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Zubin Xie is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, contributing extensively to research in agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. Their work primarily focuses on soil science, plant science, ecology, environmental chemistry, and agronomy and crop science.

The scientist's research topics emphasize soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, soil and water nutrient dynamics, rice cultivation and yield improvement, and soil and unsaturated flow.

Zubin Xie's recent publications demonstrate a focus on soil and environmental processes, including:

  • "The role of crystallinity and particle morphology on the sorption of dibutyl phthalate on polyethylene microplastics: Implications for the behavior of phthalate plastic additives" (2021) published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Exogenous substrate quality determines the dominant keystone taxa linked to carbon mineralization: Evidence from a 30-year experiment" (2022) published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry reveals stronger microbial carbon and nitrogen limitation in biochar amendment soils: A meta-analysis" (2022) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Divergent accumulation of microbe- and plant-derived carbon in different soil organic matter fractions in paddy soils under long-term organic amendments" (2024) published in Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • "Unveiling of active diazotrophs in a flooded rice soil by combination of NanoSIMS and 15N2-DNA-stable isotope probing" (2020) published in Biology and Fertility of Soils

Frequent coauthors in Zubin Xie's research include:

  • Tianlong Hu
  • Xingwu Lin
  • Qi Liu
  • Zhe Chen
  • Penghui Jin

Publications by Zubin Xie appear regularly in prominent scientific venues such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Plant and Soil
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of biochar decreasing methane emission from Chinese paddy soils

    Youzhi Feng;Yanping Xu;Yongchang Yu;Zubin Xie

  • Soil organic carbon stocks in China and changes from 1980s to 2000s

    Zubin Xie;Jianguo Zhu;Gang Liu;Georg Cadisch

  • How does biochar influence soil N cycle? A meta-analysis

    Qi Liu;Yanhui Zhang;Benjuan Liu;James E. Amonette;James E. Amonette

  • Biochar suppressed the decomposition of organic carbon in a cultivated sandy loam soil: A negative priming effect

    Weiwei Lu;Weixin Ding;Junhua Zhang;Yi Li

  • Impact of biochar application on nitrogen nutrition of rice, greenhouse-gas emissions and soil organic carbon dynamics in two paddy soils of China

    Zubin Xie;Zubin Xie;Yanping Xu;Gang Liu;Qi Liu

  • Biochar application as a tool to decrease soil nitrogen losses (NH3 volatilization, N2O emissions, and N leaching) from croplands: Options and mitigation strength in a global perspective

    Qi Liu;Qi Liu;Benjuan Liu;Yanhui Zhang;Tianlong Hu

  • Response of ecosystem respiration to warming and grazing during the growing seasons in the alpine meadow on the Tibetan plateau

    Xingwu Lin;Zhenhua Zhang;Shiping Wang;Yigang Hu

  • Can biochar alleviate soil compaction stress on wheat growth and mitigate soil N2O emissions

    Qi Liu;Benjuan Liu;Yanhui Zhang;Zhibin Lin

  • Fluxes of CO2, CH4, and N2O in an alpine meadow affected by yak excreta on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau during summer grazing periods.

    Xingwu Lin;Shiping Wang;Xiuzhi Ma;Guangping Xu

  • Effects of biochar application on greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration and crop growth in coastal saline soil

    X. W. Lin;Z. B. Xie;J. Y. Zheng;Q. Liu

  • The impact of manure, straw and biochar amendments on aggregation and erosion in a hillslope Ultisol

    Xinhua Peng;Q. H. Zhu;Zubin Xie;Frédéric Darboux

  • Bioavailability assessment of hexachlorobenzene in soil as affected by wheat straw biochar.

    Yang Song;Fang Wang;Yongrong Bian;Fredrick Orori Kengara

  • Enhanced PCBs sorption on biochars as affected by environmental factors: Humic acid and metal cations

    Yu Wang;Lei Wang;Guodong Fang;H.M.S.K. Herath

  • Soil Nematode Response to Biochar Addition in a Chinese Wheat Field

    Xiao-Ke Zhang;Qi Li;Wen-Ju Liang;Min Zhang

  • Effect of Biochar Addition on Maize Growth and Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Acidic Red Soils

    Qiao-Hong Zhu;Xin-Hua Peng;Tai-Qing Huang;Zu-Bin Xie

  • Effects of biochar application on vegetable production and emissions of N2O and CH4

    Junxiang Jia;Bo Li;Zhaozhi Chen;Zubin Xie

  • The temporal and species dynamics of photosynthetic acclimation in flag leaves of rice (Oryza sativa) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) under elevated carbon dioxide

    Chunwu Zhu;Lewis Ziska;Jianguo Zhu;Qing Zeng

  • Carbon dynamics in a temperate grassland soil after 9 years exposure to elevated CO2 (Swiss FACE)

    Zubin Xie;Zubin Xie;Georg Cadisch;Grant Edwards;Grant Edwards;Elizabeth M. Baggs

  • Elevated CO2 accelerates flag leaf senescence in wheat due to ear photosynthesis which causes greater ear nitrogen sink capacity and ear carbon sink limitation.

    Chunwu Zhu;Jianguo Zhu;Qing Zeng;Gang Liu

  • Impacts of Mo application on biological nitrogen fixation and diazotrophic communities in a flooded rice-soil system.

    Jing Ma;Qicheng Bei;Xiaojie Wang;Ping Lan

  • Responses of rice and winter wheat to free-air CO2 enrichment (China FACE) at rice/wheat rotation system

    Hongliang Ma;Hongliang Ma;Jianguo Zhu;Zubin Xie;Gang Liu

  • Biochar, activated carbon, and carbon nanotubes have different effects on fate of (14)C-catechol and microbial community in soil.

    Jun Shan;Rong Ji;Yongjie Yu;Zubin Xie

  • Carbon footprint of rice production under biochar amendment – a case study in a Chinese rice cropping system

    Qi Liu;Benjuan Liu;Per Ambus;Yanhui Zhang

  • Heterotrophic and phototrophic 15N2 fixation and distribution of fixed 15N in a flooded rice–soil system

    Qicheng Bei;Gang Liu;Haoye Tang;Georg Cadisch

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianguo Zhu
Jianguo Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Georg Cadisch
Georg Cadisch University of Hohenheim
Per Ambus
Per Ambus University of Copenhagen
Hans Peter H. Arp
Hans Peter H. Arp Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Shiping Wang
Shiping Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jiafa Luo
Jiafa Luo AgResearch
Toshihiro Hasegawa
Toshihiro Hasegawa National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Weixin Ding
Weixin Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nicholas M. Holden
Nicholas M. Holden University College Dublin
Xiangui Lin
Xiangui Lin Chinese Academy of Sciences

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