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Qi Zhang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Geophysics, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

Qi Zhang has contributed to a number of peer-reviewed publications in notable journals. Selected recent papers include:

  • Attribution of Evapotranspiration Changes in Humid Regions of China from 1982 to 2016, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Assessing effective hydrological connectivity for floodplains with a framework integrating habitat suitability and sediment suspension behavior, 2021, Water Research
  • Projection of drought-flood abrupt alternation in a humid subtropical region under changing climate, 2023, Journal of Hydrology
  • Groundwater dynamics of a lake-floodplain system: Role of groundwater flux in lake water storage subject to seasonal inundation, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Intensifying drought of Poyang Lake and potential recovery approaches in the dammed middle Yangtze River catchment, 2023, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Water Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Dan Zhang, Yanyan Song, Xiaomang Liu, Lu Zhang, and Xianghu Li. These collaborations reflect ongoing contributions to hydrological and environmental research domains.

Best Publications

  • Tibetan tectonic evolution inferred from spatial and temporal variations in post-collisional magmatism

    Sun Lin Chung;Mei Fei Chu;Yuquan Zhang;Yingwen Xie

  • Adakites from continental collision zones: Melting of thickened lower crust beneath southern Tibet

    Sun Lin Chung;Dunyi Liu;Jianqing Ji;Mei Fei Chu

  • Time scale of an early to mid-Paleozoic orogenic cycle of the long-lived Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Inner Mongolia of China: Implications for continental growth

    Ping Jian;Dunyi Liu;Alfred Kröner;Brian F. Windley

  • Devonian to Permian plate tectonic cycle of the Paleo-Tethys Orogen in southwest China (II): Insights from zircon ages of ophiolites, arc/back-arc assemblages and within-plate igneous rocks and generation of the Emeishan CFB province

    Ping Jian;Dunyi Liu;Alfred Kröner;Qi Zhang

  • Distinguishing the relative impacts of climate change and human activities on variation of streamflow in the Poyang Lake catchment, China

    Xuchun Ye;Qi Zhang;Jian Liu;Xianghu Li

  • Eocene Neotethyan slab breakoff in southern Tibet inferred from the Linzizong volcanic record

    Hao Yang Lee;Sun Lin Chung;Ching Hua Lo;Jianqing Ji

  • Effects of the Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze River flow and river interaction with Poyang Lake, China: 2003-2008

    Hua Guo;Qi Hu;Qi Zhang;Song Feng

  • Parameter and modeling uncertainty simulated by GLUE and a formal Bayesian method for a conceptual hydrological model

    Xiaoli Jin;Chong-Yu Xu;Qi Zhang;V. P. Singh

  • An investigation of enhanced recessions in Poyang Lake: Comparison of Yangtze River and local catchment impacts

    Qi Zhang;Xu-chun Ye;Adrian D. Werner;Yun-liang Li

  • Devonian to Permian plate tectonic cycle of the Paleo-Tethys Orogen in southwest China (I): Geochemistry of ophiolites, arc/back-arc assemblages and within-plate igneous rocks

    Ping Jian;Dunyi Liu;Alfred Kröner;Qi Zhang

  • Has the Three-Gorges Dam made the Poyang Lake wetlands wetter and drier?

    Q. Zhang;L. Li;Y-G. Wang;A. D. Werner

  • Suitability of the TRMM satellite rainfalls in driving a distributed hydrological model for water balance computations in Xinjiang catchment, Poyang lake basin

    Xiang-Hu Li;Qi Zhang;Chong-Yu Xu;Chong-Yu Xu

  • Root-induced changes of soil hydraulic properties – A review

    Jianrong Lu;Qi Zhang;Adrian D. Werner;Yunliang Li

  • Episodic mantle melting-crustal reworking in the late Neoarchean of the northwestern North China Craton: Zircon ages of magmatic and metamorphic rocks from the Yinshan Block

    Ping Jian;Alfred Kröner;Brian F. Windley;Qi Zhang

  • The Grenvillian Songshugou ophiolite in the Qinling Mountains, Central China: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Qinling orogenic belt

    Yun-Peng Dong;Mei-Fu Zhou;Guo-Wei Zhang;Ding-Wu Zhou

  • The adakite connection of the Tuwu–Yandong copper porphyry belt, eastern Tianshan, NW China: trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry

    Lianchang Zhang;Wenjiao Xiao;Kezhang Qin;Qi Zhang

  • Hydrodynamic and Hydrological Modeling of the Poyang Lake Catchment System in China

    Yunliang Li;Qi Zhang;Jing Yao;Adrian D. Werner

  • Hydrodynamic investigation of surface hydrological connectivity and its effects on the water quality of seasonal lakes: Insights from a complex floodplain setting (Poyang Lake, China).

    Yunliang Li;Qi Zhang;Yongjiu Cai;Zhiqiang Tan

  • A modeling study of catchment discharge to Poyang Lake under future climate in China

    Xuchun Ye;Qi Zhang;Li Bai;Qi Hu

  • GRACE-Based Hydrological Drought Evaluation of the Yangtze River Basin, China

    Dan Zhang;Qi Zhang;Adrian D. Werner;Xiaomang Liu

  • Concentration and distribution of trace elements in lignite from the Shengli Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, China: Implications on origin of the associated Wulantuga Germanium Deposit

    Huawen Qi;Ruizhong Hu;Qi Zhang

  • Experimental investigation of contaminant transport in coastal groundwater

    Qi Zhang;Ray E. Volker;David A. Lockington

  • Intensification of hydrological drought due to human activity in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, China.

    Dan Zhang;Qi Zhang;Jiaming Qiu;Peng Bai

  • Quantifying the impact of bathymetric changes on the hydrological regimes in a large floodplain lake: Poyang Lake

    Jing Yao;Qi Zhang;Xuchun Ye;Dan Zhang

  • Assessing the performance of satellite-based precipitation products and its dependence on topography over Poyang Lake basin

    Xianghu Li;Qi Zhang;Chong-Yu Xu;Chong-Yu Xu

  • Investigating a complex lake-catchment-river system using artificial neural networks: Poyang Lake (China)

    Yunliang Li;Qi Zhang;Qi Zhang;Adrian Werner;J. Yao

  • Lake hydrology, water quality and ecology impacts of altered river–lake interactions: advances in research on the middle Yangtze river

    Guishan Yang;Qi Zhang;Rongrong Wan;Xijun Lai

  • The influence of river-to-lake backflow on the hydrodynamics of a large floodplain lake system (Poyang Lake, China)

    Yunliang Li;Qi Zhang;Qi Zhang;Adrian D. Werner;Jing Yao

  • Copula-based probability of concurrent hydrological drought in the Poyang lake-catchment-river system (China) from 1960 to 2013

    Dan Zhang;Peng Chen;Qi Zhang;Xianghu Li

  • Hysteretic relationships in inundation dynamics for a large lake-floodplain system

    Qi Zhang;Adrian D. Werner

Frequent Co-Authors

Chong-Yu Xu
Chong-Yu Xu North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power
Adrian D. Werner
Adrian D. Werner Flinders University
Ling Li
Ling Li University of Queensland
David Lockington
David Lockington University of Queensland
Qi Hu
Qi Hu University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Xiaomang Liu
Xiaomang Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Neil R. Viney
Neil R. Viney Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
David Andrew Barry
David Andrew Barry École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Tong Jiang
Tong Jiang Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Hong Liu
Hong Liu Shandong University

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