Ping Zhang
Title/Position: Lecturer
Email: zhangp2013@jlu.edu.cn
Research Interests
My research asks questions about carbon cycle process in saline and alkaline regions. Carbon flux between soil and ground water or surface water. I was using stable isotope techniques to explore the mechanisms on carbon storage in saline and alkaline soil and analyzing SOC stable mechanisms concerning saline accumulation.
EDUCATION
l Sep 2006-July 2010 Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy Science, Beijing, P.R. China. Ecology (Ph.D.). Dissertation: Effects of land reclaiming and grassland restoration on the carbon balance and water use efficiency of steppe ecosystems in Inner Mongolia, China
l Sep 2003-July 2006 China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China. Meteorology (M.S.).
l Sep 1998-July 2002 Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, P.R. China. Ecology(B.S.)
RESEARCH and PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
l July 2013-Present Lecture, Dept. of Environmental Science, Jilin Univeristy
l Sep 2010-June 2013 Postdoctoral Research, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science
l Soil carbon sequestration and its stabilization in saline-alkaline grassland of West Jilin Province (PI), 2015-2018, NSFC
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2013-present I exploring the carbon turnover in saline and alkaline soil using stable isotope technique
2010-2013 I explored the carbon sequestration potential of grassland in China spatially and temporally, using the methods of data synthesis and field sampling in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
2006-2010 explored the carbon balance and water use efficiency of temperate grassland with four sets of eddy covariance systems
2007-2008 discriminated autotrophic respiration and heterotrophic respiration through the static chamber method
2006-2007 discriminated autotrophic respiration and heterotrophic respiration through profile gas sampling for 13C and 18O stable isotopic measurements.
2005-2006 explore the effects of land use change on community diversity and soil seed bank in Inner Mongolia grassland.
2001-2002 exploring the hydro-physiological character of forbs, shrubs and tree in Huangfuchuan watershed in Loess Plateau.
PUBLICATIONS
1.Zhang P, Tang J, Sun W, Yu Y, Zhang W* (2015)Differential Effects of Conservational Management on SOC Accumulation in the Grasslands of China.PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0137280.
2.Shi S-W, Han P-F, Zhang P, Ding F, Ma C-L（2015）The impact of afforestation on soil organic carbon sequestration on the Qinghai Plateau, China. PlOS ONE, DOI:e0116591.doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0116591.
3.Shi SW, Zhang W, Zhang P, Yu YQ, Ding F（2013） A synthesis of change in deep soil organic carbon stores with afforestation of agricultural soils. Forest Ecology and Management, 296:53-63.
4.Zhang P, Chen S, Zhang W, Miao H, Chen J, Han X, Lin G* (2012) Biophysical regulations of NEE light response in a steppe and a cropland in Inner Mongolia. Journal of Plant Ecology-UK, 5: 238-248.
5.Miao H, Chen S, Chen J, Zhang W, Zhang P, Wei L, Han X, Lin G* (2009) Cultivation and grazing altered ET and dynamics in Inner Mongolia steppes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 149:1810-1819.
