2013.12 - 2014.12 博士后 以色列巴伊兰大学生命科学学院 土壤生态研究室

2007.09 - 2010.07 博士 中国科学院寒区旱区环境与工程研究所生态学专业

2004.09 - 2007.07 硕士 山西师范大学生命科学学院生态学专业

1999.-9 - 2004.-7 本科 南阳师范学院 生物系 生物科学专业

2024.12-2025.12 访问学者/博士后研究员 西班牙巴塞罗那自治大学CREAF生态研究所，导师：Josep Peñuelas

2019.12-至今 研究员 宁夏大学生态环境学院

2014.11-2019.12 副研究员 宁夏大学西北退化生态系统恢复与重建教育部重点实验室

2017.10-2017.11 访问学者 以色列特拉维夫大学，导师：Marcelo Sternberg

2017.02-2018.01 副局长 中卫市林业生态建设局挂职锻炼（省委组织部选派）

2010.07-2014.11 助理研究员 宁夏大学西北退化生态系统恢复与重建教育部重点实验室

荒漠化与生态恢复；修复生态学；生物多样性

研究领域包括：

（1）荒漠生物多样性形成与维持机理、群落构建机制；

（2）荒漠生态系统地上-地下相互联系与反馈；

（3）荒漠生物多样性响应气候变化；

（4）荒漠生物多样性对荒漠生态系统功能的影响

（5）荒漠化过程与生态修复技术、人工植被建设的生态效应

 主持在研项目

1. 中央引导地方科技发展专项（2024FRD05049）：荒漠草原生物多样性恢复与生态系统功能提升对气候变化的响应. 2024-2026. 30万元.

2. 国家自然科学基金项目（32360318）：腾格里沙漠固沙植被区蚂蚁多样性对土壤多功能性的影响机制. 2024-2027. 32万元.

3. 宁夏科技创新领军人才项目（2024015）：黄河几字湾荒漠-草地生物多样性对生态系统功能的影响. 202501-202912. 100万元.

4. 宁夏自然科学基金创新群体项目（2023AAC01002）：宁夏及毗邻区沙地生态系统结构、功能与稳定性及其尺度效应研究. 2023-2027. 80万元.

5. 宁夏科技创新团队项目(2021RXTDLX01)：干旱区生态水文. 2021-2025. 50万

6. 宁夏国（境）外智力引进计划项目（宁科外专字【2023】2号）：荒漠草原生态系统多功能性、稳定性及其对全球变化的响应. 2023-2024. 42万元.

已结题项目

1. 国家自然科学基金（41867005）：腾格里沙漠固沙造林后植被恢复对土壤节肢动物多样性分布的影响. 2019-2022. 40万元.

2. 国家自然科学基金项目(41661054): 荒漠灌丛对土壤动物的“聚集—扩散”效应：过程与机制. 2017.01-2020.12. 主持人. 38万元.

3. 国家自然科学基金项目(41101050): 荒漠草原土壤节肢动物多样性及分布对降雨变化的响应. 2012.01-2014.12. 30万.

4. 教育部-霍英东教育基金（151103）：不同林龄沙地灌丛生境土壤动物群落分布对枯落叶分解的影响. 2016.03-2019.3. 10.4万.

5. 中国科学院“西部之光”项目—“西部青年学者”（XAB2016AW02）: 沙地灌丛土壤动物对枯落叶的分解功能研究. 2017.1-2019.12. 10万元.

6. 宁夏重点研发计划项目（2021BEG03007）：宁夏黄河流域荒漠-绿洲过渡带土地退化机理与适应性生态恢复技术研发. 2021-2023. 68万元.

7. 宁夏青年拔尖人才培养工程项目（RQ0010）.自治区国家级学术技术带头人后备人选培养对象. 2019-2023. 50万元.

8. 宁夏大学贺兰山学者青年学者人才培养计划项目：2021-2025. 50万元.

9. 宁夏自然科学基金重点项目（2020AAC02014）：荒漠蚂蚁群落与植物间的互作关系对固沙造林生态恢复的影响. 2020-2023. 29.8万元.

10. 宁夏自然科学基金重点项目（2018AAC02004）：腾格里沙漠固沙造林后植被-土壤系统演变特征及生态效应评价. 2018-2019. 12万元.

11. 宁夏自然科学基金项目（2021AAC03047）：放牧管理条件下旱区灌从节肢动物对枯落物分解的影响. 2021-2023. 9.8万元.

12. 宁夏自然科学基金项目（NZ15025）：路域建设对脆弱荒漠草原生物多样性的影响及生态效应评价. 2015.09-2017.09. 3万元.

13. 自治区科技基础条件建设计划创新平台专项资金项目（2018DPC05021）：生态重点实验室旱区土壤生物生态建设项目. 2018-2020. 50万元.

14. 宁夏高等学校科学研究项目优秀青年教师培育基金项目（NGY2018007）: 不同“草方格”材料固沙后土壤-植被系统变化特征比较. 2018-2019. 12万元.

15. 宁夏高等学校科学研究优秀青年教师培育基金项目(NGY2015053)：宁夏沙区退耕还林与还草对土壤-植被系统的影响比较. 2016.01-2017.12. 7.5万.

16. 宁夏留学人员科技活动择优资助项目（宁人社函【2016494号）：农牧交错区退耕还草后土地生产力变化及其生态效应评价. 2016.10-2018.10. 5万元.

科研成果

学术专著

1.刘任涛. 沙化草原土壤节肢动物生态学研究. 北京：科学出版社. 2020.

2.刘任涛. 土壤动物生态学研究方法：试验设计、数据处理与论文写作. 北京：科学出版社. 2016

3.Liu Rentao. Ecology of Soil Fauna in a Desertified System. Beijing：Science Press. 2015.

4.刘任涛 赵哈林, 赵学勇, 刘新民. 科尔沁沙地土壤动物群落分布特征. 北京：科学出版社. 2015

论文发表

1.Jiancai Sun, Rentao Liu*, Marcelo Sternberg, Lei Zhou, Zhimin Yang. 2025. Grazing reduces shrub-facilitated diversity of ground-dwelling arthropods in semiarid ecosystems. Ecological Indicators, 170: 113052.

2.Jiancai Sun, Rentao Liu*, Marcelo Sternberg**, Zhimin Yang, Ying Tian. 2025. Effects of shrub microhabitats on taxonomic and functional diversity of soil microarthropods under grazing regimes in desertified regions. Applied Soil Ecology, 206: 105920.

3.Xu Hongwei, Qu Qing, Yang, Jiaping, Wang, Zhen, Wang, Minggang, Liu, Rentao, Xue, Sha. 2024. Impact of drought on terrestrial ecosystem C-N-P stoichiometry and microbial nutrient limitation. Soil & Tillage Research, 236: 105951.

4.Guan Q.S., Zhou Y.Q., Li S., Yang F., Liu R.T*. 2024. Denitrification and Anammox and Feammox in the Yinchuan Yellow River wetland. Plant Soil and Environment, 70(11):731-738.

5.Zhong Zekun, Wang Xing, Yang Gaihe, Han Xinhui, Zhu Lin, Liu Rentao*. 2023. Short-term warming-induced increase in non-microbial carbon emissions from semiarid abandoned farmland soils. Global Ecology and Conservation, 47: e02676.

6.Rentao Liu* and Yang Bing. 2023. Editorial: soil microbe-arthropod interactions under global change. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14:1280103.

7.Qing Qu, Zhen Wang, Quan Gan, Rentao Liu*, Hongwei Xu. 2023. Impact of drought on soil microbial biomass and extracellular enzyme activity. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14:1221288.

8.Zekun Zhong, Xing Wang, Rentao Liu, Dejie Kong, Haojie Nie, Xinhui Han, Gaihe Yang, Lin Zhu. 2023. Soil bacteria respond intensely to resource limitations regulated by edaphic properties during secondary succession on a semiarid abandoned farmland. Catena, 223: 106944.

9.Zhixia Guo, Haitao Chang, Rentao Liu*. 2022. Response of soil microarthropod community to seasonal changes in Urat desert steppe, Inner Mongolia. Frontiers in Environmental Sciences, 10:893913.

10.Rentao Liu, Zhixia Guo, Yosef Steinberger*. 2022. Differential responses of ground-active arthropod abundance and diversity to shrub afforestation in heterogeneous textured soils in desertified grassland ecosystems, North China. Sciences of the Total Environments, 829: 154631.

11.Anning Zhang, Rentao Liu*, Marcelo Sternberg. 2022. Shrub facilitation effects on plant litter arthropods community increase with increasing aridity in desertified ecosystems in China. Journal of Arid Environments, 200: 104724.

12.Jinghua Qi, Xinrong Li, Peng Zhang, Rentao Liu. Biocrust nitrogenase activity responses to warming and increased drought in arid desert regions. Geoderma, 428: 116184.

13.Li Xinrong, Hui Rong, Tan Huijuan, Zhao Y, Liu Rentao, Song Naiping (2021) Biocrust Research in China: Recent Progress and Application in Land Degradation Control. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12:751521.

14.Anning Zhang, Rentao Liu*, Huang Lei*. 2020. Effect of shrub revegetation on ground-active arthropod diversity and trophic structure in Tengger desert. European Journal of Soil Biology, 101(C):103246.

15.Rentao Liu, Yael Navon, Yosef Steinberger, Marcelo Sternberg. 2020. Effects of rainfall manipulations versus natural rainfall gradient on plant litter arthropods in desert and Mediterranean ecosystems. Applied Soil Ecology, 156(12):103716.

16.Eugene Marais, Gillian Maggs-Kolling, Chen Sherman, Tirza Doniger, Liu Rentao, Binu Tripathi, Yosef Steinberger. 2019. Profiling soil free-living nematodes in the Namib Desert, Namibia. Journal of Arid Land, 11(6):1-14.

17.Stanislav Pen-Mouratov, Roi Meller, Rentao Liu, Yosef Steinberger. 2019. The impact of animal trampling on free-living nematode abundance, genera, and trophic diversity was attenuated by tree canopies. Journal of Life Sciences, 13(1):12-33.

18.Rentao Liu, Yosef Steinberger, Jingwei Hou, Juan Zhao, Jianan Liu, Haitao Chang, Jing Zhang, Yaxi Luo. 2019. Conversion of cropland into agroforestry land versus naturally-restored grassland alters soil macro-faunal diversity and trophic structure in the semi-arid agro-pasture zone of northern China. Journal of Arid Land, 11(2): 306-317.

19.Rentao Liu, Roi Meller, Yosef Steinberger. 2019. Changes in a soil microarthropod community in the vicinity of dominant tree species under trampling management at the Safari Zoological Center, Israel. Acarologia, 59(1): 33-45.

20.Rentao Liu, Haggai Wasserstrom, Roi Meller, Yosef Steinberger. 2018. Ground-active arthropod response to distance from the Mediterranean seashore in coastal sand areas of western Israel. Arid Land Research and Management, 32:316-336.

21.Rentao Liu, Yosef Steinberger. 2018. Seasonal changes of distribution and diversity of ground-active arthropods between shrub microhabitats in the Negev Desert, Israel. Arid Land Research and Management, 32(1):91-110.

22.Rentao Liu, Stanislav Pen-Mouratov, Yosef Steinberger. 2016. Shrub cover expressed as an ‘arthropod island’ in xeric environments. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 10(5):393-402.

23.Rentao Liu, Fan Zhu, Yosef Steinberger. 2016. Ground-active arthropod responses to rainfall-induced dune microhabitats in a desertified steppe ecosystem. Journal of Arid Land, 8(4):632-646.

24.Rentao Liu, Fan Zhu, Yosef Steinberger. 2016. Changes in ground-dwelling arthropods diversity related to the proximity of shrub cover in a desertified system. Journal of Arid Environments, 124(C): 172-179.

25.Rentao Liu, Fan Zhu, Yosef Steinberger. 2015. Effectiveness of afforested shrub plantation on ground-active arthropod communities and trophic structure in desertified regions. Catena, 125:1-9.

26.Rentao Liu, Fan Zhu, Hui An, Yosef Steinberger. 2014. Effect of naturally vs manually restored management on ground-dwelling arthropod communities in a desertified region. Ecological Engineering, 73:545-552.

27.Halin Zhao, Jin Li, Rentao Liu, Ruilian Zhou, Hao Qu, Chengchen Pan. 2014. Effects of desertification on temporal and spatial distribution of soil macro-arthropods in Horqin sandy grassland, Inner Mongolia. Geoderma, 223-225:62-67.

28.Rentao Liu, Fan Zhu, Naiping Song, Xinguo Yang, Yongqing Chai. 2013. Seasonal distribution and diversity of ground arthropods in microhabitats following a shrub age sequence in desertified steppe. PLoS ONE, 8(10): e77962.

29.Rentao Liu, Halin Zhao, Xueyong Zhao, Fan Zhu. 2013. Effect of cultivation and grazing exclusion on the soil macrofaunal community of semi-arid sandy grasslands in northern China. Arid Land Research and Management, 27(4): 377-393.

30.Rentao Liu, Halin Zhao, Xueyong Zhao. 2013. Soil macro-faunal communities along a cultivated cropland chronosequence in semi-arid agro-pastoral ecosystems, northern China. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, 22(4):1203-1211.

31.Rentao Liu, Halin Zhao, Xueyong Zhao. 2013. Changes in soil macrofaunal community composition under selective afforestation in shifting sand lands in Horqin of Inner Mongolia, northern China. Ecological Research, 28:1-8.

32.Halin Zhao, Rentao Liu. 2013. The “bug island” effect of shrubs and its formation mechanism in Horqin Sand Land, Inner Mongolia. Catena, 105:69-74.

33.Rentao Liu, Halin Zhao, Xueyong Zhao, Sam Drake. 2011. Facilitative effects of shrubs in shifting sand on soil macro-faunal community in Horqin Sand Land of Inner Mongolia, Northern China. European Journal of Soil Biology, 47(5):316-321

34.Rentao Liu, Halin Zhao, Xueyong Zhao, Sam Drake. 2009. Soil macrofaunal response to sand dune conversion from mobile dune to fixed dune in Horqin Sandy Land, North China. European Journal of Soil Biology, 45, 417-422

35.Rentao Liu, Halin Zhao, Xueyong Zhao. 2009. Effect of vegetation restoration on ant nest-building activities following dune stabilization in Horqin Sandy Land, North China. Land Degradation and Development, 20: 562-571

获奖

1.李新荣，何明珠，潘艳霞，刘任涛，谭慧娟. 干旱沙区生态恢复与重建的生态水文学基础. 宁夏自然科学奖一等奖. 2024.08

2.Rentao Liu, Fan Zhu, Yosef Steinberger. Effectiveness of afforested shrub plantation on ground-active arthropod communities andtrophic structure in desertified regions. Catena, 125:1-9.第八届梁希林业科技青年论文奖三等奖. 2020.11.

3.Rentao Liu, Stanislav Pen-Mouratov, Yosef Steinberger. Shrub cover expressed as an ‘arthropod island’ in xeric environments. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 10(5):393-402”. 第十四届宁夏自然科学优秀学术论文一等奖. 2017.11

专利/软件著作权/标准

1.冯永宏, 刘任涛, 王文帆, 郭志霞, 蒋嘉瑜, 白燕娇. 昆虫捕捉器. 专利授权号：201921760199.2

2.冯永宏, 刘任涛, 李荫柱, 张安宁, 陈蔚, 常海涛, 陈虎阳. 一种树叶收集器.专利授权号：201922017175.4

3.刘任涛, 唐希明,尚梦玉, 郑耀强. 水分传导式精准型沙漠植苗工具. 专利授权号：2017204489957.

4.刘任涛, 尚梦玉, 郑耀强. 新型沙漠用播种装置. 专利授权号：2017204489942

5.刘任涛, 赵娟, 郗伟华, 刘佳楠. 一种方便操作的土壤动物分离改良装置.专利授权号：ZL 2016210761713

6.刘任涛, 郗伟华, 刘佳楠, 赵娟. 一种手动和自动切换操作的土壤动物分离改良装置.专利授权号：ZL 2016210760848

7.刘任涛, 刘佳楠, 郗伟华, 赵娟, 陈林,侯景伟, 尚梦玉. 干旱风沙区草地土壤剖面调查技术规程. DB64/T1200-2016.发布日期：2016-12-28，颁布日期：2017-03-28

8.刘任涛, 周海燕, 樊恒文, 柴永青, 夏兴雷. 沙地（丘）不同微地形灌草种植技术规程. DB64/T 1080-2015.发布日期：2015-09-02，颁布日期：2016-09-02.

中国生态学会理事

宁夏生态学会秘书长

《中国沙漠》《林业科学》Chinese Geographical Science青年编委

1.依托科研团队建设，开展人才培养和科学研究，服务区域荒漠生态恢复建设。

2.联合长江学者Marcelo教授，建立荒漠生物多样性科研创新团队，团队目前3名教师，博士生、硕士生9人。建立国际联合培养机制。

3.欢迎生态学、生物学、自然地理学、数学、化学和计算机科学相关研究生攻读学位。