Main work

• 2014-present, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Professor

• 2012-2014, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Postdoctoral researcher

• 1997-2014, Shenyang agricultural university, Academy of forestry, Professor

Key research projects

• Project supported by the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 32192434). Relationship between productivity of plantation ecosystem and carbon sink function. 2022-2026 2.8 million Under research

• Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 32172671). Response mechanism of soil nutrient retention of living grass mulching in citrus orchards in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area. 2022-2025 0.72 million Under research

• Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFC0505300). Technology and demonstration of non-point source pollution control and ecological restoration of water-level zone in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area. 2017-2020 (Postponed to 2021-06 due to the epidemic), 15.49 million, Conclude, Compere

• Project supported by the Key Program of the Chinese Academy of Forestry (Grant No. CAFYBB2017SZ004). Research on the overall improvement of ecological service function in river basin. 2016-2020, 2 million, Conclude, Compere

• Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31570449). Formation and driving mechanism of forest ecosystem services in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area of the Yangtze River. 2016-2019, 0.83million, Conclude, Compere

Awards & achievements

• Changfu Liu (8/10); Forest conservation and efficient utilization of understory resources in eastern mountainous area of Northeast China, State Council of the People's Republic of China. Second prize for scientific and technological Progress. 2019. (Jiaojun Zhu; Lizhong Yu; Xingyuan He; Qiaoling Yan; Kai Yang; Zhengquan Wang;Xiufen Li; Changfu Liu; Tian Gao; Lijun Tong). (Reward for scientific research)

• Changfu Liu (9/10); Study on ecological service function of urban forest in northern China, Jilin Province Science and Technology Award Committee. First prize of provincial and ministerial level in natural science. 2019. (Xingyuan He; Wenjie Wang; Zhibin Ren; Wei Chen; Zhouli Liu; Xiaoyu Li; Sheng Xu; Zhenju Chen; Changfu   Liu; Haifeng Zheng). (Reward for scientific research)

Published articles & books

• Yafei Shen, Lei Lei, Wenfa Xiao, Ruimei Cheng, Changfu Liu, Xiaoyu Liu, Hu Lin, Lixiong Zeng*. 2023. Soil microbial residue characteristics in Pinus massoniana lamb Plantations [J]. Environmental Research, 231:116081.

• Lixiong Zeng, Wenfa Xiao, Changfu Liu, Lei Lei*, Zunji Jian, Yafei Shen, Mai‑He Li. 2023. Effects of thinning and understorey removal on soil extracellular enzyme activity vary over time during forest recovery after treatment [J]. Plant and Soil, 492(1), 457-469.

• Jizhen Chen, Zhilin Huang, Zhilin Huang, Wenfa Xiao, Changfu Liu, Lixiong Zeng, Zihao Fan, Chenchen Shen*. 2023. Integrated Management Facilitates Soil Carbon Storage in Non-Timber Product Plantations in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area [J]. Forests, 14(6), 1204.

• Lei Lei, Wenfa Xiao, Lixiong Zeng*, Changfu Liu, Jianhua Zhu, Mai-He Li. 2022. Phenological season-dependent temperature effects on soil respiration in a subtropical Pinus massoniana forest [J]. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 323, 109086.

• Na Wang, Le Li, Mengmeng Gou, Zunji Jian, Jianwen Hu, Huiling Chen, Wenfa Xiao, Changfu Liu* 2022. Living grass mulching improves soil enzyme activities through enhanced available nutrients in citrus orchards in subtropical China [J]. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13: 1053009.

• Huiling Tian, Jianhua Zhu*, Xiao He, Xinyun Chen, Zunji Jian, Chenyu Li, Qiangxin Ou, Qi Li, Guosheng Huang, Changfu Liu, Wenfa Xiao*. 2022. Using machine learning algorithms to estimate stand volume growth of Larix and Quercus forests based on national-scale Forest Inventory data in China [J]. Forest Ecosystems, 9, 100037.

• Mengmeng Gou, Le Li, Shuai Ouyang, Chang Shu, Wenfa Xiao, Na Wang, Jianwen Hu, Changfu Liu*. 2022. Integrating ecosystem service trade-offs and rocky desertification into ecological security pattern construction in the Daning river basin of southwest China [J]. Ecological Indicators, 108845.

• Mengmeng Gou, Le Li, Shuai Ouyang, Na Wang, Lumeng La, Changfu Liu*, Wenfa Xiao. 2021. Identifying and analyzing ecosystem service bundles and their socioecological drivers in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area [J]. Journal of Cleaner Production, 307: 127208.

• Le Li, Mengmeng Gou, Na Wang, Wei Ma, Wenfa Xiao, Changfu Liu*, Lumeng La. 2021. Landscape configuration mediates hydrology and nonpoint source pollution under climate change and agricultural expansion [J]. Ecological Indicators, 129: 107959.

• Le Li, Mengmeng Gou, Na Wang, Lumeng La, Changfu Liu*. 2021. Do ecological restoration programs reduce forest fragmentation? Case study of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China [J]. Ecological Engineering, 172: 106410.

• Le Li, Changfu Liu*. 2019. A new approach for estimating living vegetation volume based on terrestrial point cloud data [J]. PloS one, 14(8): e0221734.

• Mingjun Teng, Chunbo Huang, Peng cheng Wang, Lixiong Zeng, Zhixiang Zhou⁎, Wenfa   Xiao, Zhilin Huang, Changfu Liu. 2019. Impacts of forest restoration on soil erosion in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, China [J]. Science of The Total Environment, 697, 134164.

• Changfu Liu*, Xiaoma Li. 2012. Carbon storage and sequestration by urban forests in Shenyang, China [J]. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening,11(2), 121-128.