Resume：

• 2020.12 –present,  Associate Professor, Wetland Ecology Group, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  2018.07-2020.11,  Assistant professor, Wetland Ecology Group, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  2016.03-2018.06,  Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  2012.07-2015.06,  Ph.D degree, Institute of Hydrobiology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  2010.09-2012.06,  Assistant Engineer，Assistant Engineer of Hydrology Bureau of Yangtze River Water Resources Commission

  2007-09-2010.06,  M.D. degree, College of resource and environment, Huazhong Agricultural University

Professional specialty：

• Research fields and interests:

  (1) Biogeochemical process of carbon and nitrogen in wetland;

  (2) Research on environmental compound pollution and its ecological effects;

  (3) Basic research and technology development of rural non-point source pollution control and ecological restoration.

Funded projects：

Academic service：

Members：

Aawards and honors：

• 1. The third prize of Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, 2018

  2. The second prize of Jiangxi Ganpo Water Conservancy Science and Technology, 2017

Major publications：

• 1. Deng DL, He G, Ding BJ, Liu WZ*, Yang ZJ*, Ma L*. 2024. Denitrification dominates dissimilatory nitrate reduction across global natural ecosystems. Global Change Biol. 30, e17256. (IF_5-year: 13.0, JCR 2.0%, Ecology)
  2. Lu MZ, He G, Fan L, Liu GH, Wu JJ, Liu WZ*, Ma L*. 2024. Temperature sensitivity of aerobic and anaerobic organic carbon mineralization varies with climate and soil depth in riparian zones. Soil Biol. Biochem. 195, 109455. (IF_5-year: 10.4, JCR 4.0%, Soil Science)
  3. Ma L, Li ZX, He G, Liu GH, Ji MF, Liu WZ*. 2024. Effect of combined cadmium and doxycycline pollution on the nitrogen cycle in constructed ditch wetlands. Environ. Chem. Lett. 22, 989-995. (IF_5-year: 15.1, JCR 2.5%, Engineering, Environmental)
  4. Ma L, Jiang XL, Liu GH, Yao LG, Liu WZ*, Pan YT, Zuo YX. 2020. Environmental factors and microbial diversity and abundance jointly regulate soil nitrogen and carbon biogeochemical processes in Tibetan wetlands. Environ. Sci. Technol. 54, 3267-3277. (IF_5-year: 11.6, JCR 5.0%, Environmental Sciences)
  5. Ma L, Yang LL, Zhang Y, Zhou QH, Wu ZB, He F*. 2023. The occurrence characteristics and underlying removal mechanism of combined copper and sulfamethoxazole pollution in constructed wetlands. Chem. Eng. J, 466, 143022. (IF_5-year: 13.2, JCR 3.7%, Engineering, Environmental)
  6. Ma L, Cai DM, Tu SX*. 2020. Arsenite simultaneous sorption and oxidation by natural ferruginous manganese ores with various ratios of Mn/Fe. Chem. Eng. J. 382, 123040. (IF_5-year: 13.2, JCR 3.7%, Engineering, Environmental)
  7. Ma L, Li ZX, Liu GH, Liu WZ*. 2023. Low level cadmium alleviates the disturbance of doxycycline on nitrogen removal and N2O emissions in ditch wetlands by altering microbial community and enzymatic activity. J. Clean. Prod. 387, 135807. (IF_5-year: 10.2, JCR 6.7%, Environmental Sciences)
  8. Ma L, Yang LL, Liu W, Zhang Y, Zhou QH, Wu ZB, He F*. 2021. Environmental factors and microbial communities jointly regulate biological dephosphorization process in pond-ditch circulation systems (PDCSs) for rural wastewater treatment. Sci. Total. Environ. 758, 143629. (IF_5-year: 8.6, JCR 8.6%, Environmental Sciences)
  9. Yu MF, Chen LW, Liu GH, Liu WZ, Yang YY*, Ma L*. 2025. Metagenomic deciphers the mobility and bacterial hosts of antibiotic resistance genes under antibiotics and heavy metals co-selection pressures in constructed wetlands. Environ. Res. 269, 120921 (IF_5-year: 7.5, JCR 10.0%, Environmental Sciences)
  10. Pan YT, Wu JJ, Liu GH, Liu WZ, Ma L*. 2024. Differential responses of temperature sensitivity of greenhouse gases emission to seasonal variations in plateau riparian zones. Environ. Pollut. 353, 124190 (IF_5-year: 8.3, JCR 10.3%, Environmental Sciences)