(1) Plant-soil interactions (particularly rhizosphere carbon and nutrient cycling) and global change; (2) Plant traits (particularly root and fungal traits) and ecosystem processes; (3) Deep soil carbon dynamics (in alpine grassland ecosystems) and climate change; and (4) Nutrient regulation of carbon cycling in tropical forests.
Chen Y, Han MG, Yuan X, Zhou HK, Zhao XQ, Schimel JP, Zhu B*. 2023. Long-term warming reduces surface soil organic carbon by reducing mineral associated carbon rather than "free" particulate carbon. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 17:108905
Feng JG, Song YJ, Zhu B*. 2023. Ecosystem-dependent responses of soil carbon storage to phosphorus enrichment. New Phytologist 238:2363-2374
Han MG, Chen Y, Sun LJ, Yu M, Li R, Li SF, Su JR, Zhu B*. 2023. Linking rhizosphere soil microbial activity and plant resource acquisition strategy. Journal of Ecology 111:875-888
Li XJ, Feng JG, Zhang QF, Zhu B*. 2023. Warming inhibits the priming effect of soil organic carbon mineralization: A meta-analysis. Science of the Total Environment 904:166170
Li XJ, Zhang QF, Feng JG, Jiang DM, Zhu B*. 2023. Forest management causes soil carbon loss by reducing particulate organic carbon in Guangxi, Southern China. Forest Ecosystems 10:100092
Liu ML, Feng JG, Shen YW, Zhu B*. 2023. Microplastics effects on soil biota are dependent on their properties: A meta-analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 178:108940
Liu ML, Wang C, Zhu B*. 2023. Drought alleviates the negative effects of microplastics on soil micro-food web complexity and stability. Environmental Science and Technology 57:11206-11217
Qin WK#, Chen Y#, Wang XD, Zhao HY, Hou YH, Zhang QF, Guo XW, Zhang ZH, Zhu B*. 2023. Whole-soil warming shifts species composition without affecting diversity, biomass and productivity of the plant community in an alpine meadow. Fundamental Research 3:160-169 [# Equal contributions]
Qin WK, Wang YH, Yuan X, Zhang QF, Wang XD, Zhao HY, Zhu B*. 2023. Responses of soil carbon dynamics to precipitation and land use in an Inner Mongolian grassland. Plant and Soil (in press)
Sun LJ, Tsujii Y, Xu TL, Han MG, Li R, Han YF, Gan DY, Zhu B*. 2023. Species of fast bulk-soil nutrient cycling have lower rhizosphere effects: A nutrient spectrum of rhizosphere effects. Ecology 104:e3981
Sun ZA#, Hao TX#, Zhu B*. 2023. Effects of nitrogen addition on carbonate-derived CO2 emission after biochar addition. Soil Ecology Letters 5:220169 [# Equal contributions]
Sun ZA, Meng FQ, Zhu B*. 2023. Influencing factors and partitioning methods of carbonate contribution to CO2 emissions from calcareous soils. Soil Ecology Letters 5:6-20
Wang XD, Feng JG, Ao GKL, Qin WK, Han MG, Shen YW, Liu ML, Chen Y, Zhu B*. 2023. Globally nitrogen addition alters soil microbial community structure, but has minor effects on soil microbial diversity and richness. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 179:108982
Xu TL, Shen YW, Ding ZJ, Zhu B*. 2023. Seasonal dynamics of microbial communities in rhizosphere and bulk soils of two temperate forests. Rhizosphere 25:100673
Yin R#, Qin WK#, Wang XD, Xie D, Wang H, Zhao HY, Zhang ZH, He JS, Schädler M, Kardol P, Eisenhauer N, Zhu B*. 2023. Experimental warming causes mismatches in alpine plant-microbe-fauna phenology. Nature Communications 14:2159 [# Equal contributions]
Yin R, Qin WK, Wang XD, Zhao HY, Zhang ZH, Zhu B*. 2023. Warmer temperature promotes the contribution of invertebrate fauna to litter components release in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Catena 231:107334
Zhang QF, Feng JG, Li J, Huang CY, Shen YW, Cheng WX, Zhu B*. 2023. A distinct sensitivity to priming effect between labile and stable soil organic carbon. New Phytologist 237:88-99
Zhang QF, Qin WK, Feng JG, Li XJ, Zhang ZH, He JS, Schimel JP, Zhu B*. 2023. Whole-soil warming does not change microbial carbon use efficiency in surface and deep soils. PNAS 120:e2302190120
Zhang GH#, Liu D#, Lin JJ*, Kumar A, Jia KT, Tian XX, Yu ZG, Zhu B*. 2023. Priming effects induced by degradable microplastics in agricultural soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 180:109006 [# Equal contributions]
Zhang S, Lin JJ*, Wang P, Zhu B*. 2023. The direct and legacy effects of drying-rewetting cycles on active and relatively resistant soil carbon decomposition. Land Degradation and Development 34:2124-2135
Zhang XW*, Zhu B*, Yu FH, Wang P, Cheng WX. 2023. Long-term bare fallow soil reveals the temperature sensitivity of priming effect of the relatively stabilized soil organic matter. Plant and Soil 488:57-70
Zhou S, Lin JJ*, Wang P, Zhu P, Zhu B*. 2023. Resistant soil organic carbon is more vulnerable to priming by root exudate fractions than active soil organic carbon. Plant and Soil 488:71-82
付粱晨, 丁宗巨, 唐茂, 曾辉, 朱彪*. 2023. 北京东灵山白桦和蒙古栎的根际效应及其季节动态. 植物生态学报 (in press)
孙昭安, 朱彪*. 2023. 农田土壤碳循环过程及其量化方法. 环境科学 (in press)
周岱瑒, 冯继广, 朱彪*. 2023. 凋落物和根系去除对土壤N2O排放的影响：整合分析. 学院学报（自然科学版） (in press)
2022
Ao GKL, Feng JG, Han MG, Tang M, Ma SH, Zhu B*. 2022. Responses of root and soil phosphatase activities to nutrient additions differ between primary and secondary tropical montane forests. Rhizosphere 24:100610
Chen X, Feng JG, Ding ZJ, Tang M, Zhu B*. 2022. Changes in soil total, microbial and enzymatic C-N-P contents and stoichiometry with depth and latitude in forest ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment 816:151583
Chen X, Lin JJ*, Wang P, Zhang S, Liu D, Zhu B*. 2022. Resistant soil carbon is more vulnerable to priming effect than active soil carbon. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 168:108619
Chen Y, Han MG, Yuan X, Hou YH, Qin WK, Zhou HK, Zhao XQ, Klein JA, Zhu B*. 2022. Warming has a minor effect on surface soil organic carbon in alpine meadow ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Global Change Biology 28:1618-1629
Feng JG, He KY, Zhang QF, Han MG, Zhu B*. 2022. Changes in plant inputs alter soil carbon and microbial communities in forest ecosystems. Global Change Biology 28:3426-3440
Gan DY, Zeng H, Zhu B*. 2022. The rhizosphere effect on soil gross nitrogen mineralization: A meta-analysis. Soil Ecology Letters 42:144-154
Han MG, Chen Y, Li R, Yu M, Fu LC, Li SF, Su JR, Zhu B*. 2022. Root phosphatase activity aligns with the collaboration gradient of the root economics space. New Phytologist 234:837-849 [Highlighted with commentary by Yaffar et al. 2022, New Phytologist 234:773-775] [Recommended by Faculty of Opinions https://facultyopinions.com/article/741331958]
Lin JJ*, Cheng WX, Zhang S, Zhu B*. 2022. Drying-rewetting rather than sieving stimulates soil respiration. Pedosphere 32:359-363
Li YX, Sun LJ, Zhu B*. 2022. Trade-offs among fine-root phosphorus-acquisition strategies of 15 tropical woody species. Forest Ecosystems 9:100055
Ma SH, Zhu B*, Chen GP, Ni XF, Zhou LH, Su HJ, Cai Q, Chen X, Zhu JL, Ji CJ, Li YD, Fang JY. 2022. Loss of soil microbial residue carbon by converting a tropical forest to tea plantation. Science of the Total Environment 818:151742
Shen YW, Zhu B*. 2022. Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment on soil N2O emission from natural ecosystems: a global meta-analysis. Environmental Pollution 301:118993
Sun ZA, Zhu B*. 2022. Rethinking discrepancies between difference and 15N methods for estimating fertilizer nitrogen recovery. Biology and Fertility of Soils 58:855-869
Yin R, Qin WK, Zhao HY, Wang XD, Cao GM, Zhu B*. 2022. Differential responses of soil faunal vs. microbial decomposition of plant litter to warming. Biology and Fertility of Soils 58:509-514
Zhang QF, Qin WK, Feng JG, Zhu B*. 2022. Responses of soil microbial carbon use efficiency to warming: review and prospects. Soil Ecology Letters 4:307-318
Zhang XW*, Zhu B*, Yu FH, Wang P, Cheng WX. 2022. Exclusion of plant input affects the temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition. Ecological Indicators 141:109274
Chen Y, Han MG, Yuan X, Cao GM, Zhu B*. 2021. Seasonal changes in soil properties, microbial biomass and enzyme activities across the soil profile in two Tibetan alpine ecosystems. Soil Ecology Letters 3:383-394
Chen Y, Liu X, Hou YH, Zhou SR, Zhu B*. 2021. Particulate organic carbon is more vulnerable to nitrogen addition than mineral associated organic carbon in soil of an alpine meadow. Plant and Soil 458:93-103
Dong HX, Zhang S, Lin JJ*, Zhu B*. 2021. Responses of soil microbial biomass carbon and dissolved organic carbon to drying-rewetting cycles: A meta-analysis. Catena 207:105610
Feng JG, Tang M, Zhu B*. 2021. Soil priming effect and its responses to nutrient addition along a tropical forest elevation gradient. Global Change Biology 27:2793-2806
Feng JG, Zhu B*. 2021. Does calculation method affect the nutrient addition effect on priming? Geoderma 393:115040
Feng JG, Zhu B*. 2021. Global patterns and associated drivers of priming effect in response to nutrient addition. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 153:108118
Gan DY, Feng JG, Han MG, Zeng H, Zhu B*. 2021. Rhizosphere effects of woody plants on soil biogeochemical processes: A meta-analysis. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 160:108310
Han MG, Feng JG, Chen Y, Sun LJ, Fu LC, Zhu B*. 2021. Mycorrhizal mycelial respiration: A substantial component of soil respired CO2. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 163:108454
Han MG, Zhu B*. 2021. Linking root respiration to chemistry and morphology across species. Global Change Biology 27:190-201 Hou YH, He KY, Chen Y, Zhao JX, Hu HF, Zhu B*. 2021. Changes of soil organic matter stability along altitudinal gradients in Tibetan alpine grassland. Plant and Soil 458:21-40
Shen YW#, Xu TL#, Chen BD, Zhu B*. 2021. Soil N2O emissions are more sensitive to phosphorus addition and plant presence than to nitrogen addition and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal inoculation. Rhizosphere 19:100414 [# Equal contributions]
Sun LJ, Ataka M, Han MG, Han YF, Gan DY, Guo YP, Xu TL, Zhu B*. 2021. Root exudation as a major competitive fine-root functional trait of 18 coexisting species in a subtropical forest. New Phytologist 229:259-271
Xu TL, Chen X, Hou YH, Zhu B*. 2021. Changes in microbial biomass, community composition and diversity, and functioning with soil depth in two alpine ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau. Plant and Soil 459:137-153
Yin LM, Dijkstra FA, Phillips RP, Zhu B*, Wang P*, Cheng WX. 2021. Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees cause a higher carbon to nitrogen ratio of soil organic matter decomposition via rhizosphere priming than ectomycorrhizal trees. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 157:108246
Yuan X, Chen Y, Qin WK, Xu TL, Mao YH, Wang Q, Chen KL, Zhu B*. 2021. Plant and microbial regulations of soil carbon dynamics under warming in two alpine swamp meadow ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau. Science of the Total Environment 790:148072
Yuan X, Qin WK, Chen Y, Xu TL, Chen KL, Zhu B*. 2021. Plateau pika offsets the positive effect of warming on soil organic carbon in an alpine swamp meadow on the Tibetan Plateau. Catena 204:105417
Zhang QF, Cheng L, Feng JG, Mei KC, Zeng QX, Zhu B*, Chen YM*. 2021. Nitrogen addition stimulates priming effect in a subtropical forest soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 160:108339
Zhang XW*, Zhu B*, Yu FH, Cheng WX. 2021. Plant inputs mediate the linkage between soil carbon and net nitrogen mineralization. Science of the Total Environment 790:148208
Chen JG, Ji CJ, Fang JY, He HB, Zhu B*. 2020. Dynamics of microbial residues control the responses of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to N addition in two temperate forests. Science of the Total Environment 748:141318
Chen JG, Xiao W, Zheng CY, Zhu B*. 2020. Nitrogen addition has contrasting effects on particulate and mineral-associated soil organic carbon in a subtropical forest. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 142:107708
Chen Y, Feng JG, Yuan X, Zhu B*. 2020. Effects of warming on carbon and nitrogen cycling in alpine grassland ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau: A meta-analysis. Geoderma 370:114363
Han MG, Sun LJ, Gan DY, Fu LC, Zhu B*. 2020. Root functional traits are key determinants of the rhizosphere effect on soil organic matter decomposition across 14 temperate hardwood species. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 151:108019
Han MG, Zhu B*. 2020. Changes in soil greenhouse gas fluxes by land use change from primary forest. Global Change Biology 26:2656-2667
Han YF, Feng JG, Han MG, Zhu B*. 2020. Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to nitrogen addition: a meta-analysis. Global Change Biology 26:7229-7241
Jing X, Chen X, Fang JY, Ji CJ, Shen HH, Zheng CY, Zhu B*. 2020. Soil microbial carbon and nutrient constraints are driven more by ecosystem type and soil depth than by nutrient addition in forest ecosystems. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 141:107657
Yin LM, Xiao W, Dijkstra FA, Zhu B*, Wang P*, Cheng WX. 2020. Linking absorptive roots and their functional traits with rhizosphere priming of tree species. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 150:107997
Yuan X, Qin WK, Xu H, Zhang ZH, Zhou HK, Zhu B*. 2020. Sensitivity of soil carbon dynamics to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in an alpine meadow. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 150:107984
Zhang S, Yu ZG, Lin JJ*, Zhu B*. 2020. Responses of soil carbon decomposition to drying-rewetting cycles: a meta-analysis. Geoderma 361:114069
Chen X, Hao BH, Jing X, He JS, Ma WH, Zhu B*. 2019. Minor responses of soil microbial biomass, community structure and enzyme activities to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in three grassland ecosystems. Plant and Soil 444:21-37
Ding ZJ, Tang M, Chen X, Yin LM, Gui HC, Zhu B*. 2019. Measuring rhizosphere effects of two tree species in a temperate forest: A comprehensive method comparison. Rhizosphere 10:100153
Feng JG, Zhu B*. 2019. A global meta-analysis of soil respiration and its components in response to phosphorus addition. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 135:38-47
Hou YH, Chen Y, Chen X, He KY, Zhu B*. 2019. Changes in soil organic matter stability with depth in two alpine ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau. Geoderma 351:153-162
Tang M, Cheng WX, Zeng H, Zhu B*. 2019. Light intensity controls rhizosphere respiration rate and rhizosphere priming effect of soybean and sunflower. Rhizosphere 9:97-105
Tang M, Keck DC, Cheng WX, Zeng H, Zhu B*. 2019. Linking rhizosphere respiration rate of three grassland species with root nitrogen concentration. Geoderma 346:84-90
Tan WB, Xi BD*, Wang GA, He XS, Gao RT, Jiang J, Zhu B*. 2019. Microbial-accessibility-dependent electron shuttling of in situ solid-phase organic matter in soils. Geoderma 338:1-4
2018
Castanha C, Zhu B*, Hicks Pries CE, Georgiou K, Torn MS. 2018. The effects of heating, rhizosphere, and depth on root litter decomposition are mediated by soil moisture. Biogeochemistry 137:267-279
Chen X, Ding ZJ, Tang M, Zhu B*. 2018. Greater variations of rhizosphere effects within mycorrhizal group than between mycorrhizal group in a temperate forest. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 126:237-246
Feng JG, Wang JS, Song YJ, Zhu B*. 2018. Patterns of soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity in grassland ecosystems across China. Biogeosciences 15:5329-5341
Jing X, Chen X, Xiao W, Lin L, Wang C, He JS, Zhu B*. 2018. Soil enzymatic responses to multiple environmental drivers in the Tibetan grasslands: Insights from two manipulative field experiments and a meta-analysis. Pedobiologia 71:50-58
Xiao W, Chen X, Jing X, Zhu B*. 2018. A meta-analysis of soil extracellular enzyme activities in response to global change. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 123:21-32
Yin LM, Dijkstra FA, Wang P*, Zhu B*, Cheng WX. 2018. Rhizosphere priming effects on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics among tree species with and without intraspecific competition. New Phytologist 218:1036-1048
2017
Jing X, Chen X, Tang M, Ding ZJ, Jiang L, Li P, Ma SH, Tian D, Xu LC, Zhu JX, Ji CJ, Shen HH, Zheng CY, Fang JY, Zhu B*. 2017. Nitrogen deposition has minor effect on soil extracellular enzyme activities in six Chinese forests. Science of the Total Environment 607-608:806-815
Tan WB, Wang GA, Huang CH, Gao RT, Xi BD*, Zhu B*. 2017. Physico-chemical protection, rather than biochemical composition, governs the responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to nitrogen addition in a temperate agroecosystem. Science of the Total Environment 598:282-288
2016
Jing X, Yang XX, Ren F, Zhou HK, Zhu B*, He JS*. 2016. Neutral effect of nitrogen addition and negative effect of phosphorus addition on topsoil extracellular enzymatic activities in an alpine grassland ecosystem. Applied Soil Ecology 107:205-213
2015
Zhu B, Panke-Buisse K, Kao-Kniffin J*. 2015. Nitrogen fertilization has minimal influence on rhizosphere effects of smooth crabgrass (Digitaria ischaemum) and bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon). Journal of Plant Ecology 8:390-400
Pang XY#, Zhu B#, Lü XT, Cheng WX*. 2015. Labile substrate availability controls temperature sensitivity of organic carbon decomposition at different soil depths. Biogeochemistry 126:85-98 [# Equal contributions]
Lin JJ#, Zhu B#, Cheng WX*. 2015. Decadally cycling soil carbon is more sensitive to warming than faster-cycling soil carbon. Global Change Biology 21:4602-4612 [# Equal contributions]
Before 2015
Zhu B*, Gutknecht JLM, Herman DJ, Keck DC, Firestone MK, Cheng WX. 2014. Rhizosphere priming effects on soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 76:183-192
Zhu B*, Cheng WX. 2013. Impacts of drying-wetting cycles on rhizosphere respiration and soil organic matter decomposition. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 63:89-96
Zhu B*, Cheng WX. 2012. Nodulated soybean enhances rhizosphere priming effects on soil organic matter decomposition more than non-nodulated soybean. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 51:56-65
Zhu B*, Cheng WX. 2011. Rhizosphere priming effect increases the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition. Global Change Biology 17:2172-2183
Zhu B*, Cheng WX. 2011. Constant and diurnally-varying temperature regimes lead to different temperature sensitivities of soil organic carbon decomposition. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43:866-869
Zhu B*, Cheng WX. 2011. 13C isotope fractionation during rhizosphere respiration of C3 and C4 plants. Plant and Soil 342:277-287
Zhu B, Wang XP, Fang JY*, Piao SL, Shen HH, Zhao SQ, Peng CH. 2010. Altitudinal changes in carbon storage of temperate forests on Mt Changbai, Northeast China. Journal of Plant Research 123:439-452
