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50
Citations
8920
World Ranking
3871
National Ranking
86

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Xianzhou Zhang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, contributing to several interconnected subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work covers multiple specialized topics, with significant attention to Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Climate Variability and Models.

Xianzhou Zhang has authored numerous research papers published in a variety of academic journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • Grassland changes and adaptive management on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2022, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic contributions to nonlinear dynamics of alpine grassland productivity on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2020, published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • Warming homogenizes apparent temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration, 2021, published in Science Advances
  • Declining human activity intensity on alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau, 2021, published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • Sentinel-2 red-edge spectral indices (RESI) suitability for mapping rubber boom in Luang Namtha Province, northern Lao PDR, 2020, published in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

The frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Resources and Ecology
  • Remote Sensing
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Collaboration plays a significant role in their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Jianshuang Wu
  • Ben Niu
  • Yongtao He
  • Peili Shi
  • Meng Li

Best Publications

  • The impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities on alpine grassland over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Baoxiong Chen;Xianzhou Zhang;Jian Tao;Jianshuang Wu

  • Mutual influence between human activities and climate change in the Tibetan Plateau during recent years

    Mingyuan Du;Shigeto Kawashima;Seiichiro Yonemura;Xianzhou Zhang

  • 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

  • Effects of grazing exclusion on carbon sequestration and plant diversity in grasslands of China—A meta-analysis

    Dingpeng Xiong;Peili Shi;Xianzhou Zhang;Chris B. Zou

  • Climate‐driven global changes in carbon use efficiency

    Yangjian Zhang;Guirui Yu;Jian Yang;Michael C. Wimberly

  • Ecological and environmental issues faced by a developing Tibet.

    Chengqun Yu;Yangjian Zhang;Holzapfel Claus;Rong Zeng

  • Responses and feedback of the Tibetan Plateau’s alpine ecosystem to climate change

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Xianzhou Zhang;Tao Wang;Eryuan Liang

  • Increased precipitation has stronger effects on plant production of an alpine meadow than does experimental warming in the Northern Tibetan Plateau

    Gang Fu;Zhen-Xi Shen;Xian-Zhou Zhang

  • Diversity and distribution of autotrophic microbial community along environmental gradients in grassland soils on the Tibetan Plateau

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  • Net ecosystem CO2 exchange and controlling factors in a steppe - Kobresia meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

    Peili Shi;Xiaomin Sun;Lingling Xu;Xianzhou Zhang

  • Root biomass distribution in alpine ecosystems of the northern Tibetan Plateau

    Xiaojia Li;Xianzhou Zhang;Jianshuang Wu;Zhenxi Shen

  • A meta-analysis of the effects of experimental warming on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau

    Xian-Zhou Zhang;Zhen-Xi Shen;Gang Fu

  • Diurnal and seasonal variability of soil CO2 efflux in a cropland ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau

    Pei-Li Shi;Xian-Zhou Zhang;Zhi-Ming Zhong;Hua Ouyang

  • Measuring and modelling photosynthetically active radiation in Tibet Plateau during April-October

    Xianzhou Zhang;Yiguang Zhang;Yunhua Zhoub

  • Changes in individual plant traits and biomass allocation in alpine meadow with elevation variation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

    WeiLing Ma;PeiLi Shi;WenHua Li;YongTao He

  • A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Experimental Warming on Plant Physiology and Growth on the Tibetan Plateau

    Gang Fu;Zhen-Xi Shen;Wei Sun;Zhi-Ming Zhong

  • Elevation‐dependent relationships between climate change and grassland vegetation variation across the Qinghai‐Xizang Plateau

    Jian Tao;Yangjian Zhang;Jinwei Dong;Yu Fu

  • Estimating air temperature of an alpine meadow on the Northern Tibetan Plateau using MODIS land surface temperature

    Gang Fu;Zhenxi Shen;Xianzhou Zhang;Peili Shi

  • Micrometeorological fluxes under the influence of regional and local advection: a revisit

    Xuhui Lee;Qiang Yu;Xiaomin Sun;Jiandong Liu

  • A new estimation of China's net ecosystem productivity based on eddy covariance measurements and a model tree ensemble approach

    Yitong Yao;Zhijian Li;Tao Wang;Anping Chen

  • Spatiotemporal pattern of terrestrial evapotranspiration in China during the past thirty years

    Xiangyi Li;Yue He;Zhenzhong Zeng;Xu Lian

  • Effects of Grazing Exclusion on Plant Productivity and Soil Carbon, Nitrogen Storage in Alpine Meadows in Northern Tibet, China

    Dingpeng Xiong;Peili Shi;Yinliang Sun;Jianshuang Wu

  • Experimental warming does not enhance gross primary production and above-ground biomass in the alpine meadow of Tibet

    Gang Fu;Xianzhou Zhang;Yangjian Zhang;Peili Shi

Frequent Co-Authors

Peili Shi
Peili Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yangjian Zhang
Yangjian Zhang Hebei University
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Yingnian Li
Yingnian Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yanhong Tang
Yanhong Tang Peking University
Guirui Yu
Guirui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tao Wang
Tao Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mingguo Ma
Mingguo Ma Southwest University
Xingliang Xu
Xingliang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yaoming Ma
Yaoming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences

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