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Li, Bo

Li, Bo, Professor

E-mail: bool@fudan.edu.cn

 

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate studies at Central China Normal Univ. (1980-1984); B. A. and MSc. degrees in Biology and Ecology from CCNU in 1983 and 1987 and Ph. D. in Ecology from UEA-Norwich in 1996. Post-doctoral fellow at Hokkaido Univ. from 1996 to 1998; STA fellow at National Agricultural Research Centre from 1998 to 2000; JSPS Invitation Fellow at Hokkaido Univ. in 2009; Full Professor at Fudan Univ. since 2000; Director of Institute of Biodiversity Science from 2008 to 2013; Head of Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Biodiversity Science from 2011 to 2017.

 

Research Interests
Through using the approaches employed in molecular, population, community and ecosystem ecology, Dr. Li is interested in revealing the mechanisms of successful invasions by exotic plants, understanding the community- and ecosystem-level and evolutionary consequences of plant invasions, and studying the interactions between invasive plants and global change and their consequences.

 

Awards

Second class award in Natural Science Award of MOE; Second class award for Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award (3 times winner); First class award for Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award; Shanghai Outstanding Academic Leader.

 

Selected publications

  1. Qiu S, Xu X, Liu S, Liu W, Liu J, Nie M, Shi F, Zhang Y, Weiner J & Li B. (2018) Latitudinal pattern of flowering synchrony in an invasive wind-pollinated plant. Proceedings of the Royal Society-B. 285: 20181072.
  2. Wan N, Cai Y, Shen Y, Ji X, Wu X, Zheng X, Cheng W, Li J, Jiang Y, Chen X, Weiner J, Jiang J, Nie M, Ju R, Yuan T, Tang J, Tian W, Zhang H & Li B. (2018) Increasing plant diversity with border crops reduces insecticide use and increases crop yield in urban agriculture. eLife. 7: e35103.
  3. Zhang Z, Pan X, Blumenthal D, van Kleunen M, Liu M & Li B. (2018) Contrasting effects of specialist and generalist herbivores on resistance evolution in invasive plants. Ecology. 99: 866–875.
  4. Li H, Zhang Z, Zheng R, Li X, Elmer W, Wolfe L & Li B. (2014) Indirect effects of non-native Spartina alterniflora and its fungal pathogen (Fusarium palustre) on native salt marsh plants in China. Journal of Ecology. 102: 1112–1119.
  5. Ma Z, Melville D, Liu J, Chen Y, Yang H, Ren W, Zhang Z, Piersma T & Li B. (2014) Rethinking China’s new great wall. Science. 346: 912-914.
  6. Lu M, Zhou X, Yang Q, Li H, Luo Y, Fang C, Chen J, Yang X & Li B. (2013) Responses of ecosystem carbon cycle to experimental warming: a meta-analysis. Ecology. 94: 726-738. 
  7. Li B, Liao C, Zhang X, Chen H, Wang Q, Chen Z, Gan X, Wu J, Zhao B, Ma Z, Cheng X, Jiang L & Chen J. (2009) Spartina alterniflora invasions in the Yangtze River estuary, China: an overview of current status and ecosystem effects. Ecological Engineering. 35: 511-520.
  8. Liao C, Peng R, Luo Y, Zhou X, Wu X, Fang C, Chen J & Li B. (2008) Altered ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles by plant invasion: A meta-analysis. New Phytologist. 177: 706–714.
  9. Weber E & Li B. (2008) Plant invasions in China: what is to be expected in the wake of economic development? BioScience. 58: 437-444.
  10. Li B, Suzuki JI & Hara T. (1998) Latitudinal variation in plant size and relative growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana. Oecologia. 115: 293-301.