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Title:Associate Professor
Subject:Forest Ecology
Phone:+86-02483970529
Email:wdzhang@iae.ac.cn
Address:Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences No. 72 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110016 China
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Employment history

2014-present, Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences;

2010-2014, Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Education

2005-2010, Ph.D. in Forest Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Supervisor: Dr. Silong Wang)

2001-2005, B.S. in Bioengineering, Xi’An Jiaotong University, China

  • Forest Ecology

  • 1. Weidong Zhang, Lin Chao, Qingpeng Yang, Qingkui Wang, Yunting Fang, Silong Wang, 2016. Litter quality mediated nitrogen effect on plant litter decomposition regardless of soil fauna presence. Ecology, 97(10): 2834-2843.

    2. Weidong Zhang, Shufen Yuan, Ning Hu, Yilai Lou, Silong Wang, 2015. Prediction soil fauna effect on plant litter decomposition by using boosted regression trees. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 82: 81-86.

    3. Weidong Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Silong Wang, 2014. Fate of Chinese fir litter during decomposition as a result of inorganic N addition. Applied Soil Ecology, 74: 30-36.

    4. Weidong Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Silong Wang, 2013. Addition of external organic carbon and native soil organic carbon decomposition: a Meta-analysis. PLoS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054779.

    5. Weidong Zhang, Silong Wang. Effects of NH4+ and NO3- on litter and soil organic carbon decomposition in a Chinese fir plantation forest in South China. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 2012, 47: 116-122.

    6. Silong Wang, Weidong Zhang& Felipe Sanchez. Relating net primary productivity to soil organic matter decomposition rates in pure and mixed Chinese fir plantations. Plant Soil, 2010, 334: 501-510.

    7. Longchi Chen, Hua Wang, Xin Yu, Weidong Zhang, Xiaotao Lv, Silong Wang, 2017. Recovery time of soil carbon pools of coversional Chinese fir plantations from broadleaved forests in subtropical regions, China. Science of the Total Environment, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.140.

    8. Youzhi Han, Jianwei Zhang, Kim G. Mattson, Weidong Zhang, Thomas A. Weber, 2016. Sample sizes to control error estimates in determing soil bulk density in California forest soils. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 80: 756-764.

    9. Li RS, Yang QP*, Zhang WD, Zheng WH, Chi YG, Xu M, Fang YT, Gessler A, Li MH, Wang SL*. Thinning effect on photosynthesis depends on needle ages in a Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantation. Science of the Total Environment, 2017, 580, 900–906.

    10. Yang QP, Zhang WD, Renshan Li, Xu M, Wang SL. Different responses of non-structural carbohydrates in above-ground tissues/organs and root to extreme drought and re-watering in Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) saplings. Trees, 2016, 30:1863–1871

    11. Yang QP, Liu LL, Zhang WD, Xu M, Wang SL. Different responses of stem and soil CO2 efflux to pruning in a Chinese ?r (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantation. Trees, 2015, 29: 1207-1218.

    12. Wang Qingkui*, Zhang Weidong, Sun Tao, et al. 2017. N and P fertilization reduced soil autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration in a young Cunninghamia lanceolata forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 232, 66–73.

    13. Jiaojun, Zhu, Deliang Lu, Weidong Zhang, 2014. Effects of gaps on regeneration of woody plant: a meta-analysis. Journal of Forestry Research, 25(3): 501-510.

  • 2017-2020:Youth Innovation Promotion Association,CAS, RMB 800,000. PI.

    2017-2021: The stability and priming effect of soil organic carbon induced by warming and nitrogen deposition, Funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, RMB 700,000. PI.

    2017-2021:Effects of warming and nitrogen deposition on soil organic carbon stability and priming effect in temperate forest. Funded by Chinese Academy of Sciences, RMB 250,000. PI.

    2017-2021:Effect of rhizosphere priming effect of soil organic carbon turnover.Funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, RMB 550,000. PI.

    2013-2015:Effects of nitrogen and Chinese fir litter on soil organic carbon mineralization and stability, Funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, RMB 260,000. PI.