1982年获齐齐哈尔师范学院学士学位，1987年获东北林业大学硕士学位，1991年获东北林业大学博士学位。1991年至1994年在植物所从事博士后研究，1994年1月留植物所工作任副研究员，1995年12月任研究员。

现任中国科学院生物多样性委员会副主任兼秘书长，IUCN亚洲区域委员会主席，DIWPA执委会委员，Species 2000项目董事会成员， AP-BON执委会成员，ESABII执委会成员，国家林业局国家级自然保护区评审委员会副主任，住建部世界自然遗产专家委员会副主任，北京生态学学会名誉理事长，《生物多样性》主编，《中国科学--生命科学》、《生态学杂志》、和《林业资源管理》副主编，BMC Ecology、Journal of Plant Ecology、Plant Ecology and Diversity、Forest Ecosystems、《植物生态学报》、《生态学报》等刊物编委。在Ecology Letters、Global Ecology and Biogeography、Ecology、Journal of Ecology等刊物发表论文340多篇，主编专著/学术论文集20多部；2012年获得国家科技进步奖一等奖。近年来，积极推动生物多样性信息学在中国的发展，特别是生物标本数字化及其共享平台的建设、全国生物物种编目；中国生物多样性监测网络建设（Sino BON，CForBio）和森林生物多样性与生态系统功能研究平台（BEF-China）建立。

在研项目：

1. 马克平主持. 典型森林群落生态多样性维持及其对全球变化的响应（重点研发计划课题，2017 - 2022）

2. 马克平主持. 群落多样性的形成与维持机制（先导B课题，2017 - 2018）

3. 马克平主持. 国家标本资源共享平台建设（科技部国家科技基础条件平台之一，2011-）

4. 马克平主持. 古田山亚热带森林林下真菌多样性多尺度格局及其与幼苗动态的关系(基金委面上项目，2015-2018）

5. 马克平主持. 东南亚植物多样性信息平台（院级国际合作项目，2015-2017）

6. 马克平主持. 亚热带森林地上植物多样性与地下微生物多样性及生态系统功能关系的研究（国际合作，2014-2017）

代表性研究论文（注*为通讯作者）

2018

Liu XJ, Trogisch S, He JS, Niklaus PA, Bruelheide H, Tang ZY, Erfmeier A, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Pietsch KA, Yang B, Kühn P, Scholten T, Huang YY, Wang C, Staab M, Leppert KN, Wirth C*, Schmid B*, Ma KP*. 2018. Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests. Proc. R. Soc. B-Biol. Sci., 285:20181240.

Yuanyuan Huang*, Yuxin Chen*, Nadia Castro-Izaguirre, Martin Baruffol, Matteo Brezzi？, Anne Lang, Ying Li, Werner H？rdtle, Goddert von Oheimb, Xuefei Yang, Xiaojuan Liu, Kequan Pei, Sabine Both, Bo Yang, David Eichenberg, Thorsten Assmann, Jürgen Bauhus, Thorsten Behrens, Fran？ois Buscot, Xiao-Yong Chen, Douglas Chesters, Bing-Yang Ding, Walter Durka, Alexandra Erfmeier, Jingyun Fang, Markus Fischer, Liang-Dong Guo, Dali Guo？, Jessica L. M. Gutknecht, Jin-Sheng He, Chun-Ling He, Andy Hector, Lydia H？nig, Ren-Yong Hu, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Peter Kühn, Yu Liang, Shan Li, Stefan Michalski, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Karsten Schmidt, Thomas Scholten, Andreas Schuldt, Xuezheng Shi, Man-Zhi Tan, Zhiyao Tang, Stefan Trogisch, Zhengwen Wang, ErikWelk, ChristianWirth, TesfayeWubet, Wenhua Xiang, Mingjian Yu, Xiao-Dong Yu, Jiayong Zhang, Shouren Zhang, Naili Zhang, Hong-Zhang Zhou, Chao-Dong Zhu, Li Zhu, Helge Bruelheide？, Keping Ma？, Pascal A. Niklaus？, Bernhard Schmid？. 2018. Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment. Science. 362(6410):80-83.

Zhu Y*, Queenborough SA, Condit R, Hubbell SP, Ma KP, Comita LS. 2018. Density-dependent survival varies with species life history strategy in a tropical forest. Ecol. Lett., 21: 506-515.

2017

Nathan G. Swenson, Yoshiko Iida, Robert Howe, Amy Wolf, María Natalia Uma？a Benjamin L. Turner & Keping Ma*. 2017. Tree co-occurrence and transcriptomic response to drought. Nature Communications. |8:1996 |DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02034-w

Han Baocai, María Natalia Umaňa, Mi Xiangcheng, Liu Xiaojuan, Chen Lei, Wang Yunquan, Liang Yu, Wei Wei, Keping Ma*.2017. The role of transcriptomes linked with responses to light environment on seedling mortality in a subtropical forest, China. Journal of Ecology. 105: 592-601

Zhang Minggang, J.W.Ferry Slik, Ma Keping*. 2017. Priority areas for the conservation of perennial plants in China. Biological Conservation. 210(B):56-63.

Du Yanjun, Simon A.Queenborough, Chen Lei, Wang Yunquan, Mi Xiangcheng, Ma Keping*, Liza S. Comita.2017. Intraspecific and phylogenetic density-dependent seedling recruitment in a subtropical evergreen forest.Oecologia. 184(1):193-203

Zhenkai Sun, Xiaojuan Liu, Bernhard Schmid, Helge Bruelheide, Wensheng Bu, Keping Ma*.2017.Positive effects of tree species richness on fine-root production in a subtropical forest in SE-China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 10(1):146-157.

Wensheng Bu, Bernhard Schmid, Xiaojuan Liu, Ying Li, Werner H？rdtle, Goddert von Oheimb, Yu Liang, Zhenkai Sun, Yuanyuan Huang, Helge Bruelheide, Keping Ma*.2017. Interspecific and intraspecific variation in specific root length drives aboveground biodiversity effects in young experimental forest stands. Journal of Plant Ecology. 10:158-169

Huang Jihong, Ma Keping*, Huang JIanhua.2017. Phytogeographical patterns of genera of endemic flora in relation to latitudinal and climatic gradients in China. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 303:689-698.

2016

Liu X.J., Swenson N.G., Lin D.M., Mi X.C., Umana M.N., Schmid. B. & Ma K.P*. 2016.Linking individual-level functional traits to tree growth in a subtropical forest. Ecology. 97(9):2396-2405.

Zhang MG, J.W.F Slik, KP Ma*. 2016.Priority areas for the conservation of perennial plants in China. Biological Conservation. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.

Huang JH, JH Huang, CR Liu, JL Zhang, XH Lu, KP Ma*. 2016. Diversity hotspots and conservation gaps for the Chinese endemic seed flora.Biological Conservation. 198:104-112.

Lin DM, K J. Anderson-Teixeira, JS Lai, XC Mi, HB Ren, KP Ma*. 2016. Traits of dominant tree species predict local scale variation in forest aboveground and topsoil carbon stocks. Plant and Soil. 409: 435-446.

2015

Zhu Y., Comita L.S., Hubbell S.P. & Ma KP. 2015. Conspecific and phylogenetic density-dependent survival differs across life stages in a tropical forest. Journal of Ecology, 103, 957-966.

Xu WB, Chen GK., Liu CR. & Ma KP. 2015. Latitudinal differences in species abundance distributions, rather than spatial aggregation, explain beta-diversity along latitudinal gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24: 1170-1180

Du YJ, LF Mao, S A. Queenborough, R P. Freckleton, B Chen and KP Ma. 2015. Phylogenetic constraints and trait correlates of flowering phenology in the angiosperm flora of China. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(8):928-938

Zhang NL, SQ Wan, JX Guo, GD Han, J Gutknecht, B Schmid, L Yu, WX Liu, J Bi, Z Wang, KP Ma*.2015.Precipitation modifies the effects of warming and nitrogen addition on soil microbial communities in northern Chinese grasslands. Soil Biology & Biochemistry.89:12-23.

2014

Yang WJ, KP Ma, H. Kreft.2014. Environmental and socio-economic factors shaping the geography of ？oristic collections in China. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23: 1284-1292

2013

Zhang NL, WX Liu, HJ Yang, XJ Yu, J LM Gutknecht, Z Zhang, SQ Wan, KP Ma*.2013. Soil microbial responses to warming and increased precipitation and their implications for ecosystem C cycling.Oecologia, 173(3):1125-1142

Yang WJ, KP Ma* and Holger Kreft*. 2013. Geographical sampling bias in a large distributional database and its effects on species richness–environment models. Journal of Biogeography,40:1415-1426

Lai JS, D Coomes, XJ Du, CF Hsieh, I-F Sun, WC Chao, XC Mi, HB Ren, XG Wang, ZQ Hao, KP Ma*. 2013. A general combined model to describe tree-diameter distributions within subtropical and temperate forest communities. Oikos, 122(11):1635-1641

Chen GK, M Kéry, M Plattner, KP Ma and B Gardner. 2013. Imperfect detection is the rule rather than the exception in plant distribution studies.Journal of Ecology, 101: 183 – 191

Liu XJ, N Swenson, JL Zhang, KP Ma*. 2013. The environment and space, not phylogeny, determine trait dispersion in a subtropical forest. Functional Ecology, 27(1):264-272

2012

Mi XC, N G. Swenson, R Valencia, J Kress, DL. Erickson, á Pérez-Casta？eda, HB Ren, SH Su, N Gunatilleke, S Gunatilleke, ZQ Hao, WH Ye, M Cao, H S Suresh, H S Dattaraja, S Sukumar, KP Ma*. 2012. The contribution of rare species to community phylogenetic diversity across a global network of forest plots. American Naturalist,180:E17-30

Huang JH, B Chen, CR Liu, JS Lai, JL Zhang and KP Ma*. 2012. Identifying hotspots of endemic woody seed plant diversity in China. Diversity and Distributions, 18:673-688

Cheng JJ, XC Mi, K Nadrowski, HB Ren, JT Zhang and KP Ma. 2012. Separating the effect of mechanisms shaping species-abundance distributions at multiple scales in a subtropical forest.Oikos, 121:236-244

2011

Zhang NL, Xia JY, Yu XJ, Ma KP, Wan SQ. 2011. Soil microbial community changes and their linkages with ecosystem carbon exchange under asymmetrically diurnal warming. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 43: 2053-2059

Li ZS, CM Shi, YB Liu, JL Zhang, QB Zhang, KP Ma*. 2011. Summer mean temperature variation from 1710-2005 inferred from tree-ring data of the Baimang Snow Mountains, northwestern Yunnan, China.Climate Research,47: 207-218

Li ZS, QB Zhang, KP Ma*. 2011. Tree-ring reconstruction of summer temperature for A.D. 1475-003 in the central Hengduan Mountains, Northwestern Yunnan, China.Climatic Change, 2011, 1-13

Zhang LW, XC Mi, HB Shao, KP Ma*.2011. Strong plant-soil associations in a heterogeneous subtropical broad-leaved forest. Plant and Soil, 347:211–220

Du HM, Y Liang, KQ Pei and KP Ma. 2011. UV radiation-responsive proteins in rice leaves: a proteomic analysis. Plant & Cell Physiology. 52(2): 306 -316

2010及以前

Chen L, XC Mi, L Comita, LW Zhang, HB Ren, KP Ma *. 2010. Community-level consequences of density dependence and habitat association in a subtropical broad-leaved forest. Ecology Letters,13:695-704

Zhu Y, XC Mi, HB Ren and KP Ma*, 2010. Density dependence is prevalent in a heterogeneous subtropical forest.Oikos, 119: 109-119

Shen GC, MJ Yu, XS Hu, XC Mi, HB Ren, I-F Sun, KP, Ma. 2009. Species-area relationships explained by the joint effects of dispersal limitation and habitat heterogeneity. Ecology, 90, 3033–3041

Chen GK, M Kéry, JL Zhang and KP Ma*. 2009.Factors Affecting Detection Probability In Plant Distribution Studies. Journal of Ecology, 97: 1383-1389

Lai JS, XC Mi, HB Ren, KP Ma*. 2009. Species-habitatmh associations change in a subtropical forest of China.Journal of Vegetation Science. 20:415-423

Legendre, P., XC Mi, HB Ren, KP Ma, MJ Yu, I. F. Sun, and FL He. 2009. Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of China. Ecology, 90: 663-674

Zhang, NL, SQ Wan, LH Li, J. Bi, M. Zhao, KP Ma*. 2008. Impacts of urea N addition on soil microbial community in a semi-arid temperate steppe in northern China. Plant and Soil,311: 19-28

Wang T, QB Zhang and KP Ma*.2006. Treeline dynamics in relation to climatic variability in the central Tianshan Mountains, northwestern China. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 15:406-415