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Chengjun Zhang

Chengjun Zhang

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Earth Science

D-Index
30
Citations
3518
World Ranking
9115
National Ranking
581

Overview

Chengjun Zhang is affiliated with Lanzhou University in China and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their scholarly output spans diverse topics, focusing on geological and environmental phenomena with a particular emphasis on paleoclimatology, geochemistry, and environmental contamination.

Their main research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Subfields of their studies incorporate atmospheric science, geophysics, global and planetary change, earth-surface processes, and applications of artificial intelligence within geosciences.

Chengjun Zhang has published research in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Minerals
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Investigation of microplastic contamination in the sediments of Noyyal River- Southern India," 2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances
  • "Lake Balkhash (Kazakhstan): Recent human impact and natural variability in the last 2900 years," 2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • "Environmental hazard assessment and metal contamination in coastal sediments," 2023, Chemosphere
  • "Palynological evidence for the temporal stability of the plant community in the Yellow River Source Area over the last 7,400 years," 2022, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
  • "Quantifying climate variation and associated regional air pollution in southern India using Google Earth Engine," 2023, The Science of The Total Environment

Zhang has also contributed to a book publication:

  • Lake Records of Environmental and Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau, published in 2022 by Frontiers Media

Collaborative work is a significant feature of Zhang's research profile, with frequent co-authors including Ramamoorthy Ayyamperumal, Xiaozhong Huang, Steffen Mischke, Nusrat Nazir, and Fengjie Li, reflecting cooperative efforts across multiple studies.

Best Publications

  • Quantitative climate and vegetation trends since the late glacial on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau deduced from Koucha Lake pollen spectra.

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Annette Kramer;Steffen Mischke;Chengjun Zhang

  • Reduced early Holocene moisture availability in the Bayan Har Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, inferred from a multi-proxy lake record

    Steffen Mischke;Michael Kramer;Chengjun Zhang;Huaming Shang

  • A modern pollen-climate calibration set based on lake sediments from the Tibetan Plateau and its application to a Late Quaternary pollen record from the Qilian Mountains.

    Ulrike Herzschuh;H. J. B. Birks;Steffen Mischke;Chengjun Zhang

  • Holocene cold events on the Tibetan Plateau

    Steffen Mischke;Chengjun Zhang

  • Holocene treeline shifts and monsoon variability in the Hengduan Mountains (southeastern Tibetan Plateau), implications from palynological investigations

    Annette Kramer;Annette Kramer;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Steffen Mischke;Chengjun Zhang

  • Holocene climate and vegetation changes inferred from pollen records of Lake Aibi, northern Xinjiang, China: A potential contribution to understanding of Holocene climate pattern in East-central Asia

    Wei Wang;Zhaodong Feng;Min Ran;Chengjun Zhang

  • A late Quaternary lake record from the Qilian Mountains (NW China): evolution of the primary production and the water depth reconstructed from macrofossil, pollen, biomarker, and isotope data

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Chengjun Zhang;Steffen Mischke;Rainer Herzschuh

  • An ostracod-conductivity transfer function for Tibetan lakes

    Steffen Mischke;Ulrike Herzschuh;Gudrun Massmann;Chengjun Zhang

  • Quantitative reconstruction of precipitation changes on the NE Tibetan Plateau since the Last Glacial Maximum – extending the concept of pollen source area to pollen-based climate reconstructions from large lakes

    Yongbo Wang;Yongbo Wang;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Lyudmila S. Shumilovskikh;Steffen Mischke;Steffen Mischke

  • A Lateglacial and Holocene lake record from the Nianbaoyeze Mountains and inferences of lake, glacier and climate evolution on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

    Chengjun Zhang;Steffen Mischke

  • Ostracods and stable isotopes of a late glacial and Holocene lake record from the NE Tibetan Plateau

    Steffen Mischke;Bernhard Aichner;Bernhard Diekmann;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • Spatial variability of 14C reservoir effects in Tibetan Plateau lakes

    Steffen Mischke;Steffen Mischke;Marc Weynell;Chengjun Zhang;Uwe Wiechert

  • Lateglacial and Holocene variation in aeolian sediment flux over the northeastern Tibetan Plateau recorded by laminated sediments of a saline meromictic lake

    Steffen Mischke;Chengjun Zhang;Anko Börner;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • Late glacial vegetation and climate oscillations on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau inferred from the Lake Naleng pollen profile

    Annette Kramer;Annette Kramer;Ulrike Herzschuh;Steffen Mischke;Chengjun Zhang

  • Quantitative relationship between water-depth and sub-fossil ostracod assemblages in Lake Donggi Cona, Qinghai Province, China

    Steffen Mischke;Ulrich Bößneck;Bernhard Diekmann;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • A late Quaternary lake record from the Qilian Mountains (NW China): lake level and salinity changes inferred from sediment properties and ostracod assemblages

    S. Mischke;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;C. Zhang;J. Bloemendal

  • Modern hydrology and late Holocene history of Lake Karakul, eastern Pamirs (Tajikistan): A reconnaissance study

    Steffen Mischke;Ilhomjon Rajabov;Nailya Mustaeva;Chengjun Zhang

  • Pollen-recorded bioclimatic variations of the last ∼22,600 years retrieved from Achit Nuur core in the western Mongolian Plateau

    Aizhi Sun;Zhaodong Feng;Min Ran;Chengjun Zhang

  • Glacier changes from 1966-2009 in the Gongga Mountains, on the south-eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and their climatic forcing

    B. T. Pan;G. L. Zhang;J. Wang;B. Cao

  • Biomarker and compound-specific δ13C evidence for changing environmental conditions and carbon limitation at Lake Koucha, eastern Tibetan Plateau

    Bernhard Aichner;Heinz Wilkes;Ulrike Herzschuh;Steffen Mischke

  • Holocene lake deposits of Bosten Lake, southern Xinjiang, China

    B. Wünnemann;Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;F. Riedel;Chengjun Zhang

  • Climate variability on the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau since the Lateglacial based on a multiproxy approach from Lake Naleng - comparing pollen and non-pollen signals

    Stephan Opitz;Chengjun Zhang;Ulrike Herzschuh;Steffen Mischke

  • The world's earliest Aral-Sea type disaster: the decline of the Loulan Kingdom in the Tarim Basin

    Steffen Mischke;Chenglin Liu;Jiafu Zhang;Chengjun Zhang

  • A New Sauropod Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Gaogou Formation of Nanyang, Henan Province

    Xingliao Zhang;Junchang Lü;Li Xu;Jinhua Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Steffen Mischke
Steffen Mischke University of Iceland
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Birgit Plessen
Birgit Plessen University of Potsdam
Bernhard Diekmann
Bernhard Diekmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Bernd Wünnemann
Bernd Wünnemann Freie Universität Berlin
Jürgen Böhner
Jürgen Böhner Universität Hamburg
H. J. B. Birks
H. J. B. Birks University of Bergen
ZhongPing Lai
ZhongPing Lai Shantou University
Frank Lehmkuhl
Frank Lehmkuhl RWTH Aachen University
Fahu Chen
Fahu Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences

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