姚步青，汉族，甘肃通渭人。兰州大学生态学博士，副研究员，硕士生导师。青海省“创新人才千人计划”培养拔尖人才，青海省自然科学与工程技术学科带头人。

物种多样性维持机理；物种多样性与生态系统功能；退化生态系统恢复。

代表性期刊论文：
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Guoxi Shi, Yue Yang, Yongjun Liu, Jean Yves Uwamungu, Yanmei Liu, Yibo Wang, Huyuan Feng, Buqing Yao*, Huakun Zhou. Effect of Elymus nutans on the assemblage of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities enhanced by soil available nitrogen in the restoration succession of revegetated grassland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Land Degradation & Development, 2022, 33(6): 931-944.
Zhiqiang Wang, Mingcheng Wang, Kailiang Yu, Huifeng Hu, Yuanhe Yang, Philippe Ciais, Ashley P Ballantyne, Karl J Niklas, Heng Huang, Buqing Yao*, S Joseph Wright. Global synthesis for the scaling of soil microbial nitrogen to phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters, 2021, 16, 044034.
Guoxi Shi, Buqing Yao*, Yongjun Liu, Jianbin Pan, Shengjing Jiang, Yibo Wang, Zhibo Wang, Huyuan Feng, Huakun Zhou. The effects of long-term warming on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities depend on habitat type on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Applied Soil Ecology, 2021, 167: 104030.
Fangping Wang, Guoxi Shi, Ostle Nicholas, Buqing Yao*, Mingfei Ji, Wenying Wang, Zhen Ma, Huakun Zhou, Xinquan Zhao. Ecosystem nitrogen retention is regulated by plant community trait interactions with nutrient status in an alpine meadow. Journal of Ecology, 2018. 07, 106(4): 1570-1581.
Fangping Wang, Xinchuan Wang, Buqing Yao*, Zhonghua Zhang, Guoxi Shi, Zhen Ma, Zhi Chen, Huakun Zhou. Effects of land-use types on soil organic carbon stocks: a case study across an altitudinal gradient within a farm-pastoral area on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Journal of Mountain Science, 2018, 15(12): 2693-2702.
郭美玲, 姚步青*, 石国玺, 王芳萍, 王文颖, 马真, 张中华, 周华坤. 高寒草甸植物叶片碳含量及其可塑性与系统发育的关系. 生态学杂志, 2018, 37(6): 1841-1848.
Guoxi Shi, Buqing Yao*, Yongjun Liu, Shengjing Jiang, Wenying Wang, Jianbin Pan, Xinquan Zhao, Huyuan Feng, Huakun Zhou. The phylogenetic structure of AMF communities shifts in response to gradient warming with and without winter grazing on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Applied soil ecology, 2017, 121: 31-40.
Longhua Xu, Buqing Yao*, Wenying Wang, Fangping Wang, Huakun Zhou, Jianjun Shi, Xinquan Zhao. Effects of plant species richness on 13C assimilate partitioning in artificial grasslands of different established ages. Scientific reports, 2017, 7: 40307.
余欣超, 姚步青*, 周华坤, 金艳霞, 杨月娟, 王文颖, 董世魁, 赵新全. 青藏高原两种高寒草甸地下生物量及其碳分配对长期增温的响应差异. 科学通报, 2015, 60(4): 379-388.
邓建明, 姚步青*, 周华坤, 赵新全, 魏晴, 陈哲, 王文颖. 水氮添加条件下高寒草甸主要植物种氮素吸收分配的同位素示踪研究. 植物生态学报, 2014, 38 (2): 116-124.
Huakong Zhou, Buqing Yao*, Weixing Xu, Xin Ye, Jinjing Fu, Yanxia Jin, Xinquan Zhao. Field evidence for earlier leaf-out dates in alpine grassland on the eastern Tibetan Plateau from 1990 to 2006. Biology Letters. 2014, 10, 20140291.
Buqing Yao, Changming Zhao, Jianming Deng, Huakong Zhou, Xinquan Zhao, Jianquan Liu. Phenotypic plasticity of Thellungiella salsaginea in response to saline stress. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 2013, 15: 829–846.
Buqing Yao, Jing Cao, Changming Zhao, Zed Rengel. Influence of ammonium and nitrate supply on growth, nitrate reductase activity and N-use efficiency in a natural hybrid pine and its parents. Journal of Plant Ecology. 2011, 4:275-282.
Buqing Yao, Jianming Deng, Jianquan Liu. Variations between diploids and tetraploids of Allium przewalskianum, an important vegetable–condiment in the Himalayas. Chemistry & Biodiversity. 2011, 8: 686-691.
专著：
青海省海南州植物名录及常见植物图谱. 2019. 科学出版社（参编）
三江源国家公园生态系统现状、变化及管理. 2019. 科学出版社（参编）
周华坤, 姚步青, 于龙等编著. 三江源区高寒草地退化演替与生态恢复. 2016. 科学出版社
中国陆地生态系统增汇技术途径及其潜力分析. 2017. 科学出版社（参编）

青海省科技厅自然科学基金面上项目：三江源区高寒草甸植物功能性状对不同坡度地形的响应/2020-ZJ-925（在研）

青海省重点研发和转化计划项目：青海省海南州优质饲草高产栽培和适宜性人工草地优化建植技术的示范推广/2018-SF-146（已结题）

2017年度青海三江源生态保护和建设二期工程科研和推广项目：重度退化草地治理技术研发/2017-S-1-04（已结题）

国家重点研发计划项目：退化高寒湿地人工植被稳定性群落建植技术研究与示范/2016YFC0501903-03（在研）

青海省省委组织部项目：青海省“创新人才千人计划”培养拔尖人才（在研）

国家自然科学基金面上项目：牧草谱系多样性与高寒人工草地生产力稳定性的关系及其机制研究/ 31572354（已结题）

青海省科技厅应用基础研究计划项目：基于化学计量学的三江源区人工草地建植适宜牧草品种及其组合的筛选研究 /2015-ZJ-711 （已结题）

国家科技支撑计划课题专题：不同类型人工草地生产-生态稳定性调控技术集成与示范/2014BAC05B03-04 （已结题）

“十二五”农村领域国家科技计划课题专题：青海高寒草甸草原牧区“生产生态生活”保障提升技术集成与示范/2012BAD13B01 （已结题）

国家自然科学基金青年基金项目：三江源区不同退化演替阶段高寒草甸化学计量内稳态与生态系统结构、功能和稳定性关系研究/31201836 （已结题）