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Overview

Zongqiang Xie is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has a research portfolio focused on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and plant science.

Their research addresses a range of topics related to ecology and vegetation dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, species distribution and climate change, plant and animal studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, as well as ecology and conservation studies.

Among recent publications by Zongqiang Xie are:

  • An updated Vegetation Map of China (1:1000000), 2020, published in Science Bulletin
  • The community-level scaling relationship between leaf nitrogen and phosphorus changes with plant growth, climate and nutrient limitation, 2020, published in Journal of Ecology
  • Patterns of nitrogen and phosphorus pools in terrestrial ecosystems in China, 2021, published in Earth System Science Data
  • A revised scheme of vegetation classification system of China, 2020, published in Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology
  • Patterns and environmental controls of soil organic carbon density in Chinese shrublands, 2020, published in Geoderma

Zongqiang Xie frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors active in related fields. Notable frequent collaborators include:

  • Gaoming Xiong
  • Guozhen Shen
  • Wenting Xu
  • Changming Zhao
  • Jielin Ge

The majority of this scientist's publications appear in specialized journals aligned with their fields of study. The most common publication venues include:

  • Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology
  • China Scientific Data
  • Scientific Data
  • Ecological Indicators
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Carbon pools in China's terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey

    Xuli Tang;Xia Zhao;Yongfei Bai;Zhiyao Tang

  • Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010.

    Fei Lu;Huifeng Hu;Wenjuan Sun;Jiaojun Zhu

  • Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage.

    Shiping Chen;Wantong Wang;Wenting Xu;Yang Wang

  • Three-Gorges Dam--Experiment in Habitat Fragmentation?

    Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Jianhui Huang;Xingguo Han;Zongqiang Xie

  • Patterns of plant carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentration in relation to productivity in China's terrestrial ecosystems

    Zhiyao Tang;Wenting Xu;Guoyi Zhou;Yongfei Bai

  • Impacts of large dams on riparian vegetation: applying global experience to the case of China’s Three Gorges Dam

    Thomas New;Zongqiang Xie

  • Altered trends in carbon uptake in China's terrestrial ecosystems under the enhanced summer monsoon and warming hiatus.

    Honglin He;Shaoqiang Wang;Li Zhang;Junbang Wang

  • Biogeographical variation in the diet of Holarctic martens (genus Martes, Mammalia: Carnivora: Mustelidae): adaptive foraging in generalists

    You-Bing Zhou;You-Bing Zhou;Chris Newman;Wen-Ting Xu;Christina D. Buesching

  • Altitudinal Pattern of Plant Species Diversity in Shennongjia Mountains, Central China

    Chang-Ming Zhao;Wei-Lie Chen;Zi-Qiang Tian;Zong-Qiang Xie

  • An updated Vegetation Map of China (1:1000000)

    Yanjun Su;Qinghua Guo;Tianyu Hu;Hongcan Guan

  • Balancing the benefits of ecotourism and development: The effects of visitor trail-use on mammals in a Protected Area in rapidly developing China

    Youbing Zhou;Youbing Zhou;Christina D. Buesching;Chris Newman;Yayoi Kaneko

  • Climate change challenges the current conservation strategy for the giant panda

    Guozhen Shen;Stuart L. Pimm;Chaoyang Feng;Guofang Ren

  • Proposed Conservation Landscape for Giant Pandas in the Minshan Mountains, China

    Guozhen Shen;Chaoyang Feng;Zongqiang Xie;Zhiyun Ouyang

  • Anomalous, extreme weather disrupts obligate seed dispersal mutualism: snow in a subtropical forest ecosystem

    Youbing Zhou;Youbing Zhou;Youbing Zhou;Chris Newman;Jin Chen;Zongqiang Xie

  • Patterns of nitrogen and phosphorus pools in terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Yi-Wei Zhang;Yanpei Guo;Zhiyao Tang;Yuhao Feng

  • The community‐level scaling relationship between leaf nitrogen and phosphorus changes with plant growth, climate and nutrient limitation

    Yanpei Guo;Zhengbing Yan;Gheyur Gheyret;Guoyi Zhou

  • Survival and growth responses of Myricaria laxiflora seedlings to summer flooding

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  • Reproductive allocation, seed dispersal and germination of Myricaria laxiflora, an endangered species in the Three Gorges Reservoir area

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  • Nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and allocation strategies among shrub organs: the effects of plant growth forms and nitrogen-fixation types

    Qiang Zhang;Gaoming Xiong;Jiaxiang Li;Zhijun Lu

  • The trade-off between safety and efficiency in hydraulic architecture in 31 woody species in a karst area

    Da-Yong Fan;Sheng-Lin Jie;Chang-Cheng Liu;Xiang-Ying Zhang

  • Effects of size, neighbors, and site condition on tree growth in a subtropical evergreen and deciduous broad-leaved mixed forest, China.

    Xiulian Chi;Zhiyao Tang;Zongqiang Xie;Qiang Guo

  • Geographical and climatic gradients of evergreen versus deciduous broad-leaved tree species in subtropical China: Implications for the definition of the mixed forest.

    Jielin Ge;Zongqiang Xie

  • Underestimated ecosystem carbon turnover time and sequestration under the steady state assumption: A perspective from long-term data assimilation.

    Rong Ge;Honglin He;Xiaoli Ren;Li Zhang

  • Diet of an opportunistically frugivorous carnivore, Martes flavigula, in subtropical forest

    You-Bing Zhou;Chris Newman;Christina D. Buesching;Andrzej Zalewski

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhiyao Tang
Zhiyao Tang Peking University
Chris Newman
Chris Newman University of Oxford
David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Guoyi Zhou
Guoyi Zhou Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Christina D. Buesching
Christina D. Buesching University of Oxford
Jingyun Fang
Jingyun Fang Peking University
Yongfei Bai
Yongfei Bai Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guirui Yu
Guirui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nianpeng He
Nianpeng He Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianguo Wu
Jianguo Wu Arizona State University

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