Liu Guanglu, professor and doctoral supervisor, works at the Research Institute of Bamboo and Rattan Resources and Environment of the International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan (ICBR).
Majors for Recruitment: Silviculture, Forestry.
Research Interests: He is mainly engaged in the innovation of bamboo and rattan germplasm resources and the research on the theory and technology of efficient cultivation of bamboo and rattan resources.
He graduated from the Silviculture major of the Chinese Academy of Forestry in 2009 with a doctoral degree. He now serves as the Deputy Director of the Institute of Bamboo and Rattan Resources and Environment, International Center for Bamboo and Rattan; a Leading Talent in Forestry and Grassland Science and Technology Innovation of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration; the Leader of the Innovation Team of "Theory and Technology for Efficient Cultivation of Bamboo and Rattan Resources" under the National Forestry and Grassland Science and Technology Innovation Talent Program; and the Director of the Southern Yunnan Bamboo Forest Ecosystem Research Station.
Research Experience
He has presided over and participated in a number of national and ministerial-level projects, including the National Key R&D Programs of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and "13th Five-Year Plan", the National Science and Technology Support Programs of the "12th Five-Year Plan" and "11th Five-Year Plan", the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Public Welfare Industry Research Projects of Forestry, and the Transformation of Agricultural Scientific and Technological Achievements.
He has published more than 160 academic papers in core journals at home and abroad, among which over 60 papers were published as the first or corresponding author. He has obtained 12 authorized patents, including 5 invention patents.
His relevant scientific and technological achievements have won 1 Second-Class Award of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2020, ranked 8th), 2 First-Class Awards of the Liangxi Science and Technology Award (2016, ranked 7th; 2013, ranked 11th), and 8 Second-Class Awards of the Liangxi Science and Technology Award (2018, ranked 1st; 2022, ranked 2nd; 2019, ranked 3rd; 2021, ranked 4th and 9th; 2017, ranked 4th; 2020, ranked 6th; 2015, ranked 9th).
Email:liuguanglu@icbr.ac.cn
The main papers published in recent years are as follows:
[1] Junqing Nong, Ruijing Xu, Songpo Wei, Shaohui Fan, Quan Qiu, Yiju Li,Guanglu* Liu. Geographical variation and the role of climate and soil on phenotypic traits of Calamus rhabdocladus across provenances in China. BMC Plant Biology, 2025, 25:365.
[2] Xiaotong Liu, Shaohui Fan, Zhoubin Huang, Jiajun Liu, Wenhui Su, Guopeng Liang *,Guanglu Liu*. Aggregate protection dominates the variation in soil organic matter temperature sensitivity induced by the expansion of Moso bamboo into Chinese fr forests. Plant Soil, 2025.
[3] Gu Rui, Fan Shaohui, Wei Songpo,Liu Guanglu*.Construction of a Core Germplasm of Moso Bamboo Based on Phenotypic Traits. Scientia Silvae Sinicae, 2025, 61(9):101-112.(in Chinese)
[4] Xu Ruijing, Qiu Quan, Cai Chunju, Fan Shaohui, Wang Yi, Huang Chuanteng*,Liu Guanglu*. The Survival of Sympodial and Monopodial Bamboos in the Tropics Depends on Different Acclimatization Strategies. Tropical Plant Biology, 2025, 18(1).
[5] Rui Gu, Songpo Wei, Jiarui Li, Shihui Zheng, Zhiteng Li, Guanglu* Liu,Shaohui* Fan. Predicting the impacts of climate change on the geographic distribution of moso bamboo in China based on biomod2 model. European Journal of Forest Research, 2024.
[6] Shihui Zheng, Songpo Wei, Jiarui Li, Jingsheng Wang, Ziyun Deng, Rui Gu, Shaohui Fan,Guanglu Liu*. The Phenotypic Variation in Moso Bamboo and the Selection of Key Traits. Plants (Basel), 2024( 13):1625.
[7] Rui Gu, Shaohui Fan, SongpoWei, Jiarui Li, Shihui Zheng, Guanglu Liu *. Developments on Core Collections of Plant Genetic Resources: DoWe Know Enough? Forests, 2023, 14:926.
[8] Xiaxia Ding, Guanglu Liu, Songling Fu,Han Y. H. Chen. Tree species composition and nutrient availability affect soil microbial diversity and composition across forest types in subtropical China. Catena, 2021, 201:105224.
[9] Benxue Chen, Yanbing Li, Guanglu Liu*, Shaohui Fan, Haijun Yang,Haoran Su.. Effects of the interaction between shade and drought on physiological characteristics in Calamus viminalis seedlings. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2020, 48(1):305-317.
[10] Chen Benxue, Shaohui Fan, Chao Peng, Biao Huang, Guanglu Liu*. Soil properties and understory species diversity at different stand densities in a tropical rainforest on Hainan Island, China. Austrian Journal of Forest Science, 2020, 137(4):225-246.
[11] Hong-Fang Lu, Chun-Ju Cai, Xian-Shu Zeng, Daniel E. Campbell, Shao-Hui Fan*,Guang-Lu Liu*. Bamboo vs. crops: An integrated emergy and economic evaluation of using bamboo to replace crops in south Sichuan Province, China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018, 177:464-473.
