國家優秀青年科學基金獲得者,英國皇家學會牛頓高級學者,英國曼徹斯特大學客座博導,中山大學生態學系副主任,有害生物控制與資源利用國家重點實驗室學術骨幹。2004年考入中山大學學習,是我校首屆生態學專業本科生;2008年推薦免試攻讀我院生態學專業研究生(碩博連讀,導師余世孝教授),2013年獲得博士學位並留校任講師;其間,自2010年9月至2013年6月在荷蘭格羅寧根大學學習並獲得生態學博士學位(雙學位,導師Rampal S. Etienne教授),近年曾分別赴加拿大阿爾伯塔大學、英國阿伯丁大學、馬來西亞大學等海外高校訪學並開展合作研究;2017年1月晉升為副教授,2020年1月以我校青年傑出人才身份晉升為教授。
Minxia Liang, Xubing Liu, Ingrid M. Parker, David Johnson, Yi Zheng, Shan Luo, Gregory S. Gilbert & Shixiao Yu*. 2019. Soil microbes drive phylogenetic diversity-productivity relationships in a subtropical forest. Science Advances, eaax5088.
Minxia Liang, David Johnson, David F.R.P. Burslem, Shixiao Yu, Miao Fang, Joe D. Taylor, Andy F.S. Taylor, Thorunn Helgason, Xubing Liu. 2020. Soil fungal networks maintain local dominance of ectomycorrhizal trees. Nature Communications, 11: 2636.
Xubing Liu*,David F.R.P. Burslem, Joe D. Taylor, Andy F.S. Taylor, Eyen Khoo, Noreen Majalap-Lee, Thorunn Helgason & David Johnson. Partitioning of soil phosphorus among arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees in tropical and subtropical forests.Ecology Letters, 2018, 21: 713-723.
Minxia Liang,Xubing Liu*, GregoryS. Gilbert, YiZheng, ShanLuo, FengminHuang & ShixiaoYu*. 2016. Adult trees cause density-dependent mortality in conspecific seedlings by regulating the frequency of pathogenic soil fungi.Ecology Letters, 19: 1448-1456.
XubingLiu,Minxia Liang, Rampal S. Etienne, Gregory S. Gilbert &Shixiao Yu. 2016. Phylogenetic congruence between subtropical trees and their associated fungi.Ecology and Evolution, 6: 8412-8422.
Xubing Liu, Rampal S. Etienne, MinxiaLiang, YongWang & ShixiaoYu. 2015. Experimental evidence for an intraspecific Janzen-Connell effect mediated by soil biota.Ecology, 96 (3): 662-671.
MinxiaLiang#,XubingLiu#, Rampal S. Etienne, FengminHuang, YongfanWang & ShixiaoYu. 2015. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi counteract the Janzen-Connell effect of soil pathogens.Ecology, 96 (2): 562-574. (*Equal author contribution)
XubingLiu, MinxiaLiang, Rampal S. Etienne, YongfanWang, C. Steahelin & ShixiaoYu. 2012. Experimental evidence for a phylogenetic Janzen-Connell effect in a subtropical forest.Ecology Letters, 15: 111-118.