项文化，中南林业科技大学生命科学与技术学院院长，教授，生态学博士，博士生导师。湖南会同杉木林生态生态系统国家野外科学观测研究站站长。中国生态学会理事，中国林学会森林生态分会副主任委员，中国林学会杉木专业委员会副主任委员，中国自然资源学会森林资源专业委员会副主任委员，湖南省生态学会副理事长。2005年荣获第五届湖南省青年科技奖，2006年入选为教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划，享受国务院政府特殊津贴。国际期刊Land Degradation & Development编委，第十届《林业科学》编委会委员。
1988年毕业于中南林学院林学专业，获农学学士学位；1988年至1991年在中南林学院攻读森林生态学硕士学位，1991年获森林生态学硕士学位；2003年毕业于中南林学院，获生态学博士学位。2002年在澳大利亚国立大学（Australian National University）资源、环境与社会系访问****，2010年在奥地利维也纳大学（University of Vienna）生态系统与化学生态所访问****。
主要从事森林生态系统长期定位研究，研究内容为杉木林生产力和养分利用策略、亚热带次生林群落结构、地下细根多样性、土壤养分转化、森林碳汇及生产力模拟预测等领域。主持国家自然科学基金、科技部基础平台建设项目、国家重点研发项目子课题等项目20余项。在国内外学术期刊发表论文290篇，其中SCI源刊论文103篇，出版专著1部。获科研成果奖8项，其中国家科学技术进步二等奖1项，湖南省自然科学一等奖1项，湖南省科学技术进步一等奖、二等奖各1项。
1、近3年第一或通讯作者发表的学术论文
Shuai Ouyang, Wenhua Xiang^*, Mengmeng Gou, Liang Chen, Pifeng, Lei, Wenfa Xiao, Xiangwen Deng, Jiangrong Li, Tao Zhang, Changhui Peng, David I. Forrester. 2021. Stability in subtropical forests: the role of tree-species diversity, stand structure, environmental and socio-economic conditions. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30: 500-513

Weixian Zeng, Wenhua Xiang^*, Bo Zhou, Shuai Ouyang, Yelin Zeng, Liang Chen, Grégoire T. Freschet, Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes, Alexandru Milcu. 2021. Positive tree diversity effect on fine root biomass: via density dependence rather than spatial root partitioning. Oikos, 130: 1-14

Qi Xia, Liang Chen, Wenhua Xiang^?, Shuai Ouyang, Huili Wu, Pifeng Lei, Wenfa Xiao, Shenggong Li, Lixiong Zeng, Yakov Kuzyakov. 2021. Increase of soil nitrogen availability and recycling with stand age of Chinese-fir plantations. Forest Ecology and Management, 480 (15): 118643

Liang Chen, Wenhua Xiang*, Qi Xia, Shuai Ouyang, Huili Wu, Jiani Ma, Yelin Zeng, Pifeng Lei, Wenfa Xiao, Shenggong Li, Yakov Kuzyakov. 2021. Tight coupling of soil quality with fungal community composition in a Chinese fir plantation chronosequence. Land Degradation and Development, 32: 1164-1178

Wenhua Xiang, Linhua Li, Shuai Ouyang, Wenfa Xiao, Lixiong Zeng, Liang Chen, Pifeng Lei, Xiangwen Deng, Yelin Zeng, Jiangping Fang, David I. Forrester. 2020. Effects of stand age on tree biomass partitioning and allometric equations in Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantations. European Journal of Forest Research, doi: 10.1007/s10342-020-01333-0

Cong Liu, Wenhua Xiang*, Binggeng Xie, Shuai Ouyany, Yelin Zeng, Pifeng Lei, Changhui Peng. 2020. Decoupling the complementarity effect and the selection effect on the overyielding of fine root production along a tree species richness gradient in subtropical forests. Ecosystems, online: doi: 10.1007/s10021-020-00538-z

Wenbo Zhou, Wenhua Xiang*, Yuyu You, Shuai Ouyang, Zhonghui Zhao, Shengli Zhang, Yelin Zeng, Jiangrong Li, Jiurong Wang, Kelin Wang. 2020. Atmospheric wet deposition of organic carbon and dissolved nitrogen in city, countryside and nature reserve of subtropical China. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 56: 1045-1058

Weixian Zeng, Wenhua Xiang*, Bo Zhou, Shuai Ouyang, Yelin Zeng, Liang Chen, Lijuan Zhao, Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes. 2020. Effects of tree species richness on fine root production varied with stand density and soil nutrients in subtropical forests. Science of the Total Environment, 733: 139344

Yuyu You, Wenhua Xiang*, Shuai Ouyang, Zhonghui Zhao, Liang Chen, Yelin Zeng, Pifeng Lei, Xiangwen Deng, Jiurong Wang, Keling Wang. 2020. Hydrological fluxes of dissolved organic carbon and total dissolved nitrogen in subtropical forests at three restoration stages in southern China. Journal of Hydrology, 593: 124656 (IF=4.500)

Huili Wu, Wenhua Xiang*, Liang Chen, Shuai Ouyang, Wenfa Xiao, Shenggong Li, David I. Forrester, Pifeng Lei, Yelin Zeng, Xiangwen Deng, Lixiong Zeng, Yakov Kuzyakov. 2020. Soil phosphorus bioavailability and recycling increased with stand age in Chinese fir plantations. Ecosystems, 23: 973-988

Huili Wu, Wenhua Xiang*, Shuai Ouyang, Wenfa Xiao, Shenggong Li, Liang Chen, Pifeng Lei, Xiangwen Deng, Yelin Zeng, Lixiong Zeng, Changhui Peng. 2020. Tree growth rate and soil nutrient status determine the shift in nutrient-use strategy of Chinese fir plantations along a chronosequence. Forest Ecology and Management, 460: 11789

Weixian Zeng, Wenhua Xiang*, Jiangping Fang, Bo Zhou, Shuai Ouyang, Yeling Zeng, Liang Chen, Pifeng Lei, Alexandru Milcu, Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes. 2020. Species richness and functional-trait effects on fine root biomass along a subtropical tree diversity gradient. Plant and Soil, 446: 515-527

Shuai Ouyang, Wenhua Xiang*, Xiangping Wang, Wenfa Xiao, Liang Chen, Shenggong Li, Han Sun, Xiangwen Deng, David I. Forrester, Lixiong Zeng, Pifeng Lei, Xiangdong Lei, Mengmeng Gou, Changhui Peng. 2019. Effects of stand age, richness and density on productivity in subtropical forests in China. Journal of Ecology, 107: 2266-2277

Huili Wu, Wenhua Xiang*, Shuai Ouyang, David I. Forrester, Bo Zhou, Lingxiu Chen, Tida Ge, Pifeng Lei, Liang Chen, Yelin Zeng, Xinzhang Song, Josep Pe?uelas, Changhui Peng. 2019. Linkage between tree species richness and soil microbial diversity improves phosphorus bioavailability. Functional Ecology, 33: 1549-1560

Liang Chen?, Wenhua Xiang*, Huili Wu, Shuai Ouyang, Bo Zhou, Yelin Zeng, Yongliang Chen, Yakov Kuzyakov. 2019. Tree species identity surpasses richness in affecting soil microbial richness and community composition in subtropical forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 130: 113-120

Cong Liu, Wenhua Xiang*, Limei Zou, Pifeng Lei, Yelin Zeng, Shuai Ouyang, Xiangwen Deng, Xi Fang, Zelin Liu, Changhui Peng. 2019. Variation in the functional traits of fine roots is linked to phylogenetics in the common tree species of Chinese subtropical forests. Plant and Soil, 436: 347-364

Yelin Zeng, Mengmeng Gou, Shuai Ouyang, Liang Chen, Xi Fang, Lijuan Zhao, Jiaxiang Li, Changhui Peng, Wenhua Xiang*. 2019. The effect of secondary forest restoration on multiple ecosystem services and their trade-offs. Ecological Indicators, 104: 248-258

Liang Chen, Wenhua Xiang*, Huili Wu, Shuai Ouyang, Pifeng Lei, Yajun Hu, Tida Ge, Jun Ye, Yakov Kuzyakov. 2019. Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil fungal communities in subtropical deciduous and evergreen broadleaved forests. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 103: 5421-5433

2、省级科技成果一等奖以上的奖励
“亚热带森林恢复过程生态功能演变及调控机理”2016年获湖南省自然科学一等奖（排名第1）

“杉木林生态系统的功能与过程研究”2004年获国家科技进步二等奖（排名第5）

“马尾松、湿地松林生态系统生物产量及物质循环研究”2004年获湖南省科技进步一等奖（排名第2）

3、出版专著
项文化, 方晰著. 2018. 亚热带次生林群落结构与土壤特征. 科学出版社.