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Wei Zhang
Chinese Academy of Sciences · 🇨🇳 CN

Career Stage: Eminent

CDR Specialization

Soil Carbon

Enhancing carbon storage in agricultural and terrestrial soils through management practices and biochar amendment.

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Top CDR Publications

1. The formation of large macroaggregates induces soil organic carbon sequestration in short-term cropland restoration in a typical karst area (2021) 92 citations · Soil Carbon

2. Soil carbon accumulation with increasing temperature under both managed and natural vegetation restoration in calcareous soils (2021) 65 citations · Soil Carbon

3. Mixed plantations enhance more soil organic carbon stocks than monocultures across China: Implication for optimizing afforestation/reforestation strategies (2022) 60 citations · Soil Carbon

4. Nitrogen deposition caused higher increases in plant-derived organic carbon than microbial-derived organic carbon in forest soils (2024) 25 citations · Soil Carbon

5. Bedrock outcrops weakly promote rather than inhibit soil carbon sequestration after vegetation restoration (2022) 16 citations · Soil Carbon

6. Linking microbial metabolism and ecological strategies to soil carbon cycle function in agroecosystems (2025) 11 citations · Soil Carbon

7. Can converting raw straw into biochar incorporation achieve both higher maize yield and lower greenhouse gas emissions intensity in drought-prone environment? (2024) 11 citations · Biochar

8. Lower Sensitivity of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen to Regional Temperature Change in Karst Forests Than in Non-Karst Forests (2023) 6 citations · Soil Carbon

9. Equal-straw produced biochar continuous incorporation substitutes straw returns for global warming mitigation: An appraisal based on five-year field experiment (2025) 5 citations · Biochar

10. Potential Roles of Soil Viruses in Karst Forest Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles (2025) 4 citations · Soil Carbon

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