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60
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9506
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1245
National Ranking
110

Overview

Fucang Zhang is affiliated with Northwest A&F University in China and has an extensive research record predominantly in agricultural and environmental sciences. Their work spans a variety of fields, primarily focusing on agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science.

The scientist has contributed significantly to several specialized subfields, including plant science, soil science, agronomy and crop science, global and planetary change, and ecology. Their research interests cover a broad range of topics such as irrigation practices and water management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, crop yield and soil fertility, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, greenhouse technology and climate control, and rice cultivation and yield improvement.

Fucang Zhang has published research in numerous academic venues. The most frequent venues include Agricultural Water Management, where they have 51 publications, Agronomy with 14 publications, Field Crops Research and Plants each with 13 publications, and Computers and Electronics in Agriculture with 10 publications.

Frequent coauthors contributing to their body of work include Junliang Fan, Youzhen Xiang, Zijun Tang, Jinjin Guo, and Zhenqi Liao. These collaborations have resulted in numerous joint publications across their fields of study.

Notable recent papers authored by Fucang Zhang include the following:

  • Estimation of daily maize transpiration using support vector machines, extreme gradient boosting, artificial and deep neural networks models, 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • Optimizing biochar application to improve soil physical and hydraulic properties in saline-alkali soils, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Determining irrigation amount and fertilization rate to simultaneously optimize grain yield, grain nitrogen accumulation and economic benefit of drip-fertigated spring maize in northwest China, 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • Nitrogen fertilizer management effects on soil nitrate leaching, grain yield and economic benefit of summer maize in Northwest China, 2021, Agricultural Water Management
  • Blending urea and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer increases dryland maize yield and nitrogen use efficiency while mitigating ammonia volatilization, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Comparison of Support Vector Machine and Extreme Gradient Boosting for predicting daily global solar radiation using temperature and precipitation in humid subtropical climates: A case study in China

    Junliang Fan;Xiukang Wang;Lifeng Wu;Hanmi Zhou

  • Evaluation of SVM, ELM and four tree-based ensemble models for predicting daily reference evapotranspiration using limited meteorological data in different climates of China

    Junliang Fan;Wenjun Yue;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang

  • Light Gradient Boosting Machine: An efficient soft computing model for estimating daily reference evapotranspiration with local and external meteorological data

    Junliang Fan;Xin Ma;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang

  • Empirical and machine learning models for predicting daily global solar radiation from sunshine duration: A review and case study in China

    Junliang Fan;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang;Huanjie Cai

  • The Effects of Mulch and Nitrogen Fertilizer on the Soil Environment of Crop Plants

    Xiukang Wang;Junliang Fan;Yingying Xing;Guoce Xu

  • Coupling effects of water and fertilizer on yield, water and fertilizer use efficiency of drip-fertigated cotton in northern Xinjiang, China

    Haidong Wang;Lifeng Wu;Minghui Cheng;Junliang Fan

  • Climate change effects on reference crop evapotranspiration across different climatic zones of China during 1956–2015

    Junliang Fan;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang;Youzhen Xiang

  • Estimation of daily maize transpiration using support vector machines, extreme gradient boosting, artificial and deep neural networks models

    Junliang Fan;Jing Zheng;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang

  • Optimizing biochar application to improve soil physical and hydraulic properties in saline-alkali soils.

    Jiaping Liang;Yi Li;Bingcheng Si;Yanzi Wang

  • Hybrid support vector machines with heuristic algorithms for prediction of daily diffuse solar radiation in air-polluted regions

    Junliang Fan;Lifeng Wu;Xin Ma;Hanmi Zhou

  • Determining irrigation amount and fertilization rate to simultaneously optimize grain yield, grain nitrogen accumulation and economic benefit of drip-fertigated spring maize in northwest China

    Fulai Yan;Fucang Zhang;Xingke Fan;Junliang Fan

  • Evaluation and development of empirical models for estimating daily and monthly mean daily diffuse horizontal solar radiation for different climatic regions of China

    Junliang Fan;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang;Huanjie Cai

  • Optimization of drip irrigation and fertilization regimes for high grain yield, crop water productivity and economic benefits of spring maize in Northwest China

    Haiyang Zou;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang;Youzhen Xiang

  • Daily reference evapotranspiration prediction based on hybridized extreme learning machine model with bio-inspired optimization algorithms: Application in contrasting climates of China

    Lifeng Wu;Hanmi Zhou;Xin Ma;Junliang Fan

  • New combined models for estimating daily global solar radiation based on sunshine duration in humid regions: A case study in South China

    Junliang Fan;Xiukang Wang;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang

  • Potential of kernel-based nonlinear extension of Arps decline model and gradient boosting with categorical features support for predicting daily global solar radiation in humid regions

    Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Guomin Huang;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang

  • Evaluation and development of temperature-based empirical models for estimating daily global solar radiation in humid regions

    Junliang Fan;Baiquan Chen;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Fucang Zhang

  • Nitrogen fertilizer management effects on soil nitrate leaching, grain yield and economic benefit of summer maize in Northwest China

    Junsheng Lu;Tiantian Hu;Baocheng Zhang;Li Wang

  • Multi-objective optimization of water and fertilizer management for potato production in sandy areas of northern China based on TOPSIS

    Haidong Wang;Xiukang Wang;Lifei Bi;Ying Wang

  • Effects of plant density, nitrogen rate and supplemental irrigation on photosynthesis, root growth, seed yield and water-nitrogen use efficiency of soybean under ridge-furrow plastic mulching

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  • Yield and water productivity of crops, vegetables and fruits under subsurface drip irrigation: A global meta-analysis

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  • Rainfall partitioning into throughfall, stemflow and interception loss by maize canopy on the semi-arid Loess Plateau of China

    Jing Zheng;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang;Shicheng Yan

  • Effects of water and fertilizer management on grain filling characteristics, grain weight and productivity of drip-fertigated winter wheat

    Shicheng Yan;You Wu;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang

  • Daily pan evaporation modeling from local and cross-station data using three tree-based machine learning models

    Xianghui Lu;Yan Ju;Lifeng Wu;Lifeng Wu;Junliang Fan

  • Interactive effects of mulching practice and nitrogen rate on grain yield, water productivity, fertilizer use efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions of rainfed summer maize in northwest China

    Jing Zheng;Jing Zheng;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang;Jinjin Guo

  • Blending urea and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer increases dryland maize yield and nitrogen use efficiency while mitigating ammonia volatilization.

    Jinjin Guo;Junliang Fan;Fucang Zhang;Shicheng Yan

  • Benefits of CO2 enrichment on crop plants are modified by soil water status

    Shaozhong Kang;Fucang Zhang;Xiaotao Hu;Jianhua Zhang

  • Crop yield and water productivity under salty water irrigation: A global meta-analysis

    Minghui Cheng;Haidong Wang;Junliang Fan;Xiukang Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Junliang Fan
Junliang Fan Northwest A&F University
Xin Ma
Xin Ma Southwest University of Science and Technology
Qianlai Zhuang
Qianlai Zhuang Purdue University West Lafayette
Fusheng Li
Fusheng Li Guangxi University
Huanjie Cai
Huanjie Cai Northwest A&F University
Shaozhong Kang
Shaozhong Kang China Agricultural University
Hao Feng
Hao Feng Northwest A&F University
Qingfang Han
Qingfang Han Northwest A&F University
Bing Cheng Si
Bing Cheng Si University of Saskatchewan
Zhikuan Jia
Zhikuan Jia Northwest A&F University

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