Academic Background

2015.12 - Associate Professor, College of the Environment & Ecology, Xiamen University

2014.5 - 2015.12 Postdoc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Colorado State University

2010.8 - 2014.5 Ph.D., Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Purdue University

2007.8 - 2010.7 M.S., Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2003.8 - 2007.7 B.S., Department of Geography, East China Normal University

Research Interests

Ecosystem Management, Global Change Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Remote Sensing, Climate Change

Projects

Research on temporal variability of light use efficiency and its environmental controls in a coastal mangrove wetland (Funded by National Science Foundation of China, 2017-2019, PI)

Responses of watershed-level ecosystem carbon and water cycles to land cover and climate change (Funded by Xiamen University, 2016-2018, PI)

A modeling study on the impacts of land use change on carbon budgets of Chinese terrestrial ecosystems (Funded by National Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing, 2015-2016, PI)

Publications

1. Zhu, X. and Q. Zhuang (2016). Relative importance between biogeochemical and biogeophysical effects in regulating terrestrial ecosystem-climate feedbacks in northern high latitudes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120, doi: 10.1002/2016JD024814. (JCR-Q1)

2. Jia, W., M. Liu, Y. Yang, H. He, X. Zhu, F. Yang, C. Yin and W. Xiang (2016), Estimation and uncertainty analyses of grassland biomass in Northern China: Comparison of multiple remote sensing data sources and modeling approaches. Ecological Indicators, 60, 1031-1040, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.09.001. (JCR-Q1)

3. Zhuang, Q., X. Zhu, Y. He, C. Prigent, J. Melillo, A. McGuire, R. Prinn and D. Kicklighter (2015). Influence of changes in wetland inundation extent on net fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane in northern high latitudes from 1993 to 2004. Environmental Research Letters. (JCR-Q1)

4. Parmentier, F., W. Zhang, Y. Mi, X. Zhu, J. Huissteden, D. Hayes, Q. Zhuang, T. Christensen and A. McGuire (2015). Rising methane emissions from northern wetlands associated with sea ice decline. Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2015GL065013. (JCR-Q1)

5. Jin, Z., Q. Zhuang, J. He, X. Zhu and W. Song (2015). Net exchanges of methane and carbon dioxide on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau from 1979 to 2100. Environmental Research Letters. (JCR-Q1)

6. Liu, M., J. Wu, X. Zhu, H. He, W. Jia and W. Xiang (2015). Evolution and variation of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration over terrestrial ecosystems as derived from eddy covariance measurements. Atmospheric Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.05.026. (JCR-Q1)

7. Bohn, T., J. Melton, A. Ito, T. Kleinen, R. Spahni, B. Stocker, B. Zhang, X. Zhu, R. Schroeder, M. Glagolev, S. Maksyutov, V. Brovkin, G. Chen, S. Denisov, A. Eliseev, A. Gallego-Sala, K. McDonald, M. Rawlins, W. Riley, Z. Subin, H. Tian, Q. Zhuang and J. Kaplan (2015). WETCHIMP-WSL: intercomparison of wetland methane emissions models over West Siberia. Biogeosciences, 12, 3321-3349, doi: 10.5194/bg-12-3321-2015. (JCR-Q1)

8. Hao, G., Q. Zhuang, J. Pan, Z. Jin, X. Zhu and S. Liu (2014). Soil thermal dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems of the conterminous United States from 1948 to 2008: an analysis with a process-based soil physical model and AmeriFlux data. Climatic Change, doi: 10.1007/s10584-014-1196-y. (JCR-Q1)

9. Zhu, X., Q. Zhuang, X. Lu and L. Song (2014). Spatial scale-dependent land-atmospheric methane exchanges in the northern high latitudes from 1993 to 2004. Biogeosciences, 11, 1693-1704, doi: 10.5194/bg-11-1693-2014. (JCR-Q1)

10. He, X., X. Zhu, H. Zhang and Q. Zhuang (2014). Linear models of different scales. International Journal of Research and Reviews in Applied Sciences, 18(1).

11. Tang, W., J. Qin, K. Yang, X. Niu, X. Zhang, Y. Yu and X. Zhu (2013). Reconstruction of daily photosynthetically active radiation and its trends over China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi: 10.1002/2013JD020527. (JCR-Q1)

12. Zhu, X., Q. Zhuang, X. Gao, A. Sokolov and C. Schlosser (2013). Pan-Arctic land-atmospheric fluxes of methane and carbon dioxide in response to climate change over the 21st century. Environmental Research Letters, 8(4), doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/045003. (Media coverage) (JCR-Q1)

13. Gao, Y., X. Liu, C. Min, H. He, G. Yu, M. Liu, X. Zhu, and Q. Wang (2013). Estimation of the North–South Transect of Eastern China forest biomass using remote sensing and forest inventory data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34(15), 5598-5610, doi: 10.1080/01431161.2013.794985. (JCR-Q2)

14. Qin, Z., Q. Zhuang, and X. Zhu (2013). Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in bioenergy ecosystems: 2. Potential greenhouse gas emissions and global warming intensity in the conterminous United States. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12106. (JCR-Q1)

15. Qin, Z., Q. Zhuang, and X. Zhu (2013), Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in bioenergy ecosystems: 1. Model development, validation and sensitivity analysis. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12107. (JCR-Q1)

16. Zhu, X., Q. Zhuang, Z. Qin, M. Glagolev, and L. Song (2013). Estimating wetland methane emissions from the Northern High Latitudes from 1990 to 2009 using artificial neural networks. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 27(2), 592-604, doi: 10.1002/gbc.20052. (JCR-Q1)

17. Song, L., J. Fan, W. Harris, S. Wu, H. Zhong, Y. Zhou, N. Wang, and X. Zhu (2012). Adaptive characteristics of grassland community structure and leaf traits along an altitudinal gradient on a subtropical mountain in Chongqing, China. Plant Ecology, 213(1), 89-101, doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-0009-x. (JCR-Q3)

18. Zhu, X., Q. Zhuang, M. Chen, A. Sirin, J. Melillo, D. Kicklighter, A. Sokolov, and L. Song (2011). Rising methane emissions in response to climate change in Northern Eurasia during the 21st century. Environmental Research Letters, 6(4), doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045211. (Media coverage) (JCR-Q1)

19. Qin, Z., Q. Zhuang, X. Zhu, X. Cai, and X. Zhang (2011). Carbon consequences and agricultural implications of growing biofuel crops on marginal agricultural lands in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 45(24), 10765–10772, doi: 10.1021/es2024934. (JCR-Q1)

20. Zhu, X., H. He, M. Liu, G. Yu, X. Sun, and Y. Gao (2010). Spatio-temporal variation of photosynthetically active radiation in China in recent 50 years. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 20(6), 803-817, doi: 10.1007/s11442-010-0812-7. (JCR-Q3)

21. Liu, M., H. He, G. Yu, X. Sun, X. Zhu, L. Zhang, X. Zhao, H. Wang, P. Shi and S. Han (2010). Impacts of uncertainty in data processing on estimation of CO2 flux components. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 21(9), 2389-2396. (In Chinese with English abstract)

22. Shi, R., X. Zhu, H. Zhang (2008). Spatialization of station measured net ecosystem exchange using artificial neural network. Proceedings of 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 3, 1430-1433, doi: 10.1109/ICMLC.2008.4620630.

23. Sun, Y., C. Bi, Z. Chen, X. Zhu, W. Zhu, Y. Xu (2007). Current situation of water quality and pollution assessment of Taopu River in Shanghai. Urban Environment & Urban Ecology, 20(3). (In Chinese with English abstract)

Journal Referee

Biogeosciences, Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Mountain Science, Ecological Modelling, Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheric Research, Wetlands