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Name:
ZHANG Yunbing
Education:
Ph.D
Positions:
 
Academic title:
Associate Professor
Postal Code:
666303
Subject categories:
Ecology
Mailing Address:
XTBG, Menglun, Mengla, 666303, Yunnan, China
E-mail:
zhangyb@xtbg.org.cn

Resume:
 

EDUCATION BACKGROUD: 

2018.9-2023.7, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Major: Ecology, Ph.D. 

2009.9-2012.7, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science; Major: Ecology, Master 

2005.9-2009.7, The Northeast Forestry University; Major: Wildlife and Nature Reserve Management, Bachelor 

  

Working experience 

2012.08-2014.12, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, The key laboratory of tropical forest ecology, Assistant Engineer 

2015.01-2024.05, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Plant Ecophysiology Group, Engineer 

2024.05- , Plant Ecophysiology Group, Associate Professor  

Direction:
 

Main Research Interest and Expertise: Functional traits and ecological adaptation of different functional groups, with special attention to functional traits, hydraulics and ecological adaptation of mistletoes and lianas. 

Achievements:
 

Article:
 

(# co-first author*corresponding author) 

1. Zhang YB, Scalon MC, Liu JX, Song XY, Yang D, Zhang YJ, Ellsworth DS and Zhang JL*. You are what you eat: nutrient and water relations between mistletoes and hosts, New Phytologist, 2023, 238(2): 567-583  

2. Zhang YB, Yang D, Zhang KY, Bai XL, Wang YSD, Wu HD, Ding LZ, Zhang YJ, Zhang JL*. Higher water and nutrient use efficiencies in savanna than in rainforest lianas result in no difference in photosynthesis. Tree Physiology, 2022, 42(1) 145-159. 

3. Zhang KY#, Yang D#, Zhang YB#, Ellsworth DS, Xu K, Zhang YP, Chen YJ, He F, Zhang JL*. Differentiation in stem and leaf traits among sympatric lianas, scandent shrubs and trees in a subalpine cold temperate forest. Tree Physiology, 2021, 41(11): 1992-2003.  

4. Ke Y#, Zhang YB#, Zhang FP, Yang D,Wang Q, Peng XR, Huang XY, Jan Sher & Zhang JL*. Monocots and eudicots have more conservative flower water use strategies than basal angiosperms. Plant Biology, 2024, Online  

5. Bai X#, Zhang YB#, Liu Q, Wang YSD, Yang D, Zhang JL*. Leaf and stem traits are linked to liana growth rate in a subtropical cloud forest. Forests, 2020, 11(10): 1120. 

6. Zhang YB, Wu HD, Yang J, Song XY, Yang D, He F, Zhang JL*. Environmental filtering and spatial processes shape the beta diversity of liana communities in a valley savanna in Southwest China. Applied Vegetation Science, 2020, 23(4): 482-494.  

7. Ellsworth DS*, Crous KY, De Kauwe MG, Verryckt LT, Goll D, Zaehle S, Bloomfield KJ, Ciais P, Cernusak LA, Domingues TF, Dusenge ME, Garcia S, Guerrieri R, Ishida FY, Janssens IA, Kenzo T, Ichie T, Medlyn BE, Meir P, Norby RJ, Reich PB, Rowland L, Santiago LS, Sun Y, Uddling J, Walker AP, Weerasinghe KWLK, van de Weg MJ, Zhang YB, Zhang JL, Wright IJ. Convergence in phosphorus constraints to photosynthesis in forests around the world. Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 5005.  

8. Yang D#, Wang YSD#, Wang Q, Ke Y, Zhang YB, Zhang SB, Zhang YJ*, McDowell NG, Zhang JL*. Physiological response and photosynthetic recovery to an extreme drought: Evidence from plants in a dry-hot valley savanna of Southwest China. Science of the Total Environment, 2023, 868:161711.  

9. Wang YSD, Yang D*, Vargas GG, Hao GY, Powers JS, Ke Y, Wang Q, Zhang YB, Zhang JL. Leaf habit differentiation explains trait tradeoffs across savanna woody plants. Forest Ecosystems, 2024, 11: 100190  

10. Gupta SK*, Yang D, Zhang YB, Pandey V, Zhang JL*. Tropospheric ozone is a catastrophe, and ethylenediurea (EDU) is a phytoprotectant, recent reports on climate change scenario: A review. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2023, 14: 101907.  

11. Ke Y, Zhang FP, Zhang YB, Wang Q, Li W, Yang Da, Zhang JL*, Cao KF. Convergent relationships between flower economic and hydraulic traits across aquatic and terrestrial herbaceous plants. Plant Diversity, 2023, 45(5): 601-610 

12. Wang YSD#, Yang D#, Wu HD, Zhang YB, Zhang SB, Zhang YJ, Zhang JL*. Overlapping water and nutrient use efficiencies and carbon assimilation between coexisting simple- and compound-leaved trees from a valley savanna. Water, 2020, 12(11): 3037. 

13. Zhang KY, Yang D*, Zhang YB, Liu Q, Wang YSD, Ke Y, Xiao Y, Wang Q, Dossa GG, Schnitzer SA, Zhang JL*. Vessel dimorphism and wood traits in lianas and trees among three contrasting environments, American Journal of Botany, 2023, 110: e16154.  

14. Zhang KY, Yang D, Zhang YB, Ai XR, Deng ZJ, Zhang JL*. Linkages among stem xylem transport, biomechanics and storage in lianas and trees across three contrasting environments. American Journal of Botany, 2024, 111(3): e16290.  

15. Bai XL#, Yang D#, Sher J, Zhang YB, Zhang KY, Liu Q, Wen HD, Zhang JL* Slot M. Divergences in stem and leaf traits between co-existing dominant lianas and trees in a subtropical montane forest. Journal of Plant Ecology, 2024, 17(1): rtad037  

16. Lan GY, Zhang YB, He FL, Hu YH, Zhu H, Cao M* Species associations of congeneric species in a tropical seasonal rain forest of China. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2016, 32: 201-212.  

17. Gupta SK, Marwa N, Pandey AK, Zhang YB, Zhang JL. Hydrogen sulfide homeostasis in plants: an overview. In: Singh S, Singh VP, Tripathi DK, Prasad SM, Chauhan DK, Dubey NK (Eds), Hydrogen Sulfide in Plant Biology: Past and Present, 2021, pp 341-363. Elsevier Academic Press, London, UK. 

18. Dossa GGO*, Adhikari S, Cao KF, Chen YJ, Codjia JEI, Corlett RT, Dong JL, Fan ZX, Khatri P, Kiki M, Li HL, Ling TC, Liu GY, Majcher BM, Nisar N, Njoroge DM, Ofosu-Bamfo B, Pearce S, Roeder M, Schaefer DA, Schnitzer SA, Smith-Martin CM, Thu WP, Tomlinson KW, Xu SY, Zakari S, Zhang JL, Zhang YB, Zotz G, Zuo J, Cornelissen JHC. Lianas from lives to afterlives. New Phytologist, 2024, 242: 1886-1890 (Meeting Report) 

19. Li TF, Ren BP, Li DY, Zhang YB, Li M. Maternal responses to dead infants in Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) in the Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China. Primates, 2012, 53(2): 127-132.  

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