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2. Xue-Wei Gong, Jing-Jing Guo, Li-Dong Fang, Sandra J. Bucci, Guillermo Goldstein, Guang-You Hao^(*), Hydraulic dysfunction due to root-exposure-initiated water stress is responsible for the mortality of Salix gordejevii shrubs on the windward slopes of active sand dunes. Plant and Soil, 2021. 459 (1-2), 185-201. (1)（封面文章）.

3. Li-Dong Fang, Qiu-Rui Ning, Jing-Jing Guo, Xue-Wei Gong, Jiao-Jun Zhu, Guang-You Hao^(*), Hydraulic limitation underlies the dieback of Populus pseudo-simonii trees in water-limited areas of northern China. Forest Ecology and Management, 2021. 483: 118764. 

4. Deliang Lu, Jiaojun Zhu^(*), Xiaoyu Wang, Guangyou Hao, G. Geoff Wang, A systematic evaluation of gap size and within-gap position effects on seedling regeneration in a temperate secondary forest, Northeast China, Forest Ecology and Management, 2021. 490: 119140.