薛凯，中国科学院大学资源与环境学院教授。2009年获美国康奈尔大学土壤科学博士学位。长期从事土壤微生物与全球变化研究，围绕土壤微生物调节的生态系统-气候变化反馈，聚焦我国北方草地尤其是青藏高原高寒草地，开展了微生物分布格局、调节反馈机制与管理调控的系统探索。共发表SCI论文百余篇，总他引4834次，其中在Nature Climate Change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America（PNAS）和eLife等重要期刊发表多篇通讯或第一作者论文。

(1) Accelerated temporal turnover of the soil nematode community under alpine grassland degradation. LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT, 2023, 第 2 作者.

(2) Plant Community Associates with Rare Rather than Abundant Fungal Taxa in Alpine Grassland Soils. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2023, 通讯作者.

(3) Long-Term Effects of Soil Remediation with Willow Short Rotation Coppice on Biogeographic Pattern of Microbial Functional Genes. MICROORGANISMS, 2022, 通讯作者.

(4) Environmental selection overturns the decay relationship of soil prokaryotic community over geographic distance across grassland biotas. ELIFE, 2022, 通讯作者.

(5) Fungi and Archaea Control Soil N2O Production Potential in Chinese Grasslands Rather Than Bacteria. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 2022, 通讯作者.

(6) The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning. BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY, 2021, 通讯作者.

(7) Tree diversity and soil chemical properties drive the linkages between soil microbial community and ecosystem functioning. ISME COMMUNICATIONS, 2021, 通讯作者.

(8) Spatial patterns of microbial nitrogen-cycling gene abundances along a precipitation gradient in various temperate grasslands at a regional scale. GEODERMA, 2021, 通讯作者.

(9) Linkage between microbial shift and ecosystem functionality. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 2021, 通讯作者.

(10) Reduced microbial stability in the active layer is associated with carbon loss under alpine permafrost degradation. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2021, 通讯作者.