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Guoyi Zhou is affiliated with the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in China. Their research focuses on Environmental Science, with a specialization in areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science, Ecology, and Water Science and Technology.

Their body of work covers topics including:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems

Guoyi Zhou has contributed to several notable papers, including:

  • Forest expansion dominates China's land carbon sink since 1980 (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • Nitrogen deposition accelerates soil carbon sequestration in tropical forests (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Retention of deposited ammonium and nitrate and its impact on the global forest carbon sink (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • Species richness promotes ecosystem carbon storage: evidence from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments (2020), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Maximizing carbon sequestration potential in Chinese forests through optimal management (2024), published in Nature Communications

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Zhen Yu
  • Evgenios Agathokleous
  • Shirong Liu
  • Chaoqun Lü
  • Weibin You

Guoyi Zhou's publications appear regularly in several journals, most notably:

  • Nature Communications (5 publications)
  • Forest Ecosystems (3 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1 publication)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (1 publication)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Rates of litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems: global patterns and controlling factors

    Deqiang Zhang;Deqiang Zhang;Dafeng Hui;Dafeng Hui;Yiqi Luo;Guoyi Zhou

  • Carbon pools in China's terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey

    Xuli Tang;Xia Zhao;Yongfei Bai;Zhiyao Tang

  • Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010.

    Fei Lu;Huifeng Hu;Wenjuan Sun;Jiaojun Zhu

  • 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

  • Old-growth forests can accumulate carbon in soils.

    Guoyi Zhou;Shuguang Liu;Zhian Li;Deqiang Zhang

  • Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage.

    Shiping Chen;Wantong Wang;Wenting Xu;Yang Wang

  • Potential water yield reduction due to forestation across China

    Ge Sun;Guoyi Zhou;Zhiqiang Zhang;Xiaohua Wei

  • Global pattern for the effect of climate and land cover on water yield

    Guoyi Zhou;Xiaohua Wei;Xiuzhi Chen;Ping Zhou

  • Patterns of plant carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentration in relation to productivity in China's terrestrial ecosystems

    Zhiyao Tang;Wenting Xu;Guoyi Zhou;Yongfei Bai

  • Soil-atmospheric exchange of CO2, CH4, and N2O in three subtropical forest ecosystems in southern China

    Xuli Tang;Shuguang Liu;Guoyi Zhou;Deqiang Zhang

  • Effects of climate on soil phosphorus cycle and availability in natural terrestrial ecosystems

    Enqing Hou;Enqing Hou;Chengrong Chen;Yiqi Luo;Guoyi Zhou

  • Effects of experimental nitrogen additions on plant diversity in an old-growth tropical forest

    Xiankai Lu;Jiangming Mo;Frank S. Gilliam;Guoyi Zhou

  • Quantifying the hydrological responses to climate change in an intact forested small watershed in Southern China

    Guoyi Zhou;Xiaohua Wei;Yiping Wu;Shuguang Liu

  • 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

  • Nitrogen deposition accelerates soil carbon sequestration in tropical forests.

    Xiankai Lu;Peter M Vitousek;Qinggong Mao;Frank S Gilliam

  • Responses of soil microbial community to continuous experimental nitrogen additions for 13 years in a nitrogen-rich tropical forest

    Cong Wang;Xiankai Lu;Taiki Mori;Qinggong Mao

  • Plant acclimation to long-term high nitrogen deposition in an N-rich tropical forest.

    Xiankai Lu;Peter M Vitousek;Qinggong Mao;Frank S Gilliam

  • Microbial denitrification dominates nitrate losses from forest ecosystems

    Yunting Fang;Keisuke Koba;Akiko Makabe;Chieko Takahashi

  • Hydrological impacts of reafforestation with eucalypts and indigenous species: a case study in southern China

    G.Y. Zhou;J.D. Morris;J.H. Yan;Z.Y. Yu

  • Supporting Online Material for Old-Growth Forests Can Accumulate Carbon in Soils

    Guoyi Zhou;Shuguang Liu;Zhian Li;Deqiang Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Juxiu Liu
Juxiu Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Junhua Yan
Junhua Yan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaohua Wei
Xiaohua Wei University of British Columbia
Guirui Yu
Guirui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shuguang Liu
Shuguang Liu Central South University of Forestry and Technology
Jiangming Mo
Jiangming Mo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunting Fang
Yunting Fang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shijie Han
Shijie Han Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhiyao Tang
Zhiyao Tang Peking University
Dafeng Hui
Dafeng Hui Tennessee State University

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