| Effects of grassland degradation on ecological stoichiometry of soil ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Y Wang#, Z Ren#*, P Ma, Z Wang, D Niu*, H Fu, JJ Elser Science of The Total Environment, 137910, 2020 | 99 | 2020 |
| Landscape heterogeneity and hydrological processes: a review of landscape-based hydrological models H Gao*, JL Sabo, X Chen, Z Liu, Z Yang, Z Ren, M Liu Landscape Ecology, 1-20, 2018 | 83 | 2018 |
| Taxonomic and functional differences between microbial communities in Qinghai Lake and its input streams Z Ren, F Wang*, X Qu, JJ Elser, Y Liu, L Chu Frontiers in Microbiology 8, 2319, 2017 | 65 | 2017 |
| Ecological stoichiometry of the mountain cryosphere Z Ren#, N Martyniuk#, IA Oleksy#, A Swain#, S Hotaling* Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 360, 2019 | 62 | 2019 |
| Modelling glacier variation and its impact on water resource in the Urumqi Glacier No. 1 in Central Asia H Gao*, H Li, Z Duan, Z Ren, X Meng, X Pan Science of The Total Environment 644, 1160-1170, 2018 | 60 | 2018 |
| Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams JJ Elser, C Wu, AL González, DH Shain, HJ Smith, R Sommaruga, ... Global change biology 26 (12), 6644-6656, 2020 | 59 | 2020 |
| Influences of anthropogenic land use on microbial community structure and functional potentials of stream benthic biofilms X Qu, Z Ren, H Zhang, M Zhang, Y Zhang, X Liu, W Peng* Scientific Reports 7 (1), 15117, 2017 | 52 | 2017 |
| Distinct bacterial communities in wet and dry seasons during a seasonal water level fluctuation in the largest freshwater lake (Poyang Lake) in China Z Ren*, X Qu*, M Zhang, Y Yu, W Peng Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 1167, 2019 | 51 | 2019 |
| Microbial functional genes elucidate environmental drivers of biofilm metabolism in glacier-fed streams Z Ren, H Gao*, JJ Elser, Q Zhao Scientific Reports 7 (1), 12668, 2017 | 47 | 2017 |
| Assessing glacier retreat and its impact on water resources in a headwater of Yangtze River based on CMIP6 projections H Gao, Z Feng, T Zhang, Y Wang, X He, H Li, X Pan, Z Ren, X Chen, ... Science of the Total Environment 765, 142774, 2021 | 40 | 2021 |
| Impact of agricultural non-point source pollution in eutrophic-water body of Taihu Lake M Jin, Z Ren, J Shi, X Huang, J Chen* Environmental Science & Technology (China) 33 (10), 106-109, 2010 | 39* | 2010 |
| Nutrients Drive the Structures of Bacterial Communities in Sediments and Surface Waters in the River-Lake System of Poyang Lake Z Ren, X Qu*, W Peng, Y Yu, M Zhang Water 11 (5), 930, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| Cascading influences of grassland degradation on nutrient limitation in a high mountain lake and its inflow streams Z Ren*, D Niu, P Ma, Y Wang, H Fu, JJ Elser Ecology, e02755, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| Sediment heavy metals and benthic diversities in Hun-Tai River, northeast of China X Qu, Z Ren, M Zhang, X Liu, W Peng* Environmental Science and Pollution Research 24 (11), 10662-10673, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Networks and ordination analyses reveal the stream community structures of fish, macroinvertebrate and benthic algae, and their responses to nutrient enrichment X Qu, W Peng, Y Liu, M Zhang, Z Ren, N Wu, X Liu* Ecological Indicators 101, 501-511, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
| Functional properties of bacterial communities in water and sediment of the eutrophic river-lake system of Poyang Lake, China Z Ren, X Qu*, W Peng, Y Yu, M Zhang PeerJ 7, e7318, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| Longitudinal variation of microbial communities in benthic biofilms and association with hydrological and physicochemical conditions in glacier-fed streams Z Ren, H Gao*, JJ Elser Freshwater Science 36 (3), 479-490, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
| Ecological networks reveal contrasting patterns of bacterial and fungal communities in glacier-fed streams in Central Asia Z Ren, H Gao* PeerJ, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| Abundant and Rare Bacterial Taxa Structuring Differently in Sediment and Water in Thermokarst Lakes in the Yellow River Source Area, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Z Ren#, C Zhang#, X Li*, K Ma, B Cui* Frontiers in Microbiology 13, 774514, 2022 | 20 | 2022 |
| Soil bacterial communities vary with grassland degradation in the Qinghai Lake watershed Z Ren*, Z Wang, Y Wang, P Ma, D Niu, H Fu*, JJ Elser Plant and Soil, 1-17, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
James ElserFlathead Lake Biological Station of the U of MontanaVerified email at umontana.edu
