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Zengming Chen
Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences · 🇨🇳 CN

Career Stage: Senior

CDR Specialization

Soil Carbon

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

Metrics

MetricValue
h-index30
Citations2,551
Publications73
CDR Focus550.0%
TrajectoryGrowing

Top CDR Publications

  1. Field-aged biochar enhances soil organic carbon by increasing recalcitrant organic carbon fractions and making microbial communities more conducive to carbon sequestration (2022) 80 citations · Biochar

  2. Lower microbial carbon use efficiency reduces cellulose-derived carbon retention in soils amended with compost versus mineral fertilizers (2021) 36 citations · Soil Carbon

  3. Contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in profile depths exhibited opposite patterns across ecosystems: A global meta-analysis (2025) 25 citations · Soil Carbon

  4. Soil organic carbon trade-offs under conservation tillage: Carbon stock versus stability mediated by particulate and mineral-associated fractions (2025) 7 citations · Soil Carbon

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