Zhang, Xinyuan

Member Profile

zhangxinyuan2864@igsnrr.ac.cn

Education
Sep 2021－Present PhD in Ecology
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Research, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China

Sep 2017－Jun 2021 Bachelor of Geography
Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Research interests
Soil phosphorus availability in response to water and nutrient addition; Microbial phosphorus limitation; Soil enzyme activities in rhizosphere soil; Microbial abundances, community structures and activities in soil biogeochemical processes

Publications and Conferences
“Influence of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on phosphorus availability in alpine and temperate grasslands”, Presentation (Excellent Presentation Award), The 12th National Symposium on Landscape Ecology, Kunming, China, August, 2025.

“A phosphorus-based 'Uptake-Immobilization-Transformation' framework in response to N and P additions in grassland ecosystems”, Poster, the 9th international symposium on the interactions of soil minerals with organic matter and microbes, Tsukuba, Japan, October, 2024.

“Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on nutrient limitation in alpine and temperate grassland ecosystems”, Presentation (Excellent Presentation Award), the 22th China Conference of Ecology, Beijing, China, October, 2023.

Yu, Y., S. Liu, J. Pan, J. Zhu, N. Zong, X. Zhang, H. Wu, H. An, H. Diao, X. Zuo, C. Wei, F. Zhang, Q. Yu and X. Zhang (2025). "Extreme Wetness Reduces Soil Microbial Residue Carbon More Substantially Than Extreme Drought Across Grassland Ecosystems." Global Change Biology 31(7).

Pan, J., X. Zhang, S. Liu, N. Liu, M. Liu, C. Chen, X. Zhang, S. Niu and J. Wang (2024). "Precipitation alleviates microbial C limitation but aggravates N and P limitations along a 3000-km transect on the Tibetan Plateau." Catena 247.

Awards
Excellent Student Cadre, UCAS (2024)

Merit Student, UCAS (2024, 2025)

Excellent Student Cadre of IGSNRR (2023)

Second Institute Director’s Scholarship, IGSNRR (2024)

Skills and Techniques
Software: SPSS, Sigmaplot, AI, GetData, ArcGIS, Cytoscape, AMOS, MOTHUR

Programing language: R, MATLAB

Experimental skills: master the measurement method of soil physical and chemical properties, organic acids, MBC, MBN, MBP, PLFA, Amino sugars, soil extracellular enzyme activities, spatial distribution of enzyme activities by soil zymography and macrogenomic analysis.

Data integration: master the method of meta-analyses.