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Overview

Ying Zhao is affiliated with Ludong University in China and has made significant contributions in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on areas including Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Ecology, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Ying Zhao has published extensively, with frequent appearances in journals such as Water, SSRN Electronic Journal, Agricultural Water Management, Geoderma, and CATENA. Their recent notable papers include:

  • The assessment of soil loss by water erosion in China, published in 2020 in International Soil and Water Conservation Research
  • Assessing soil water balance to optimize irrigation schedules of flood-irrigated maize fields with different cultivation histories in the arid region, published in 2022 in Agricultural Water Management
  • Effects of coastal wetland reclamation on soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus in China: A meta-analysis, published in 2023 in Land Degradation and Development
  • Carbon storage in an arable soil combining field measurements, aggregate turnover modeling and climate scenarios, published in 2022 in CATENA
  • Do adaptive policy adjustments deliver ecosystem-agriculture-economy co-benefits in land degradation neutrality efforts? Evidence from southeast coast of China, published in 2023 in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, including Chong Jiang, Qiuli Hu, Yixin Wang, Bing Song, and Bingcheng Si.

Best Publications

  • The effects of mulching on maize growth, yield and water use in a semi-arid region

    Ling-duo Bu;Jian-liang Liu;Lin Zhu;Sha-sha Luo

  • Belowground net primary productivity and biomass allocation of a grassland in Inner Mongolia is affected by grazing intensity

    Ying Zhi Gao;Ying Zhi Gao;Ying Zhi Gao;Marcus Giese;Marcus Giese;Shan Lin;Burkhard Sattelmacher

  • Spatial variability of soil properties affected by grazing intensity in Inner Mongolia grassland

    Ying Zhao;Ying Zhao;Stephan Peth;Julia Krümmelbein;Rainer Horn

  • Removal of tetracycline from aqueous solution by MCM-41-zeolite A loaded nano zero valent iron: Synthesis, characteristic, adsorption performance and mechanism.

    Yige Guo;Wenli Huang;Bin Chen;Ying Zhao

  • Effects of straw and plastic film mulching on greenhouse gas emissions in Loess Plateau, China: A field study of 2 consecutive wheat-maize rotation cycles

    Haixin Chen;Jingjing Liu;Afeng Zhang;Jing Chen

  • Controls of surface soil moisture spatial patterns and their temporal stability in a semi‐arid steppe

    Y. Zhao;S. Peth;X. Y. Wang;H. Lin

  • Effects of straw and biochar amendments on aggregate stability, soil organic carbon, and enzyme activities in the Loess Plateau, China

    Man Zhang;Gong Cheng;Hao Feng;Benhua Sun

  • Removal of phosphate from aqueous solution by red mud using a factorial design.

    Ying Zhao;Jun Wang;Zhaokun Luan;Xianjia Peng

  • Contrasting effects of straw and straw–derived biochar application on net global warming potential in the Loess Plateau of China

    Afeng Zhang;Gong Cheng;Qaiser Hussain;Qaiser Hussain;Man Zhang

  • Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database

    Mehdi Rahmati;Mehdi Rahmati;Lutz Weihermüller;Jan Vanderborght;Yakov A. Pachepsky

  • Temporal stability of soil moisture in various semi-arid steppe ecosystems and its application in remote sensing

    K. Schneider;J.A. Huisman;L. Breuer;Y. Zhao

  • MCM-41 impregnated with A zeolite precursor: Synthesis, characterization and tetracycline antibiotics removal from aqueous solution.

    Minmin Liu;Li-an Hou;Shuili Yu;Beidou Xi

  • Crop yield and water use efficiency under aerated irrigation: A meta-analysis

    Ya-Dan Du;Wen-Quan Niu;Xiao-Bo Gu;Qian Zhang

  • Effect of saline water irrigation on soil development and plant growth in the Taklimakan Desert Highway shelterbelt

    Congjuan Li;Jiaqiang Lei;Ying Zhao;Ying Zhao;Xinwen Xu

  • Remote estimation of chlorophyll-a in turbid inland waters: Three-band model versus GA-PLS model

    Kaishan Song;Lin Li;L.P. Tedesco;Shuai Li

  • Synthesis of water-dispersible Fe3O4@β-cyclodextrin by plasma-induced grafting technique for pollutant treatment

    Jie Li;Changlun Chen;Ying Zhao;Jun Hu

  • A modified normalized model for predicting effective soil thermal conductivity

    Hailong He;Hailong He;Ying Zhao;Miles F. Dyck;Bingcheng Si;Bingcheng Si

  • Synthesis, characterization, and mercury adsorption properties of hybrid mesoporous aluminosilicate sieve prepared with fly ash.

    Minmin Liu;Li-an Hou;Beidou Xi;Ying Zhao

  • The incorrect usage of singular spectral analysis and discrete wavelet transform in hybrid models to predict hydrological time series

    Kongchang Du;Ying Zhao;Jiaqiang Lei

  • Research on magnetic seeding flocculation for arsenic removal by superconducting magnetic separation

    Yiran Li;Jun Wang;Ying Zhao;Zhaokun Luan

  • Modeling grazing effects on coupled water and heat fluxes in Inner Mongolia grassland

    Ying Zhao;Stephan Peth;Rainer Horn;Julia Krümmelbein

  • Spatial distribution and simulation of soil moisture and salinity under mulched drip irrigation combined with tillage in an arid saline irrigation district, northwest China

    Zhijuan Qi;Zhijuan Qi;Hao Feng;Hao Feng;Ying Zhao;Ying Zhao;Tibin Zhang;Tibin Zhang

  • Response of soil moisture and temperature to grazing intensity in a Leymus chinensis steppe, Inner Mongolia

    Ying Zhao;Stephan Peth;Agnieszka Reszkowska;Lei Gan

  • Factors controlling the spatial patterns of soil moisture in a grazed semi-arid steppe investigated by multivariate geostatistics

    Ying Zhao;Ying Zhao;Stephan Peth;Paul Hallett;Xiaoyan Wang

  • Grazing changes topography-controlled topsoil properties and their interaction on different spatial scales in a semi-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia, P.R. China

    Angelika Kölbl;Markus Steffens;Martin Wiesmeier;Carsten Hoffmann

  • Soil freezing and thawing processes affected by the different landscapes in the middle reaches of Heihe River Basin, Gansu, China

    Jun Yi;Ying Zhao;Ming’an Shao;Jianguo Zhang

  • Effect of saline land reclamation by constructing the “Raised Field -Shallow Trench” pattern on agroecosystems in Yellow River Delta

    Qiuli Hu;Ying Zhao;Xinlong Hu;Ji Qi

  • Influence of grazing on hydraulic and mechanical properties of semiarid steppe soils under different vegetation type in Inner Mongolia, China

    Agnieszka Reszkowska;Julia Krümmelbein;Stephan Peth;Rainer Horn

  • Long-term vegetation restoration increases deep soil carbon storage in the Northern Loess Plateau.

    Zhilong Lan;Ying Zhao;Ying Zhao;Jianguo Zhang;Rui Jiao

  • Effects of N and water supply on water use-efficiency of a semiarid grassland in Inner Mongolia

    Holger Brueck;Holger Brueck;Klaus Erdle;Klaus Erdle;Yingzhi Gao;Yingzhi Gao;Marcus Giese;Marcus Giese

  • Evaluation of orange peel waste and its biochar on greenhouse gas emissions and soil biochemical properties within a loess soil.

    Tanveer Ali Sial;Zhilong Lan;Muhammad Numan Khan;Ying Zhao;Ying Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Bing Cheng Si
Bing Cheng Si University of Saskatchewan
Kaishan Song
Kaishan Song Liaocheng University
Zhidan Wen
Zhidan Wen Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology
Hao Feng
Hao Feng Northwest A&F University
Rainer Horn
Rainer Horn Kiel University
Stephan Peth
Stephan Peth University of Hannover
Xinping Chen
Xinping Chen Southwest University
Jun Wang
Jun Wang Zhejiang University
Chao Wang
Chao Wang University of Southern California
Lin Li
Lin Li Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

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