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Plant Science and Agronomy

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62
Citations
16055
World Ranking
1087
National Ranking
85

Ecology and Evolution

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63
Citations
17616
World Ranking
1947
National Ranking
42

Overview

Guangsheng Zhou is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with extensive work in several specialized subfields.

The scientist's studies cover a broad spectrum of topics including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, land use and ecosystem services, plant responses to water stress, and rangeland management and livestock ecology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Zhou include Zhenzhu Xu, Xiaodi Liu, Qijin He, Hongying Yu, and Xiaomin Lv.

Zhou has published in a variety of academic venues, with repeated contributions to the SSRN Electronic Journal, Photosynthesis Research, International Journal of Climatology, China Scientific Data, and Trends in Plant Science.

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhou include:

  • Predicting ecosystem productivity based on plant community traits (2022, Trends in Plant Science)
  • Photosynthetic resistance and resilience under drought, flooding and rewatering in maize plants (2021, Photosynthesis Research)
  • Prominent vegetation greening and its correlation with climatic variables in northern China (2020, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment)
  • Temperature sensitivity increases with decreasing soil carbon quality in forest ecosystems across northeast China (2020, Climatic Change)
  • Soil carbon release responses to long-term versus short-term climatic warming in an arid ecosystem (2020, Biogeosciences)

Best Publications

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • Responses of leaf stomatal density to water status and its relationship with photosynthesis in a grass

    Zhenzhu Xu;Guangsheng Zhou;Guangsheng Zhou

  • The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Taylor;T. Guillén Bolaños

  • Deriving a light use efficiency model from eddy covariance flux data for predicting daily gross primary production across biomes

    Wenping Yuan;Shuguang Liu;Guangsheng Zhou;Guoyi Zhou

  • Plant responses to drought and rewatering

    Zhenzhu Xu;Guangsheng Zhou;Hideyuki Shimizu

  • Elevated-CO2 Response of Stomata and Its Dependence on Environmental Factors

    Zhenzhu Xu;Yanling Jiang;Bingrui Jia;Guangsheng Zhou

  • Spatial patterns and climate drivers of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of China

    Gui-Rui Yu;Xian-Jin Zhu;Yu-Ling Fu;Hong-Lin He

  • Combined effects of water stress and high temperature on photosynthesis, nitrogen metabolism and lipid peroxidation of a perennial grass Leymus chinensis

    Zhen Zhu Xu;Guang Sheng Zhou

  • Effects of elevated CO2, warming and precipitation change on plant growth, photosynthesis and peroxidation in dominant species from North China grassland

    Zhenzhu Xu;Zhenzhu Xu;Hideyuki Shimizu;Shoko Ito;Yasumi Yagasaki

  • Carbon fluxes, evapotranspiration, and water use efficiency of terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Jingfeng Xiao;Ge Sun;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Hui Chen

  • Response and adaptation of photosynthesis, respiration, and antioxidant systems to elevated CO2 with environmental stress in plants.

    Zhenzhu Xu;Yangling Jiang;Guangsheng Zhou

  • Spring vegetation green-up date in China inferred from SPOT NDVI data: A multiple model analysis

    Nan Cong;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Xuhui Wang

  • MODIS-driven estimation of terrestrial latent heat flux in China based on a modified Priestley-Taylor algorithm

    Yunjun Yao;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Jie Cheng;Shaomin Liu

  • Spatiotemporal pattern of gross primary productivity and its covariation with climate in China over the last thirty years.

    Yitong Yao;Xuhui Wang;Yue Li;Tao Wang

  • Are plant growth and photosynthesis limited by pre-drought following rewatering in grass?

    Zhenzhu Xu;Guangsheng Zhou;Guangsheng Zhou;Hideyuki Shimizu

  • Distribution, species diversity and life-form spectra of plant communities along an altitudinal gradient in the northern slopes of Qilianshan Mountains, Gansu, China

    Guohong Wang;Guangsheng Zhou;Limin Yang;Zhenqing Li

  • Effect of Soil Drought Stress on Leaf Water Status, Membrane Permeability and Enzymatic Antioxidant System of Maize

    Li-Ping Bai;Fang-Gong Sui;Ti-Da Ge;Zhao-Hui Sun

  • Ecosystem Traits Linking Functional Traits to Macroecology.

    Nianpeng He;Congcong Liu;Shilong Piao;Lawren Sack

  • Productivity, Respiration, and Light-Response Parameters of World Grassland and Agroecosystems Derived From Flux-Tower Measurements

    Tagir G Gilmanov;L Aires;Z Barcza;V S Baron

  • Biotic and abiotic factors controlling the spatial and temporal variation of soil respiration in an agricultural ecosystem

    Guangxuan Han;Guangsheng Zhou;Zhenzhu Xu;Yang Yang

  • Effects of temperature and soil water-content on soil respiration of grazed and ungrazed Leymus chinensis steppes, Inner Mongolia

    Bingrui Jia;Guangsheng Zhou;Yuhui Wang;Fengyu Wang

  • Measurement and modelling of evapotranspiration over a reed (Phragmites australis) marsh in Northeast China

    Li Zhou;Guangsheng Zhou;Guangsheng Zhou

  • Effects of different grazing intensities on grassland production in China: a meta-analysis.

    Liang Yan;Guangsheng Zhou;Feng Zhang

  • Estimation of biomass and net primary productivity of major planted forests in China based on forest inventory data

    Min Zhao;Min Zhao;Guang-Sheng Zhou

  • Interactive Effects of Elevated CO2, Drought, and Warming on Plants

    Zhenzhu Xu;Zhenzhu Xu;Hideyuki Shimizu;Yasumi Yagasaki;Shoko Ito

  • Estimating biomass and net primary production from forest inventory data: a case study of China’s Larix forests

    Guangsheng Zhou;Yuhui Wang;Yanling Jiang;Zhengyu Yang

  • Multiyear precipitation reduction strongly decreases carbon uptake over northern China

    Wenping Yuan;Dan Liu;Wenjie Dong;Shuguang Liu

  • Partitioning root and microbial contributions to soil respiration in Leymus chinensis populations

    Bingrui Jia;Guangsheng Zhou;Fengyu Wang;Yuhui Wang

  • Response of evapotranspiration and water availability to changing climate and land cover on the Mongolian Plateau during the 21st century

    Yaling Liu;Qianlai Zhuang;Min Chen;Zhihua Pan

  • The climatic suitability for maize cultivation in China

    QiJin He;GuangSheng Zhou

  • Estimation of green aboveground biomass of desert steppe in Inner Mongolia based on red-edge reflectance curve area method

    Hongrui Ren;Guangsheng Zhou;Xinshi Zhang

  • Effects of Water Stress on the Protective Enzyme Activities and Lipid Peroxidation in Roots and Leaves of Summer Maize

    Ti-da Ge;Fang-gong Sui;Li-ping Bai;Yin-yan Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhenzhu Xu
Zhenzhu Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Shiping Chen
Shiping Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wenping Yuan
Wenping Yuan Sun Yat-sen University
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Yiping Zhang
Yiping Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qianlai Zhuang
Qianlai Zhuang Purdue University West Lafayette
Yingnian Li
Yingnian Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fei Chen
Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Huimin Wang
Huimin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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