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：

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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. Ma L^#*, Yu DS^#, Wang XK, Liu GH, Liu WZ*, He G*. 2025. Combined stressors of copper and antibiotics alter nitrogen transformation and multifunctionality of constructed wetlands: Responses of microbes and macrophytes. Journal of Environmental Management, 395, 127957.
  2. 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. Environmental Research, 269, 120921.
  3. Ma L^#, Pan YT^#, Liu H, Liu GH, Liu WZ*. 2025. Drying-rewetting legacy mitigates freezing-thawing effects on soil microbial communities and greenhouse gas emissions in plateau riparian wetlands. Environmental Pollution, 382, 126753.
  4. Deng DL, He G, Ding BJ, Liu WZ*, Yang ZJ*, Ma L*. 2024. Denitrification dominates dissimilatory nitrate reduction across global natural ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 30, e17256.
  5. 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. Environmental Chemistry Letters, 22, 989-995.
  6. 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 Biology & Biochemistry, 195, 109455.
  7. 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. Environmental Pollution, 353, 124190.
  8. 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. Chemical Engineering Journal, 466, 143022.
  9. 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. Journal of Cleaner Production, 387, 135807.
  10. Ma L, Pan YT, Wang XY, Liu GH*, Liu WZ*. 2023. Discrepancy in Response of Complete Ammonia Oxidizers and Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria and Archaea in the Lhasa River to High-Elevation Conditions. ACS ES&T Water, 3(10), 3357-3368.
  11. Yu MF, Li ZX, Shu BZ, Liu GH, Liu WZ, Yang YY, Ma L*. 2022. Co-selective pressure of cadmium and doxycycline on the antibiotic and heavy metal resistance genes in ditch wetlands. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13:820920.
  12. 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. Environmental Science & Technology, 54, 3267-3277.
  13. Ma L, Cai DM, Tu SX*. 2020. Arsenite simultaneous sorption and oxidation by natural ferruginous manganese ores with various ratios of Mn/Fe. Chemical Engineering Journal, 382, 123040.
  14. Ma L, Xiong ZQ, Yao LG, Liu GH, Zhang QF, Liu WZ*. 2020. Soil properties alter plant and microbial communities to modulate denitrification rates in subtropical riparian wetlands. Land Degradation & Development, 31, 1792-1802
  15. Ma L, Liu W, Tan QY, Zhou QH, Wu ZB, He F*. 2019. Quantitative response of nitrogen dynamic processes to functional gene abundances in a pond-ditch circulation system for rural wastewater treatment. Ecological Engineering, 134, 101-111.
  16. Ma L, He F*, Huang T, Zhou QH, Zhang Y, Wu ZB. 2016. Nitrogen and phosphorus transformations and balance in a pond-ditch circulation system for rural polluted water treatment. Ecological Engineering, 94, 117-126.
  17. Ma L, He F*, Sun J, Wang L, Xu D, Zhang Y, Wu ZB. 2015. Remediation effect of pond–ditch circulation on rural wastewater in southern China.Ecological Engineering, 77, 363-372.