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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
87
Citations
34599
World Ranking
313
National Ranking
27

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Carbon dioxide

Soil water, Agronomy, Nitrification, Paddy field and Environmental chemistry are his primary areas of study. His work carried out in the field of Soil water brings together such families of science as Nitrous oxide, Water content and Human fertilization. The study incorporates disciplines such as Soil carbon and Loam in addition to Agronomy.

His research in Nitrification intersects with topics in Soil pH, Soil microbiology and Mineralization. His Soil pH study which covers Nitrogen cycle that intersects with Denitrification, Environmental protection and Food processing. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Fossil fuel and Agriculture.

His most cited work include:

  • Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions (3648 citations)
  • Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture (1545 citations)
  • Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from rice paddy fields as affected by nitrogen fertilisers and water management (465 citations)

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

Zucong Cai mainly investigates Soil water, Agronomy, Nitrification, Environmental chemistry and Soil pH. His Soil water research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Denitrification, Nitrate and Water content. His research on Agronomy frequently connects to adjacent areas such as Soil fertility.

Zucong Cai interconnects Leaching, Mineralization, Autotroph, Heterotroph and Animal science in the investigation of issues within Nitrification. His Mineralization research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Nitrogen cycle and Cycling. His research in Environmental chemistry tackles topics such as Botany which are related to areas like Microbial population biology.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Soil water (61.99%)
  • Agronomy (51.03%)
  • Nitrification (47.26%)

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

  • Soil water (61.99%)
  • Nitrification (47.26%)
  • Environmental chemistry (26.03%)

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

His primary areas of study are Soil water, Nitrification, Environmental chemistry, Greenhouse gas and Soil pH. His research integrates issues of Agronomy, Straw, Species evenness and Crop residue in his study of Soil water. His Nitrification study combines topics in areas such as Mineralization, Autotroph, Denitrification, Heterotroph and Animal science.

His study looks at the intersection of Environmental chemistry and topics like Forest ecology with Protein depolymerization, Soil horizon and Reactive nitrogen. The various areas that he examines in his Greenhouse gas study include Soil biology, Agriculture and Nitrous oxide. His Agriculture study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Ruminant, Soil carbon, Environmental engineering, Environmental protection and Food processing.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Nitrogen deposition affects both net and gross soil nitrogen transformations in forest ecosystems: A review. (29 citations)
  • Nitrogen deposition affects both net and gross soil nitrogen transformations in forest ecosystems: A review. (29 citations)
  • Highly connected taxa located in the microbial network are prevalent in the rhizosphere soil of healthy plant (17 citations)

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

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Carbon dioxide

Zucong Cai spends much of his time researching Soil water, Nitrification, Environmental chemistry, Agronomy and Autotroph. His studies deal with areas such as Microorganism, Crop residue and Microbial population biology as well as Soil water. As part of his studies on Nitrification, he frequently links adjacent subjects like Yield.

His Environmental chemistry research integrates issues from Forest ecology and Mineralization. Zucong Cai has researched Agronomy in several fields, including Arid and Precipitation. His Autotroph study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Temperate forest, Nitrous oxide, Denitrification and Greenhouse gas.

Best Publications

  • Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

    James N. Galloway;Alan R. Townsend;Jan Willem Erisman;Mateete Bekunda

  • Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture

    Pete Smith;Daniel Martino;Zucong Cai;Daniel Gwary

  • Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from rice paddy fields as affected by nitrogen fertilisers and water management

    Zucong Cai;Guangxi Xing;Xiaoyuan Yan;Hua Xu

  • Policy and technological constraints to implementation of greenhouse gas mitigation options in agriculture

    Pete Smith;Daniel Martino;Zucong Cai;Daniel Gwary

  • Autotrophic growth of nitrifying community in an agricultural soil.

    Weiwei Xia;Caixia Zhang;Xiaowei Zeng;Youzhi Feng

  • Long-term application of organic manure and nitrogen fertilizer on N2O emissions, soil quality and crop production in a sandy loam soil

    Lei Meng;Weixin Ding;Zucong Cai

  • Modeling greenhouse gas emissions from rice‐based production systems: Sensitivity and upscaling

    Changsheng Li;Arvin Mosier;Reiner Wassmann;Zucong Cai

  • Long-term effects of inorganic fertilizers on microbial biomass and community functional diversity in a paddy soil derived from quaternary red clay

    W.H. Zhong;W.H. Zhong;Z.C. Cai

  • Quantification of N2O fluxes from soil–plant systems may be biased by the applied gas chromatograph methodology

    Xunhua Zheng;Baoling Mei;Yinghong Wang;Baohua Xie

  • Wheat straw management affects CH4 and N2O emissions from rice fields

    Jing Ma;Erdeng Ma;Hua Xu;Kazuyuki Yagi

  • Heterotrophic nitrification of organic N and its contribution to nitrous oxide emissions in soils

    Jinbo Zhang;Christoph Müller;Christoph Müller;Zucong Cai

  • Dynamics of crop yields and soil organic carbon in a long-term fertilization experiment in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China

    Z.C. Cai;S.W. Qin

  • Mechanisms of soil N dynamics following long-term application of organic fertilizers to subtropical rain-fed purple soil in China

    Jing Wang;Bo Zhu;Jinbo Zhang;Christoph Müller;Christoph Müller

  • Soil pH has contrasting effects on gross and net nitrogen mineralizations in adjacent forest and grassland soils in central Alberta, Canada

    Yi Cheng;Yi Cheng;Jing Wang;Bruno Mary;Jin-bo Zhang

  • Long-term application of organic manure and mineral fertilizers on aggregation and aggregate-associated carbon in a sandy loam soil

    Hongyan Yu;Weixin Ding;Jiafa Luo;Ruilin Geng

  • CO2 emission in an intensively cultivated loam as affected by long-term application of organic manure and nitrogen fertilizer

    Weixin Ding;Lei Meng;Yunfeng Yin;Zucong Cai

  • Field validation of the DNDC model for greenhouse gas emissions in East Asian cropping systems

    Zucong Cai;Takuji Sawamoto;Changsheng Li;Guoding Kang

  • Effects of nitrogen fertiliser and wheat straw application on CH4 and N2O emissions from a paddy rice field

    J. Ma;X. L. Li;H. Xu;Y. Han

  • Patterns and drivers of global gross nitrogen mineralization in soils.

    Ahmed S Elrys;Ahmed S Elrys;Ahmad Ali;Huimin Zhang;Yi Cheng;Yi Cheng

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from an intensively cultivated maize–wheat rotation soil in the North China Plain

    Weixin Ding;Yan Cai;Zucong Cai;Kazuyuki Yagi

  • Effects of nitrogen fertilization on CH4 emissions from rice fields

    Zucong Cai;Yuhua Shan;Hua Xu

  • Preliminary budget of methane emissions from natural wetlands in China

    Weixin Ding;Zucong Cai;Dexuan Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jinbo Zhang
Jinbo Zhang Nanjing Normal University
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Weixin Ding
Weixin Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoyuan Yan
Xiaoyuan Yan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kazuyuki Yagi
Kazuyuki Yagi National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Scott X. Chang
Scott X. Chang University of Alberta
Zhongjun Jia
Zhongjun Jia Chinese Academy of Sciences
Haruo Tsuruta
Haruo Tsuruta University of Tokyo
Xunhua Zheng
Xunhua Zheng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianguo Zhu
Jianguo Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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