Education
2011.09-2015.01 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Environmental science (Doctor)
2008.09-2011.06 Henan University of Technology Microbiology (Master)
2004.09-2008.06 Nanyang Normal University Biological Engineering (Bachelor)
Email：yshi@henu.edu.cn; yshi@issas.ac.cn
Research area:
1 Agricultural soil microbial diversity patterns and their ecological functions
2 Coupling mechanism of aboveground insect-soil microorganism interaction and wheat growth
3 Mechanism of invasive plant-soil microorganism interaction
Yu Shi’s research work is mainly in the field of soil microbial distribution and functions. Over the past 9 years, he has investigated the biogeographic patterns of soil microbial communities (including bacteria, fungi and archaea) in Arctic, Tibetan Plateau and North China Plain soils. He had explored the relative contribution of distance and environmental variables to community composition, illustrated the effects of spatial scale on the relative role of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial communities, and predicted soil bacterial diversity of Tibet on the map. More information and a list of publications can be found here (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yu_Shi9/publications).
Selected publications
· Shi, Y, Delgado-Baquerizo, M, Li, Y, Yang, Y, Zhu, Y-G., Peñuelas, J, and Chu, H. 2020. Abundance of kinless hubs within soil microbial networks are associated with high functional potential in agricultural ecosystems. Environment International, 142, 105869.
· Shi, Y, Zhang, K, Li, Q, Liu, X, He, J.-S, Chu H*. 2020. Interannual climate variability and altered precipitation influence the soil microbial community structure in a Tibetan Plateau grassland. Science of the Total Environment 714, 136794.
· Shi, Y., Li, Y.T., Xiang, X.J., Sun, R.B., Yang, T., He, D., Zhang, K.P., Ni, Y.Y., Zhu, Y.G., Adams, J.M., et al. 2018. Spatial scale affects the relative role of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial communities in wheat fields across the North China Plain. Microbiome 6.
· Shi Y, Grogan P, Sun HB, Xiong JB, Yang YF, Zhou JZ, Chu HY. 2015. Multi-scale variability analysis reveals the importance of spatial distance in shaping arctic soil microbial functional communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2015 86: 126-134.
· Shi Y, Xiang XJ, Shen CC, Chu HY, Neufeld JD, Walker VK, Grogan P. 2015. Vegetation-associated impacts on Arctic tundra bacterial and eukaryotic microbial communities, Applied and Environmental microbiology, 2015 81(2): 492-501.
· Shi Y, Fan KK, Li YT, Yang T, He J-S, Chu HY. Archaea Enhance the Robustness of Microbial Co-occurrence Networks in Tibetan Plateau Soils.
· Chu HY*, Sun HB, Tripathi BM., Adams J M., Huang R, Zhang YJ, Shi Y*. Bacterial community dissimilarity between the surface and subsurface soils equals horizontal differences over several kilometers in the western Tibetan Plateau. 2016 Environmental Microbiology DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13236.
· Jing X, Sanders NJ, Shi Y, Chu HY, Classen AT, Zhao K, Chen LT, Shi Y, Jiang YX, He JS., The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate. Nature Communications 2015 6:8159.
· Shen CC, Liang WJ, Shi Y, Lin XG, Zhang HY, Wu X, Xie G, Chain P, Grogan P, Chu HY: Contrasting elevational diversity patterns between eukaryotic soil microbes and plants. Ecology 2014, 95(11):3190-3202.
Research project
2021-2024 National Natural Science Foundation of China. Program facilitator
2018-2020 National Natural Science Foundation of China. Program facilitator
2016-2020 National Key Research and Development Program of China. Project participant