Name: ZHANG Yangjian, Male
ZHANG Yangjian, professor at the institute of geographic sciences and natural resources, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Outstanding youth research scientist awarded by NSFC. Director of Key Lab of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, CAS. Principal Investigator of 973 project of Ministry of Science and Technology, China. The1st class reward of Science of Xizang Autonomous Region. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S. in 2004.
His research is mostly focused on, but not limited to, integrating field experiments, transect survey, remote sensing monitoring and ecosystem process modeling to investigate effects of global changes on vegetation dynamics, also vegetation feedback to climate systems. His research has been published by over 100 SCI indexed papers, including such high profile Journal as PNAS and Science.
Selected Publications:
2022：
62. Zhao Bo, Ballantyne Ashley P., Meng Shengwang, Zhao Guang, Zheng Zhoutao, Zhu Juntao, Cao Jing, Zhang Yangjian*, Zhao Xiuhai*. Understory plant removal counteracts tree thinning effect on soil respiration in a temperate forest. Global Change Biology, 2022, 00:1– 12.
61. Chen Yao, Zhang Yangjian*, Bai E, Piao shilong, Chen Ning, Zhao Guang, Zheng Zhoutao, Zhu Yixuan. The stimulatory effect of elevated CO2 on soil respiration is unaffected by N addition. Science of The Total Environment, 2022, 813: 151907.
60. Zhang Yu, Zhang Yangjian*, Cheng Liang, Cong Nan, Zheng Zhoutao, Huang Ke, Zhang Jianshuang, Zhu Yixuan, Gao Jie, Sun Yihan. Have China's drylands become wetting in the past 50 years? Journal of Geographical Sciences. (Accepted)
59. Zhao Guang, Zhang Yangjian*, Cong Nan, Zheng Zhoutao, Zhao Bo, Zhu Juntao, Chen Ning, Chen Yao. Climate warming weakens the negative effect of nitrogen addition on the microbial contribution to soil carbon pool in an alpine meadow.CATENA, 2022, 271:106513.
58. Gao Jie, Zhang Yangjian*, Zheng Zhoutao, Cong Nan, Zhao Guang, Zhu Yixuan, Chen Yao, Sun Yihan, Zhang Jianshuang, Zhang Yu. Ecological Engineering Projects Shifted the Dominance of Human Activity and Climate Variability on Vegetation Dynamics. Remote Sensing, 2022, 14(10): 2386.
57. Zhu Yixuan, Zhang Yangjian*, Zheng Zhoutao, Liu Yaojie, Wang Zhipeng, Cong Nan, Zu Jiaxing, Tang Ze, Zhao Guang, Gao Jie, Sun Yihan. Converted vegetation type regulates the vegetation greening effects on land surface albedo in arid regions of China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022, 324: 109119.
2021：
56. Bhattarai Prakash, Zheng Zhoutao, Bhatta Kuber Prasad, Adhikari Yagya
Prasad, Zhang Yangjian*. Climate-Driven Plant Response and Resilience on the Tibetan Plateau in Space and Time: A Review. Plants-Basel, 2021, 10(3): 480
55. Tang Ze, Zhang Yangjian*, Cong Nan, Wang Li, Zhu Yixuan, Li Zhaolei, Zhao
Guang. Remotely piloted aircraft systems remote sensing can effectively retrieve ecosystem traits of alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau at a landscape scale. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2021, DOI: 10.1002/rse2.196
54. Huang Ke, Zhang Yangjian, Tagesson Torbern, Brandt Martin, Wang Lanhui,
Chen Ning, Zu Jiaxing, Jin Hongxiao, Cai Zhanzhang, Tong Xiaowei, Cong Nan*, Fensholt Rasmus. The confounding effect of snow cover on assessing spring phenology from space: A new look at trends on the Tibetan Plateau. Science of The Total Environment, 2021, 756
53. Chen Yao, Zhang Yangjian*, Chen Ning, Cong Nan, Zhu Juntao, Zhao Guang, Zu Jiaxing, Liu Yaojie, Zhu Yixuan, Zheng Zhoutao, Shen Ruonan, Zhang Yu, Huang Ke, Tang Ze. Nitrogen availability and precipitation variability regulated CO2 fertilization effects on carbon fluxes in an alpine grassland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2021, 307: 108524.
2020:
52. Chen Ning, Zhang Yangjian*, Zhu Juntao, Cong Nan, Zhao Guang, Zu Jiaxing, Wang Zhipeng, Huang Ke*, Wang Li, Liu Yaojie, Zheng Zhoutao, Tang Ze, Zhu Yixuan, Zhang Tao, Xu Mingjie, Di Yangping, Chen Yao. Multiple-scale negative impacts of warming on ecosystem carbon use efficiency across the Tibetan Plateau grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2020, DOI: 10.1111/geb.13224
51. Zhao Guang, Liang Chao, Feng Xiaojuan, Liu Lingli, Zhu Juntao, Chen Ning, Chen Yao, Wang Li, Zhang Yangjian*. Elevated CO2 decreases soil carbon stability in Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Research Letters, 2020, 15(11)
50. Zhu Juntao, Zhang Yangjian*, Yang Xian, Chen Ning, Jiang Lin*. Synergistic effects of nitrogen and CO2 enrichment on alpine grassland biomass and community structure. New Phytologist, 2020, 228, 1283-1294
49. Zhu Juntao, Zhang Yangjian*, Yang Xian, Chen Ning, Li Shaopeng, Wang Pandeng, Jiang, Lin*. Warming alters plant phylogenetic and functional community structure. Journal of Ecology, 2020, 108, 2406-2415
48. Zhu, Juntao, Zhang, Yangjian*, Wang, Wenfeng, Yang, Xian, Chen, Ning, Shen, Ruonan, Wang, Li, Jiang, Lin. Species turnover drives grassland community to phylogenetic clustering over long-term grazing disturbance. Journal of Plant Ecology, 2020, 13(2): 157-164
47. Zheng Zhoutao, Zhu Wenquan, Zhang Yangjian*. Direct and Lagged Effects of Spring Phenology on Net Primary Productivity in the Alpine Grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing, 12(7)
46. Zheng Zhoutao, Zhu Wenquan, Zhang Yangjian*. Seasonally and spatially varied controls of climatic factors on net primary productivity in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020, 21
45. Chen Ning, Zhang Yangjian*, Zu Jiaxing, Zhu Juntao, Zhang Tao, Huang Ke, Cong Nan, Wang Zhipeng, Li Junxiang, Zheng Zhoutao, Tian Yuan*, Wang Li, Zhao Guang, Liu Yaojie, Xu Mingjie, Tang Ze, Zhu Yixuan, Chen Yao. The compensation effects of post-drought regrowth on earlier drought loss across the tibetan plateau grasslands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2020, 281
2019:
44. Tang Ze, Zhang Yangjian*, Cong Nan, Wimberly Michael, Wang Li, Huang Ke, Li Junxiang, Zu Jiaxing, Zhu Yixuan, Chen Ning. Spatial pattern of pika holes and their effects on vegetation coverage on the Tibetan Plateau: An analysis using unmanned aerial vehicle imagery. Ecological Indicators, 2019, 107
43. Bhandari Jyoti, Zhang Yangjian*. Effect of altitude and soil properties on biomass and plant richness in the grasslands of Tibet, China, and Manang District, Nepal. Ecosphere, 2019, 10(11)
42. Zhu Yixuan, Zhang Yangjian*, Zu Jiaxing, Wang Zhipeng, Huang Ke, Cong Nan, Tang Ze. Effects of data temporal resolution on phenology extractions from the alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau. Ecological Indicators, 2019, 104, 365-377
41. Chen Ning, Zhang Yangjian*, Zhu Juntao, Zu Jiaxing, Huang Ke, Li Junxiang, Liu, Yaojie, Cong Nan, Tang Ze, Wang Li, Zhu Yixuan. Temperature-mediated responses of carbon fluxes to precipitation variabilities in an alpine meadow ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecology and Evolution, 2019, 9(16): 9005-9017
40. Zhang Tao, Xu Mingjie, Zhang Yangjian*, Zhao Tianhong, An Tingting, Li Yingge, Sun Yi, Chen Ning, Zhao Tingting, Zhu Juntao, Yu Guirui). Grazing-induced increases in soil moisture maintain higher productivity during droughts in alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2019, 269, 249-256
39. Zhang Yangjian*, Zhu Yixuan, Li Junxiang, Chen Yao. Current status and future directions of the Tibetan Plateau ecosystem research. Science Bulletin, 2019, 64(7), 428-430
38. Liu Yaojie, Zhang Yangjian*, Zhu Juntao, Huang Ke, Zu Jiaxing, Chen Ning, Cong Nan, Stegehuis Annemiek Irene. Warming slowdown over the Tibetan plateau in recent decades. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2019, 135(3-4): 1375-1385
37. Zhang Yangjian*, Huang Ke, Zhang Tao, Zhu Juntao, Di Yangping. Soil nutrient availability regulated global carbon use efficiency. Global and Planetary Change, 2019, 173, 47-52
2018:
36. Zu Jiaxing, Zhang Yangjian*, Huang Ke, Liu Yaojie, Chen Ning, Cong Nan. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2018, 69, 198-205
35. Zhang Tao, Zhang Yangjian*, Xu Mingjie, Zhu Juntao, Chen Ning, Jiang Yanbin, Huang Ke, Zu Jiaxing, Liu Yaojie, Yu Guirui. Water availability is more important than temperature in driving the carbon fluxes of an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2018, 256, 22-31
2017:
34. Jiang Yanbin, Zhang Yangjian*, Wu Yupeng, Hu Ronggui, Zhu Juntao, Tao Jian), Zhang Tao. Relationships between aboveground biomass and plant cover at two spatial scales and their determinants in northern Tibetan grasslands. Ecology and Evolution, 2017, 7(19), 7954-7964
33. Jiang Yanbin, Zhang Yangjian*, Zhu Juntao, Tao Jian, Zhang Tao, Xi Yi. Effects of community structure on precipitation-use efficiency of grasslands in northern Tibet. Journal of Vegetation Science, 28(2): 281-290.
32. Zhu Juntao, Zhang Yangjian*, Jiang Lin. Experimental warming drives a seasonal shift of ecosystem carbon exchange in Tibetan alpine meadow. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2017, 233,242-249
2016:
31. Huang Ke, Zhang Yangjian*, Zhu Juntao, Liu yaojie, Zu Jiaxing and Zhang Jing. The Influences of Climate Change and Human Activities on Vegetation Dynamics in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing, 2016, 8(10): 876
30. Zhu Juntao, Jiang Lin, Zhang Yangjian*. Relationships between functional diversity and aboveground biomass production in the Northern Tibetan alpine grasslands. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6
29. Zhang Tao, Zhang Yangjian*, Xu Mingjie, Xi Yi, Zhu Juntao, Zhang Xianzhou, Wan Yanfen, Li Yingnian, Shi Peili, Yu Guirui, Sun xiaomin. Ecosystem response more than climate variability drives the inter-annual variability of carbon fluxes in three Chinese grasslands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2016, 225: 48-56
28. Zhu Juntao*, Zhang Yangjian*, Wang Wenfeng. Interactions between warming and soil moisture increase overlap in reproductive phenology among species in an alpine meadow. Biology Letters, 2016, 12(7): 20150749
27. Zhu Juntao, Zhang Yangjian*, Liu Yaojie. Effects of short-term grazing exclusion on plant phenology and reproductive succession in a Tibetan alpine meadow. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6
2015:
26. Zhang Tao, Zhang Yangjian*, Xu Mingjie, Zhu Juntao, Wimberly Michael C, Yu Guirui, Niu Shuli, XiYi, Zhang Xianzhou, Wang Jingsheng. Light-intensity grazing improves alpine meadow productivity and adaption to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Scientific reports, 2015, 5: 15949
25. Xi Yi, Zhang Tao*, Zhang Yangjian*, Zhu Juntao, Zhang Geli, Jiang Yanbin. Nitrogen Addition Alters the Phenology of a Dominant Alpine Plant in Northern Tibet. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2015, 47(3): 511-518
24. Tao Jian, Zhang Yangjian*, Dong Jinwei, Fu Yu, Zhu Juntao, Zhang Geli, Jiang Yanbin, Tian Li, Zhang Xianzhou, Zhang Tao, Xi Yi. Elevation-dependent relationships between climate change and grassland vegetation variation across the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. International Journal of Climatology, 2015, 35(7): 1638-1647
23. Zhang Tao, Xu Mingjie, Xi Yi, Zhu Juntao, Tian Li, Zhang Xianzhou, Wang Yanfen, Li Yingnian, Shi Peili, Yu Guirui, Sun Xiaomin, Zhang Yangjian*. Lagged climatic effects on carbon fluxes over three grassland ecosystems in China. Journal of Plant Ecology, 2015, 8(3): 291-302.
22. Jiang Yanbin, Tao Jian, Huang Yongqi, Zhu Juntao, Tian Li, Zhang Yangjian*. The spatial pattern of grassland aboveground biomass on Xizang Plateau and its climatic controls. Journal of Plant Ecology, 2015, 8(1): 30-40
21. Zhu Juntao, Jiang Lin, Zhang Yangjian*, Jiang Yanbin, Tao Jian, Tian Li, Zhang Tao, Xi Yi. Below-ground competition derives the self-thinning process of Stipa purpurea populations in northern Tibet. Journal of Plant Ecology, 2015, 26: 166-174
2014:
20. Tian Li, Zhang Yangjian*, Zhu Juntao. Decreased surface albedo driven by denser vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Research Letters, 2014, 9(10): 104001
19. Tao Jian, Zhang Yangjian*, Zhu Juntao, Jiang Yanbin, Zhang Xianzhou, Zhang Tao, Xi Yi. Elevation-dependent temperature change in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau grassland during the past decade. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2014, 117(1-2): 61-71
18. Zhang Yangjian*, Yu Guirui, Yang Jian, Wimberly Michael C., Zhang Xianzhou, Tao Jian, Jiang Yanbin and Zhu Juntao. Climate-driven global changes in carbon use efficiency. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2014, 23(2): 144-155
2013:
17. Tao Jian, Zhang Yangjian, Yuan Xiaoyong, Wang Jingsheng, Zhang Xianzhou. Analysis of forest fires in Northeast China from 2003 to 2011. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2013, 34(22): 8235-8251
16. Cao Yu, Wu Yuhuan, Zhang Yangjian*, Tian Jie. Landscape pattern and sustainability of a 1300-year-old agricultural landscape in subtropical mountain areas, Southwestern China. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 2013, 20(4): 349-357.
15. Zhang Geli, Dong, Jinwei, Zhang Yangjian*, XiaoXiangming. Reply to Shen et al.: No evidence to show nongrowing season NDVI affects spring phenology trend in the Tibetan Plateau over the last decade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013, 110(26): E2330-E2331.
14. Zhang Geli, Zhang Yangjian*, Dong Jinwei, Xiao Xiangming. Green-up dates in the Tibetan Plateau have continuously advanced from 1982 to 2011. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013, 110(1): 4309-4314
2012:
13. Yu Chengqun, Zhang Yangjian*, Holzapfel Claus, Zeng Rong, Zhang Xianzhou, Wang Jingsheng. Ecological and environmental issues faced by a developing Tibet. Environmental Science & Technology, 2012, 46: 1979-1980
2011:
12. Zhang Yangjian, Miao Zewei, John Bognar, Richard G. Lathrop Jr*. Landscape scale modeling of the potential effect of groundwater-level declines on forested wetlands in the New Jersey Pinelands. Wetlands, 2011, 6(31):1131–1142.
11. Zhang Yangjian*, He Hongshi, Shifley Stephen R., Yang Jian, Palik Brian J. Evaluating the effects of alternative forest management plans under various physiographic settings using historical records as a reference. Journal of Environmental Management, 2011, 92(6): 1618–1627
10. Zhang Yangjian, Adams Jonathan*. Top–down control of herbivores varies with ecosystem types. Journal of Ecology, 2011,99(2): 370–372
9. Zhang Yangjian, Adams Jonathan*, Zhao Dehai. Does insect folivory vary with latitude among temperate deciduous forests? Ecological Research, 2011, 26(2): 377-383
2009:
8. Adams Jonathan M., Zhang Yangjian*, Basri, Md, Shukor, Noraini. Do tropical forest leaves suffer more insect herbivory? A comparison of tropical versus temperate herbivory, estimated from leaf litter. Ecological Research, 2009, 24(6): 1381-1392
7. Adams Jonathan, Zhang Yangjian*. Is there more insect folivory in warmer temperate climates? A latitudinal comparison of insect folivory in eastern North America. Journal of Ecology, 2009, 97(5): 933–940
6. Zhang Yangjian*, He Hong S., Dijak William D., Yang Jian, Shifley Stephen R., Palik Brian J. Integration of Satellite Imagery and Forest Inventory in Mapping Dominant and Associated Species at a Regional Scale. Environmental Management, 2009, 44(2):312–323
5. Zhang Yangjian*, Xu Ming*, Chen Hua, Adams Jonathan. Global pattern of NPP to GPP ratio derived from MODIS data: effects of ecosystem type, geographical location and climate. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2009, 18(3): 280-290
4. Zhang Yangjian*, Xu Ming, Adams Jonathan, Wang Xiaochun. Can Landsat imagery detect tree line dynamics? International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2009, 30(5): 1327-1340
2008:
3. Zhang Yangjian*, Tarrant Michael A., Green Gary T. The importance of differentiating urban and rural phenomena in examining the unequal distribution of locally desirable land. Journal of Environmental Management, 2008, 88: 1314-1319
2. Zhang Yangjian*, He Hong S., Yang Han. The wildland-urban interface dynamics in the southeastern U.S. from 1990 to 2000. Landscape and Urban Planning, 2008, 85: 155-162
2007 and previous:
1. Zhang Yangjian*, Wimberly, Michael C. The importance of scale in using hierarchical census data to identify the wildland–urban interface. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry, 2007, 31(3): 138-147
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Updated on November 21, 2022
