Management for Protective Forests or Non-commercial Forests (Shelterbelts, Sand-fixation forest, Water and Soil Conservation forests); Climate-vegetation interactions

Zheng X, Zhu JJ, 2017. A new climatic classification of afforestation in Three-North regions of China with multi-source remote sensing data. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 127(1): 465-480.

Zheng X, Zhu JJ, 2016. Assessment of the effects of shelterbelts on crop yields at the regional scale in Northeast China. Agricultural Systems, 143: 49-60.

Zheng X, Zhu, JJ, 2015. Temperature-based approaches for estimating monthly reference evapotranspiration based on MODIS data over North China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 121, 695-711.

Zheng X, Zhu JJ, 2015. A methodological approach for spatial downscaling of TRMM precipitation data in North China. International Journal of Remote Sensing 36, 144-169.

Zheng X, Zhu JJ, Yan QL, 2013. Monthly air temperatures over Northern China estimated by integrating MODIS data with GIS techniques. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 52, 1987-2000.

Zheng X, Zhu JJ, Yan QL, Song LN, 2012. Effects of land use changes on the groundwater table and the decline of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantations in southern Horqin Sandy Land, Northeast China. Agricultural Water Management, 109, 94-106.

Zheng X, Zhu JJ, Yan Y (2013) Estimation of farmland shelterbelt area in the Three-North Shelter/Protective Forest Program regions of China based on multi-scale remote sensing data. Chinese J Ecol 32 (5):1355-1363 (in Chinese with English abstract)

Zheng X, Zhu JJ (2013) Estimation of shelter forest area in Three-North Shelter Forest Program region based on multi-sensor remote sensing data. Chinese J Appl Ecol 24 (8):2257-2264 (in Chinese with English abstract)

2016 Outstanding young science and technology talent award, Shenyang Branch, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2015 Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2013 Excellence Award granted by Presidential Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2018-2021 National Natural Science Foundation of China, Spatial-temporal changes of sand-fixation forests during the last five decades and the mechanism of sand-fixation forests on controlling desertification in Horqin Sandy Land, Northeast China. PI.

2015-2017 National Natural Science Foundation of China, Acclimation mechanisms of shelter forests to climates based on multi-source remote sensing data in the Horqin Sandy Land. PI.

2015-2018 Supported by Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research on the sustainable forest management based on remote sensing. PI.