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82
Citations
19353
World Ranking
391
National Ranking
41

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  • 1995 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Ecology
  • Gene
  • Surgery

His primary scientific interests are in Agronomy, Soil water, Ecology, Environmental chemistry and Botany. Zhihong Xu combines subjects such as Soil fertility, Nutrient and Biochar with his study of Agronomy. His research integrates issues of Total organic carbon and Water content in his study of Soil water.

His Ecology research includes elements of Nitrification and Nitrogen cycle. Zhihong Xu has researched Environmental chemistry in several fields, including Soil conditioner, Phosphate and Nitrogen. His study in Soil organic matter is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Organic matter and Mineralization.

His most cited work include:

  • Biochar: Nutrient Properties and Their Enhancement (404 citations)
  • Soil carbon pools in adjacent natural and plantation forests of subtropical Australia (219 citations)
  • Three Gorges Project: Efforts and challenges for the environment (201 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His scientific interests lie mostly in Agronomy, Soil water, Ecology, Botany and Nutrient. The concepts of his Agronomy study are interwoven with issues in Soil carbon, Soil fertility, Soil organic matter, Biochar and Nitrogen cycle. His research in Soil water intersects with topics in Environmental chemistry, Organic matter, Biomass and Nitrification.

Zhihong Xu works mostly in the field of Environmental chemistry, limiting it down to topics relating to Nitrogen and, in certain cases, Subtropics and Animal science. His is doing research in Ecosystem, Soil biology, Biogeochemical cycle, Forest ecology and Global warming, both of which are found in Ecology. His Horticulture research extends to the thematically linked field of Botany.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (42.17%)
  • Soil water (26.31%)
  • Ecology (16.27%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Agronomy (42.17%)
  • Soil water (26.31%)
  • Ecosystem (10.24%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Zhihong Xu mostly deals with Agronomy, Soil water, Ecosystem, Nutrient and Grassland. His Agronomy research integrates issues from Prescribed burn, Soil carbon and Microbial population biology. His Soil water research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Subtropics, Community structure, Incubation and Nitrogen.

His Ecosystem study combines topics in areas such as Species richness, Livelihood and Environmental resource management. His Nutrient study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Productivity and Phosphorus. His study on Grassland is covered under Ecology.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Assisted phytoremediation of a co-contaminated soil with biochar amendment: Contaminant removals and bacterial community properties (19 citations)
  • Prediction of soil macro- and micro-elements in sieved and ground air-dried soils using laboratory-based hyperspectral imaging technique (19 citations)
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi abundance was sensitive to nitrogen addition but diversity was sensitive to phosphorus addition in karst ecosystems (17 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Ecology
  • Gene
  • Surgery

Zhihong Xu mainly focuses on Agronomy, Ecosystem, Soil water, Abundance and Grassland. His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Pinus massoniana and Microbial population biology. The study incorporates disciplines such as Livelihood and Transpiration in addition to Ecosystem.

His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Transformation, Incubation and Environmental DNA. His work deals with themes such as Nutrient and Community structure, which intersect with Abundance. His Grassland study is associated with Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Biochar: Nutrient Properties and Their Enhancement

    Kwong Yin Chan;Z.H. Xu

  • Effects of biochar on soil available inorganic nitrogen: A review and meta-analysis

    Thi Thu Nhan Nguyen;Thi Thu Nhan Nguyen;Cheng-Yuan Xu;Cheng-Yuan Xu;Cheng-Yuan Xu;Iman Tahmasbian;Rongxiao Che;Rongxiao Che

  • Effects of biochar application on soil greenhouse gas fluxes: a meta-analysis

    Yanghui He;Xuhui Zhou;Liling Jiang;Ming Li

  • Soil carbon pools in adjacent natural and plantation forests of subtropical Australia

    Chengrong Chen;Zhihong Xu;Nicole Mathers

  • The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

    William F. Laurance;Bernard Dell;Stephen M. Turton;Michael J. Lawes

  • Ecosystem services in changing land use

    Bojie Fu;Liwei Zhang;Zhihong Xu;Yan Zhao

  • Effect of biochar amendment on yield and photosynthesis of peanut on two types of soils

    Cheng-Yuan Xu;Cheng-Yuan Xu;Shahla Hosseini-Bai;Shahla Hosseini-Bai;Yanbin Hao;Yanbin Hao;Rao C. N. Rachaputi

  • Impacts of grassland afforestation with coniferous trees on soil phosphorus dynamics and associated microbial processes: A review

    Chengrong Chen;L.M. Condron;Zhihong Xu

  • Differences in soil bacterial diversity: driven by contemporary disturbances or historical contingencies?

    Yuan Ge;Ji-zheng He;Yong-guan Zhu;Jia-bao Zhang

  • Seasonal changes in soil labile organic carbon pools within a Phyllostachys praecox stand under high rate fertilization and winter mulch in subtropical China

    P.K. Jiang;Q.F. Xu;Zhihong Xu;Z.H. Cao

  • Assessing bacterial diversity in soil: A brief review

    Li Zhang;Zhihong Xu

  • Warming and grazing affect soil labile carbon and nitrogen pools differently in an alpine meadow of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China

    Yichao Rui;Shiping Wang;Zhihong Xu;Yanfen Wang

  • Terrestrial N2O emissions and related functional genes under climate change: A global meta-analysis

    Linfeng Li;Linfeng Li;Zhenzhen Zheng;Weijin Wang;Weijin Wang;Joel A. Biederman

  • Effect of mulching on labile soil organic matter pools, microbial community functional diversity and nitrogen transformations in two hardwood plantations of subtropical Australia

    Zhiqun Huang;Zhihong Xu;Chengrong Chen

  • Soil moisture–plant interactions: an ecohydrological review

    Cong Wang;Bojie Fu;Lu Zhang;Zhihong Xu

  • Does ammonium-based N addition influence nitrification and acidification in humid subtropical soils of China?

    Wei Zhao;Zu-cong Cai;Zhi-hong Xu

  • Wood biochar increases nitrogen retention in field settings mainly through abiotic processes

    Shahla Hosseini Bai;Shahla Hosseini Bai;Frédérique Reverchon;Cheng-Yuan Xu;Cheng-Yuan Xu;Zhihong Xu

  • The effects of short term, long term and reapplication of biochar on soil bacteria

    Thi Thu Nhan Nguyen;Thi Thu Nhan Nguyen;Thi Thu Nhan Nguyen;Helen M Wallace;Cheng-Yuan Xu;Lukas Van Zwieten

  • Warming and increased precipitation have differential effects on soil extracellular enzyme activities in a temperate grassland

    Xiaoqi Zhou;Chengrong Chen;Yanfen Wang;Zhihong Xu

  • Gross nitrogen transformations in adjacent native and plantation forests of subtropical Australia

    Joanne Mary Burton;Chengrong Chen;Zhihong Xu;Hossein Ghadiri

  • Soil carbon and nutrient pools, microbial properties and gross nitrogen transformations in adjacent natural forest and hoop pine plantations of subtropical Australia

    Zhihong Xu;Sally Ward;Chengrong Chen;Timothy John Blumfield

  • Responses of soil respiration to N fertilization in a loamy soil under maize cultivation

    Weixin Ding;Hongyan Yu;Zucong Cai;Fengxiang Han

  • Solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy: characterization of soil organic matter under two contrasting residue management regimes in a 2-year-old pine plantation of subtropical Australia

    Nicole J Mathers;Nicole J Mathers;Zhihong Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Chengrong Chen
Chengrong Chen Griffith University
Cheng-Yuan Xu
Cheng-Yuan Xu Central Queensland University
Ji-Zheng He
Ji-Zheng He University of Melbourne
Yanfen Wang
Yanfen Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoyong Cui
Xiaoyong Cui University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yanbin Hao
Yanbin Hao University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yichao Rui
Yichao Rui Purdue University West Lafayette
Zhiqun Huang
Zhiqun Huang Fujian Normal University
Ying Teng
Ying Teng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Juxiu Liu
Juxiu Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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