主要从事植物种群生态学、大尺度生理学(Macrophysiology)、草地生态学等领域的研究工作。近年来在广布种植物种群对大尺度气候变化的响应机制和适应策略、全国区域尺度C₄植物的地理分异规律和格局等领域的研究中取得了丰硕成果。在国内外各种学术刊物上发表论文90余篇，其中SCI论文60多篇。获教育部科学技术进步奖二等奖1项(第1获奖人)、三等奖1项。先后主持科学院A类先导子课题、国家重点研发计划项目的课题、国家自然科学基、973项目专题等15项。培养博士研究生10名，硕士生5名。 在中国科学院大学讲授种群生态学课程1门。2015年入选植物研究所“所级特聘核心骨干人才”。

主要研究工作：

利用分子生物学、生理学和解剖学等手段，结合植物性状、气象数据等证据探讨关键区域广布种植物种群和主要植物功能型对大尺度气候变化的响应机制和适应策略、全国区域尺度C₄植物的地理分异规律、森林和草地生态系统主要物种地下有机碳变化过程及机理等。目标是通过在植物功能型组成、种群数量变化、形态解剖和生理适应性等层次上系统研究主要植物种群对不同尺度环境变化（主要是水分和温度）的响应机理和适应策略，为预测全球变化对未来植被的可能影响提供科学依据，丰富种群生态学和全球变化生态学研究的理论和方法，并为我国植物资源的合理利用、生态环境的改善和生态安全战略的顺利实施等提供依据。

主持的主要项目：

2021-2025，中国科学院A类战略先导科技专项“创建生态草牧业科技体系”的子课题“鄂尔多斯荒漠草原恢复技术与近顶极群落构建”（编号XDA26020103）；子课题负责人

2021-2024，主持国家自然科学基金面上项目“大尺度水分梯度变化对羊草草地生态系统多功能性的影响”（编号32071857）；项目负责人

2016-2020，主持国家重点研发计划“荒漠化退化草地治理技术及示范”项目的课题“天然草地退化原因、过程与机制”（编号2016YFC0500501）；课题负责人

2015-2018，主持国家自然科学基金面上项目“大尺度水分梯度下羊草表型分化的分子遗传和气候学驱动机制”（编号31470404）；项目负责人

2012-2015, 主持国家自然科学基金面上项目“全国区域C₄植物的地理分异规律及其适应性”（编号31170304）；项目负责人

2011-2013，主持国家自然科学基金面上项目“东北草原区主要植物功能型的形态和生理适应策略”（编号31070228）；项目负责人

2007-2010，主持国家重点基础研究发展规划项目（973项目）“北方草地与农牧交错带生态系统维持与适应性管理的科学基础”（编号2007CB106800）的专题“广布种植物对全球变化响应机理和适应策略”；项目负责人

2009-2012，主持国家自然科学基金面上项目“大尺度纬度梯度上互花米草的形态和生理适应策略”（编号30970306）；项目负责人

2007-2009，主持国家自然科学基金面上项目“大尺度环境梯度下羊草种群水分适应机制”（编号30670205）；项目负责人

2006-2008，主持国家自然科学基金面上项目“内蒙古典型草原主要植物功能群水分适应机制”（编号30570166）；项目负责人

对外交流与合作： 

与中国农业科学院、吉林大学、南开大学、浙江大学、中国农业大学、东北师范大学、吉林农业大学等高等院校和科研院所建立了合作关系；与加拿大University of Saskatchewan的Bai YG，Ripley EA等教授等进行了长期合作，完成多项国际合作项目，发表论文10余篇。 

研究论文（注*为通讯作者）：

2022

[1]   Linna Ma*, Chaoxue Zhang, Xiaofeng Xu, Congwen Wang, Guofang Liu, Cunzhu Liang, Xiaoan Zuo, Chengjie Wang, Yixia Lv, Renzhong Wang*. Different facets of bacterial and fungal communities drive soil multifunctionality in grasslands spanning a 3500 km transect. Functional Ecology, 2022, 36: 3120-3133.

[2]   Zhou XH, Li JJ, Gao YY, Peng PH, He WM*. Maternal effects of climate warming and nitrogen deposition vary with home and introduced ranges. Functional Ecology, 2022, 36: 751-762.

[3]   Linna Ma*, Chaoxue Zhang, Yixia Lv, Renzhong Wang*. The retention dynamics of early-spring N input in a temperate forest ecosystem: Implications for winter N deposition. Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022, 33: e01966.

[4]   Congwen Wang, Linna Ma, Xiaoan Zuo, Xuehua Ye, Renzhong Wang, Zhenying Huang*, Guofang Liu*, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen. Plant diversity has stronger linkage with soil fungal diversity than with bacterial diversity across grasslands of northern China. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2022, 31: 886-900.

[5]   Congwen Wang, Zhangkai Liu, Wanying Yu, Xuehua Ye, Linna Ma, Renzhong Wang, Zhenying Huang* and Guofang Liu*. Grassland degradation has stronger effects on soil fungal community than bacterial community across the semi-arid region of northern China. Plants, 2022, 11, 3488.

2021

[6]   Linna Ma*, Xiaofeng Xu, Chaoxue Zhang, Yixia Lv, Guofang Liu, Qibing Zhang, Jinhcao Feng, Renzhong Wang*. Strong non-growing season N uptake by deciduous trees in a temperate forest: A ¹⁵N isotopic experiment. Journal of Ecology, 2021, 109: 3752-3766.

[7]   Lijia Dong, Linna Ma, and Weiming He*. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi help explain invasion success of Solidago canadensis. Applied Soil Ecology, 2021, 157: 103763.

2020

[8]   He ZS, He WM*. Asymmetric climate warming does not benefit plant invaders more than natives. Sci. Total Environ., 2020, 742: 140624.

[9]   Linna Ma, Xiuli Gao, Guofang Liu, Xiaofeng Xu*, Xiaotao Lü, Xiaoping Xin, Chaoxue Zhang, Lihua Zhang, Renzhong Wang*. The retention dynamics of N input within the soil–microbe–plant system in a temperate grassland. Geoderma, 2020, 368: 114290.

[10]    Xiuli Gao, Xiaoqiang Liu, Linna Ma*, Renzhong Wang*. Root vertical distributions of two Artemisia species and theirrelationships with soil resources in the Hunshandake desert, China. Ecology and Evolution, 2020, 10: 3112-3119.

2019

[11]    Yu HW, He WM*. Increased rainfall and nitrogen alter colonization and extinction during postgrazing steppe succession. J. Veg. Sci., 2019. 30: 75-85.

2018

[12]    Linna Ma, Guofang Liu, Xiaofeng Xu*, Xiaoping Xin, Wenming Bai, Lihua Zhang, Shiping Chen, Renzhong Wang*. Nitrogen acquisition strategies during the winter-spring transitional period are divergent at the species level yet convergent at the ecosystem level in temperate grasslands. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 2018, 122: 150–159.

[13]    Hongxia Chen, Linna Ma*, Xiaoping Xin, Junyao Liu, Renzhong Wang*. Plant community responses to increased precipitation and belowground litter addition: Evidence from a 5-year semiarid grassland experiment. Ecology and Evolution. 2018. 8: 4587–4597.

2017 

[14]    Guo CY, Ma LN*, Yuan S, Wang RZ*. Morphological, physiological and anatomical traits of plant functional types in temperate grasslands along a large-scale aridity gradient in northeastern China. Sci. Rep., 2017, 7: 40900.

[15]    Yu HW, He WM*. Negative legacy effects of rainfall and nitrogen amendment on leaf lifespan of steppe species. J. Plant Ecol., 2017, 10: 831-838.

[16]    Dong LJ, Yang JX, Yu HW, He WM*. Dissecting Solidago canadensis-soil feedback in its real invasion. Ecol. Evol., 2017, 7: 2307-2315

2016

[17]    Wang Renzhong*, Ma Linna. Climate-driven C4 plant distributions in China: Divergence in C4 taxa. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6: 27977.

[18]    He Weiming*, Sun Zhenkai. Convergent production and tolerance among 107 woody species and divergent production between shrubs and trees. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6: 20485.

[19]    Yuan Shan, Guo Chengyuan, Ma Linna, Wang Renzhong*. Environmental conditions and genetic differentiation: What drives the divergence of coexisting Leymus chinensis ecotypes in a large-scale longitudinal gradient? Journal of Plant Ecology, 2016, 9(5): 616-628.

[20]    Xiao Chunwang*, Bertrand Guenet, Zhou Yong, Su Jiaqi, Ivan A. Janssens*. Priming of soil organic matter decomposition scales linearly with microbial biomass response to litter input in steppe vegetation. Oikos, 2016, 124: 694-657.

2015

[21]    Dong Lijia, Yu Hongwei, He Weiming*. What determines positive, neutral, and negative impacts of Solidago canadensis invasion on native plant species richness? Scientific Reports, 2016, 5: 16804.

[22]    Ma Linna, Yuan Shan, Guo Chengyuan, Wang Renzhong*. Soil moisture and land use are major determinants of soil microbial community composition and biomass at a regional scale in northeastern China. Biogeosciences, 2015, 12: 2585-2596.

[23]    Chengyuan Guo, Xianzhong Wang, Liang Chen, Linna Ma, Renzhong Wang*. Physiological and biochemical responses to saline-alkaline stress in two halophytic grass species with different photosynthetic pathways. Photosynthetica, 2015. 53: 128–135.

2014

[24]    Linna Ma, Shan Yuan, Chengyuan Guo, Renzhong Wang*. Carbon and nitrogen dynamics of native Leymus chinensis grasslands along a 1000 km longitudinal precipitation gradient in northeastern China. Biogeosciences. 2014. 11: 7097–7106.

[25]    Zhou Yong, Su Jiaqi, Janssens Ivan A, Zhou Guangsheng, Xiao Chunwang*. Fine root and litterfall dynamics of three Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) forests along an altitudinal gradient. Plant and Soil, 2014. 374: 19-32

2013

[26]    Ma Linna, Guo Chengyuan, Guo Xiaoping Guo, Yuan Shan, Wang Renzhong*. Effects of belowground litter addition, increased precipitation and clipping on soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization in a temperate steppe. Biogeosciences, 2013, 10, 7361–7372. 

2012

[27]    Ma Linna, Huang Wenwen, Guo Chengyuan, Wang Renzhong*, Xiao Chunwang*. Soil microbial properties and plant growth responses to carbon and water addition in a temperate steppe: the importance of nutrient availability. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7(4). doi:10.1371/ journal. pone.0035165.  

[28]    Zhou Yong, Pei Zhiqin, Su Jiaqi, Zhang Jingli, Zheng Yuanrun, Ni Jian, Xiao, Chunwang and Wang Renzhong. Comparing Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics in Perennial Grasses and Shrubs in a Saline-Alkaline Arid Region, Northwestern China. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7(8). doi:10.1371/ journal.pone. 0042927 

2011

[29]    Wang Renzhong*, Huang Wenwen, Chen Liang, Ma Linna, Guo Chengyuan, Liu Xiaoqiang. Anatomical and physiological plasticity in Leymus chinensis (Poaceae) along large-scale longitudinal gradient in northeast China. PLoS ONE, 2011, 6(11). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026209.  

[30]    Ma Linna, Lu Xiaotao, Liu Yang, Guo Jixun, Zhang Nanyi, Yang Jianqin, Wang Renzhong*. The effects of warming and nitrogen addition on soil nitrogen cycling in a temperate grassland, northeastern China. PLoS ONE, 2011, 6(11). doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0027645 

2010及以前

[31]    Xiao C.W., Janssens I.A., Sang W.G., Wang R.Z., Xie Z.Q., Pei Z.Q., and Yi, Y. Belowground carbon pools and dynamics in China’s warm temperate and sub-tropical deciduous forests. Biogeosciences, 2010, 7, 275–287.  

[32]    Chen Liang and Wang Renzhong. Anatomical and physiological divergences and compensatory effects in two Leymus chinensis (Poaceae) ecotypes in Northeast China. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 2009, 134: 45-52.  

[33]    Wang Renzhong, Chen Liang, Bai Yuguang and Xiao Chunwang. Seasonal dynamics in resource partitioning to shoot and storage organ in response to drought in a perennial rhizomatous grass, Leymus chinensis. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2008, 27: 39-48.  

[34]    Xiao Chunwang, Sang Weiguo, Wang Renzhong. 2008. Fine root dynamics and turnover rate in an Asia white birch forest of Donglingshan mountain, China. Forest Ecology and Management, 2008, 255: 765-773. 

[35]    Wang R.Z. 2007. Physiological divergences between two rhizomatous grasses from a desertification steppe, North China. Photosynthetic, 2007, 45: 453-463. 

[36]    Wang R.Z. C₄ plants in the deserts of China - occurrence of C₄ photosynthesis and their morphological functional types. Photosynthetica, 2007, 45: 167-171. 

[37]    Wang, R.Z.2δ¹³C values, photosynthetic pathways and plant functional types for some plants from saline meadows, Northeastern China. Photosynthetica, 2007, 45: 18-22. 

[38]    Wang R.Z. Natural occurrence of C₄ plants and their morphological functional types in the vegetation of Xinjiang, China. Photosynthetica, 2006, 44(2): 293-298. 

[39]    Liu X.Q., Wang R.Z. Photosynthetic pathway and morphological functional types in the vegetation from North-Beijing agro-pastoral ecotone, China. Photosynthetica, 2006, 44(3): 365-386.  

[40]    Wang R.Z. The occurrence of C₄ photosynthesis in Yunnan province, a tropical region in South-western China. Photosynthetica, 2006, 44(2): 286-292. 

[41]    Wang, R.Z., Liu, X.Q and. Bai, Y. Photosynthetic and Morphological Functional Types for Native Species from Mixed Prairie in Southern Saskatchewan, Canada. Photosynthetica, 2006, 44(1): 17-25. 

[42]    Wang, R.Z. C₃ and C₄ photosynthetic pathways and life form types for native species from agro-forestry region, Northeastern China. Photosynthetica, 2005, 43:535 - 549.  

[43]    Wang, R.Z., Liu, X.Q., Xing, Q., and Bai, Y. Photosynthesis, transpiration and water use efficiency of Leymus dasytachys (Poaceae) on Hunshandake desert, north China. Photosynthetica, 2005, 43 (2): 289-291. 

[44]    Wang, R.Z. Demographic variation and biomass allocation of Agropyron cristatum grown on steppe and dune sites in the Hunshandake desert, North China. Grass and Forage Science, 2005, 60: 99-102.  

[45]    Wang, R.Z. Plant Functional Types and Their Ecological Responses to Salinization in Saline Grasslands, Northeastern China. Photosynthetica, 2004, 42(4), 511-519. 

[46]    Wang, R.Z. Photosynthetic and Morphological functional types from different steppe communities in Inner Mongolia, North China. Photosynthetica, 2004, 42(4): 493-503. 

[47]    Liu, X.Q., Wang, R.Z. and Li, Y.Z., Photosynthetic Pathway Types in Rangeland Plant Species from Inner Mongolia, North China. Photosynthetica, 2004, 42(3): 339-344. 

[48]    Wang, R.Z. Photosynthetic pathways and life form types for native plant species from Hulunbeier rangelands, Inner Mongolia, North China. Photosynthetica, 2004, 42(2): 219-227. 

[49]    Wang, R.Z. C₄ Species and Their response to large-scale longitudinal climate changes along Northeast China Transect (NECT). Photosynthetica, 2004, 42(1); 71-79.  

[50]    Wang Renzhong. The responses of Leymus chinensis (Poaceae) to long-term grazing disturbance in the Songnen grassland, Northeastern China. Grass and Forage Science, 2004, 59:(2), 191- 195.

[51]    Wang Renzhong and Gao Qiong. Morphological responses of Leymus chinensis (Poaceae) to large-scale climatic gradient along the Northeast China Transect (NECT). Diversity and Distribution, 2004, 10: 65-73. 

[52]    Wang Renzhong, Gao Qiong. Climate-driven changes in shoot density and shoot biomass in Leymus chinensis (Poaceae) on the Northeast China Transect (NECT). Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2003, 12 (3): 249 – 259. 

[53]    Wang Renzhong, Gao Qiong and Chen Quansheng. Effects of climate on biomass and biomass allocation of Leymus chinensis (Poaceae) along the Northeast China Transect. Journal of Arid Environments, 2003, 54: 653-665. 

[54]    Wang, R.Z. 2003. Photosynthetic pathway and morphological functional types in the steppe vegetation from Inner Mongolia, North China. Photosynthetica, 2003, 41 (1): 143 –150. 

[55]    Wang, R.Z. 2003. Natural occurrence and backwater infection of C₄ plants in the vegetation of the Yangtze hydropower three gorges project region. Photosynthetica, 2003, 41(1): 43 – 48. 

[56]    Wang, R.Z. 2003. C₄ plants in the vegetation of Tibet, China: their natural occurrence and altitude distribution pattern. Photosynthetica, 2003, 41(1): 21 – 26. 

[57]    Wang, R.Z. 2002. Photosynthetic pathways, life forms and reproductive types for forage species along desertification gradient on Hunshandake desert, North China. Photosynthetica, 2002, 40 (3): 321 –329. 

[58]    Wang, R.Z. 2002. Photosynthetic pathways and life forms in different grassland types from North China. Photosynthetica, 2002, 40 (2): 243-250.  

[59]    Wang, R.Z. 2002. Photosynthetic pathway types of forage species along grazing gradient from the Songnen grassland, Northeastern China. Photosynthetica, 2002, 40(1): 57 –61.  

[60]    Wang, R.Z. 2002. The C₄ photosynthetic pathway and life forms in grassland species from North China. Photosynthetica, 2002, 40 (1): 97-102. 

[61]    Wang, R.Z. 2001. Photosynthesis, transpiration, and water use efficiency of vegetative and reproductive shoots of grassland species from northeastern China. Photosynthetica, 2001, 39(4): 569 – 573.  

[62]    Wang, R.Z., Gao, Q. Photosynthesis, transpiration and water use efficiency in two divergent Leymus chinensis populations from northeastern China. Photosythetica, 2001, 39: 123-126.  

[63]    Wang, R.Z., Yuan, Y.Q. Photosynthesis, transpiration and water use efficiency in two Puccinellia species on the Songnen grassland, northeastern China, Photosythetica, 2001, 39: 283-287.  

[64]    Wang Renzhong, Ripley E.A., Zu Yuangang, Nie Shaoquan. Demography of reproductive and biomass allocation of grassland and dune Leymus chinensis on the Songnen plain, north-eastern China. Journal of Arid Environments, 2001, 49: 289 – 299. 

[65]    Wang Renzhong, E. A. Ripley. Effects of grazing on a Leymus chinensis grassland on the songnen plain, north-eastern China. Journal of Arid Environments, 1997, 36: 312 –318.  

[66]    Wang, R.Z. Intra-specific variations of two Leymus chinensis divergence populations in Songnen plain, Northeastern China. Journal of Environmental Sciences- China, 2002, 14(1): 20-26. 

[67]    Wang, R.Z., Gao, Q., Tang, H. P. Variations of plant life form diversity along Northeast China Transect and its direct gradient analysis. Journal of Environmental Sciences-China, 2002, 14 (4): 547 – 551. 

[68]    Wang Renzhong, Lui Xiaoqiang, Ma Keping. Progress in plant population ecology during the last decade in China. Acta Botanica Sinica, 2003, 45 (Sup): 64-69. 

[69]    Wang Renzhong, Yuan Yeqiu, Ripley E.A. Annual and intra-species variations of clone growth and reproduction in Leymus chinensis populations in Songnen plain, northeastern China. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2002, 28: 83-89. 

[70]    Wang Renzhong, Yuan Yeqiu. Seed productions and seed banks in Leymus chinensis in response to environment changes in the Songnen plain, northeastern China. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2001, 27: 163-169. 

[71]    Wang, R.Z. and Ripley E.A. Biomass and energy allocation in Leymus chinensis in semi-arid environments on the Songnen plain, northeastern China. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2000, 26, 107- 115.  

[72]    Wang Renzhong, Ripley E.A. Effects of grazing and mowing on Leymus chinensis grassland in the songnen plain of northeastern China, International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 1998, 24: 383-391. 

[73]    Ripley E.A., Wang Renzhong and Zhu Tingcheng. The Climate of the Songnen Plain, Northeastern China, International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 1996, 22: 1-22. 

获奖及荣誉： 　

[1]   “东北草原羊草草地放牧生态的研究”项目1999年获教育部科学技术进步奖二等奖（第1获奖人）；

[2]   “松嫩平原盐渍化草地优势植物种群生态学研究”项目1997年获国家教委科技进步三等奖（第3获奖人）。