Name: ZHANG Xinyu
Current Appointment:
Professor in the Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Education:
Ph.D in Soil Science, Shenyang Agricultural University, China 2001-2004
Co-research in Geography Department of Exeter University，UK 2003.1-2004.2
MS. in Soil Science，Shenyang Agricultural University, China 1998-2001
B.S. in Agronomy, Shenyang Agricultural University, China 1992-1996
Academic appointments:
2018- Professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2013.1-2013.6 Visiting Scholar, The University of Tennessee
2006-2018, Assistant and Associate Professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2004-2006, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2003.1-2004.2, Visiting Scholar, Exeter University，UK
1996-2004, Teaching Assistant and Lecturer, Department of Soil and Agrochemistry, Shenyang Agricultural University , China
Areas of Specialization:
Ecosystem ecology research；Applied soil ecology; Soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles and their microbial mechanisms using soil enzymology, molecular biology and stable isotope analysis techniques.
Academic Awards:
First prize of Science and technology of Shaanxi Province, 2016
Society Appointments:
Associate editor of European Journal of Soil Science
Guest editor of Science of the Total Environment
Representative Publications:
1. Liu, S., Zhang, X.Y*., Dungait J. A. J., et al. Rare microbial taxa rather than phoD gene abundance determine hotspots of alkaline phosphomonoesterase activity in the karst rhizosphere soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2021, 57: 257-268
2. Zhang, X.Y*., Yang, Y., Zhang C., et al. Contrasting responses of phosphatase kinetic parameters to nitrogen and phosphorus additions in forest soils. Functional Ecology, 2018: 32: 106–116.
3. Li, D.D., Zhang X.Y*., Sophie M. Green, et al. Nitrogen functional gene activity in soil profiles under progressive vegetative recovery after abandonment of agriculture at the Puding Karst Critical Zone Observatory, SW China. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2018, 125: 93–102
4. Xu Z.W., Yu G.R*., Zhang X.Y*., et al. Soil enzyme activity and stoichiometry in forest ecosystems along the North-South Transect in eastern China (NSTEC). Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2017,104: 152-163
5. Tang Y.Q., Zhang, X.Y*, Li D.D., et al. Impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on the abundance and community structure of ammonia oxidizers and denitrifying bacteria in Chinese fir plantations. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2016, 103:284-293
Please refer to the detailed papers in：https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xinyu_Zhang4 or https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~zhangxinyu.
Major Research Projects:
1. Key Program for International Science and Technology Cooperation Projects of China（2019YFE0126500）: ‘Comprehensive Observations and Applications for Typical Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Belt and Road Area of China and Central-Asia’. 2020.12 -2023.11
2. Sub-project of Science Centre Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China ‘Ecosystem response to global change’ （31988102）: ‘Response mechanisms of soil microbial functions to global change in ecologically fragile areas’, 2020.1-2024.12
3. Sub-Project of Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (32192432): ‘The mechanism of long-term productivity maintenance and promotion in plantation forest ecosystem’ 2022.1-2026.12
4. General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (41877091): ‘Effects of nitrogen deposition on soil phosphorus availability in rhizosphere of ectotrophic and arbuscular mycorrhizal plantations’ 2019.1- 2022.12
5. Sub-Project of Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (41830860) ‘Key biogeochemical processes and control mechanisms of carbon and its isotopes in the critical zone of hilly red soil in southern China’： ‘Mechanisms of decomposition and transformation of soil organic carbon pool driven by microorganisms from bedrock to surface and extracellular enzymes’ 2019.1-2023.12
6. Sub-project of National Science and Technology Major Project ‘Monitoring and protection technologies for groundwater and ecological environment for shale gas and other unconventional oil and gas development: ecological monitoring and vegetation protection technologies for unconventional oil and gas development’ (2016ZX05040002-005-001) 2016.1-2020.12
7. General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (41571251)：‘Response mechanism of soil microbial decomposition of organic matter to nitrogen and phosphorus additions in Chinese fir forest’2016.1-2019.12
8. Sub-project of Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (China-UK Critical Zone) (41571130043): ‘Carbon processes and control mechanisms of rock-soil-biology-atmosphere continuum in karst critical zone’ 2016.1-2019.12
9. Technology Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences: ‘Development of in situ zymography monitoring instrument for field rhizosphere soil’ 2017-2018
10. Sub-project of Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China: ‘Regulation mechanism of soil microorganisms on carbon - nitrogen coupling cycle in forest ecosystem’（31290222）, 2013-2017
11. Sub-project of the National Key Basic Research Program of China (2012CB416903): ‘Effect mechanism of stand structure on ecosystem nutrient balance’ 2012-2016
12. General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (41171153) : ‘Source dynamics and mechanism of nitrate pollution in shallow groundwater of a small agricultural watershed in red soil hilly region’ 2012-2015
13. The Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-EW-310) ‘Technical studies of 15N and 18O isotope tracing of nitrate sources in surface or groundwater in typical ecosystems’
14. Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (40701186): ‘Effects of nitrogen deposition on soil carbon dynamics in a typical temperate forest in Changbai Mountain’ 2008-2010
Contact:
Office Address:
Room B434, Building No. B IGSNRR
11A Da Tun Road
An Wai, Beijing 100101
People’s Republic of China
Telephone: 86-10-6488-9679
Fax: 86-10-6486-8962
Email: zhangxy@igsnrr.ac.cn
