个人简介
04/2020 - present Professor Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
09/2019 - 04/2020 Assistant Professor Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
06/2016 - 05/2019 Postdoc Research Associate Iowa State University
08/2011 - 05/2016 Ph.D. in Forest Resource Science West Virginia University
08/2007 - 06/2010 M.S. in Ecology Chinese Academy of Forestry
08/2003 - 06/2007 B.S. in Ecology Fujian Agricultural & Forestry University
（Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=W8PlAb0AAAAJ）
入选教育部青年人才项目、江苏省特聘教授
My research program applies remote sensing and ecological modeling to investigation of the impacts of climate change and human disturbances on ecosystem services, including land use and land cover change, greenhouse gas emission, forest ecosystem health, crop production, climate change, and human disturbances / managements.
近年来，主持国家自然科学基金等国家级和省部级项目多项。主要采用陆地生态系统过程模型，结合遥感与地理信息系统技术，探索气候变化和人为管理活动对森林、农田等生态系统的碳/氮/水循环过程的影响。先后在Nature Communications, Nature Food, Global Change Biology, One Earth等领域内主流期刊上发表论文60余篇。目前担任Journal of Forestry Research，Earth System Science Data，Forest Ecosystems等三个SCI期刊编委，并先后于2017年获得国际生态学会“杰出青年学者奖”、2018年获“生态模拟创新贡献奖”、2019年获国际林业研究组织联盟“杰出博士研究奖”等三个国际奖项；以及江苏省自然科学百篇优秀学术成果论文、中国科协第八届优秀科技论文奖、Journal of Forestry Research优秀编委、爱荷华州立大学优秀博士后、爱荷华州立大学Seed Grant项目资助奖励等多个区域性奖项；中国生态学学会恢复生态专业委员会委员、中国林学会林业气象专业委员会委员。
主持项目Projects funded：
国家自然科学基金委NSFC，国际合作项目，32361143869，兴都库什-喜马拉雅高山山地退化森林恢复与碳汇潜力优化，2,000,000RMB, 2024-01至2026-12，在研，主持
国家自然科学基金委NSFC，面上项目，32371663，1998年以来中国混交林生物量碳汇变化及其驱动机制，500,000RMB, 2024-01至2027-12，在研，主持
国家科学技术部State Ministry of Science and Technology，国家外专局，高端外国专家引进计划，G2023014060L，中国陆地生态系统碳收支评估，300,000RMB, 2023-01至2024-12，在研，主持
国家自然科学基金委NSFC，青年项目，32001166，中国人工林与天然林在气候变化情景下的固碳耗水能力比较，240,000RMB, 2021-01至2023-12，在研，主持
江苏省教育厅，江苏省高等学校自然科学研究面上项目，20KJB170013，江苏省土地利用和覆盖变化与人类管理的碳收支影响评估，30,000RMB, 2020-12至2022-12，结题，主持
期刊审稿 Peer review services for >50 journals, including:
PNAS, Nature Climate Change; Global Change Biology; Earth System Science Data (Topical Editor); Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; Environmental Research Letters; Ecohydrology; Geophysical Research Letters; Ecological Indicators; Ecology and Evolution; International Journal of Remote Sensing; Environmental Engineering Science; Journal of Forestry Research (Editorial Board Member); Forest Ecology and Management; Remote Sensing; Canadian Journal of Forest Research; Forest Ecosystems (Editorial Board Member); Forest Science; Journal of Forestry; Journal of Tropical Forest Science; Water, Air, & Soil Pollution; Environments; European Journal of Soil Biology; Plant and Soil; Urban Science; Computers in Biology and Medicine; Journal of Environmental Sciences; GIScience & Remote Sensing; ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; Journal of Environmental Sciences
部分代表论文 Featured publications：
l Zhen Yu*, Shirong Liu*, Haikui Li, Jingjing Liang, Weiguo Liu, Shilong Piao, Hanqin Tian, Guoyi Zhou, Chaoqun Lu, Weibin You, Pengsen Sun, Yanli Dong, Stephen Sitch, Evgenios Agathokleous. Maximizing carbon sequestration potential in Chinese forests through optimal management, Nature Communications, 2024, 15(1), 3154.
l Zhen Yu*, Yanli Dong, Chaoqun Lu, Evgenios Agathokleous, Lei Zhang, Shirong Liu, Guoyi Zhou. (2023) China’s forestation on marginal land was less efficient in carbon sequestration compared with non-marginal land. One Earth, 6(12), 1692-1702. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.11.006.
l Zhen Yu, Philippe Ciais, Shilong Piao, Richard A. Houghton, Chaoqun Lu, Hanqin Tian, Evgenios Agathokleous, Giri Raj Kattel, Stephen Sitch, Daniel Goll, Xu Yue, Anthony Walker, Pierre Friedlingstein, Atul K. Jain, Shirong Liu*, Guoyi Zhou*. Forest expansion dominates China’s land carbon sink since 1980. Nature Communications, 2022, 13(1), 1-12.
l Zhen Yu, Guoyi Zhou*, Lei Liu, Stefano Manzoni, Philippe Ciais, Daniel Goll, Josep Peñuelas, Jordi Sardans, Wantong Wang, Jie Zhu, Lin Li, Junhua Yan, Juxiu Liu, Xuli Tang. Natural forests promote phosphorus retention in soil. Global Change Biology, 2022, 28(4), 1678-1689.
l Zhen Yu, Chaoqun Lu*, Hanqin Tian, Josep G. Canadell. Largely underestimated carbon emission from land use and land cover change in the conterminous United States. Global Change Biology, 2019, 25(11) : 3741-3752.
l Zhen Yu, Shirong Liu*, Jingxin Wang*, Xiaohua Wei, Jamie Schuler, Pengsen Sun, Richard Harper, Nicolas Zegre. Natural forests exhibit higher carbon sequestration and lower water consumption than planted forests in China. Global Change Biology, 2019, 25(1) : 68-77.
l Zhen Yu, Chaoqun Lu*, Peiyu Cao, Hanqin Tian. Long-term terrestrial carbon dynamics in the Midwestern United States during 1850-2015: Roles of land use and cover change and agricultural management. Global Change Biology, 2018, 24(6) : 2673-2690.
l Zhen Yu, Shirong Liu*, Jingxin Wang*, Pengsen Sun, Weiguo Liu, Damon S. Hartley. Effects of seasonal snow on the growing season of temperate vegetation in China. Global Change Biology, 2013, 19(7) : 2182-2195.
其他论文 Other publications：
l 刘世荣*,王晖,李海奎,余振,栾军伟. 碳中和目标下中国森林碳储量、碳汇变化预估与潜力提升途径[J]. 林业科学, 2024, 60(4): 157-172. Shirong Liu,Hui Wang,Haikui Li,Zhen Yu,Junwei Luan. Projections of China’s Forest Carbon Storage and Sequestration and Ways of Their Potential Capacity Enhancement[J]. Scientia Silvae Sinicae, 2024, 60(4): 157-172. 10.11707/j.1001-7488.LYKX20230206
l 余振，吴高阳，董艳丽，刘世荣*. (2025). 气候变化对中国森林碳汇评估的影响研究进展. 陆地生态系统与保护学报.
l Ziyi Xian, Zhen Yu*, Evgenios Agathokleous, Wangya Han, Weibin You, Guoyi Zhou. (2024) Trends and Climate-Sensitivity of Phenology in China's Natural and Planted Forests. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 129(6), e2023JG007955. DOI: 10.1029/2023JG007955
l Xinyue Wu, Wangya Han, Zhen Yu* (2024). Evapotranspiration increment was underestimated in China due to underrepresented land cover changes. Environmental Research Letters. 19, 064063. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ad4977
l Ho, D. T., Lamers, P., Nawaz, S., Sugiyama, M., Fiorini, A. C. O., Yu, Z., ... & Evans, M. C. (2024). Navigating the obstacles of carbon-negative technologies. One Earth, 7(9), 1471-1476.
l Y Su, X Li, C Zhang, W Yan, P Ciais, S Cook-Patton, OL Phillips, J Shang, A Cescatti, J Chen, Y Liu, J Chave, CE Doughty, V Heinrich, F Tian, Y Luo, Z Yu, Z Hao, S Tao, Y Zhang, Z Zeng, R Lafortezza, Y Huang, L Fan, X Wang, Y Qin, Q Ran, K Yan, X Liu, L Liu, Y Yue, J Ren, W Yuan, X Chen. (2024). Carbon accumulation rate peaks at 1000m elevation in tropical planted and regrowth forests. One Earth.
l You, S., Shi, H., Lun, F., Bian, Z., Wang, S., Yu, Z., ... & Yao, Y. (2024). Evaluation of gridded cropland phosphorus budget and use efficiency in China. Journal of Environmental Management, 370, 122974.
l Yue, X., Zhou, H., Cao, Y., Liao, H., Lu, X., Yu, Z., ... & Wang, H. (2024). Large potential of strengthening the land carbon sink in China through anthropogenic interventions. Science Bulletin.
l Yanli Dong, Evgenios Agathokleous, Guoyi Zhou, Shirong Liu, Zhen Yu*. (2024). Pitfalls in forest carbon sink projection. Journal of Forestry Research, 35(1), 1-5.
l Chen, W., Liu, L., Liu, D., Penuelas, J., Zhou, G., Yu, Z., ... & Hua, L. (2025). Droughts and windstorms due to climate change increase variability in species and trait composition of a subtropical monsoon evergreen broadleaf forest in China. Forest Ecosystems, 12, 100253.
l You, W., Xian, Z., Zhou, G., Agathokleous, E., & Yu, Z.* (2023). Sensitivity of forest phenology in China varies with proximity to forest edges. Forest Ecosystems, 100144.
l Dong Y., Agathokleous E., Liu S., Yu Z.* (2023). Demographic Changes in China’s forests from 1998 to 2018. Forest Ecosystems, 10, 100094.
l Agathokleous, E.*, Rillig, M. C., Peñuelas, J., & Yu, Z*. (2024). One hundred important questions facing plant science derived using a large language model. Trends in Plant Science, 29(2), 210-218.
l Agathokleous, E.*, Saitanis, C. J., Fang, C., & Yu, Z.* (2023). Use of ChatGPT: What does it mean for biology and environmental science?. Science of The Total Environment, 888, 164154.
l Xu, J., Luo, J., Chen, Y., Yu, Z., Zhou, G., Fan, J., ... & Liu, M. (2023). Dose effect of pig manure addition on cbbL-harboring bacterial community in a paddy soil. Applied Soil Ecology, 189, 104945.
l Sun, M., Sun, P., Liu, N., Zhang, L., Yu, Z., Feng, Q., ... & Liu, S. (2024). Alternating dominant effects of temperature and precipitation along elevational gradient on the alpine and subalpine vegetation activities in southwestern China. Forest Ecology and Management, 554, 121668.
l Yu, Z.*, Liu, J., & Kattel, G. (2022). Historical nitrogen fertilizer use in China from 1952 to 2018. Earth System Science Data, 14(11), 5179-5194.
l Zhen Yu, Xiuzhi Chen, Guoyi Zhou*, Evgenios Agathokleous, Lin Li, Zhiyong Liu, Jianping Wu, Ping Zhou, Meimei Xue, Yuchan Chen, Wenting Yan, Lei Liu, Tingting Shi, Xiang Zhao. Natural forest growth and human induced ecosystem disturbance influence water yield in forests. Communications Earth & Environment 2022. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00483-w
l Zhen Yu*, Xiaobin Jin, Lijuan Miao, Xuhong Yang. A historical reconstruction of cropland in China from 1900 to 2016. Earth System Science Data, 2021, 13(7), 3203-3218.
l Zhen Yu, Chaoqun Lu*. Historical cropland expansion and abandonment in the continental U.S. during 1850 to 2016. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2018, 27(3) : 322-333.
l Zhen Yu, Jingxin Wang*, Shirong Liu*, Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais, Steven W. Running, Benjamin Poulter, James S. Rentch, Pengsen Sun. Decrease in winter respiration explains 25% of the annual northern forest carbon sink enhancement over the last 30 years. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2016, 25(5) : 586-595.
l Zhen Yu, Chaoqun Lu*, Peiyu Cao, Hanqin Tian, Amy Hessl, Neil Pederson. Earlier leaf-flushing suppressed ecosystem productivity by draining soil water in the Mongolian Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2018, 1-8.
l Zhen Yu, Jingxin Wang*, Shirong Liu*, James S Rentch, Pengsen Sun, Chaoqun Lu. Global gross primary productivity and water use efficiency changes under drought stress. Environmental Research Letters, 2017, 1(17).
l Zhen Yu, Chaoqun Lu*, David A Hennessy, Hongli Feng, Hanqin Tian. Impacts of tillage practices on soil carbon stocks in the US corn. Environmental Research Letters, 2020, 15(1).
l Chaoqun Lu*, Zhen Yu, David A. Hennessy, Hongli Feng, Hanqin Tian, Dafeng Hui. Emerging weed resistance increases tillage intensity and greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. corn-soybean cropping system. Nature Food, 2022, 3:266-274. DOI: 10.1038/s43016-022-00488-w
l Chaoqun Lu*, Zhen Yu, Jien Zhang, Peiyu Cao, Hanqin Tian, Cynthia Nevison. Century‐long changes and drivers of soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions across the contiguous United States. Global Change Biology, 2022.
l Lin Li, Lei Liu, Zhen Yu, Josep Peñuelas, Jordi Sardans, Qifei Chen, Jiangbing Xu, Guoyi Zhou*. Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Stoichiometry in Natural and Plantation Forests in China. Forests (2022)
l Hui Shao, Yuandong Zhang, Zhen Yu, Fengxue Gu, Zhongtong Peng. The resilience of vegetation to the 2009/2010 extreme drought in southwest China. Forests (2022)
l Haowei Mu, Xuecao Li, Haijiao Ma, Xiaoping Du, Jianxi Huang, Wei Su, Zhen Yu, Chen Xu, Hualiang Liu, Dongqin Yin, Baoguo Li. Evaluation of the policy-driven ecological network in the Three-North Shelterbelt region of China. Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022, 218, 104305.
l Zhen Yu; Weibin You; Evgenios Agathokleous; Guoyi Zhou; Shirong Liu ; Forest management required for consistent carbon sink in China's forest plantations, Forest Ecosystems, 2021, 8(1): 8-54
l Zhen Yu; Hongrun Zhao; Shirong Liu; Guoyi Zhou; Jingyun Fang; Guirui Yu; Xuli Tang; Wantong Wang; Junhua Yan; Gengxu Wang; Keping Ma; Shenggong Li; Sheng Du; Shijie Han; Youxin Ma; Deqiang Zhang; Juxiu Liu; Shizhong Liu; Guowei Chu; Qianmei Zhang; Yuelin Li ; Mapping forest type and age in China's plantations, Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 744
l Zhen Yu; Guoyi Zhou; Shirong Liu; Pengsen Sun; Evgenios Agathokleous ; Impacts of forest management intensity on carbon accumulation of China's forest plantations, Forest Ecology and Management, 2020, 472
l Xiaolu Tang; Shaohui Fan; Manyi Du; Wenjie Zhang; Sicong Gao; Shibin Liu; Guo Chen; Zhen Yu; Yitong Yao; Wunian Yang ; Spatial and temporal patterns of global soil heterotrophic respiration in terrestrial ecosystems, Earth System Science Data, 2020, 12: 1031-1057
l Tanzeel Javaid Aini Farooqi; Xuhua Li; Zhen Yu; Shirong Liu; Osbert Jianxin Sun ; Reconciliation of research on forest carbon sequestration and water conservation, Journal of Forestry Research, 2020, 32(1): 7-14
l Weiguo Liu; Yue Hou; Wenyan Liu; Mingxia Yang; Yan Yan; Changhui Peng; Zhen Yu; Global estimation of the climate change impact of logging residue utilization for biofuels, Forest Ecology and Management, 2020, 462
l Weiguo Liu; Zhen Yu; Qiuan Zhu; Xiaolu Zhou; Changhui Peng ; Assessment of biomass utilization potential of Caragana korshinskii and its effect on carbon sequestration on the Northern Shaanxi Loess Plateau, China, Land Degradation & Development, 2020, 31(1): 53-64
l Lei Zhang; Falk Huettmann; Shirong Liu; Pengsen Sun; Zhen Yu; Xudong Zhang; Chunrong Mi ; Classification and regression with random forests as a standard method for presence-only data SDMs: A future conservation example using China tree species, Ecological Informatics, 2019, 52: 46-56
l Jinsong Wang; Jian Sun; Zhen Yu; Yong Li; Dashuan Tian; Bingxue Wang; Zhaolei Li; Shuli Niu ; Vegetation control of root turnover time in global grasslands, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2019, 28(4): 442-455
l Chaoqun Lu; Hanqin Tian; Jien Zhang; Zhen Yu; Shufen Pan; Shree Dangal; Bowen Zhang; Jia Yang; Neil Pederson; Amy Hessl ; Severe long-lasting drought accelerated carbon depletion in the Mongolian Plateau, Geophysical Research Letters, 2019, 46(10): 5303-5312
l Peiyu Cao; Chaoqun Lu; Zhen Yu ; Historical nitrogen fertilizer use in agricultural ecosystems of the contiguous United States during 1850–2015: application rate, timing, and fertilizer types, Earth System Science Data, 2018, 10(2): 969-984
l Junwei Luan; Shirong Liu; Jianghua Wu; Mei Wang; Zhen Yu ; The transient shift of driving environmental factors of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in Tibetan peatlands before and after hydrological restoration, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2018, 250: 138-146
l Weiguo Liu; Zhen Yu; Xinfeng Xie; Klaus Von Gadow; Changhui Peng ; A Critical Analysis of the Carbon Neutrality Assumption in Forest Bioenergy Systems, Environmental Reviews, 2018, 26(1): 93-101
l Chaoqun Lu; Zhen Yu; Hanqin Tian; David A. Hennessy; Hongli Feng; Mahdi Al-Kaisi; Yuyu Zhou; Tom Sauer; Raymond Arritt ; Increasing carbon footprint of grain crop production in the U.S. Western Corn Belt, Environmental Research Letters, 2018, 13(12)
l Weiguo Liu; Zhonghui Zhang; Xinfeng Xie; Zhen Yu; Klaus Von Gadow; Junming Xu; Shanshan Zhao; Yuchun Yang ; Analysis of the Global Warming Potential of Biogenic CO2 Emission in Life Cycle Assessments, Scientific Reports, 2017, 7(1): 1-8
l 张雷; 王琳琳; 刘世荣; 孙鹏森; 余振; 黄书涛; 张旭东 ; 生境概率预测值转换为二元值过程中4个阈值选择 方法的比较评估——以珙桐和杉木生境预估为例, 植物生态学报, 2017, 41(4): 387-395
l Ning Liu; Richard Harper; Bernard Dell; Shirong Liu; Zhen Yu ; Vegetation dynamics and rainfall sensitivity for different vegetation types of the Australian continent in the dry period 2002–2010, Ecohydrology, 2016, 10(2)
l Zhen Yu; Jingxin Wang; Shirong Liu; Pengsen Sun; Weiguo Liu ; Inconsistent NDVI trends from AVHRR, MODIS, and SPOT sensors in the Tibetan Plateau, 2013 Second International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics, Fairfax, VA, USA, 2013-8-12至2013-8-16
l Zhen Yu; Pengsen Sun; Shirong Liu; Jingxin Wang; Amy Everman ; Sensitivity of large-scale vegetation greenup and dormancy dates to climate change in the north−south transect of eastern China, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2013, 34(20): 7312-7328
l Pengsen Sun; Zhen Yu; Shirong Liu; Xiaohua Wei; Jingxin Wang; Nicolas Zegre; Ning Liu ; Climate change, growing season water deficit and vegetation activity along the north–south transect of eastern China from 1982 through 2006, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2012, 16(10): 3835-3850
l 余振; 孙鹏森; 刘世荣 ; 中国东部南北样带主要植被类型归一化植被指数对气候变化的响应及不同时间尺度的差异性, 植物生态学报, 2011, 35(11): 1117-1126
l 余振; 孙鹏森; 刘世荣 ; 中国东部南北样带主要植被类型物候期的变化, 植物生态学报, 2010, 34(3): 316-329
欢迎有生态学、森林经理、林学、地理学或计算机等背景的学生报考硕士、博士。具有大数据、深度学习、编程和模型使用经验者优先，例如GEE, C++, ENVI/IDL, Matlab, R，Python语言等。
有意向从事土地利用和覆盖变化数据重建、植被动态和生长模拟、森林碳汇模拟与评估等方面的博士后研究可发邮件联系：zyu@nuist.edu.cn。
教育经历
[1] 2003.9- 2007.6
福建农林大学 | 生态学 | 理学学士 | 大学本科毕业
[2] 2007.9- 2010.6
中国林业科学研究院 | 生态学 | 理学硕士 | 硕士研究生毕业
[3] 2011.8- 2016.5
美国西弗吉尼亚大学 | 森林资源科学 | 理学博士 | 博士研究生毕业
工作经历
[1] 2019.9- 至今
南京信息工程大学
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应用气象学院
[2] 2016.5- 2019.5
美国爱荷华州立大学
社会兼职
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[1] 2024.1- 至今
Forest Ecosystems编委 -
[2] 2023.1- 至今
Earth System Science Data编委 -
[3] 2018.5- 至今
Journal of Forestry Research编委
研究方向
[1] 全球变化，森林和农田生态系统模拟，土地利用和覆盖变化，遥感和地理信息系统
其他联系方式
[1] 邮编： 210044
[6] 邮箱： zyu@nuist.edu.cn
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