Research interests 

My research interests fall within the broad area of ecosystem ecology. My interest includes the investigation of biogeochemistry in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and their adaption mechanisms to climate changing by traditional ecological method, stable isotope, molecular biology and model techniques. Details followed as 1) carbon/nitrogen budget of forests; 2) carbon/nitrogen cycle mechanism in forests; 3) forest hydrology; 4) the couple of carbon, nitrogen and water in tropical forests; 4) adaptation and feedback of land-use change  on carbon/nitrogen/water budget and local climate change. 

Academic history 

03/2008-07/2013     Ph.D. Ecology   

                University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 

                Supervisors: Pro.Dr. Yiping Zhang (PI), Pro.Dr.  Liqing Sha & Pro.Dr. Douglas A. Scheafer 

                Thesis title: “Carbon flux transported by water in tropical seasonal rainforest watershed, southwest China” 

09/2005-02/2008    Master experience, Ecology (without master degree certification, master and doctor continuous study ) 

                Graduate university of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 

                Supervisor: Pro.Dr. Liqing Sha 

                  Dissertation title: “The influence factors of soil respiration in tropical forests” 

    09/1996-07/2000     B.Sc Agriculture 

Southwest agriculture university, Chongqing, China (Southwest university, Chongqing)  

Major: Soil agricultural chemistry and fertilizer engineering 

Employment history 

2010– Present – Research group of global change, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academic of Sciences 

2008–2010 Research group of forest community structure and function , Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academic of Sciences 

2005–2008 Research group of soil ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academic of Sciences 

2000–2005 Biogeochemistry Lab, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academic of Sciences                                                                                                                                                

Academic distinctions 

·       Yang Hanxi ecology award 2013. 

·       Merit student of Graduate University of Chinese Academic of Sciences 2007. 

Research experience 

Research associate, global change research group of Xishuangbanna tropical botanical garden, CAS 

• Project director: Priming and long term effect on GHGs emission from hydrological processed in tropical rainforest, Supported by Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province of China 2016 -2019
•  Project director: N budget in rubber plantation southwest China, Supported by Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province of China 2015 -2018
• Project management: N₂O and CH₄ emissions in tropical forests funded by CAS, 2012- 2015
• Chinese director of the cooperated project with Norwegian: N₂O emission mechanism in tropical rainforest, the key laboratory of tropical forest ecology project, CAS. 2013-2016
• Main partner: Fate of atmospherically deposited N into forest ecosystems in tropical rainforest:¹⁵N tracer experiment. the key laboratory of tropical forest ecology project, CAS. 2016-2018
• Project director: C transported by water in tropical rainforest catchment, Supported by Natural Science Foundation of China  2009 -2011.

Research associate, and research assistant of XTBG, CAS. 2005 – 2008 

• Main Project partner: Land use change influence on the soil carbon emission in Xishuangbanna which supported by Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province of China.( 2004C0052M).
• Attender: the carbon flux of tropical rainforests which supported by CAS (KZCX1-SW-01).

Research assistant, biogeochemistry Lab of XTBG, CAS. 2000 – 2005 

• Main partner: The adaptation mechanisms of Pinus yunnanensis to low-P environment which supported by Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan province of China (2002c0069m)
• Plant, soil, water quality analyses; physical, chemical and microbial assessment in the biogeochemistry Lab of XTBG

Publications 

Zhou W.-J.， Lu H.-Z., Zhang Y.-P., Sha L.-Q., Schaefer D., Song Q.-H., Deng Y., Deng X.-B.. (2016). Hydrologically transported dissolved organic carbon influences soil respiration in a tropical rainforest. Biogeosciences, 13(19): 1–11. 

Zhou, W.-J.， Ji H.-L., Zhu J., Zhang Y.-P., Sha  L.-Q. , Liu Y.-T., Zhang X., Zhao W., Dong Y.-X., Bai X.L., Lin Y.-X.，Zhang J.-H., Zheng X.-H.. (2016).  The effects of nitrogen fertilization on N₂O emissions from a rubber plantation. Sci. Rep. 2016, 6, 28230; doi: 10.1038/srep28230. 

Zhou, W. J., Sha, L. Q., Schaefer, D. A., Zhang, Y. P., Song, Q., H., Tan, Z. H., Guan, H. L.. (2015). Direct effects of litter decomposition on soil dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in a tropical rainforest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 81, 255-258. 

Zhou, W. J., Zhang, Y. P., Schaefer D. A., Sha, L. Q., Deng, Y., Deng, X. B., Dai, K. J., (2013). The role of stream water carbon dynamics and export in the carbon balance of a tropical seasonal rainforest, Southwest China. PloS one, 8(2), e56646. 

Zhou, W. J., Lu Z. Y., Wu, C. S., Wen, H. D., Zhang, Y. P., Liu, Y. H., Sha, L. Q.(2016) Carbon storage succession in the subtropical forests along inverse succession in Ailao mountain, southwest China. Journal of Yunnan University (Natural Sciences Edition), 38(1):Doi 10.7540/j.ynu.20150477 

Zhou, W. J., Zhang, Y. P., Sha, L., Q., Liu W. J., Deng X. B., (2010) Runoff characters of rubber plantation in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China.25(4):54-58,68.  

Zhou, W. J., Sha, L.Q., Shen S. G., Zheng, Z.. (2008) Seasonal change of soil respiration and its influence factors in rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantation in Xishuangbanna, SW China. Journal of Mountain Science, 3(26):317-325. 

Zhou W. J., Shen Y. X., Liu W. J.. (2004) Availablibity in rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soil P of Pinus yunnanensis forest in central Yunnan. Journal of Central-South Forestry College, 25(3): 25-29. 

Dai, K. J., Shen, Y. X., Zhou, W. J., Deng, Y., Liu, W. Y.. (2005) Mechanism of Pinus yunnanensis seedlings root response to phosphorus deficiency under controlled conditions. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 25 ( 9):2 423-2426. 

Dai, K. J., Shen, Y. X., Zhou, W. J., Deng, Y., Li, Y. P., Fu, J.. (2005). Rhizosphere pH of Pinus yunnanensis Franch, and Rhizosphere pH of P. Yunnanensis Seedlings at Different Phosphorous Rates. Acta Botanica Boreali-occidentalia Sinica, 25(12), 2490-2494 

Deng Y., Guan, H. L., Dai K.J.,  Zhou, W. J., Shen, Y. X.. (2006) Effects of phosphorus supply on seedling morphology and organic acids exudation of Pinus yunnanensis. Journal of Yunnan University (Natural Sciences Edition), 2006, 4.358-363. 

Dong, Y.X., Zhang, Y. P., Sha, L.Q., Ji, H. L., Zhou, W. J., Liu, Y.T., Zhang, X. Lin, Y. X.. (2015) Impacts of fertilizer application on CO₂ emissions in rubber (Hevea brasilensis) plantation in Xishuangbanna, southwest China. Chinese Journal of Ecology, 34(9):2576-2582.  

Fei, X., Jin, Y., Zhang, Y., Sha, L., Liu, Y., Song Q., Zhou W., Liang N., Yu G., Zhang L., Zhou, R., Jing Li, Zhang S., Li, P.. (2017).  Eddy covariance and biometric measurements show that a savanna ecosystem in Southwest China is a carbon sink. Scientific Reports, 7. DOI: 10.1038/srep41025 

Gao, F., Zhou, W. J.,  Zhang, Y. P.. (2011) Rainfall erosivity assessment base on daily rainfall values in the Menglun area of Xishuangbanna. Heilongjiang Agricultural Sciences, 12: 52-60. 

Ji, H. L., Zhou, W. J., Zhang, Y. P., Sha L. Q.. (2013) Relationship between soil color and climate factors in Yunnan, Journal of Yunnan University (Natural Sciences Edition), 35(s2): 352-358. 

Shen, Y. X., Zhou, W. J.,  Liu, W. Y., Dai, K. J.. (2005) Soil phosphatase and P availability in rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere of Pinus yunnanensis, Ecology and Environment 14(1): 91-94. 

Song, Q.H.,  Lin, H. Zhang, Y.P., Tan, Z.H., Zhao, J.B., Zhao, J.F., Zhang, X., Zhou W. J., Yu, G. R., (2013). The effect of drought stress on self-organisation in a seasonal tropical rainforest, Ecological Modelling, 265:136-139.  

Song, Q. H., Tan, Z. H., Zhang, Y. P., Sha, L. Q., Deng, X. B., Deng, Y., Zhou, W. J., Zhao J. F., Zhang, X.,  Zhao, W. Yu, G. R., Sun, X. M., Liang, N. S., Yang, L. Y..(2014) Do the rubber plantations in tropical China act as large carbon sinks? iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2014, 7: 42-47，doi: 10.3832/ifor0891-007. 

Song, Q.-H., Braeckevelt E., Zhang Y.-P., Sha L.-Q., Zhou W.-J., Liu Y.-T., Wu C.-S., Lu Z.-Y., Klemm O.. (2016) Evapotranspiration from a primary subtropical evergreen forest in Southwest China. Ecohydrology, DOI: 10.1002/eco.1826. 

Tan, Z. H., Zhang, Y. P., Song, Q. H., Liu, W. J., Deng, X. B., Tang, J. W., Deng, Y., Zhou, W.J., Yang, L.Y., Yu, G.R., Sun, X. M.. (2011) Rubber plantations act as water pumps in tropical China. Geophysical Research Letters, 38: L24406, doi:10.1029/2011GL050006.  

Yu, L., Zhang, Y. P., Sha, L. Q., Tan, Z. H., Song, Q. H., Zhou, W. J., Wu, C. S. (2012). Distribution characteristics of soil temperature within and outside a subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in Ailao Mountains, Yunnan Province of Southwest China. Chinese Journal of Ecology, 31( 7) : 1633 -1638. 

Abstrcats and Seminars 

Zhou W. J., Zhang, Y. P., Sha, L. Q., (2015) Litter decomposition effect on soil dissolved organic carbonand  nitrogen in tropical rainforest,  Chengdu, China, Annual meeting of the ecological society of China. 

Zhou, W. J., Zhang, Y. P., Sha, L.Q., Schaefer, D. A.. (2013) The role of stream water carbon dynamics and export in the carbon balance of a tropical seasonal rainforest, Southwest China, 7thISOMES,Guangzhou, China 

Zhou. W.J., Gao, F., Zhang. Y. P., Sha, L.Q., Schaefer, D.A. (2012)The effect of stream discharge on seasonal dynamics of the concentrations of dissolved and particulate carbon and nitrogen in a small catchment of tropical seasonal rainforest, BIOGEOMON The 7th International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior, , Maine, USA. 

Zhou W. J., Zhang, Y. P., Sha, L. Q., Douglas A. Schaefer(2011). Soil is hydrological transported DOC sink in tropical rainforest. Annual meeting of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN),Urumuqi, Xinjiang, China. 

Zhou, W.J., Zhang, Y. P., Sha, L.Q., Schaefer, D.A.(2010) Characters of total and dissolved carbon and nitrogen concentrations outlet from tropical seasonal rainforest small catchments in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China. Guangzhou, China, 9th AsiaFlux Workshop, Guangzhou, China. 

Zhou W. J., Zhang, Y. P., Sha, L. Q., Liu, W. J., Deng, X, B.. (2010)runoff characters of rubber plantation in Xishuangbanna. Annual meeting of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN), Guangzhou, China. 

Zhou, W.J., Sha, L.Q., (2009)The influence of soil temperatures and soil moisture to soil respiration in different tropical forests of Xishuangbanna Southwest China. The 23^rd New Phytologist Symposium: carbon cycling in tropical ecosystem, Guangzhou. 

Zhou, W. J., Zhang, Y. P., Sha, L. Q., Douglas, A., Schaefer.(2009) Stream carbon outlet of dry season in the tropical rainforest catchment, Xishuangbanna, southwest China.  1st tropical ecological symposium,Haikou, Hainan, China.  

Professional Memberships 

·           Member of Asia Flux 

·           Member of Ecological Society of China 

·           Member of Ecological Society of Yunnan, China