Wenyong Guo

2011 - 2015    Ph.D. in Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark.

2009 - 2011    Ph.D. in Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Costal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P. R. China

2020 -              Young professor, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University

2017 - 2020     Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

2015 - 2017     Postdoctoral research fellow, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Associate editor for Biological Invasions (2021 - ), Ecology and Evolution (2019 - 2022)

Reviewer for

AoB Plants, Aquatic Invasions, Biological Invasions, Dendrobiology, Ecography, Ecological Engineering, Ecological Monographs, Ecology & Evolution, Flora, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Plant Ecology, Journal of Urban Ecology, Functional Ecology, Preslia, Science of the Total Environment, Scientific Reports, Wetlands

1）Invasion ecology

2）Macroecology

3)  Biodiversity conservation

4）Wetland ecology

    Full publications can be seen via ResearchGate & Google Scholar.

Peer-reviewed publications：（#: lab member; *: corresponding author）

1. Guo, K.#, Pyšek, P., Chytrý, M., Divíšek, J., Sychrová, M., Lososová, Z., van Kleunen, M., Pierce, S., Guo, W.-Y.* (2024) Stage dependence of Elton’s biotic resistance hypothesis of biological invasions. Nature Plants, 10: 1484-1492.

2. Guo, W.-Y.*, Čuda, J., Skálová, H., Lambertini, C., Pierce, S., Lučanová, M., Brix, H., Meyerson, L.A., Pyšek, P. (2024) Climate and genome size shape the intraspecific variation in ecological adaptive strategies of a cosmopolitan grass species. Functional Ecology, 38: 2054-2066.

3. Zhang, Y.-S., Meiners, S.J., Meng, Y.-N., Yao, Q., Guo, K.#, Guo, W.-Y., Li, S.-P. (2024) Temporal dynamics of Grime's CSR strategies in plant communities during 60 years of succession. Ecology Letters, 27: e14446.

4. Li, W., Guo, W.-Y., Pasgaard, M., Niu, Z., Wang, L., Chen, F., Qin, Y., Qiao, H., Svenning, J. C. (2024). Unmanaged naturally regenerating forests approach intact forest canopy structure but are susceptible to climate and human stress. One Earth, 7: 1068-1081.

5. Serra-Diaz, J. M., Borderieux, J., Maitner, B., Boonman, C. C. F., Park, D., Guo, W.-Y., Callebaut, A., Enquist, B. J., Svenning, J.-C., Merow, C. (2024). occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33: e13847.

6. Guo, K.#, Pyšek, P., van Kleunen, M. Kinlock, N.K., Lučanová, M., Leitch, I.J., Pierce, S., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Lenzner, B., Pergl, J., Weigelt, P., Guo, W.-Y.* (2024). Plant invasion and naturalization are influenced by genome size, ecology and economic use globally. Nature Communications, 15: 1330.

7. Zheng, M.-M.#, Pyšek, P., Guo, K.#, Hasigerili#, Guo, W.-Y.* (2024) Clonal alien plants in the mountains spread upward more extensively and faster than non-clonal. NeoBiota, 91: 29–48. 

8. Boonman, C.C.F., Serra-Diaz, J.M., Hoeks, S., Guo, W.-Y., Enquist, B.J., Maitner, B., Malhi, Y., Merow, C., Buitenwerf, R., Svenning, J.-C. (2024) More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change. Nature Communication, 15:166. 

9. Zhang, H.-T., Guo, W.-Y., Wang, W.-T. (2023). The dimensionality reductions of environmental variables have a significant effect on the performance of species distribution models. Ecology and Evolution, 13: e10747.

10. Guo, W.-Y.*, Serra-Diaz, J. M., Eiserhardt, W. L., Maitner, B. S., Merow, C., Violle, C., Pound, M. J., Sun, M., Slik, F., Blach-Overgaard, A., Enquist, G. J., Svenning, J.-C. (2023) Climate change and land use threaten global hotspots of phylogenetic endemism for trees. Nature Communications, 14: 6950. Media: AU press

11. Sanchez-Martinez, P., Mencuccini, M., García-Valdés, R., Hammond, W.M., Serra-Diaz, J.M., Guo, W.-Y., Segovia, R.A., Dexter, K.G., Svenning, J.-C., Allen, C., Martínez-Vilalta, J. (2023) Increased hydraulic risk in assemblages of woody plant species predicts spatial patterns of drought-induced mortality. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 1620-1632.

12. Pyšek, P., Lučanová, M., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Leitch, I., Maurel, N., Meyerson, L.A., Pergl, J., van Kleunen, M., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., Guo, W.-Y. (2023) Small genome size and variation in ploidy levels support the naturalization of vascular plants but constrain their invasive spread. New Phytologist, 239: 2389-2403.

13. Hasigerili#, Guo, K.#, Zheng, M.-M.#, Liu, R.-L.#, Wang, Y.-Y.#, Gao, Y.#, Shu, L., Wang, X.-R., Zhang, J., Guo, W.-Y.* (2023) Intraspecific variations of adaptive strategies of native and invasive plant species along an elevational gradient. Flora, 304: 152297.

14. Xu, W.-B., Guo, W.-Y., Serra-Diaz, J.M., Schrodt,F., Eiserhardt, W.L., Enquist, B.J.,  Maitner, B.S., Merow, C., Violle, C., Anand, M., Belluau, M., Bruun, H.H.,  Byun, C., Jatford, A.,Cerabolini, B.E.L., Chacón-Madrigal, E., Ciccarelli, D., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Dang-Le, A.T.,  de Frutos, A.,  Dias, A.S.,  Giroldo, A.B.,  Gutiérrez, A.G., Hattingh, W.,  He, T., Hietz, P., Hough-Snee, N., Jansen, S., Kattge, J., Komac, B., Kraft, N.J.B., Kramer, K., Lavorel, S., Lusk, C.H.,Martin, A.R., Ma, K.-P., Mencuccini, M., Michaletz, S.T., Minden, V., Mori, A.S., Niinemets, Ü., Onoda, Y.,  Onstein, R.E., Peñuelas, J., Pillar, V.D., Pisek, J., Pound, M.J.,  Robroek, G.J.M., Schamp, B., Slot, M.,  Sun, M., Sosinsk iJr., E.E., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Thiffault, N.,  van Bodegom, P.M., van der Plas, F.,  Zheng, J., Svenning, J.-C., Ordonez, A. (2023) Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change. Science Advances, 9(14): eaadd8553 Media: ScienceDaily

15. Li, W., Guo, W.-Y., Pasgaard, M., Niu, Z., Wang, L., Chen, F., Qin, Y., Svenning, J.-C. (2023) Human fingerprint on structural density of forests globally. Nature Sustainability, 6: 368-379. Featured as News & Views

16. Zhang, J.-P., Miao, L., Wu, P.-L., Yang, X.-T., Guo, W.-Y., Li, S.-C., Feng, G. (2023) Effects of anthropogenic activities and climate factors on the distribution of invasive alien species in China, SCIENTIA SINICA Vitae, 53: 543-550. (In Chinese with English abstract)

17. Guo, K.#, Pyšek P., Chytrý, M., Divíšek, J., Lososová, Z., van Kleunen, M., Pierce, S., Guo, W.-Y.* (2022) Ruderals naturalize, competitors invade: varying roles of plant adaptive strategies along the invasion continuum. Functional Ecology 36: 2469-2479. Plain summary

18. Guo, W.-Y.*, Serra-Diaz, J.M., Schrodt, F., Eiserhardt, W.L., Maitner, B.S., Merow, C., Violle, C., Anand, M., Belluau, M., Bruun, H.H., Byun, C., Catford, J.A., Cerabolini, B.E.L., Chacón-Madrigal, E., Ciccarelli, D., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Dang-Le, A.T., de Frutos, A., Dias, A.S., Giroldo, A.B., Guo, K., Gutiérrez, A.G., Hattingh, W., He, T., Hietz, P., Hough-Snee, N., Jansen, S., Kattge, J., Klein, T., Komac, B., Kraft, N., Kramer, K., Lavorel, S., Lusk, C.H., Martin, A.R., Mencuccini, M., Michaletz, S.T., Minden, V., Mori, A.S., Niinemets, U., Onoda, Y., Peñuelas, J., Pillar, V.D., Pisek, J., Robroek, B.J.M., Schamp, B., Slot, M., Egon Sosinski Jr., E., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Thiffault, N., van Bodegom, P., van der Plas, F., Wright, J.J., Xu, W.-B., Zheng, J., Enquist, B.J., Svenning, J.-C. (2022) High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure. PNAS, 119(25): e2026733119（Preprint）Highlighted in This Week in PNAS Media: EurekAlert, ScienceDaily, MyDroll, Phys.org, Mongabay

19. Wang, W.-T., Guo, W. -Y., Jarvie, S., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Svenning, J. C. (2022) Anthropogenic climate change increases vulnerability of Magnolia species more in Asia than in the Americas. Biological Conservation, 265: 109425.

20. Li, W, Guo, W.-Y., Qin, Y.-C., Wang, L., Niu, Z., Svenning, J.-C.. (2021) Mapping spatio-temporal patterns in global tree cover heterogeneity: Links with forest degradation and recover. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 104: 102583.

21. Yin, X., Jarvie, S., Guo, W.-Y., Deng, T., Mao, L., Zhang, M., Chu, C., Qian, H., Svenning, J.-C., & He, F. (2021) Niche overlap and divergence times support niche conservatism in eastern Asia–eastern North America disjunct plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30: 1990–2003.

22. Wang, W.-T., Guo, W.-Y., Jarvie, S. W., Svenning, J.-C. (2021) The fate of Meconopsis species in the Tibeto-Himalayan region under future climate change. Ecology and Evolution, 11: 887–899.

23. Chytrý, M., Danihelka, J., Kaplan, Z., Wild, K., Holubová, D., …, Guo, W.-Y., …, Pyšek, P. (2021) Pladias database of the Czech Flora and Vegetation. Preslia, 93: 1-87. 网址

24. Lambertini, C., Guo, W.-Y., Ye, S., Eller, F., Guo, X., Li, X.-Z., Sorrel, B. K., Brix, H. (2020) Phylogenetic diversity shapes salt tolerance in Phragmites australis estuarine populations in East China. Scientific Reports, 10(1): 1-12.
    

25. Jampeetong, A., Guo, W.-Y., Brix, H. (2020) Growth and photosynthetic acclimation to temperature in hybrid Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum× P. americanum cv. Pakchong 1) and giant reed (Arundo donax). Aquatic Botany, 164:103232.

26. Guo W.-Y.*, van Kleunen M., Pierce S., Dawson W., Essl F., Kreft H., Maurel N., Pergl J., Weigelt P., Winter M., Pyšek P. (2019) Domestic gardens play a dominant role in selecting alien species with adaptive strategies that facilitate naturalization. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28: 628-639.

27. Pyšek P., Guo W.-Y. , Štajerová, K., Moora, M., Bueno, C. B., Dawson W., Essl F., Gerz, M., Kreft H., Pergl, J., van Kleunen M., Weigelt P., Winter M., Zobel, M. (2019) Facultative mycorrhizal associations promote plant naturalization worldwide. Ecosphere, 10: e02937.
    

28. Skálová, H., Guo W.-Y., Moravcová, L., Pyšek P. (2019) Performance of Ambrosia artemisiifolia and its potential competitors in an experimental temperature and salinity gradient and implications for management. Management of Biological Invasions, 10: 359–376.

29. Pyšek P., Skálová H., Čuda J., Guo W.-Y., Doležal J., Kauzál O., Lambertini C., Pyšková K., Brix H., Meyerson L. A. (2019) Physiology of a plant invasion: biomass production, growth and tissue chemistry of invasive and native Phragmites australis populations. Preslia, 91: 51-75.

30. Canavan S., Meyerson L. A., Packer J. G., Pyšek P., Maurel N., Lozano V., Richardson D. M. Brundu G., Canavan K., Cicatelli A., Čuda J., Dawson W., Essl F., Guarino F., Guo W.-Y., van Kleunen M., Kreft H., Lambertini C., Pergl J., Skálová H., Soreng R. J., Visser V., Vorontsova M., Weigelt P., Winter M., Wilson J. R. (2019) Tall-statured grasses: a useful functional group for invasion science. Biological Invasions, 21: 37-58.

31. Ren L., Eller F., Lambertini C., Guo W.-Y., Brix H, Sorrell B., K. (2019) Assessing nutrient responses and biomass quality for selection of appropriate paludiculture crops. Science of the Total Environment, 664: 1150-1161.

32. Guo W.-Y.*, van Kleunen M., Winter M., Weigelt P., Stein A., Pierce S., Pergl J., Moser D., Maurel N., Lenzner B., Kreft H., Essl F., Dawson W., Pyšek P. (2018) The role of adaptive strategies in plant naturalization. Ecology Letters, 21:1380-1389.

33. Guo W.-Y.*, Lambertini C., Pyšek P., Meyerson L. A., Brix H. (2018) Living in two worlds: evolutionary mechanisms act differently in the native and introduced ranges of an invasive plant. Ecology and Evolution, 8: 2440-2452.

34. Pyšek P., Skálová H., Čuda J., Guo W.-Y., Suda J., Doležal J., Kauzál O., Lambertini C., Lučanová M., Mandáková T., Moravcová L., Pyšková K., Brix H., Meyerson L. A. (2018) Small genome separates native and invasive populations in an ecologically important cosmopolitan grass. Ecology, 99: 79–90.

35. Ren L., Eller F., Lambertini C., Guo W.-Y., Sorrell B., K., Brix H. (2018)⁠ Minimum Fe requirement and toxic tissue concentration of Fe in Phragmites australis: A tool for alleviating Fe-defciency in constructed wetlands. Ecological Engineering, 118: 152-160.
    

36. Skálová H., Guo W.-Y., Wild J., Pyšek P. (2017) Ambrosia artemisiifolia in the Czech Republic: history of invasion, current distribution and prediction of future spread. Preslia, 89: 1–16.

37. Packer J. G., Meyerson L. A., Richardson D. M., Brundu G., Allen W., Bhattarai G. P., Brix H., Canavan S., Castiglione S., Cicatelli A., Čuda J., Cronin J.T., Eller F., Guarino F., Guo W.-H.,  Guo W.-Y., Guo X., Hierro J., Lambertini C., Liu J., Lozano V., Mozdzer T. J., Skálová H., Villarreal D., Wang R.-Q., Pyšek P. (2017) Towards a global network for invasion science: benefits, challenges and guidelines. Biological Invasions, 19:1081–1096.

38. Čuda J., Vítková M., Albrechtová M., Guo W.-Y., Barney J. N., Pyšek P. (2017) Invasive herb Impatiens glandulifera has minimal impact on multiple components of temperate forest ecosystem function. Biological Invasions, 19: 3051-3066.

39. Eller F., Skálová H., Caplan J., Bhattarai G. P., Burger M. K., Cronin J. T., Guo W.-Y., Guo X., Hazelton E., Kettenring K., Lambertini C., McCormick M., Meyerson L., Mozdzer T., Pyšek P., Sorrell B. K., Whigham D., Brix H. (2017) Cosmopolitan species as models for ecophysiological responses to global change: the common reed Phragmites australis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8: 1833.

40. Guo W.-Y.*, Lambertini C., Guo X., Li X.-Z., Eller F., Brix H. (2016) Phenotypic traits of the Mediterranean Phragmites australis M1 lineage: differences between the native and introduced ranges. Biological Invasions, 18: 2551-2561.

41. Xing W., Guo W.-Y., Liang H., Li X., Wang C., He J., Lu X., Wang G. (2016) Holocene peatland initiation and carbon storage in temperate peatlands of the Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China. The Holocene, 26: 70-79.
    

42. Eller F., Alnoee A.B.^, Boderskov T.^, Guo W.-Y. ^, Kamp A.T.^, Sorrell B.K., Brix H. (2015) Invasive submerged freshwater macrophytes are more plastic in response to light intensity than to the availability of free CO2 in air-equilibrated water. Freshwater Biology, 60: 929-943.  (^ these authors contributed equally)

43. Xing W., Bao K., Guo W.-Y., Lu X., Wang G. (2015) Peatland initiation and carbon dynamics in northeast China: links to Holocene climate variability. Boreas, 44: 575-587.

44. He Y.-L., Liu H.-X., Li X.-Z., Guo W.-Y., Tang Y.-Y., Xin Z.-J. (2015) Response of plant distribution to photon flux density in salt marsh of Dongtan Wetlands in Yangtze River Estuary. Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Basin, 24: 640-646. (In Chinese)

45. Guo W.-Y.*, Lambertini C., Nguyen X.L., Li X.-Z., Brix H. (2014) Preadaptation and post-introduced evolution facilitate the invasion of Phragmites australis in North America. Ecology and Evolution, 4:4567–4577.

46. Ren L.-J., Guo W.-Y., Li X.-Z., Yan Z.-Z. (2014) Impacts of changes in landscape of tidal wetlands on potential of the wetlands purifying nitrogen and phosphorus in water at the Yangtze Estuarine. Journal of Ecology and Rural Environment, 30: 220-227. (In Chinese)

47. Guo W.-Y.*, Lambertini C., Li X.-Z., Meyerson L.A., Brix H. (2013) Invasion of Old World Phragmites australis in the New World: precipitation and temperature patterns combined with human influences redesign the invasive niche. Global Change Biology, 19, 3406-3422.

48. Liu Y.,  Li X.-Z., Yan Z.-Z., Chen X.-Z., He Y.-L., Guo W.-Y., Sun P.-Y. (2013) Biomass and carbon storage of Phragmites australis and Spartina alterniflora in Jiuduan Shoal Wetland of Yangtze Estuary, East China. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 24: 2129-2134. (In Chinese)
    

49. Sun Y.-G., Zhao D.-Z., Guo W.-Y., Gao Y., Su Y., Wei B.-Q. (2013) A review on the application of remote sensing in mangrove ecosystem monitoring. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 33, 4523-4538. (In Chinese)

50. He Y.-L., Li X.-Z., Guo W.-Y., Ma Z.-G. (2012) Division of labour in rhizomatous species: comparative performance of native and invasive species in the tidal marshes of the Yangtze estuary. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 422-423: 122-128.

51. Xin Z.-J., Li X.-Z., Nielsen S., Yan Z.-Z., Zhou Y.-Q., Jia Y., Tang Y.-Y., Guo W.-Y., Sun Y.-G. (2012) Effect of stubble heights and treatment duration time on the performance of water dropwort floating treatment wetlands (FTWs). Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S, 19: 315-330.

52. Sun Y.-G., Li X.-Z., He Y.-L., Jia Y., Ma Z.-G., Guo W.-Y., Xin Z.-J. (2012) Impact factors on distribution and characteristics of natural plant community in reclamation zones of Changjiang River estuary. Chinese Geographical Science, 22: 154-166.

53. Sun Y.-G., Li X.-Z., Mander Ü., He Y.-L., Jia Y., Ma Z.-G., Guo W.-Y., Xin Z.-J. (2011) Effect of reclamation time and land use on soil properties in Changjiang River Estuary, China. Chinese Geographical Science, 21: 403-416.

54. Sun Y.-G., Li X.-Z., Guo W.-Y., He Y.-L., Jia Y. (2011) Contribution rates of landscape driving factors in coastal reclamation zone based on CLUE-S model validation. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 22: 2391-2398. (In Chinese)

55. Jia Y., Li X.-Z., Tang Y.-Y., Xin Z.-J. Guo W.-Y., Sun Y.-G., He Y.-L. (2011) Effects of different cutting regimes on the productivity of Ipomoea aquatica Forsk planted on floating-mats in a eutrophicated river of Shanghai. Chinese Journal of Ecology, 30: 1091-1099. (In Chinese)

56. Xin Z.-J., Li X.-Z., Yan Z.-Z., Zhou Y.-Q., Jia Y., Tang Y.-Y., Guo W.-Y., Sun Y.-G. (2011) Purification effects of different stubble height Oenanthe javanica (Blume) DC. floating bed systems in winter in two successive experimental periods. Chinese Journal of Ecology, 30: 2745-2752. (In Chinese)

57. Ma Z.-G., Li X.-Z., He Y.-L., Guo W.-Y., Sun Y.-G., Jia Y. (2010) Relationships between vegetation distribution and environmental variables at the tidal marsh of Chongming East Headland, China. Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Basin, 2010, 19 (Z2): 130-134. (In Chinese)