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D-Index
38
Citations
3954
World Ranking
6736
National Ranking
133

Xiaoan Zuo publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xiaoan Zuo sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 146 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Xiaoan Zuo D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xiaoan Zuo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Xiaoan Zuo is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on related subfields such as soil science, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, plant science, and ecology.

Their work addresses several main topics, including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, botany and plant ecology studies, pasture and agricultural systems, rangeland management and livestock ecology, and plant and animal studies.

Xiaoan Zuo has contributed publications to frequent venues, reflecting the scope and focus of their research. These publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • CATENA
  • Plant and Soil
  • Functional Ecology
  • Ecological Indicators

Coauthor collaborations are a notable part of Xiaoan Zuo's scholarly activity. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Ping Yue
  • Ya Hu
  • Qiang Yu
  • Xiangyun Li
  • Shenglong Zhao

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Plant diversity has stronger linkage with soil fungal diversity than with bacterial diversity across grasslands of northern China," published in 2022 in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Spatiotemporal variations of drought in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwest China, during 1960-2013 and their association with large-scale circulations and historical records," published in 2020 in Ecological Indicators
  • "Species asynchrony stabilises productivity under extreme drought across Northern China grasslands," published in 2021 in Journal of Ecology
  • "Drought-induced shift from a carbon sink to a carbon source in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China," published in 2020 in CATENA
  • "Species diversity is a strong predictor of ecosystem multifunctionality under altered precipitation in desert steppes," published in 2022 in Ecological Indicators

Best Publications

  • Spatial heterogeneity of soil properties and vegetation–soil relationships following vegetation restoration of mobile dunes in Horqin Sandy Land, Northern China

    Xiaoan Zuo;Xueyong Zhao;Halin Zhao;Tonghui Zhang

  • Biological soil crust development and its topsoil properties in the process of dune stabilization, Inner Mongolia, China

    Yirui Guo;Halin Zhao;Xiaoan Zuo;Sam Drake

  • Spatial pattern and heterogeneity of soil properties in sand dunes under grazing and restoration in Horqin Sandy Land, Northern China

    Xiaoan Zuo;Halin Zhao;Xueyong Zhao;Tonghui Zhang

  • Vegetation pattern variation, soil degradation and their relationship along a grassland desertification gradient in Horqin Sandy Land, northern China

    Xiaoan Zuo;Halin Zhao;Xueyong Zhao;Yirui Guo

  • Spatiotemporal variations of drought in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwest China, during 1960–2013 and their association with large-scale circulations and historical records

    Qingping Cheng;Lu Gao;Fanglei Zhong;Xiaoan Zuo

  • Species asynchrony stabilises productivity under extreme drought across Northern China grasslands

    Taofeek O. Muraina;Chong Xu;Qiang Yu;Yadong Yang

  • Differential responses of canopy nutrients to experimental drought along a natural aridity gradient.

    Wentao Luo;Xiaoan Zuo;Wang Ma;Chong Xu

  • Long-term grazing effects on vegetation characteristics and soil properties in a semiarid grassland, northern China.

    Jing Zhang;Xiaoan Zuo;Xin Zhou;Peng Lv

  • Effects of plant functional diversity induced by grazing and soil properties on above- and belowground biomass in a semiarid grassland.

    Xiaoan Zuo;Jing Zhang;Peng Lv;Shaokun Wang

  • Scale dependent effects of environmental factors on vegetation pattern and composition in Horqin Sandy Land, Northern China

    Xiaoan Zuo;Xueyong Zhao;Halin Zhao;Tonghui Zhang

  • Different facets of bacterial and fungal communities drive soil multifunctionality in grasslands spanning a 3500 km transect

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  • Species diversity is a strong predictor of ecosystem multifunctionality under altered precipitation in desert steppes

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  • Plant distribution at the mobile dune scale and its relevance to soil properties and topographic features

    Xiaoan Zuo;Halin Zhao;Xueyong Zhao;Yirui Guo

  • Wind erosion changes induced by different grazing intensities in the desert steppe, Northern China.

    Heqiang Du;Xiaoan Zuo;Sen Li;Tao Wang

  • Mongolian pine plantations enhance soil physico-chemical properties and carbon and nitrogen capacities in semi-arid degraded sandy land in China

    Yuqiang Li;Tala Awada;Xinhua Zhou;Wen Shang

  • Statistical analyses of spatial and temporal variabilities in total, daytime, and nighttime precipitation indices and of extreme dry/wet association with large-scale circulations of Southwest China, 1961–2016

    Qingping Cheng;Lu Gao;Xiaoan Zuo;Fanglei Zhong

  • Impacts of Precipitation on Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes in Desert-Grasslands in Inner Mongolia, China

    Rui Zhang;Xueyong Zhao;Xiaoan Zuo;Hao Qu

  • Plant traits and soil fertility mediate productivity losses under extreme drought in C3 grasslands

    Wentao Luo;Robert J. Griffin‐Nolan;Wang Ma;Bo Liu

  • Plant functional diversity enhances associations of soil fungal diversity with vegetation and soil in the restoration of semiarid sandy grassland

    Xiaoan Zuo;Shaokun Wang;Peng Lv;Xin Zhou

  • Drought-induced shift from a carbon sink to a carbon source in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China

    Rui Zhang;Xueyong Zhao;Xiaoan Zuo;A. Allan Degen

  • Effects of extreme drought on plant nutrient uptake and resorption in rhizomatous vs bunchgrass-dominated grasslands

    Wentao Luo;Chong Xu;Wang Ma;Xiyuan Yue

  • Physiological acclimation of two psammophytes to repeated soil drought and rewatering

    Yayong Luo;Xueyong Zhao;Ruilian Zhou;Xiaoan Zuo

  • Influence of dune stabilization on relationship between plant diversity and productivity in Horqin Sand Land, Northern China

    Xiaoan Zuo;Xueyong Zhao;Shaokun Wang;Yuqiang Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Xueyong Zhao
Xueyong Zhao University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Melinda D. Smith
Melinda D. Smith Colorado State University
Alan K. Knapp
Alan K. Knapp Colorado State University
Xingguo Han
Xingguo Han Hebei University
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Tom Misselbrook
Tom Misselbrook Rothamsted Research
Rui Zhang
Rui Zhang National University of Singapore
Mai-He Li
Mai-He Li Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Scott L. Collins
Scott L. Collins University of New Mexico
A. Allan Degen
A. Allan Degen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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