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Yangjian Zhang

Yangjian Zhang

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
49
Citations
9727
World Ranking
4019
National Ranking
90

Overview

Yangjian Zhang is affiliated with Hebei University in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several connected subfields. Their research portfolio includes 203 publications, highlighting expertise in Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Soil Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of topics, with significant contributions in Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Climate Variability and Models, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Frequent collaborators with whom Yangjian Zhang has published include Juntao Zhu, Zhoutao Zheng, Guang Zhao, Nan Cong, and Ning Chen. These coauthor partnerships have supported a steady output of research across various environmental disciplines.

Yangjian Zhang has published regularly in several prominent scientific journals. The venues where they have most frequently contributed are:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Plant Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change

Some of their recent papers demonstrate a focus on ecosystem processes and responses to environmental factors. Key publications include:

  • "Carbon and nitrogen cycling on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau," 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Aridity and NPP constrain contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in the Qinghai-Tibet alpine grasslands," 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "The Global-DEP conceptual framework - research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability," 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • "Enhanced dominance of soil moisture stress on vegetation growth in Eurasian drylands," 2023, National Science Review
  • "Warming homogenizes apparent temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration," 2021, Science Advances

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

  • Green-up dates in the Tibetan Plateau have continuously advanced from 1982 to 2011

    Geli Zhang;Yangjian Zhang;Jinwei Dong;Xiangming Xiao

  • Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth

    Miaogen Shen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Su-Jong Jeong;Liming Zhou

  • Global pattern of NPP to GPP ratio derived from MODIS data: effects of ecosystem type, geographical location and climate

    Yangjian Zhang;Ming Xu;Ming Xu;Hua Chen;Jonathan Adams

  • The Influences of Climate Change and Human Activities on Vegetation Dynamics in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Ke Huang;Yangjian Zhang;Juntao Zhu;Yaojie Liu

  • Bacterial community dissimilarity between the surface and subsurface soils equals horizontal differences over several kilometers in the western Tibetan Plateau

    Haiyan Chu;Huaibo Sun;Binu M. Tripathi;Jonathan M. Adams

  • 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

  • Water availability is more important than temperature in driving the carbon fluxes of an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

    Tao Zhang;Tao Zhang;Yangjian Zhang;Mingjie Xu;Juntao Zhu

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

    Xiaojia Li;Xianzhou Zhang;Jianshuang Wu;Zhenxi Shen

  • Is there more insect folivory in warmer temperate climates? A latitudinal comparison of insect folivory in eastern North America

    Jonathan M. Adams;Yangjian Zhang

  • Aridity and NPP constrain contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in the Qinghai-Tibet alpine grasslands

    Xinying Zhang;Juan Jia;Litong Chen;Haiyan Chu

  • How temperature, precipitation and stand age control the biomass carbon density of global mature forests

    Yingchun Liu;Guirui Yu;Qiufeng Wang;Yangjian Zhang

  • 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

  • Elevation-dependent effects of climate change on vegetation greenness in the high mountains of southwest China during 1982–2013

    Jian Tao;Tongqing Xu;Jinwei Dong;Xiuqin Yu

  • Water and heat availability are drivers of the aboveground plant carbon accumulation rate in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau

    Jian Sun;Tian‐Cai Zhou;Miao Liu;You‐Chao Chen

  • Latitudinal gradients in phylogenetic relatedness of angiosperm trees in North America

    Hong Qian;Yangjian Zhang;Jian Zhang;Xianli Wang

  • Ecological change on the Tibetan Plateau

    XianZhou Zhang;YongPing Yang;ShiLong Piao;WeiKai Bao

  • Estimates of grassland biomass and turnover time on the Tibetan Plateau

    Jiangzhou Xia;Jiangzhou Xia;Minna Ma;Tiangang Liang;Chaoyang 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

  • Light-intensity grazing improves alpine meadow productivity and adaption to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau.

    Tao Zhang;Yangjian Zhang;Mingjie Xu;Mingjie Xu;Juntao Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Xianzhou Zhang
Xianzhou Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guirui Yu
Guirui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peili Shi
Peili Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jonathan M. Adams
Jonathan M. Adams Nanjing University
Tao Zhang
Tao Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jin-Sheng He
Jin-Sheng He Peking University
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Ming Xu
Ming Xu University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lin Jiang
Lin Jiang Georgia Institute of Technology
Jinwei Dong
Jinwei Dong Chinese Academy of Sciences

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