Basic Information
Dr. Haicheng Zhang，Associate professer. As a reasercher in Terrestrial carbon cycle and climate change, his research mainly focuses on 1) Lateral sediment, carbon and nutrient (nitrogen & phosphorus) transfers along the land-ocean continuum induced by soil erosion, leaching and weathering; 2) Formation, stabilization and mineralization of soil organic matter; 3) response of plant phenology to climate change
Research Interests
Terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle, climate change, biogeochemical cycle, land surface modeling, plant phenology
Education
2015.9–2016.9：Exchange Ph.D. candidate，Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Institute for Geography, Environment and Land planning
2012.9–2017.7：Ph.D.，Beijing Normal University，Global Environment Change
2008.9–2012.7：Bachelor，Sun Yat-Sen University，Geography Science
Work Experience
2019.10–2022.11：Post-doctoral researcher，Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Institute for Geography, Environment and Land planning
2017.10–2019.09：Post-doctoral researcher，Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE)
Publications
1. Zhang H*, Lauerwald R., Ciais P., Van Oost K., Guenet B., Regnier P. 2022. Global changes alter the amount and composition of land carbon deliveries to European rivers and seas. Commun. Earth Environ., 3 (1), 245.
2. Goll, D.S., Bauters, M., Zhang, H., Ciais, P., Balkanski, Y., Wang, R. and Verbeeck, H. (2023), Atmospheric phosphorus deposition amplifies carbon sinks in simulations of a tropical forest in Central Africa. New Phytol., https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18535
3. Zhang H*., Lauerwald R., Regnier P., Ciais P., Van Oost K., Naipal V., Guenet B., Yuan W. 2022. Estimating the lateral transfer of organic carbon through the European river network using a land surface model. Earth System Dynamics, 13, 1119–1144.
4. Gommet C., Lauerwald R., Ciais P., Guenet B., Zhang H., Regnier P. Spatiotemporal patterns and drivers of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon (DOC) leaching into the European river network. Earth System Dynamics, 13, 393–418, 2022.
5. Zhang H*, Chuine I, Regnier P, Yuan W. 2022. Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding. Nature Climate Change, 12, 193-199.
6. Abramoff R.Z., Guenet B., Zhang H., Georgiou K., et al. 2022. Improved global-scale predictions of soil carbon stocks with Millennial Version 2. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 164, 108466.
7. Xueqin Yang, Jianping Wu, Xiuzhi Chen, Philippe Ciais, Fabienne Maignan, Wenping Yuan, Shilong Piao, Song Yang, Fanxi Gong, Yongxian Su, Yuhang Dai, Liyang Liu, Haicheng Zhang, Damien Bonal, Hui Liu, Guixing Chen, Haibo Lu, Shengbiao Wu, Lei Fan, Pierre Gentine, S. Joseph Wright, A comprehensive framework for seasonal controls of leaf abscission and productivity in evergreen broadleaved tropical and subtropical forests, The Innovation, 2, 100154, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100154.
8. Xu Y, Ciais P, Yu L, Li W, Chen X, Zhang H, C Yue, K Kanniah, et al. 2021. Oil palm modelling in the global land surface model ORCHIDEE-MICT. Geoscientific Model Development 14 (7), 4573-4592.
9. Xiuzhi Chen, Philippe Ciais, Fabienne Maignan, Yuan Zhang, Ana Bastos, Liyang Liu, Cédric Bacour, Lei Fan, Pierre Gentine, Daniel Goll, Julia Green, Hyungjun Kim, Laurent Li, Yi Liu, Shushi Peng, Hao Tang, Nicolas Viovy, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Jin Wu, Wenping Yuan, Haicheng Zhang. (2021). Vapor pressure deficit and sunlight explain seasonality of leaf phenology and photosynthesis across Amazonian evergreen broadleaved forest. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35, e2020GB006893. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006893
10. Yan Sun, Daniel S Goll, Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais, Betrand Guenet, Julian Helfenstein, Yuanyuan Huang, Ronny Lauerwald, Fabienne Maignan, Victoria Naipal, Yilong Wang, Hui Yang, Haicheng Zhang. Global evaluation of the nutrient-enabled version of the land surface model ORCHIDEE-CNP v1. 2 (r5986). Geoscientific Model Development, 14 (4), 1987-2010.
11. Y Wang, H Zhang, P Ciais, D Goll, Y Huang, JD Wood, et al. 2021. Microbial activity and root carbon inputs are more important than soil carbon diffusion in simulating soil carbon profiles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126 (4), e2020JG006205.
12. Rose Z Abramoff, Katerina Georgiou, Bertrand Guenet, Margaret S Torn, Yuanyuan Huang, Haicheng Zhang, Wenting Feng, Sindhu Jagadamma, Klaus Kaiser, Dolly Kothawala, Melanie A Mayes, Philippe Ciais. How much carbon can be added to soil by sorption? Biogeochemistry, 152, 127-142, 2021.
13. Wu D, Xu X, Zhang H. 2021. Plant input does not exert stronger control on topsoil carbon persistence than climate in alpine grasslands. Ecology Letters, 24, 11, 2526-2528.
14. Zhang H*, Lauerwald R, Regnier P, Ciais P, Yuan W, Naipal V, Guenet B, Kristof Van Oost, Marta Camino‐Serrano. 2020. Simulating erosion-induced soil and carbon delivery from uplands to rivers in a global land surface model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2020MS002121.
15. Zhang H*, Goll DS, Wang YP, Ciais P, Wieder WR, Abramoff R, et al. 2020, Microbial dynamics and soil physicochemical properties explain large-scale variations in soil organic carbon, Global Change Biology, 26, 2668-2685.
16. Yuanyuan Huang, Phillipe Ciais, Daniel S Goll, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas, Fabio Cresto-Aleina, Haicheng Zhang. 2020. The shift of phosphorus transfers in global fisheries and aquaculture. Nature communications, 11 (1), 1-10.
17. Li T., Zhang H., Wang X., Cheng S., Fang H., Liu G., Yuan W. 2019. Soil erosion affects variations of soil organic carbon and soil respiration along a slope in Northeast China. Ecological Processes, 8, 1-10.
18. Jiangzhou Xia, Wenping Yuan, Sebastian Lienert, Fortunat Joos, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Ying‐ping Wang, Xufeng Wang, Haicheng Zhang, Yang Chen, Xiangjun Tian. Global patterns in Net Primary Production allocation regulated by environmental conditions and forest stand age: a model‐data comparison. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124, 2039-2059, 2019.
19. Wang, X., Quine, T. A., Zhang, H., Tian, G., & Yuan, W. (2019). Redistribution of soil organic carbon induced by soil erosion in the nine river basins of China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124, 1018– 1031. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004781
20. Zhang H*, Goll DS, Manzoni S, Ciais P, Guenet B, Huang Y. 2018. Modeling the effects of litter stoichiometry and soil mineral N availability on soil organic matter formation using CENTURY-CUE (v1. 0). Geoscientific Model Development, 11 (12), 4779-4796.
21. Zhang H, Liu S, Regnier P, Yuan W. 2018. New insights on plant phenological response to temperature revealed from long-term widespread observations in China. Global Change Biology, 24 (5), 2066-2078.
22. Wenfang Xu, Lijuan Ma, Minna Ma, Haicheng Zhang, Wenping Yuan. Spatial–temporal variability of snow cover and depth in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Climate, 30, 1521-1533.
23. Zhang HC, Liu SG, Yuan WP, Dong WJ, Xia JZ, Cao YJ, Jia YW. 2016. Loess Plateau check dams can potentially sequester eroded soil organic carbon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 121, 1449-1455.
24. Zhang HC, Liu D, Dong WJ, Cai WW, et al. 2016. Accurate representation of leaf longevity is important for simulating ecosystem carbon cycle. Basic and Applied Ecology, 17, 396-407.
25. Wenfang Xu, Xianglan Li, Wei Liu, Linghao Li, Longyu Hou, Huiqiu Shi, Jiangzhou Xia, Dan Liu, Haicheng Zhang, Yang Chen, Wenwen Cai, Yang Fu, Wenping Yuan. Spatial patterns of soil and ecosystem respiration regulated by biological and environmental variables along a precipitation gradient in semi-arid grasslands in China. Ecol. Res. 31, 505–513 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11284-016-1355-x
26. Wenping Yuan, Wenwen Cai, Yang Chen, Shuguang Liu, Wenjie Dong, Haicheng Zhang, Guirui Yu, Zhuoqi Chen, Honglin He, Weidong Guo, Dan Liu, Shaoming Liu, Wenhua Xiang, Zhenghui Xie, Zhonghui Zhao, Guomo Zhou. Severe summer heatwave and drought strongly reduced carbon uptake in Southern China. Sci. Rep. 6, 18813 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18813
27. Yang Fu, Jiangzhou Xia, Wenping Yuan, Bing Xu, Xiaoxu Wu, Yang Chen, Haicheng Zhang. Assessment of multiple precipitation products over major river basins of China. Theoretical and applied climatology, 123, 11-22. 2016.
28. Wenping Yuan, Yang Chen, Jiangzhou Xia, Wenjie Dong, Vincenzo Magliulo, Eddy Moors, Jørgen Eivind Olesen, Haicheng Zhang. Estimating crop yield using a satellite-based light use efficiency model. Ecological Indicators, 60, 702-709, 2016.
29. Zhang HC, Yuan WP, Liu SG, Dong WJ, Fu Y. 2015. Sensitivity of flowering phenology to changing temperature in China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 120,1658-1665.
30. Zhang HC, Yuan WP, Liu S, Dong W. 2015. Divergent responses of leaf phenology to changing temperature among plant species and geographical regions. Ecosphere, 6(12), Article 250.
31. Wenping Yuan, Wenwen Cai, Anthony L Nguy-Robertson, Huajun Fang, Andrew E Suyker, Yang Chen, Wenjie Dong, Shuguang Liu, Haicheng Zhang. Uncertainty in simulating gross primary production of cropland ecosystem from satellite-based models. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 207, 48-57, 2015.
32. Zhang HC, Liu SG, Yuan WP, Dong WJ, Ye AZ, Xie XH, Chen Y, Liu D, Cai WW, Mao YN. 2014. Inclusion of soil carbon lateral movement alters terrestrial carbon budget in China. Scientific Reports, 4, doi:10.1038/srep07247.
33. Zhang HC, Yuan WP, Dong WJ, Liu SG. 2014. Seasonal patterns of litterfall in forest ecosystem worldwide. Ecological Complexity, 20,240-247.
34. Dan Liu, Wenwen Cai, Jiangzhou Xia, Wenjie Dong, Guangsheng Zhou, Yang Chen, Haicheng Zhang, Wenping Yuan. (2014) Global Validation of a Process-Based Model on Vegetation Gross Primary Production Using Eddy Covariance Observations. PLOS ONE 9(11): e110407. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110407
35. Fu Y, Zhang H, Dong W, Yuan W. 2014. Comparison of Phenology Models for Predicting the Onset of Growing Season over the Northern Hemisphere. PLoS ONE 9(10): e109544, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109544.
36. Cai, W.; Yuan, W.; Liang, S.; Liu, S.; Dong, W.; Chen, Y.; Liu, D.; Zhang, H. Large Differences in Terrestrial Vegetation Production Derived from Satellite-Based Light Use Efficiency Models. Remote Sens. 2014, 6, 8945-8965. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6098945
37. Wenping Yuan, Shunlin Liang, Shuguang Liu, Ensheng Weng, Yiqi Luo, David Hollinger, Haicheng Zhang. Improving model parameter estimation using coupling relationships between vegetation production and ecosystem respiration. Ecological Modelling, 240, 29-40, 2012.
Scientific Projects
2019.10-2022.9：CNP-Lateral，Postdoctroal project funded by the National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) of Belgium，Effects of lateral carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus transfers on terrestrial carbon balance (245, 000 euro ) ，Host
2021.6-2025.6：ESM-2025，Horizon 2020 Project of European Union，Earth System Model for the Future，participant
2018.2-2022.7：VERIFY，Horizon 2020 Project of European Union，Observation-based system for monitoring and verification of greenhouse gases，participant
2017-2019：IMBALANCE-P，Horizon 2020 Project of European Union，Effects of phosphorus limitations on Life, Earth system and Society，participant
2013-2016：Youth project funded by National Natural Science Fundation of China, Effect of lateral carbon transport in Loess Plateau on regional land carbon budge，participant
