Dr. Congcong Shen is a Assistant Professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (RCEES, CAS). He received his Ph.D. degree from the ISSAS, CAS in 2016. He was sponsored by CSC and visited to Los Alamos National Laboratory from Jan. 2014 to Jan. 2015. Dr. Ge’s research has been published in many esteemed journals including Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Ecology, etc.

Soil microbial ecology

［1]Congcong Shen, Yuan Ge, Teng Yang, Haiyan Chu. Verrucomicrobial elevational distribution was strongly influenced by soil pH and carbon/nitrogen ratio. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2017, 17: 2449-2456.
［2]Congcong Shen, Yu Shi, Yingying Ni, Ye Deng, Van Nostrand Joy D, Zhili He, Jizhong Zhou, Haiyan Chu. Dramatic increases of soil microbial functional gene diversity at the treeline ecotone of Changbai Mountain. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016, 7: 1184.
［3]Congcong Shen, Yingying Ni, Wenju Liang, Jianjun Wang, Haiyan Chu. Distinct soil bacterial communities along a small-scale elevational gradient in alpine tundra. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015, 6: 582.
［4]Congcong Shen, Wenju Liang, Yu Shi, Xiangui Lin, Huayong Zhang, Xian Wu, Gary Xie, Patrick Chain, Paul Grogan, Haiyan Chu. Contrasting elevational diversity patterns between eukaryotic soil microbes and plants. Ecology, 2014, 95: 3190–3202.
［5]Congcong Shen, Jinbo Xiong, Huayong Zhang, Youzhi Feng, Xiangui Lin, Xinyu Li, Wenju Liang, Haiyan Chu. Soil pH drives the spatial distribution of bacterial communities along elevation on Changbai Mountain. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2013, 57: 204–211.