HUANG Heng

Basic information

HengHuang

Associate Professor

School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University

Email: huangh557@mail.sysu.edu.cn

EDUCATION

2017.01 – 2020.12   University of California, Berkeley 

Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

2013.09– 2016.06   Lanzhou University

M.S. in Ecology

2009.09 – 2013.06Lanzhou University

B.A. inEcology

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2023.12 –          Associate Professor,Sun Yat-sen University

2023.03 – 2023.11Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Hong Kong

2021.01 – 2023.02Postdoctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Plant functionaltrait relationships
• Global change impactson ecosystem carbon cycling
• Ecosystem resilience and regime shifts

AWARDS & GRANTS 

2023   Early Career Investigator Award, American Society of Naturalists

2022   Asian Ecology Section Early Career Ecologist Award, Ecological Society of America

2022   Early Career Ecologist Section Outstanding Publication Award, Ecological Society of America

2021   U.S. Carbon Program Leadership Award, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program & North American Carbon Program, USA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (* denotes the corresponding author)

• Huang, H., I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, and S. Calabrese. 2024. Widespread temporal and spatial variability in net ecosystem productivity under climate change. One Earth. 7:473–482.
• Huang, H., J. Wu, and S. Calabrese. 2023. Emergent climatic controls on soil carbon turnover and its variability in warm climates. Geophysical Research Letters. 50:e2023GL105291.
• Wang Z., H.Huang*, H. Wang, J. Peñuelas, J. Sardans, Ü. Niinemets, K. J. Niklas, Y. Li, J. Xie, and I. Wright. 2022. Leaf water content contributes to global leaf trait relationships. Nature Communications. 13:5525.
• Huang, H., S. Calabrese, and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe. 2021. Variability of ecosystem carbon source from microbial respiration is controlled by rainfall dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118:e2115283118.
• Huang, H., C. Tu, and P. D’Odorico. 2021. Ecosystem complexity enhances the resilience of plant-pollinator systems. One Earth. 4:1286–1296.
• Huang, H.#, J. Ran#, M. Ji, Z. Wang, L. Dong, W. Hu, Q. Du, C. Hou, K. Niklas, and J. Deng. 2020. Water content quantitatively affects metabolic rates over the course of plant ontogeny. New Phytologist. 228:1524–1534. (# contributed equally)
• Huang, H., L. Anderegg, T. Dawson, S. Mote, and P. D’Odorico. 2020. Critical transition to woody plant dominance in North American coastal ecosystems. Ecology. 101:e03107.
• Huang, H.#, J. Ran#, X. Li, Z. Wang, R. Chen, F. Wu, M. Ye, F. Jia, K. J. Niklas, and J. Deng. 2020. A general model for seed and seedling respiratory metabolism. TheAmerican Naturalist.195:534–546. (# contributed equally)
• Wang, Z.#, K. Yu#, S. Lv, K. Niklas, T. D. Mipam, T. Crowther, M. Umaña, Q. Zhao*, H. Huang*, and P. Reich. 2019. The scaling of fine root nitrogen versus phosphorus in terrestrial plants: a global synthesis. Functional Ecology.33:2081–2094.
• Huang, H., J. Zinnert, L. Wood, D. Young, and P. D’Odorico. 2018. Non-linear shift from grassland to shrubland in temperate barrier islands. Ecology. 99:1671–1681. 

ACADEMIC SERVICE 

Associate Editor: Functional Ecology, 2023 – present

Peer reviewerfor journals:Nature Communications, Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Global Change Biology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeoscience, Journal of Plant Ecology