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Wei Zhang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular attention to soil science, ecology, and plant science. Their work covers various subfields, including environmental chemistry and global and planetary change.

The scientist has contributed significantly to the understanding of soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and peatlands and wetlands ecology. Other main topics of research include microbial community ecology and physiology, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, phytase and its applications, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Wei Zhang has authored numerous papers published in frequently contributing venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Plant and Soil, Geoderma, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, and Ecological Indicators. Their recent papers include:

  • "Nitrogen deposition and increased precipitation interact to affect fine root production and biomass in a temperate forest: Implications for carbon cycling" (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Canopy and understory nitrogen addition have different effects on fine root dynamics in a temperate forest: implications for soil carbon storage" (2021), New Phytologist
  • "Forest canopy maintains the soil community composition under elevated nitrogen deposition" (2020), Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Black carbon and organic carbon dataset over the Third Pole" (2022), Earth system science data
  • "Temporal patterns of soil carbon emission in tropical forests under long-term nitrogen deposition" (2022), Nature Geoscience

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Wei Zhang are Senhao Wang, Jiangming Mo, Shenglei Fu, Taiki Mori, and Mianhai Zheng. These collaborations reflect ongoing partnerships that have contributed to the breadth of their research output.

Best Publications

  • Nitrogen addition reduces soil respiration in a mature tropical forest in southern China

    Jiangming Mo;Wei Zhang;Weixing Zhu;Per Gundersen

  • Karst landscapes of China: patterns, ecosystem processes and services

    Kelin Wang;Chunhua Zhang;Chunhua Zhang;Hongsong Chen;Yueming Yue

  • Changes in nitrogen and phosphorus limitation during secondary succession in a karst region in southwest China

    Wei Zhang;Jie Zhao;Fujing Pan;Dejun Li

  • Nitrogen deposition and forest nitrogen cycling along an urban-rural transect in southern China

    Yunting Fang;Yunting Fang;Muneoki Yoh;Keisuke Koba;Weixing Zhu

  • Long‐term nitrogen addition modifies microbial composition and functions for slow carbon cycling and increased sequestration in tropical forest soil

    Jing Tian;Jing Tian;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;Xiankai Lu;Yunfeng Yang

  • Interactive effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on soil microbial communities in a tropical forest.

    Lei Liu;Tao Zhang;Frank S. Gilliam;Per Gundersen

  • Temporal responses of soil microorganisms to substrate addition as indicated by amino sugar differentiation

    Hongbo He;Wei Zhang;Xudong Zhang;Hongtu Xie

  • Effects of environmental factors on soil organic carbon under natural or managed vegetation restoration

    Pei-Lei Hu;Shu-Juan Liu;Ying-Ying Ye;Wei Zhang

  • Dynamics of soil organic carbon and nitrogen following agricultural abandonment in a karst region

    Dejun Li;Li Wen;Liqiong Yang;Pan Luo

  • Spatial distribution of rock fragments on steep hillslopes in karst region of northwest Guangxi, China.

    Hongsong Chen;Jianwei Liu;Kelin Wang;Wei Zhang

  • CAN Canopy Addition of Nitrogen Better Illustrate the Effect of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Forest Ecosystem

    Wei Zhang;Weijun Shen;Shidan Zhu;Shiqiang Wan

  • Emissions of nitrous oxide from three tropical forests in Southern China in response to simulated nitrogen deposition

    Wei Zhang;Jiangming Mo;Guirui Yu;Yunting Fang

  • Factors controlling accumulation of soil organic carbon along vegetation succession in a typical karst region in Southwest China.

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  • Soil erosion rates in two karst peak-cluster depression basins of northwest Guangxi, China: Comparison of the RUSLE model with 137Cs measurements

    Teng Feng;Hongsong Chen;Viktor O. Polyakov;Kelin Wang

  • Rapid recuperation of soil nitrogen following agricultural abandonment in a karst area, southwest China

    Li Wen;Dejun Li;Liqiong Yang;Pan Luo

  • Effects of nitrogen deposition on carbon cycle in terrestrial ecosystems of China: A meta-analysis.

    Hao Chen;Dejun Li;Geshere A. Gurmesa;Guirui Yu

  • Soil nutrients and stoichiometric ratios as affected by land use and lithology at county scale in a karst area, southwest China.

    Miaomiao Wang;Hongsong Chen;Wei Zhang;Kelin Wang

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus addition impact soil N2O emission in a secondary tropical forest of South China

    Faming Wang;Jian Li;Xiaoli Wang;Wei Zhang

  • Nitrogen addition reduces soil bacterial richness, while phosphorus addition alters community composition in an old-growth N-rich tropical forest in southern China

    Hui Wang;Shirong Liu;Xiao Zhang;Qinggong Mao

  • Positive correlation between soil bacterial metabolic and plant species diversity and bacterial and fungal diversity in a vegetation succession on Karst

    Xun-Yang He;Ke-Lin Wang;Wei Zhang;Zhi-Hui Chen

  • Response of soil respiration to simulated N deposition in a disturbed and a rehabilitated tropical forest in southern China

    Jiangming Mo;Wei Zhang;Weixing Zhu;Yunting Fang

  • Methane uptake responses to nitrogen deposition in three tropical forests in southern China

    Wei Zhang;Jiangming Mo;Guoyi Zhou;Per Gundersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiangming Mo
Jiangming Mo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shenglei Fu
Shenglei Fu Henan University
Yunting Fang
Yunting Fang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dejun Li
Dejun Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Junhua Yan
Junhua Yan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Per Gundersen
Per Gundersen University of Copenhagen
Frank S. Gilliam
Frank S. Gilliam University of West Florida
Juxiu Liu
Juxiu Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sergio Rossi
Sergio Rossi Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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