Zhang, Wei

Member Profile

WEI ZHANG
Department of Botany and Microbiology
University of Oklahoma
101 David L. Boren Blvd., Norman, OK 73019-5300, USA
Tel: 1-405-325-8578
Fax: 1-405-325-7619
E-mail: zhangwei@scbg.ac.cn

Research Areas
Ecosystem ecology
Global change and biogeochemistry
Nitrogen deposition

Education
Ph.D. in Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China. 2005.03-2008.01
M.A. in Economics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China. 2002.09-2004.08.
B.S. in Geography, Henan University, Kaifeng, China. 1993.09-1997.08.

Academic appointments
2012.09-, Visiting Scholar, The University of Oklahoma.
2008.03-2012.08, Assistant Professor, South China Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
1997.09- 2002.08, Lecturer of Geography, First Senior High School of PingMei Group Company, Pingdingshan, China

Funding
1) PI for a Chinese NSF project “the mechanism of N deposition on soil GHGs (CO2, CH4, N2O) fluxes from subtropical forests (Granted No. 31000236)”, 2011.01-2013.12.
2) PI for a Guangdong Province NSF project “the response of forest soil GHGs fluxes to N deposition in the Pearl River Delta area (Grant No. 9451065005004064)”, 2009.10-2012.10.
3) PI for a Foundation of Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China: the effects and its mechanism of N deposition on soil GHGs fluxes from subtropical plantations (Grant No. PY201029). 2010.07-2012.07.
4) PI for a Foundation of Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China: Canopy Addition Nitrogen and Water Experiment (CAN-WE, TP2). 2012.07-2014.07.

Publications
Wei Zhang, Xiaomin Zhu, Lei Liu, Shenglei Fu, Hao Chen, Juan Huang, Xiankai Lu, Zhanfeng Liu, Jiangming Mo. Large difference of inhibitive effect of nitrogen deposition on soil methane oxidation between plantations with N-fixing tree species and non-N-fixing tree species. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 2012. (the revision in submitted)
Wei Zhang, Jiangming Mo, Guoyi Zhou, Per Gundersen, Yunting Fang, Xiankai Lu, Tao Zhang, Shaofeng Dong. Methane uptake responses to nitrogen deposition in three tropical forests in southern China. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 2008, 113, D11116, doi:10.1029/2007JD009195.
Wei Zhang, Jiangming Mo, Guirui Yu, Yunting Fang, Dejun Li, Xiankai Lu, Hui Wang. Emissions of nitrous oxide from three tropical forests in southern China in response to simulated nitrogen deposition. Plant and Soil, 2008, Volume 306: 221-236. DOI 10.1007/s11104-008-9575-7.
Zhang Wei, Mo Jiangming, Fang Yunting, Lu Xiankai, Wang Hui. Effects of nitrogen deposition on the greenhouse gas fluxes from forest soils. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2008, 28(5): 2309−2319. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/)
Jiangming Mo, Wei Zhang, Weixing Zhu, Per Gundersen, Yunting Fang, Dejun Li and Hui Wang. Nitrogen addition reduces soil respiration in a mature tropical forest in southern China. Global Change Biology, 2008, 14: 403-412. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01503.x.
Fang Y, Gundersen, P., Zhang, W., Zhou, G., Christiansen, R., Mo, J., Dong, S., Zhang, T. (2009) Soil-atmosphere exchange of N2O, CO2 and CH4 along a slope of an evergreen broad-leaved forest in southern China. Plant and Soil. 2009, 319, 37-48.
Yunting Fang, Muneoki Yoh, Keisuke Koba, Weixing Zhu, Yu Takebayashi, Yihua Xiao, Chunyi Lei, Jiangming Mo, Wei Zhang, Xiankai Lu. Nitrogen deposition and forest nitrogen cycling along an urban-rural transect in southern China. Global Change Biology, 2011, 17, 872-885.
Xiankai Lu, Jiangming Mo, Frank S. Gilliam , Guirui Yu , Wei Zhang, Yunting Fang, Juan Huang. Effects of experimental nitrogen additions on plant diversity in tropical forests of contrasting disturbance regimes in southern China. Environmental Pollution (2011), doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2010.10.037.
K. Koba, K. Isobe, Y. Takebayashi, Y.T. Fang, Y. Sasaki, W. Saito, M. Yoh, J. Mo, L. Liu, X. Lu, T. Zhang, W. Zhang and K. Senoo. δ15N of soil N and plants in a N-saturated, subtropical forest of southern China. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom, 2010, 24: 2499–2506. DOI: 10.1002/rcm.4648.