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Zhenhua Zhang
Life Science
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qinghai
Language: Chinese, English
Climate Change
Ecosystem
Biodiversity
Carbon Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Plant-Soil Interactions
Alpine Grasslands
Restoration
Sustainability
Phenology
Areas of Focus
- Global Change Ecology
- Grassland Ecology
- Community Ecology
Work Experience
- 2022-05~Present - Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Director of Haibei Station
- 2021-06~Present - Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Researcher
- 2018-12~Present - Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Deputy Director of Haibei Station
- 2015-11~Present - Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Associate Researcher
- 2012-07~2015-10 - Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Assistant Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2007-09--2012-06 PhD: Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2002-09--2007-07 Bachelor: Qinghai University
Publications
- A Review on the Impact of Global Warming to Greenhouse Gas Flux in Frozen Ground Region, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Whole-soil warming shifts species composition without affecting diversity, biomass and productivity of the plant community in an alpine meadow, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Carbon fluxes and soil carbon dynamics along a gradient of biogeomorphic succession in alpine wetlands of Tibetan Plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Warmer temperature promotes the contribution of invertebrate fauna to litter components release in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Climate warming interacts with other global change drivers to influence plant phenology: A meta-analysis of experimental studies, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Effects of Multi-gradient Nitrogen and Phosphorus Additions on Biomass and Nitrogen and Phosphorus Content of Alpine Meadow Plant Community, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Warming delays but grazing advances leaf senescence of five plant species in an alpine meadow, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Impacts of Artificial Revegetation on Soil Fungal Community in Desertified Alpine Grassland, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Response of Soil Nitrogen Pools to A Simulated Freeze-Thaw Test in the Active Layer of Segregated Permafrost on the Qilian Mountains, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Vegetation structural shift tells environmental changes on the Tibetan Plateau over 40 years, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Asymmetric warming reduces the strength of selection pressure of moderate grazing on reproductive phenology in alpine plants, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Experimental warming causes mismatches in alpine plant-microbe-fauna phenology, Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- A dataset of the observations of carbon, water and heat fluxes over an alpine meadow in Haibei(2015-2020), Zhenhua Zhang, 2023
- Estimating Community-Level Plant Functional Traits in a Species-Rich Alpine Meadow Using UAV Image Spectroscopy, Zhenhua Zhang, 2022
- Coexistence is stabilized by conspecific negative density dependence via fungal pathogens more than oomycete pathogens, Zhenhua Zhang, 2022
- Grassland changes and adaptive management on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2022
- Characteristics of Vegetation and Soil Under Different Restoration Measures in Alpine Desertification Grassland, Zhenhua Zhang, 2022
- Additive effects of warming and grazing on fine-root decomposition and loss of nutrients in an alpine meadow, Zhenhua Zhang, 2022
- Experimental warming changed reproductive phenology and height of alpine plants on the Qingzang Plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2022
- Ambient climate determines the directional trend of community stability under warming and grazing, Zhenhua Zhang, 2021
- Abiotic and biotic controls of soil dissolved organic nitrogen along a precipitation gradient on the Tibetan plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2021
- Effects of Litter Addition on Soil Organic Carbon Mineralization in the Degraded Alpine Meadow in the Three-River Headwaters Region, Zhenhua Zhang, 2021
- Simulating warmer and drier climate increases root production but decreases root decomposition in an alpine grassland on the Tibetan plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2021
- Influence of mulching of different non-woven materials on the growth of alpine ecological restoration grasses, Zhenhua Zhang, 2021
- Microbial Functional Responses Explain Alpine Soil Carbon Fluxes under Future Climate Scenarios, Zhenhua Zhang, 2021
- Effects of temperature and moisture on litter decomposition in an alpine meadow, Zhenhua Zhang, 2021
- Warming and drought increases but wet reduces the net sink of CH4 in alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2021
- Inactive and inefficient: Warming and drought effect on microbial carbon processing in alpine grassland at depth, Zhenhua Zhang, 2021
- Temporal variation in soil respiration and its sensitivity to temperature along a hydrological gradient in an alpine wetland of the Tibetan Plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2020
- Annual ecosystem respiration is resistant to changes in freeze-thaw periods in semi-arid permafrost, Zhenhua Zhang, 2020
- Enhanced spring temperature sensitivity of carbon emission links to earlier phenology, Zhenhua Zhang, 2020
- The Global Environmental Engineers, Zhenhua Zhang, 2020
- Net neutral carbon responses to warming and grazing in alpine grassland ecosystems, Zhenhua Zhang, 2020
- Foliar fungal diseases respond differently to nitrogen and phosphorus additions in Tibetan alpine meadows, Zhenhua Zhang, 2020
- Effect of warming and degradation on phenophases of Kobresia pygmaea and Potentilla multifida on the Tibetan Plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2020
- Leaching of organic carbon from grassland soils under anaerobiosis, Zhenhua Zhang, 2020
- Phosphorus alleviation of nitrogen-suppressed methane sink in global grasslands, Zhenhua Zhang, 2020
- Decreased soil substrate availability with incubation time weakens the response of microbial respiration to high temperature in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2019
- Richness of plant communities plays a larger role than climate in determining responses of species richness to climate change, Zhenhua Zhang, 2019
- Microbial community responses reduce soil carbon loss in Tibetan alpine grasslands under short-term warming, Zhenhua Zhang, 2019
- Divergent Responses of Community Reproductive and Vegetative Phenology to Warming and Cooling: Asymmetry Versus Symmetry, Zhenhua Zhang, 2019
- Climate warming alters subsoil but not topsoil carbon dynamics in alpine grassland, Zhenhua Zhang, 2019
- Differential response to warming of the uptake of nitrogen by plant species in non-degraded and degraded alpine grasslands, Zhenhua Zhang, 2019
- Opposite effects of winter day and night temperature changes on early phenophases, Zhenhua Zhang, 2019
- Responses of biotic interactions of dominant and subordinate species to decadal warming and simulated rotational grazing in tibetan alpine meadow., Zhenhua Zhang, 2018
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Tibetan Alpine Grassland: Effects of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Addition, Zhenhua Zhang, 2018
- Plant organic n uptake maintains species dominance under long-term warming, Zhenhua Zhang, 2018
- Experimentally simulating warmer and wetter climate additively improves rangeland quality on the Tibetan Plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2018
- Nonlinear responses of temperature sensitivities of community phenophases to warming and cooling events are mirroring plant functional diversity, Zhenhua Zhang, 2018
- Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production, Zhenhua Zhang, 2018
- Relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in alpine meadows of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Zhenhua Zhang, 2018
- Responses
Awards
- 2022: First Prize, Qinghai Province Natural Science Award
- 2020: Special Prize, Team for Restoration and Sustainable Management of Degraded Ecosystems in Sanjiangyuan Area
- 2018: First Prize, Mechanisms for Maintaining and Enhancing Production-Ecological Functions of Alpine Grasslands under Climate Change
