Name: FU Zheng, Professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Address: 11A Datun Road, An Wai, Beijing, 100101, China

E-mail: fuzheng@igsnrr.ac.cn

Research Interests: Global change ecology, Ecosystem ecology, Biogeochemistry, Biosphere-atmosphere interactions.

His research centers on the biosphere–atmosphere exchange of carbon, water and energy, with a particular emphasis on understanding how terrestrial ecosystems respond to global change and its feedback mechanisms across various spatial and temporal scales. His research leverages interdisciplinary knowledge and diverse tools (experiment, eddy-covariance, remote sensing, models, machine learning and big data analytics) to explore how global change alters structure and functions of terrestrial ecosystems, and how terrestrial ecosystems, in turn, regulate climate change. 

Publications

1.        Wang, X., Fu, Z.*, Ciais, P., Wang L, Buchmann N, Keenan T, Kauwe M, Chen G, Gong X, Xiao J, Li X, Xie Q, Wang H, et al, 2025. Global distribution and changes of leaf-level intrinsic water use efficiency and their responses to water stress. Nature Communications (Accepted).

2.        Bai, Y., Zhang, F*, Ciais, P., Wigneron, J., ..., Gentine, P., Fedlman, A., Fu, Z.*, 2025. Widespread enhancement of ecosystem carbon fluxes during post moisture pulse. Communications Earth & Environment (Accepted).

3.        Fu, Z.*, Ciais, P., Wigneron, J., Prentice, I. C., Gentine, P., Fedlman, A., Yakir, D., Makowski, D., Kemanian, A., Viovy, N., Stoy, P.C., Ma, H., Li, X., Huang, Y., Yu, K., Zhu, P., Li, X., Lian, J., Smith, W.K. 2024. Global critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress. Nature Communications, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49244-7.

4.        Fu, Z.*, Ciais, P., Fedlman, A., Gentine, P., Makowski, D., Prentice, I. C., Stoy, P., Bastos, A, Wigneron, J., 2022. Critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress in terrestrial ecosystems. Science Advances, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq7827.

5.        Fu, Z.*, Ciais, P., Prentice, I. C., Gentine, P., Makowski, D., Bastos, A., Luo, X., Green, J., Stoy, P., Yang, H., Hajima, T., 2022. Atmospheric dryness reduces photosynthesis along a large range of soil water deficits. Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28652-7. 

6.        Fu, Z.*, Ciais, P., Makowski, D., Bastos, A., Stoy, P.C., Ibrom, A., Knohl, A., Migliavacca, M., Cuntz, M., and Peichl, M., 2021. Uncovering the critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress for European ecosystems. Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16050.

7.        Li, F., Xin, Q., Yi, C., Kannenberg, S.A., Green, J.K., Migliavacca, M., Moore, D.J.P., Kemanian, A.R., Gentine, P., Stoy, P.C., Zhang, F., Xiong, Y.*, Fu, Z.*. 2025. Limited regulation of canopy water use efficiency by stomatal behavior under drought propagation. Global Change Biology, 31(7), e70381.

8.        Wang, T., Fu, Z.*, Makowski, D., Liang, G., Jin, H. and Zhang, F., 2025. Seasonal divergence in the sensitivity of carbon and water fluxes to climate variability in terrestrial ecosystems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 376, p.110916.

9.        Tang, W., Zhang, F.*, Stoy, P.C., Scott, R.L., Tang, A.C.I. and Fu, Z.*, 2025. Contribution of Carbon Dioxide Concentration to the Diurnal Variation in Land Surface Carbon Dioxide Uptake From the Atmosphere. Plant, Cell & Environment. doi.org/10.1111/pce.15638.

10.     Liu, X. *, Sun, G., Fu, Z.*, Ciais, P., Feng, X., Li, J. and Fu, B*., 2023. Compound droughts slow down the greening of the Earth. Global Change Biology, 29(11), doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16657.

11.     Fu, Z.*, Ciais, P., Bastos, A., Stoy, P.C., Yang, H., Green, J.K., Wang, B., Yu, K., Huang, Y., Knohl, A. and Šigut, L., 2020. Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1810), doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0747.

12.     Fu, Z., Stoy, P., Poulter, B., Gerken, T., Zhang, Z., Wakbulcho, G. and Niu, S., 2019. Maximum carbon uptake rate dominates the interannual variability of global net ecosystem exchange. Global Change Biology, doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14731.

13.     Fu, Z., Gerken, T., Bromley, G., Araújo, A., Bonal, D., Burban, B., Ficklin, D., Goulden, M., Hirano, T., Kosugi, Y., Niu, S., Olivier, R., Stefani, P., Xiao, J., Valentini, R., Wolf, S. and Stoy, P., 2018. The surface-atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide in tropical rainforests: Sensitivity to environmental drivers and flux measurement methodology. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 263, pp.292-307.

14.     Fu, Z., Stoy, P.C., Luo, Y., Chen, J., Sun, J., Montagnani, L., Wohlfahrt, G., Rahman, A.F., Rambal, S., Bernhofer, C., Wang, J. and Niu, S., 2017. Climate controls over the net carbon uptake period and amplitude of net ecosystem production in temperate and boreal ecosystems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.05.009.

15.     Fu, Z., Dong, J., Zhou, Y., Stoy, P.C. and Niu, S., 2017. Long term trend and interannual variability of land carbon uptake—the attribution and processes. Environmental Research Letters, 12(1).

16.     Fu, Z., Li, D., Hararuk, O., Schwalm, C., Luo, Y., Yan, L. and Niu, S., 2017. Recovery time and state change of terrestrial carbon cycle after disturbance. Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa8a5c.

17.     Yuan, W., Tian, J., Wang, M., Wang, S., Xu, W., Wang, Y., Fu, Z., Girardin, M.P., Green, J.K., Zhou, S., Shang, J., He, B., Huang, M., Liu, M., Lu, H., Piao, S., Qing, Y., Xue, M., Song, C., Su, Y., Sadok, W., Zhang, Y. & Chen, X. 2025. Impacts of rising atmospheric dryness on terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00726-2.

18.     Lin, S., Chen, X., Xia, J., Xin, Q., Fu, Z., He, B., Liu, Q., Piao, S. and Yuan, W., 2025. Global vegetation production may decrease in this century due to rising atmospheric dryness. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02885-3.

19.     Bastos, A. , Ciais, P., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Pongratz, J., Fan, L., Wigneron, J.P., Reichstein, M., Fu, Z., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Haverd, V., Jain, A., Joetzjer, E., Knauer, J., Lienert, S., Loughran, T., McGuire, P., Tian, H., Viovy, N., Zaehle, S., 2020. Direct and seasonal legacy effects of the 2018 heat wave and drought on European ecosystem productivity. Science Advances, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba2724.

20.     Niu, S. , Fu, Z., Luo, Y., Stoy, P.C. Keenan, T., Poulter, B., Piao, S., Zhou, X., Zhen, H., Han, J., Wang, Q. and Yu, G., 2017. Interannual variability of ecosystem carbon exchange: From observation to prediction. Global Ecology and Biogeography, doi.org/10.1111/geb.12633.

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ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zheng-Fu-7