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Xunhua Zheng is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with substantial contributions to soil science, environmental chemistry, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and ecology.

Their work encompasses several main topics including soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, climate change and permafrost, agriculture, soil and plant science, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

Among recent publications are:

  • Greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation in rice agriculture (2023) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Potential benefits of liming to acid soils on climate change mitigation and food security (2021) published in Global Change Biology
  • Global mapping of crop-specific emission factors highlights hotspots of nitrous oxide mitigation (2021) published in Nature Food
  • Progressive nitrogen limitation across the Tibetan alpine permafrost region (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • An urban polluted river as a significant hotspot for water-atmosphere exchange of CH4 and N2O (2020) published in Environmental Pollution

Zheng frequently publishes in venues such as Global Change Biology, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, The Science of The Total Environment, Environmental Pollution, and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Their most common coauthors include Zhisheng Yao, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Rui Wang, Shenghui Han, and Kai Wang, indicating active collaboration within a network of environmental science researchers.

Best Publications

  • A 3-year field measurement of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from rice paddies in China : Effects of water regime, crop residue, and fertilizer application

    Jianwen Zou;Jianwen Zou;Yao Huang;Yao Huang;Jingyan Jiang;Xunhua Zheng

  • Nitrous oxide emissions as influenced by amendment of plant residues with different C:N ratios

    Yao Huang;Yao Huang;Jianwen Zou;Xunhua Zheng;Yuesi Wang

  • Modeling greenhouse gas emissions from rice‐based production systems: Sensitivity and upscaling

    Changsheng Li;Arvin Mosier;Reiner Wassmann;Zucong Cai

  • Quantifying direct N2O emissions in paddy fields during rice growing season in mainland China: Dependence on water regime

    Jianwen Zou;Jianwen Zou;Yao Huang;Yao Huang;Xunhua Zheng;Yuesi Wang

  • Re‐quantifying the emission factors based on field measurements and estimating the direct N2O emission from Chinese croplands

    Xunhua Zheng;Shenghui Han;Yao Huang;Yuesi Wang

  • Impacts of soil moisture on nitrous oxide emission from croplands: a case study on the rice-based agro-ecosystem in Southeast China

    Xunhua Zheng;Mingxing Wang;Yuesi Wang;Renxing Shen

  • Grazing-induced reduction of natural nitrous oxide release from continental steppe

    Benjamin Wolf;Xunhua Zheng;Nicolas Brüggemann;Weiwei Chen

  • Quantification of N2O fluxes from soil–plant systems may be biased by the applied gas chromatograph methodology

    Xunhua Zheng;Baoling Mei;Yinghong Wang;Baohua Xie

  • The Asian Nitrogen Cycle Case Study

    Xunhua Zheng;Congbin Fu;Xingkai Xu;Xiaodong Yan

  • Effects of irrigation, fertilization and crop straw management on nitrous oxide and nitric oxide emissions from a wheat–maize rotation field in northern China

    Chunyan Liu;Kai Wang;Shixie Meng;Shixie Meng;Xunhua Zheng

  • CO2 emission in an intensively cultivated loam as affected by long-term application of organic manure and nitrogen fertilizer

    Weixin Ding;Lei Meng;Yunfeng Yin;Zucong Cai

  • Effects of nitrification inhibitors (DCD and DMPP) on nitrous oxide emission, crop yield and nitrogen uptake in a wheat-maize cropping system

    C. Liu;K. Wang;X. Zheng

  • Effects of soil moisture and temperature on CO2 and CH4 soil–atmosphere exchange of various land use/cover types in a semi-arid grassland in Inner Mongolia, China

    X. Wu;X. Wu;Z. Yao;N. Brüggemann;Z.Y. Shen

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from an intensively cultivated maize–wheat rotation soil in the North China Plain

    Weixin Ding;Yan Cai;Zucong Cai;Kazuyuki Yagi

  • A 3-year record of N2O and CH4 emissions from a sandy loam paddy during rice seasons as affected by different nitrogen application rates

    Zhisheng Yao;Xunhua Zheng;Haibo Dong;Rui Wang

  • Annual emissions of nitrous oxide and nitric oxide from a wheat–maize cropping system on a silt loam calcareous soil in the North China Plain

    Feng Cui;Guangxuan Yan;Zaixing Zhou;Xunhua Zheng

  • N2O, CH4 and CO2 emissions from seasonal tropical rainforests and a rubber plantation in Southwest China

    Christian Werner;Xunhua Zheng;Janwei Tang;Baohua Xie

  • Effects of environmental factors on N2O emission from and CH4 uptake by the typical grasslands in the Inner Mongolia.

    Yuesi Wang;Min Xue;Xunhua Zheng;Baoming Ji

  • Potential benefits of liming to acid soils on climate change mitigation and food security

    Yan Wang;Zhisheng Yao;Yang Zhan;Xunhua Zheng

  • NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION OF CHINESE CROPLANDS FROM 1950 TO 1999

    Yao Huang;Yao Huang;Wen Zhang;Wenjuan Sun;Xunhua Zheng

  • Modeling methane emission from rice paddies with various agricultural practices

    Yao Huang;Yao Huang;Wen Zhang;Xunhua Zheng;Jin Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Zhisheng Yao
Zhisheng Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rong Wang
Rong Wang Nanyang Technological University
Jianguo Zhu
Jianguo Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yuesi Wang
Yuesi Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nicolas Brüggemann
Nicolas Brüggemann Forschungszentrum Jülich
Yao Huang
Yao Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael Dannenmann
Michael Dannenmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Xingguo Han
Xingguo Han Hebei University
Shan Lin
Shan Lin China Agricultural University

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