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Zheng‐Rong Kan
Nanjing Agricultural University · 🇨🇳 CN

Career Stage: Senior

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. Strategic tillage achieves lower carbon footprints with higher carbon accumulation and grain yield in a wheat-maize cropping system (2021) 55 citations · Soil Carbon

2. A 40 % paddy surface soil organic carbon increase after 5-year no-tillage is linked with shifts in soil bacterial composition and functions (2022) 33 citations · Soil Carbon

3. Effects of tillage and straw management on grain yield and SOC storage in a wheat-maize cropping system (2022) 32 citations · Soil Carbon

4. Soil organic carbon regulates CH4 production through methanogenic evenness and available phosphorus under different straw managements (2022) 28 citations · Soil Carbon

5. Divergent responses of particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon with soil depth under straw interlayer in saline-alkali soil (2024) 27 citations · Soil Carbon

6. Changes in cropland soil carbon through improved management practices in China: A meta-analysis (2022) 22 citations · Soil Carbon

7. Crop straw converted to biochar increases soil organic carbon but reduces available carbon (2025) 20 citations · Biochar

8. Contribution of wheat and maize to soil organic carbon in a wheat‐maize cropping system: A field and laboratory study (2022) 14 citations · Soil Carbon

9. Effects of crop rotation on plant- and microbial-derived carbon within particulate and mineral fractions in paddy soils (2024) 13 citations · Soil Carbon

10. The effect on the carbon footprint of the rice-wheat system of substituting chemical fertilizers by pig manure: The results of a field experiment (2024) 11 citations · Soil Carbon

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