang, L., Yitbarek, S., Watson, J. (2023) “Rate-Induced Transitions in Networked Complex Adaptive Systems: Exploring Dynamics and Management Implications Across Ecological, Social, and Socioecological Systems” arXiv:2309.07449
Liao, J., Lu, M.*, Gu, H., Wang, J., Jing, X., He, J-S. (2023) “Warming-induced shifts on Tibetan Plateau: the overlooked ants and their ecological impacts”. Landscape Ecology 38(12), 3999-4008
2022
Lu, M.*, Wang, S., Malhotra, A., Tumber-Dávila, S.J., Weintraub-Leff, S., McCormack, L., Wang, X.T., Jackson, R.B. (2022) “A continental scale analysis reveals widespread root bimodality”. bioRxiv/2022/507823
Cao, J., Yang, Q., Chen, J., Lu, M., Ren, W., Xiong, Y., Pei, Y., Kong, D. (2022) “Novel leaf-root coordination driven by leaf water storage tissues in mangroves” bioRxiv/2022/501578
Lu, M.*, Marghetis, T.*, Yang, V.C.* (2022) “Mathematical model bridges disparate timescales of lifelong learning” arXiv:2206.03954
Ma, S., Lu, M., Yang, G. , Zhi, Y., Ouyang, Z., Huang, N. ,Zhou, C.* “Bottom-up accounting of landfills across 346 cities reveals overlooked carbon stocks” doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2201368/v1
Lu, M.*, Bond, W.J., Sheffer, E., Cramer, M.D., West, A.D., Allsopp, N., February, E.C., Chimphango, S., Ma, Z., Slingsby, J.A., Hedin, L.O. (2022) “Biome boundary maintained by intense belowground resource competition in world’s thinnest-rooted plant community”. PNAS, 119(9).
2020 and prior
Lu. M.* (2020) “Plant-microbe mutualism: Evolutionary mechanisms and ecological functions”. Biodiversity Science 28(11):1311-1323.
He, P., Gleason, S.M., Wright, I.J., Weng, E., Liu, L., Zhu, S., Lu, M., Luo, Q., Li, R., Wu, G., Yan, E., Song, Y., Mi, X., Hao, G., Ye, Q.*, Reich, P.B. (2019). “Growing-season temperature and precipitation are independent drivers of global variation in xylem hydraulic conductivity”. Global Change Biology 26(3), 1833-1841.
Lu, M.* & Hedin, L.O. (2019). “Global plant-symbiont organization and emergence of biogeochemical cycles resolved by evolution-based trait modelling”. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(2): 239-50.
Liu, B., Li, L., Rengel Z., Tian J., Li, H., Lu, M. (2019). “Roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are independent in nutrient foraging across subtropical tree species”. Plant and Soil 442:97-112.
Ma, Z.*, Guo, D.*, Xu, X., Lu, M., Bardgett, R.D., Eissenstat, D.M., McCormack, M.L. and Hedin, L.O.* (2018). “Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits.” Nature 555: 94-97.
Lu, M., Davidescu, M., Sukri, R. S., Daskin, J. H.* (2013). “Termites facilitate root foraging by trees in a Bornean tropical forest.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 29 (06): 563-566.