Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng

Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Environmental Change Institute
  • School of Geography and the Environment
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Huanyuan has special interest in applying mathematical modelling and remote sensing technique in studying the terrestrial carbon cycle. Before coming to Oxford, Huanyuan completed a dual-Bachelor Degree in Environmental science, University of Birmingham and Sun Yat-sen University. an MRes on Ecosystem and Environmental change, Imperial College London. Before coming to Oxford, Huanyuan previously worked on the CO2 fertilization effect on terrestrial ecosystem and land carbon sink modelling. Huanyuan is also a qualified PADI dive master.

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Contrasting carbon cycle along tropical forest aridity gradients in West Africa and Amazonia.

Zhang-Zheng H; Adu-Bredu S; Duah-Gyamfi A; Moore S; Addo-Danso SD; Amissah L; Valentini R; Djagbletey G; Anim-Adjei K; Quansah J

Nature communications (2024)

Tropical forests cover large areas of equatorial Africa and play a substantial role in the global carbon cycle. However, there has been a lack of biometric measurements to understand the forests’ gross and net primary productivity (GPP, NPP) and their allocation. Here we present a detailed field assessment of the carbon budget of multiple forest […]

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A test of ecophysiological theories on tropical forest functional traits along a VPD gradient

Zhang-Zheng, H., Malhi, Y., Ziemińska, K., Gvozdevaite, A., et al.

Communications Biology (2025)

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Sensitivity of tropical woodland savannas to El Niño droughts

Simone Matias Reis, Yadvinder Malhi, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng, Igor Araújo, Renata Freitag, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Karine da Silva Peixoto, Luciana Januário de Souza, Ediméia Laura Souza da Silva, Eduarda Bernardes Santos, Kamila Parreira da Silva, Maélly Dállet Alves Gonçalves, Cécile Girardin, Cecilia Dahlsjö, Oliver L. Phillips, and Imma Oliveras Menor

Biogeosciences (2025)

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The effect of fire on the carbon fluxes and productivity of Brazilian woodland savannas

Francisco Navarro-Rosales a b c , Maria Antonia Carniello b , Wesley Jonatar Alves da Cruz b c , Flavio de Campos Oliveira b c , Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng d , Valéria Lucélia de Oliveira Corrêa b , Marcelo Leandro Feitosa de Andrade e , Yadvinder Malhi d , Andrew Hector a , Imma Oliveras Menor

Science of The Total Environment (2025)

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Publications LCNR associated Ecology

Perturbation of soil organic carbon induced by land-use change from primary forest

Zhiyuan Zhang, Chengwen Lu, Jingyao Chen, Sheng Li, Xuhui Zheng, Liming Zhang* and Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng*

Environmental Research Letters,

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Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally

Rachel E. Ward, Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng, Kate Abernethy, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Luzmilla Arroyo, Andrew Bailey, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Liana Chesini-Rossi, Percival Cho, Cecilia A. L. Dahlsjö, Eder Carvalho das Neves, Bianca de Oliveira Sales, William Farfan-Rios, Joice Nunes Ferreira, Renata Freitag, Cécile Girardin, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Carlos A. Joly, Yadvinder Malhi, Beatriz Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Alexandra C. Morel, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Karine da Silva Peixoto, Simone Reis, Terhi Riutta, Norma Salinas, Marina Seixas, Miles R. Silman, Lara M. Kueppers

Ecology Letters (2025)

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