47 peer-reviewed papers · Full list on Google Scholar / ORCID

2026

  • Weinberger NV, Cibils-Stewart X, Brien C, Jewell N, Berger B, Cavagnaro TR, Salomon MJ, Zhang H, Plett JM, Powell JR (2026) Community-level AM fungal interactions lead to unexpected growth and disease outcomes in tomato. Plant and Soil doi:10.1007/s11104-026-08655-9
  • Liu Y, Wang Y, Yan K, Wu J, Yin Q, Yang J, Wang Y, Jiang L, Zhang H, Sun OJ, et al. (2026) Elevated silicon concentrations accelerate decomposition of the dominant silicon-rich grass litter in grassland ecosystems. Soil and Tillage Research doi:10.1016/j.still.2025.106800
  • Zhang H, Weinberger N, Powell JR, Gifford M (2026) Functional diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi drives divergent plant resource allocation strategies under nitrogen limitation. Journal of Experimental Botany doi:10.1093/jxb/eraf459
  • Li H, Yang J, Han X, Zhang Y, Leitch IJ, Leitch AR, Peñuelas J, Sardans J, Zhang H, Cao D, et al. (2026) Genome size-driven shifts in grassland productivity and species composition under nitrogen enrichment and mowing. Ecological Monographs doi:10.1002/ecm.70075
  • Li S, Zhang H, Wang J, Jiang L, Yang G, Zhang Y, Wei C, Han X (2026) Nitrogen addition enhances phytolith-occluded carbon accumulation across particulate and mineral-associated organic matter fractions in a meadow steppe. Geoderma doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2026.117875
  • Liu H, Martins CSC, Zhou G, Jayaramaiah RH, Zhang H, Li J, Singh P, Yan Z, Wang J, Reich PB, et al. (2026) Soil Protist Diversity and Biotic Interactions Shape Ecosystem Functions Under Climate Change. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.70692

2025

  • Liu L, Yang J, Wang J, Yu Q, Wei C, Jiang L, Huang J, Zhang Y, Jiang Y, Zhang H, Han X (2025) Increase in mineral-associated organic carbon does not offset the decrease in particulate organic carbon under long-term nitrogen enrichment in a steppe ecosystem. Soil Biology and Biochemistry doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109695
  • Peng Y, Yang JX, Seabloom EW, Sardans J, Peñuelas J, Zhang HY, Wei CZ, Han XG (2025) Multiple Nutrient Additions Homogenize Multidimensional Plant Stoichiometry in a Meadow Steppe. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.70123
  • Zhang X, Bo Y, Jiang L, Wang J, Yu L, Fu W, He X, Dong X, Han X, Zhang H (2025) Mycelium biomass and community composition impact nutrient concentration in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at fine spatial scale. Functional Ecology doi:10.1111/1365-2435.70042
  • Li S, Jiang L, Yang G, Han X, Jie D, Chen N, Zhang H (2025) Phytolith formation and its contribution to soil organic carbon sequestration in an Inner Mongolia grassland under long-term nitrogen deposition. Journal of Environmental Management doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125596

2024

  • Zhang Y, Guo X, Chen L, Kuzyakov Y, Wang R, Zhang H, Han X, Jiang Y, Sun OJ (2024) Global pattern of organic carbon pools in forest soils. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.17386
  • Zhao R, Kuzyakov Y, Zhang H, Wang Z, Li T, Shao L, Jiang L, Wang R, Li M, Sun OJ, Jiang Y, Han X (2024) Labile carbon inputs offset nitrogen-induced soil aggregate destabilization via enhanced growth of saprophytic fungi in a meadow steppe. Geoderma doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116841
  • Churchill AC, Zhang H, Kim GW, Catunda KLM, Anderson IC, Isbell F, Moore B, Pendall E, Plett JM, Powell JR, Power SA (2024) Nitrogen niche partitioning between tropical legumes and grasses conditionally weakens under elevated CO2. Functional Ecology doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14595
  • Zhang H, Liu H, Han X (2024) Traits-based approach: leveraging genome size in plant–microbe interactions. Trends in Microbiology doi:10.1016/j.tim.2023.10.004

2023

  • Su J, Zhang H, Han X, Lv R, Liu L, Jiang Y, Li H, Kuzyakov Y, Wei C (2023) 5300-Year-old soil carbon is less primed than young soil organic matter. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.16463
  • Chandregowda MH, Tjoelker MG, Pendall E, Zhang H, Churchill AC, Power SA, Rogers A (2023) Belowground carbon allocation, root trait plasticity, and productivity during drought and warming in a pasture grass. Journal of Experimental Botany doi:10.1093/jxb/erad021
  • He P, Ling N, Lu XT, Zhang HY, Wang C, Wang RZ, Wei CZ, Yao J, Wang XB, Han XG, Nan Z (2023) Contributions of abundant and rare bacteria to soil multifunctionality depend on aridity and elevation. Applied Soil Ecology doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.104881
  • Liu H, Wang J, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Zhang H, Li J, Singh BK (2023) Crop microbiome responses to pathogen colonisation regulate the host plant defence. Plant and Soil doi:10.1007/s11104-023-05981-0
  • Zhang H, Churchill AC, Anderson IC, Igwenagu C, Power SA, Plett JM, Macdonald CA, Pendall E, Carrillo Y, Powell JR (2023) Ecological stoichiometry and fungal community turnover reveal variation among mycorrhizal partners in their responses to warming and drought. Molecular Ecology doi:10.1111/mec.16278
  • Zhang HY, Bissett A, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Liu HW, Powell JR (2023) Fungal genome size and composition reflect ecological strategies along soil fertility gradients. Ecology Letters doi:10.1111/ele.14224
  • Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Krah FS, Cornwell WK, Zanne AE, Abrego N, Anderson IC, Andrew CJ, Baldrian P, Baessler C, Bissett A, et al. (2023) Symbiotic status alters fungal eco-evolutionary offspring trajectories. Ecology Letters doi:10.1111/ele.14271
  • Zhang HY, Lü XT, Wei CZ, Powell JR, Wang XB, Xing DL, Xu ZW, Li HL, Han XG (2023) β-diversity in temperate grasslands is driven by stronger environmental filtering of plant species with large genomes. Ecology doi:10.1002/ecy.3941

2022

  • Jacob V, Choat B, Churchill AC, Zhang H, Barton CVM, Krishnananthaselvan A, Post AK, Power SA, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT (2022) High safety margins to drought-induced hydraulic failure found in five pasture grasses. Plant, Cell & Environment doi:10.1111/pce.14318
  • Su J, Zhang H, Han X, Peñuelas J, Filimonenko E, Jiang Y, Kuzyakov Y, Wei C (2022) Low carbon availability in paleosols nonlinearly attenuates temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.16183
  • Churchill AC, Zhang H, Fuller KJ, Amiji B, Anderson IC, Barton CVM, Carrillo Y, Catunda KLM, Chandregowda MH, Igwenagu C, et al. (2022) Pastures and Climate Extremes: Impacts of Cool Season Warming and Drought on the Productivity of Key Pasture Species in a Field Experiment. Frontiers in Plant Science doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.836968
  • Chandregowda MH, Tjoelker MG, Pendall E, Zhang H, Churchill AC, Power SA (2022) Root trait shifts towards an avoidance strategy promote productivity and recovery in C3 and C4 pasture grasses under drought. Functional Ecology doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14085
  • Catunda KLM, Churchill AC, Zhang H, Power SA, Moore BD (2022) Short-term drought is a stronger driver of plant morphology and nutritional composition than warming in two common pasture species. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science doi:10.1111/jac.12531

2021

  • Zhang H, Powell JR, Power SA, Churchill AC, Plett JM, Macdonald CA, Jacob V, Kim GW, Pendall E, Tissue DT, et al. (2021) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal-mediated reductions in N2O emissions were not impacted by experimental warming for two common pasture species. Pedobiologia doi:10.1016/j.pedobi.2021.150744
  • Zhang H, Powell JR, Plett JM, Churchill AC, Power SA, Macdonald CA, Jacob V, Kim GW, Pendall E, Tissue D, et al. (2021) Climate warming negates arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal reductions in soil phosphorus leaching with tall fescue but not lucerne. Soil Biology and Biochemistry doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.108075

2020

  • Wang XG, Lü XT, Zhang HY, Dijkstra FA, Jiang YG, Wang XB, Lu JY, Wuyunna, Wang ZW, Han XG (2020) Changes in soil C:N:P stoichiometry along an aridity gradient in drylands of northern China. Geoderma doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.114087
  • Jiang M, Caldararu S, Zhang H, Fleischer K, Crous KY, Yang J, De Kauwe MG, Ellsworth DS, Reich PB, Tissue DT, Zaehle S, Medlyn BE (2020) Low phosphorus supply constrains plant responses to elevated CO2: A meta-analysis. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.15277
  • Rillig MC, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Anderson IC, Antonovics J, Ballhausen MB, Bergmann J, Bielcik M, Chaudhary VB, Deveautour C, Grünfeld L, et al. (2020) Myristate and the ecology of AM fungi: significance, opportunities, applications and challenges. New Phytologist doi:10.1111/nph.16527
  • Jacob V, Zhang H, Churchill AC, Yang J, Choat B, Medlyn BE, Power SA, Tissue DT (2020) Warming Reduces Net Carbon Gain and Productivity in Medicago sativa L. and Festuca arundinacea. Agronomy doi:10.3390/agronomy10101601

2019

  • Zhang HY, Hartmann H, Gleixner G, Thoma M, Schwab VF (2019) Carbon isotope fractionation including photosynthetic and post-photosynthetic processes in C3 plants: Low [CO2] matters. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta doi:10.1016/j.gca.2018.09.035
  • Wang XG, Lü XT, Dijkstra FA, Zhang HY, Wang XB, Wuyunna, Wang ZW, Feng J, Han XG (2019) Changes of plant N:P stoichiometry across a 3000-km aridity transect in grasslands of northern China. Plant and Soil doi:10.1007/s11104-019-04211-w
  • Wang XB, Yao J, Zhang HY, Wang XG, Li KH, Lü XT, Wang ZW, Zhou JZ, Han XG (2019) Environmental and spatial variables determine the taxonomic but not functional structure patterns of microbial communities in alpine grasslands. Science of The Total Environment doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.138
  • Zhang ZW, Li Q, Zhang HY, Hu YY, Hou SL, Wei HW, Yin JX, Lü XT (2019) The impacts of nutrient addition and livestock exclosure on the soil nematode community in a degraded grassland. Land Degradation & Development doi:10.1002/ldr.3344

2018

  • Zhang HY, Lü XT, Knapp AK, Hartmann H, Bai E, Wang XB, Wang ZW, Wang XG, Yu Q, Han XG, Niu S (2018) Facilitation by leguminous shrubs increases along a precipitation gradient. Functional Ecology doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12941
  • Zhang HY, Lü XT, Hartmann H, Keller A, Han XG, Trumbore S, Phillips RP (2018) Foliar nutrient resorption differs between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal trees at local and global scales. Global Ecology and Biogeography doi:10.1111/geb.12738
  • Lü XT, Hu YY, Zhang HY, Wei HW, Hou SL, Yang GJ, Liu ZY, Wang XB (2018) Intraspecific variation drives community-level stoichiometric responses to nitrogen and water enrichment in a temperate steppe. Plant and Soil doi:10.1007/s11104-017-3519-z
  • Lü XT, Liu ZY, Hu YY, Zhang HY (2018) Testing nitrogen and water co-limitation of primary productivity in a temperate steppe. Plant and Soil doi:10.1007/s11104-018-3791-6

2016

  • Zhang HY, Yu Q, Lü XT, Trumbore SE, Yang JJ, Han XG (2016) Impacts of leguminous shrub encroachment on neighboring grasses include transfer of fixed nitrogen. Oecologia doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3538-5
  • Long M, Wu HH, Smith MD, La Pierre KJ, Lu XT, Zhang HY, Han XG, Yu Q (2016) Nitrogen deposition promotes phosphorus uptake of plants in a semi-arid temperate grassland. Plant and Soil doi:10.1007/s11104-016-3022-y
  • Quan Z, Huang B, Lu C, Shi Y, Chen X, Zhang H, Fang Y (2016) The fate of fertilizer nitrogen in a high nitrate accumulated agricultural soil. Scientific Reports doi:10.1038/srep21539

2015

  • Zhang H, Ziegler W, Han X, Trumbore S, Hartmann H (2015) Plant carbon limitation does not reduce nitrogen transfer from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to Plantago lanceolata. Plant and Soil doi:10.1007/s11104-015-2599-x

2013

  • Zhang H, Wu H, Yu Q, Wang Z, Wei C, Long M, Kattge J, Smith M, Han X (2013) Sampling Date, Leaf Age and Root Size: Implications for the Study of Plant C:N:P Stoichiometry. PLoS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060360

2012

  • Wei C, Zheng H, Li Q, Lu X, Yu Q, Zhang H, Chen Q, He N, Kardol P, Liang W, Han X (2012) Nitrogen Addition Regulates Soil Nematode Community Composition through Ammonium Suppression. PLoS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043384