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D-Index
60
Citations
14798
World Ranking
2278
National Ranking
48

Xinquan Zhao 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 Xinquan Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 166 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xinquan Zhao 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 Xinquan Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xinquan Zhao is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their primary research focus lies in Environmental Science, with particular emphasis on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research explores key topics such as Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Gut Microbiota and Health, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Xinquan Zhao has published extensively in several venues, including Frontiers in Microbiology, SSRN Electronic Journal, CATENA, Nature Communications, and Global Change Biology.

Their recent papers include:

  • Grassland changes and adaptive management on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Alpine grassland plants grow earlier and faster but biomass remains unchanged over 35 years of climate change (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • An early warning signal for grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Warming homogenizes apparent temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration (2021, Science Advances)
  • Warming has a minor effect on surface soil organic carbon in alpine meadow ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (2021, Global Change Biology)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Huakun Zhou, Linyong Hu, Shixiao Xu, Hongjin Liu, and Yanfen Wang.

Best Publications

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • The impacts of climate change and human activities on biogeochemical cycles on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Huai Chen;Qiuan Zhu;Changhui Peng;Ning Wu;Ning Wu

  • Experimental warming causes large and rapid species loss, dampened by simulated grazing, on the Tibetan Plateau

    Julia A. Klein;John Harte;Xin-Quan Zhao

  • Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production.

    Huiying Liu;Zhaorong Mi;Li Lin;Yonghui Wang

  • Global negative vegetation feedback to climate warming responses of leaf litter decomposition rates in cold biomes

    Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Peter M. van Bodegom;Rien Aerts;Terry V. Callaghan

  • EXPERIMENTAL WARMING, NOT GRAZING, DECREASES RANGELAND QUALITY ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU

    Julia A. Klein;John Harte;Xin-Quan Zhao

  • The influence of dietary fibre and environmental temperature on the development of the gastrointestinal tract, digestibility, degree of fermentation in the hind-gut and energy metabolism in pigs

    Henry Jørgensen;Xin-Quan Zhao;Bjørn O. Eggum

  • Effects of warming and grazing on soil N availability, species composition, and ANPP in an alpine meadow

    Shiping Wang;Jichuang Duan;Guangping Xu;Yanfen Wang

  • Temperature and biomass influences on interannual changes in CO2 exchange in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau

    Tomomichi Kato;Yanhong Tang;Song Gu;Mitsuru Hirota

  • Alpine grassland degradation and its control in the source region of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, China

    Huakun Zhou;Xinquan Zhao;Yanhong Tang;Song Gu

  • Effect of warming and grazing on litter mass loss and temperature sensitivity of litter and dung mass loss on the Tibetan plateau

    Caiyun Luo;Guangping Xu;Zengguo Chao;Shiping Wang

  • Diurnal, seasonal and annual variation in net ecosystem CO2 exchange of an alpine shrubland on Qinghai-Tibetan plateau

    Liang Zhao;Yingnian Li;Shixiao Xu;Huakun Zhou

  • Response of ecosystem respiration to warming and grazing during the growing seasons in the alpine meadow on the Tibetan plateau

    Xingwu Lin;Zhenhua Zhang;Shiping Wang;Yigang Hu

  • Alpine grassland plants grow earlier and faster but biomass remains unchanged over 35 years of climate change

    Hao Wang;Hao Wang;Huiying Liu;Guangmin Cao;Zhiyuan Ma

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • Status and Dynamics of the Kobresia pygmaea Ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau

    Georg Miehe;Sabine Miehe;Knut Kaiser;Liu Jianquan

  • Modeling gross primary production of alpine ecosystems in the Tibetan Plateau using MODIS images and climate data

    Zhengquan Li;Guirui Yu;Xiangming Xiao;Yingnian Li

  • A review of formation mechanism and restoration measures of “black-soil-type” degraded grassland in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Quan-Min Dong;Xin-Quan Zhao;Gao-Lin Wu;Jian-Jun Shi

  • Effects of land-use conversions on the ecosystem services in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China

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  • Energy exchange between the atmosphere and a meadow ecosystem on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Song Gu;Song Gu;Yanhong Tang;Xiaoyong Cui;Tomomichi Kato

  • Dynamic and complex microclimate responses to warming and grazing manipulations

    Julia A. Klein;John Harte;Xin-Quan Zhao

  • Origin of mitochondrial DNA diversity of domestic yaks

    Songchang Guo;Peter Savolainen;Jianping Su;Qian Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shiping Wang
Shiping Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yingnian Li
Yingnian Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yanhong Tang
Yanhong Tang Peking University
Yanfen Wang
Yanfen Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guirui Yu
Guirui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huai Chen
Huai Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Julia Klein
Julia Klein Colorado State University
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Xiaoyong Cui
Xiaoyong Cui University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jin-Sheng He
Jin-Sheng He Peking University

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