*corresponding author
2025
Lu, M.*, Marghetis, T.*, Yang, V.C.* (2025) “A first-principles mathematical model integrates the disparate timescales of human learning”. npj Complexity (in production)
Malhotra, A. *, Moore, J.A.M., Weintraub-Leff, S.*, Georgiou, K., Berhe, A.A., Billings, S.A., de Graaff, M.-A., Fraterrigo, J.M., Grandy, A.S., Kyker-Snowman, E., Lu, M., Meier, C., Pierson, D., Tumber-Dávila, S.J., Lajtha, K., Wieder, W.B., Jackson, R.B. (2025) “Continental-scale relationships of fine root and soil carbon stocks hold in grasslands but not forests.” BioRxiv: 2025.04.07.647629
Wu, H., Yang, Q., Chen, J., Lu, M., Ren, W., Xiong, Y., ... & Kong, D. (2025). Divergent leaf-root coordination between mangroves and non-mangroves. Journal of Plant Ecology, rtaf023.
Vallicrosa, H., Fleischer, K., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Fernández-Martínez, M., Cerny, J., Tian, D., Kourmouli, A., Mayoral, C., Grados, D., Lu, M., Terrer, C. (2025) “Nitrogen deposition and climate drive plant nitrogen uptake while soil factors drive nitrogen use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems” EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3661.
Ma, S., Lu, M., Yang, G. , Zhi, Y., Ouyang, Z., Huang, N. ,Zhou, C.* (2025) “Carbon-negative transition by utilizing overlooked carbon stock of landfills” The Innovation Geoscience 3(1): 15-25
2024
Jing X., Classen A. Li, D., Lin L., Lu, M., Sanders N.J., Wang, Y., Feng, W. (2024) “Unraveling microbial community structure-function relationships in the horizontal and vertical spatial dimensions in extreme environments” Ecography e07118
Lu, M.*, Wang, L.*, Wang, L., Guo, Q., Fei, S. (2024) “Shifts in ecological patterns under global changes” Landscape Ecology 39(4),1-7
Lu, M.*, Zhou, C., Wang, C., Jackson, R.B., Kempes, C.P.* (2024). “Worldwide scaling law of waste production in urban systems” Nature Cities, 1, 126-135
SFI Press, Phys.org, ScienMag, Wissenschaft.de, Techzle, WasteManagementReview, InsideWasteWeekly, Envirotec
Zhang, Y., Cao, J., Lu, M., Kardol P., Fan, G., Kong, D. (2024) “Origin of bi-dimensionality in plant root traits”. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 39(1), 78-88 CoverArt
2023
Vasconcelos, V. V.*, Marquitti, F. M. D.*, Ong, T.*, McManus, L. C.*, Aguiar, M., Campos, A., Dutta, P., Jovanelly, K., Junquera, V., Kong, J., Krüger, E., Liao, W., Lu, M., Mittal, D., Pascual, M., Pinheiro, F., Rocha, J., Santos, F. P., Sloot, P., Levin, S., Terpstra, S., Su, C., Taylor, B., Tilman, A., Tekwa, E. W., Zhan, Q., Yang, L., Yitbarek, S., Watson, J. (2023) “Rate-Induced Transitions in Networked Complex Adaptive Systems: Exploring Dynamics and Management Implications Across Ecological, Social, and Socioecological Systems” arXiv:2309.07449
Liao, J., Lu, M.*, Gu, H., Wang, J., Jing, X., He, J-S. (2023) “Warming-induced shifts on Tibetan Plateau: the overlooked ants and their ecological impacts”. Landscape Ecology 38(12), 3999-4008
2022
Lu, M.*, Wang, S., Malhotra, A., Tumber-Dávila, S.J., Weintraub-Leff, S., McCormack, L., Wang, X.T., Jackson, R.B. (2022) “A continental scale analysis reveals widespread root bimodality”. bioRxiv/2022/507823
Cao, J., Yang, Q., Chen, J., Lu, M., Ren, W., Xiong, Y., Pei, Y., Kong, D. (2022) “Novel leaf-root coordination driven by leaf water storage tissues in mangroves” bioRxiv/2022/501578
Lu, M.*, Marghetis, T.*, Yang, V.C.* (2022) “Mathematical model bridges disparate timescales of lifelong learning” arXiv:2206.03954
Ma, S., Lu, M., Yang, G. , Zhi, Y., Ouyang, Z., Huang, N. ,Zhou, C.* “Bottom-up accounting of landfills across 346 cities reveals overlooked carbon stocks” doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2201368/v1
Lu, M.*, Bond, W.J., Sheffer, E., Cramer, M.D., West, A.D., Allsopp, N., February, E.C., Chimphango, S., Ma, Z., Slingsby, J.A., Hedin, L.O. (2022) “Biome boundary maintained by intense belowground resource competition in world’s thinnest-rooted plant community”. PNAS, 119(9).
2020 and prior
Lu. M.* (2020) “Plant-microbe mutualism: Evolutionary mechanisms and ecological functions”. Biodiversity Science 28(11):1311-1323.
He, P., Gleason, S.M., Wright, I.J., Weng, E., Liu, L., Zhu, S., Lu, M., Luo, Q., Li, R., Wu, G., Yan, E., Song, Y., Mi, X., Hao, G., Ye, Q.*, Reich, P.B. (2019). “Growing-season temperature and precipitation are independent drivers of global variation in xylem hydraulic conductivity”. Global Change Biology 26(3), 1833-1841.
Lu, M.* & Hedin, L.O. (2019). “Global plant-symbiont organization and emergence of biogeochemical cycles resolved by evolution-based trait modelling”. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(2): 239-50.
Liu, B., Li, L., Rengel Z., Tian J., Li, H., Lu, M. (2019). “Roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are independent in nutrient foraging across subtropical tree species”. Plant and Soil 442:97-112.
Ma, Z.*, Guo, D.*, Xu, X., Lu, M., Bardgett, R.D., Eissenstat, D.M., McCormack, M.L. and Hedin, L.O.* (2018). “Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits.” Nature 555: 94-97.
Lu, M., Davidescu, M., Sukri, R. S., Daskin, J. H.* (2013). “Termites facilitate root foraging by trees in a Bornean tropical forest.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 29 (06): 563-566.