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  1. Extreme drought slightly decreased soil labile organic C and N contents and altered microbial community structure in a subtropical evergreen forest

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, December 2018, Elsevier

    Jian Zhang

  2. Trophic interactions among vertebrate guilds and plants shape global patterns in species diversity

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Jian Zhang

  3. Limits to growth of forest biomass carbon sink under climate change

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jian Zhang

  4. Mean family age of angiosperm tree communities and its climatic correlates along elevational and latitudinal gradients in eastern North America

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, November 2017, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  5. Extinction risk of North American seed plants elevated by climate and land-use change

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, June 2016, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  6. Seeing the forest from drones: Testing the potential of lightweight drones as a tool for long-term forest monitoring

    Article • Biological Conservation, June 2016, Elsevier

    Jian Zhang

  7. Regional and historical factors supplement current climate in shaping global forest canopy height

    Article • Journal of Ecology, December 2015, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  8. Phylogenetic structure and ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness for angiosperm trees in forest communities in China

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, November 2015, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  9. Gains and losses of plant species and phylogenetic diversity for a northern high-latitude region

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, September 2015, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  10. Reply to Price et al.: An inconvenient truth about the long-term forest change in western Canada: Competition is the primary driving force

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Jian Zhang

  11. Are phylogenies derived from family-level supertrees robust for studies on macroecological patterns along environmental gradients?

    Article • Journal of Systematics and Evolution, July 2015, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  12. Environment: China needs more monitoring apps

    Article • Nature, April 2015, Nature

    Jian Zhang

  13. Half-century evidence from western Canada shows forest dynamics are primarily driven by competition followed by climate

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Jian Zhang

  14. Spatial patterns and environmental correlates of bryophyte richness: sampling effort matters

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jian Zhang

  15. Evolutionary and ecological causes of species richness patterns in North American angiosperm trees

    Article • Ecography, September 2014, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  16. Estimating spatial variation in Alberta forest biomass from a combination of forest inventory and remote sensing data

    Article • Biogeosciences, May 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Jian Zhang

  17. Different Relationships between Temporal Phylogenetic Turnover and Phylogenetic Similarity and in Two Forests Were Detected by a New Null Model

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2014, PLOS

    Jian Zhang

  18. Sampling Plant Diversity and Rarity at Landscape Scales: Importance of Sampling Time in Species Detectability

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2014, PLOS

    Jian Zhang

  19. Using an updated time-calibrated family-level phylogeny of seed plants to test for non-random patterns of life forms across the phylogeny

    Article • Journal of Systematics and Evolution, March 2014, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  20. Does disturbance regime change community assembly of angiosperm plant communities in the boreal forest?

    Article • Journal of Plant Ecology, January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jian Zhang

  21. Phylogenetic structure and phylogenetic diversity of angiosperm assemblages in forests along an elevational gradient in Changbaishan, China

    Article • Journal of Plant Ecology, January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jian Zhang

  22. Citizen science: integrating scientific research, ecological conservation and public participation

    Article • Biodiversity Science, January 2014, China Science Publishing & Media Ltd.

    Jian Zhang

  23. Latitudinal gradients in phylogenetic relatedness of angiosperm trees in North America

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, May 2013, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  24. Local forest structure, climate and human disturbance determine regional distribution of boreal bird species richness in Alberta, Canada

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, December 2012, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  25. Effects of local biotic neighbors and habitat heterogeneity on tree and shrub seedling survival in an old-growth temperate forest

    Article • Oecologia, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jian Zhang

  26. Seed rain dynamics reveals strong dispersal limitation, different reproductive strategies and responses to climate in a temperate forest in northeast China

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, September 2011, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  27. Spatial distributions of species in an old-growth temperate forest, northeastern China

    Article • Canadian Journal of Forest Research, June 2010, Canadian Science Publishing

    Jian Zhang

  28. Species associations in an old-growth temperate forest in north-eastern China

    Article • Journal of Ecology, May 2010, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  29. Spatial patterns and associations of six congeneric species in an old-growth temperate forest

    Article • Acta Oecologica, January 2010, Elsevier

    Jian Zhang

  30. Fine-scale species co-occurrence patterns in an old-growth temperate forest

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, April 2009, Elsevier

    Jian Zhang

  31. Tree size distributions in an old-growth temperate forest

    Article • Oikos, January 2009, Wiley

    Jian Zhang

  32. Density dependence on tree survival in an old-growth temperate forest in northeastern China

    Article • Annals of Forest Science, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jian Zhang

  33. Vertical structure and spatial associations of dominant tree species in an old-growth temperate forest

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, November 2007, Elsevier

    Jian Zhang

  34. Spatial variation of species diversity across scales in an old-growth temperate forest of China

    Article • Ecological Research, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jian Zhang