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Overview

Xining Zhao is affiliated with Northwest A&F University in China and is active in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research contributions span a range of subfields including Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Water Science and Technology, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

Their work addresses topics such as Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Irrigation Practices and Water Management, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems, Soil erosion and sediment transport, and Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems.

Xining Zhao's research has been published in several frequent venues, including:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Plant and Soil

Frequent co-authors in Zhao's publications include Xiaodong Gao, Pute Wu, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Yaohui Cai, and Xuerui Gao.

Some of their recent papers feature the following titles, years, and venues:

  • "Feedbacks between vegetation restoration and local precipitation over the Loess Plateau in China" (2021, Science China Earth Sciences)
  • "The impact of urbanization and aging on food security in developing countries: The view from Northwest China" (2021, Journal of Cleaner Production)
  • "Spatiotemporal exploration of ecosystem service, urbanization, and their interactive coercing relationship in the Yellow River Basin over the past 40 years" (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Soil properties of apple orchards on China's Loess Plateau" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Effect of natural factors and management practices on agricultural water use efficiency under drought: A meta-analysis of global drylands" (2021, Journal of Hydrology)

Best Publications

  • Deceleration of China's human water use and its key drivers

    Feng Zhou;Yan Bo;Philippe Ciais;Philippe Ciais;Patrice Dumas

  • Effects of rainfall intensity, underlying surface and slope gradient on soil infiltration under simulated rainfall experiments

    Jun Huang;Pute Wu;Xining Zhao

  • Temporal and spatial evolution of the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) in the Loess Plateau under climate change from 2001 to 2050.

    Xuerui Gao;Qi Zhao;Xining Zhao;Pute Wu

  • The impacts of interannual climate variability and agricultural inputs on water footprint of crop production in an irrigation district of China.

    Shikun Sun;Pute Wu;Pute Wu;Yubao Wang;Xining Zhao;Xining Zhao

  • EFFECTS OF LAND USE ON SOIL MOISTURE VARIATIONS IN A SEMI‐ARID CATCHMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR LAND AND AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

    X. Gao;P. Wu;X. Zhao;J. Wang

  • Identifying a suitable revegetation technique for soil restoration on water-limited and degraded land: Considering both deep soil moisture deficit and soil organic carbon sequestration

    Xiaodong Gao;Xiaodong Gao;Hongchen Li;Xining Zhao;Xining Zhao;Wen Ma

  • Improving/maintaining water-use efficiency and yield of wheat by deficit irrigation: A global meta-analysis

    Liuyang Yu;Xining Zhao;Xining Zhao;Xiaodong Gao;Xiaodong Gao;Kadambot H.M. Siddique

  • Soil moisture variability along transects over a well-developed gully in the Loess Plateau, China

    Xiaodong Gao;Pute Wu;Pute Wu;Xining Zhao;Xining Zhao;Yinguang Shi

  • Soil Quality Indicators in Relation to Land Use and Topography in a Small Catchment on the Loess Plateau of China

    X. Zhao;P. Wu;X. Gao;N. Persaud

  • Spatiotemporal exploration of ecosystem service, urbanization, and their interactive coercing relationship in the Yellow River Basin over the past 40 years.

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  • Scale effect and spatially explicit drivers of interactions between ecosystem services—A case study from the Loess Plateau

    Menghao Yang;Xiaodong Gao;Xiaodong Gao;Xining Zhao;Xining Zhao;Pute Wu;Pute Wu

  • Changes in vegetation condition in areas with different gradients (1980–2010) on the Loess Plateau, China

    Baoqing Zhang;Pute Wu;Xining Zhao;Yubao Wang

  • Feedbacks between vegetation restoration and local precipitation over the Loess Plateau in China

    Baoqing Zhang;Lei Tian;Xining Zhao;Pute Wu

  • The virtual water content of major grain crops and virtual water flows between regions in China.

    Shi-Kun Sun;Pu-Te Wu;Pu-Te Wu;Yu-Bao Wang;Xi-Ning Zhao;Xi-Ning Zhao

  • Radiation interception and utilization by wheat/maize strip intercropping systems

    Zikui Wang;Xining Zhao;Xining Zhao;Pute Wu;Pute Wu;Jianqiang He

  • The impact of urbanization and aging on food security in developing countries: The view from Northwest China

    Xian Liu;Yueyue Xu;Bernie A. Engel;Shikun Sun

  • Growth, yield, and nitrogen use in the wheat/maize intercropping system in an arid region of northwestern China

    Ying Gao;Ying Gao;Pute Wu;Pute Wu;Xining Zhao;Xining Zhao;Zikui Wang

  • An evaluation of the water utilization and grain production of irrigated and rain-fed croplands in China.

    Xinchun Cao;Yubao Wang;Pute Wu;Xining Zhao

  • New challenges of food security in Northwest China: Water footprint and virtual water perspective

    Xian Liu;Lijie Shi;Bernie A. Engel;Shikun Sun

  • The dynamic effects of pastures and crop on runoff and sediments reduction at loess slopes under simulated rainfall conditions

    Xining Zhao;Xining Zhao;Jun Huang;Pute Wu;Pute Wu;Xiaodong Gao;Xiaodong Gao

  • Estimating spatial mean soil water contents of sloping jujube orchards using temporal stability

    Xiaodong Gao;Pute Wu;Xining Zhao;Yinguang Shi

  • Maize–Soybean Intercropping Interactions Above and Below Ground

    Yue Lv;Charles Francis;Pute Wu;Xiaoli Chen

  • Development and evaluation of a physically based multiscalar drought index: The Standardized Moisture Anomaly Index

    Baoqing Zhang;Baoqing Zhang;Baoqing Zhang;Xining Zhao;Jiming Jin;Jiming Jin;Pute Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Pute Wu
Pute Wu Northwest A&F University
Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Kadambot H. M. Siddique University of Western Australia
Jiming Jin
Jiming Jin Utah State University
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra University of Twente
Bing Cheng Si
Bing Cheng Si University of Saskatchewan
Luca Brocca
Luca Brocca National Research Council (CNR)
Bernard A. Engel
Bernard A. Engel Purdue University West Lafayette
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Mesfin Mekonnen
Mesfin Mekonnen University of Alabama
Charles Francis
Charles Francis University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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