Yiguo Ran is currently an associate professor at Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained the Ph.D. degree of Environmental Science and Engineering from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021. He has authored over 30 publications. His research interests include soil organic carbon formation and stabilization, soil aggerate stabilization, and their interactions.

Organic carbon turnover and its interaction with soil structure

1. Ran Y., Mao Z., Jia H., He X., Xia S., Ye F., Vithana C., Li S., Wu S., Huang P., 2024. Flooding increases plant-derived carbon accumulation in soils of aquatic-terrestrial ecotone. J. Environ. Manage., 373, 123464

2. Ran Y., Wang, P., Ye, F., Qu, J., Ning, Y., Zhang, Y., Wen Z., Wu S., Huang, P., 2024. Patterns and drivers of organic carbon in hydromorphic soils across inland aquatic-terrestrial ecotones at the global scale. Catena, 244, 108266

3. Ran Y., Zhu K., Ma M., Wu S., Huang P., 2023. Periodic flooding enhances the function of soil Fe/Al oxides in stabilizing particulate organic carbon in a water level drawdown zone. Soil till. Res. 231, 105740

4. Ran Y., Wu S., Jiang Y., Qu J., Imali H., and Huang P., 2023. The legacy effects of soil type on carbon content are erased by extreme flooding stress in a water-level drawdown zone. Catena. 231, 107283

5. Ran Y., Wu S., Chen C., Sun X., Huang P., Ma M., Yi X., 2022. Shift from soil chemical to physical filters in assembling riparian floristic communities along a flooding stress gradient. Sci. Total Environ. 844, 157116, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157116. 

6. Ran Y., Liu Y., Wu S., Li W., Zhu K., Ji Y., Mir Y., Ma M., Huang P. 2021. A higher river sinuosity reduced riparian soil erosion risk along the downstream of a dammed river. Sci. Total Environ. 802, 149886, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149886. 

7. Ran Y., Zhu K., Wu S., Zhou Y., Li W., Ma M., Huang P., 2021. Conservative riparian agriculture facilitates soil carbon and nitrogen storage under the flooding regime regulated by a dammed-reservoir. Catena, 209, 105783, doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105783.

8. Ran Y., Ma M., Liu Y., Zhou Y., Sun X., Wu S., Huang P. 2020. Hydrological stress regimes regulate effects of binding agents on riparian soil aggregates. Catena, 196, 104815, doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2020.104815.

9. Ran Y., Wu S., Zhu K., Li W., Liu Z., Huang P. 2019. Soil types differentiated their responses of aggregate stability to hydrological stresses at the riparian zones of the Three Gorges Reservoir. J. Soil Sediment., 20, 951–962, doi.org/10.1007/s11368-019-02410-7.

10. Ran Y., Ma M., Liu Y., Zhu K., Yi X., Wang X., Wu S., Huang P. 2019. Physicochemical determinants in stabilizing soil aggregates along a hydrological stress gradient on reservoir riparian habitats: Implications to soil restoration. Eco. Eng., 143, 15, doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2019.105664.