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• 1. He T, Ding W, Cheng X, Cai Y, Zhang Y, Xia H, Wang X, Zhang J, Zhang K*, Zhang Q. 2024. Meta-analysis shows the impacts of ecological restoration on greenhouse gas emissions. Nature Communications, 15: 2668.
  2. You Y, Li W*, Chen Y, Zhang Q, Zhang K*. 2024. Soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation during long-term natural vegetation restoration following agricultural abandonment in Qingling Mountains. Ecological Engineering, 201: 107212.
  3. Wang X, Atkinson P*, Zhang Y, Li X, Zhang K.* 2024. Automatic mapping of 500 m daily open water body fraction in the American continent using GOES-16 ABI imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 304: 114040.
  4. Xia H, Zhang T, Li X, He T, Wang X, Zhang J, Zhang K*. 2023. Effects of drought and nutrient deficiencies on the allocation of recently fixed carbon in a plant-soil-microbe system. Tree Physiology, 43: 1903-1916.
  5. Chen Y*, Chi J, Lu X, Cai Y, Jiang H, Zhang Q, Zhang K.* 2023. Fungal-bacterial composition and network complexity determine soil multifunctionality during ecological restoration. Catena, 230: 107251.
  6. Wang X, Zhang Y*, Zhang K.* 2023. Automatic 10 m Forest Cover Mapping in 2020 at China’s Han River Basin by Fusing ESA Sentinel-1/Sentinel-2 Land Cover and Sentinel-2 near Real-Time Forest Cover Possibility. Forests, 14: 1133.
  7. Shu X*, Zhang K*, Zhang Q, Wang W*. 2023. Changes in the composition of rhizosphere bacterial communities in response to soil types and acid rain. Journal of Environmental Management, 325: 116493.
  8. Chen Y, Li W, You Y, Ye C, Shu X, Zhang Q, Zhang K.* 2022. Soil properties and substrate quality determine the priming of soil organic carbon during vegetation succession, Plant and Soil, 471: 559-575.
  9. Chen Y, Yin S, Shao Y, Zhang Q, Zhang K*. 2022. Greenhouse gas fluxes from riparian forest soil depend on the responses of microbes to nitrogen and phosphorus additions. Applied Soil Ecology, 173: 104365.
  10. Chen Y, Yin S, Shao Y, Zhang K. 2022. Soil bacteria are more sensitive than fungi in response to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13: 999385.
  11. Zhang K*, Cheng X, Dang H, Zhang Q. 2020. Biomass:N:K:Ca:Mg:P ratios in forest stands world-wide: Biogeographical variations and environmental controls. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29: 2176-2189.
  12. Qi W, Li K, Zhang Q, Zhang K*. 2019. Forest restoration efforts drive changes in land-use/land-cover and water-related ecosystem services in China’s Han River basin. Ecological Engineering, 126: 64-73.
  13. Zhang K*, Li X, Cheng X, Zhang Z, Zhang Q. 2019. Changes in soil properties rather than functional gene abundance control carbon and nitrogen mineralization rates during long-term natural revegetation. Plant and Soil, 443: 293-306.
  14. Zhang K*, Cheng X, Shu X, Liu Y, Zhang Q. 2018. Linking soil bacterial and fungal communities to vegetation succession following agricultural abandonment. Plant and Soil, 431: 19-36.
  15. Zhang K*, Song C, Zhang Y, Dang H, Cheng X*, Zhang Q*. 2018. Global-scale patterns of nutrient density and partitioning in forests in relation to climate. Global Change Biology, 24: 536-551.
  16. Zhang Q, Wu J, Lei Y, Yang F, Zhang D, Zhang K*, Zhang Q, Cheng X*, Agricultural land use change impacts soil CO2 emission and its 13C-isotopic signature in central China. Soil and Tillage Research , 177, 105-112.
  17. Zhang K, Song C, Zhang Y, Zhang Q*. 2017. Natural disasters and economic development drive forest dynamics and transition in China. Forest Policy and Economics, 76: 56-64.
  18. Zhang K*, Dang H, Zhang Q*, Cheng X*. 2015. Soil carbon dynamics following land-use change varied with temperature and precipitation gradients: Evidence from stable isotopes. Global Change Biology, 21: 2762-2772.
  19. Zhang K, Cheng X, Dang H, Ye C, Zhang Y, Zhang Q*. 2013. Linking litter production, quality and decomposition to vegetation succession following agricultural abandonment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 57: 803-813.
  20. Zhang K, Zhang Y, Tian H, Cheng X, Dang H, Zhang Q*. 2013. Sustainability of social-ecological systems under conservation projects: lessons from a biodiversity hotspot in western China. Biological Conservation, 158: 205-213.
  21. Zhang K, Cheng X, Dang H, Ye C, Zhang Q*. 2012. Soil nitrogen and denitrification potential as affected by land use and stand age following agricultural abandonment in a headwater catchment. Soil Use and Management, 28: 361-369.
  22. Zhang K, Dang H, Tan S, Wang Z, Zhang Q*. 2010. Vegetation community and soil characteristics of abandoned agricultural land and pine plantation in the Qinling Mountains, China. Forest Ecology and Management, 259: 2036-2047.
  23. Zhang K, Dang H, Tan S, Cheng X, Zhang Q. 2010*. Change in soil organic carbon following the Grain-for-Green programme in China. Land Degradation & Development, 21: 13-23.