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Zhibao Dong is a researcher affiliated with Shaanxi Normal University in China, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology. Their body of work encompasses 139 publications within these domains, indicating extensive contribution primarily related to environmental and geological processes.

The researcher's work frequently addresses topics such as:

  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Tree Root and Stability Studies

Zhibao Dong has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including Zhengcai Zhang, Guangqiang Qian, Zhuanling Yang, Aimin Liang, and Nan Xiao. These collaborations reflect a network of researchers focused on similar scientific challenges.

Research papers authored by Zhibao Dong include:

  • "Antibiotics and microplastics in manure and surrounding soil of farms in the Loess Plateau: Occurrence and correlation," 2024, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "The effectiveness of a multi-row Tamarix windbreak in reducing aeolian erosion and sediment flux, Niatak area, Iran," 2020, Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Sand provenance in the Gurbantunggut Desert, northern China," 2022, CATENA
  • "Effect of vegetation patchiness on the subsurface water distribution in abandoned farmland of the Loess Plateau, China," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Effects of age and density of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica on soil moisture in the semiarid Mu Us Dunefield, northern China," 2020, Forest Ecology and Management

The researcher publishes most frequently in the following venues:

  • Geomorphology
  • CATENA
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Arid Land
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Best Publications

  • Modern dust storms in China: an overview.

    Xunming Wang;Zhibao Dong;Jiawu Zhang;Lichao Liu

  • The relative role of climatic and human factors in desertification in semiarid China

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Zhibao Dong

  • The flux profile of a blowing sand cloud: a wind tunnel investigation

    Zhibao Dong;Xiaoping Liu;Hongtao Wang;Aiguo Zhao

  • A wind tunnel simulation of the mean velocity fields behind upright porous fences

    Zhibao Dong;Wanyin Luo;Guangqiang Qian;Hongtao Wang

  • Effects of grazing on soil physical properties and soil erodibility in semiarid grassland of the Northern Loess Plateau (China).

    Z.C. Zhou;Z.T. Gan;Z.P. Shangguan;Z.B. Dong

  • Geomorphology of the megadunes in the Badain Jaran Desert

    Zhibao Dong;Tao Wang;Xunming Wang

  • Chinese deserts and sand fields in Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene Optimum

    HuaYu Lu;ShuangWen Yi;ZhiWei Xu;YaLi Zhou

  • High-Altitude Aeolian Research on the Tibetan Plateau

    Zhibao Dong;Zhibao Dong;Guangyin Hu;Guangqiang Qian;Junfeng Lu

  • Drag coefficients, roughness length and zero-plane displacement height as disturbed by artificial standing vegetation

    Zhibao Dong;Shangyu Gao;Donald W. Fryrear

  • The blown sand flux over a sandy surface: a wind tunnel investigation on the fetch effect

    Zhibao Dong;Hongtao Wang;Xiaoping Liu;Xunming Wang

  • Aeolian sand transport: a wind tunnel model

    Zhibao Dong;Xiaoping Liu;Hongtao Wang;Xunming Wang

  • Investigation of the sand sea with the tallest dunes on Earth: China's Badain Jaran Sand Sea

    Zhibao Dong;Guangqiang Qian;Ping Lv;Guangyin Hu

  • Wind energy environments and dunefield activity in the Chinese deserts

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Zhibao Dong;Ping Yan;Jiawu Zhang

  • Control of dust emissions by geomorphic conditions, wind environments and land use in northern China: An examination based on dust storm frequency from 1960 to 2003

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Zijiang Zhou;Zhibao Dong

  • Grain size characteristics of dune sands in the central Taklimakan Sand Sea

    Xunming Wang;Zhibao Dong;Jiawu Zhang;Jianjun Qu

  • Aerodynamic roughness of gravel surfaces

    Zhibao Dong;Xiaoping Liu;Xunming Wang

  • Aeolian desertification and its causes in the Zoige Plateau of China’s Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

    Zhibao Dong;Guangyin Hu;Changzhen Yan;Wenli Wang

  • Late Holocene monsoonal temperate glacier fluctuations on the Tibetan Plateau

    Bao Yang;Bao Yang;Bao Yang;Achim Bräuning;Zhibao Dong;Ziyin Zhang

  • Controlling blown sand along the highway crossing the Taklimakan Desert

    Zhibao Dong;Guangting Chen;Xingdong He;Zhiwen Han

  • Responses of dune activity and desertification in China to global warming in the twenty-first century.

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Yi Yang;Zhibao Dong;Caixia Zhang

  • Dust storm frequency and its relation to climate changes in Northern China during the past 1000 years

    Bao Yang;Bao Yang;Bao Yang;Achim Bräuning;Ziyin Zhang;Zhibao Dong

  • Seasonal variability of ionic concentrations in surface snow and elution processes in snow-firn packs at the PGPI site on Urumqi glacier No. 1, eastern Tien Shan, China

    Z. Li;Peter Edwards;E. Mosley-Thompson;F. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xunming Wang
Xunming Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fahu Chen
Fahu Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ping Lu
Ping Lu Jilin University
ZhongPing Lai
ZhongPing Lai Shantou University
Lide Tian
Lide Tian Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sebastien Rodriguez
Sebastien Rodriguez Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Jun Xia
Jun Xia Wuhan University
Shugui Hou
Shugui Hou Nanjing University
Hongyan Liu
Hongyan Liu Peking University
Zhouping Shangguan
Zhouping Shangguan Chinese Academy of Sciences

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