Lin Zhang
Editors, Plant Diversity
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Plant ecology
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Plant ecology
Title: Dr.
Email: zhanglin@itpcas.ac.cn
Selected publications:
Cui G, Zhang L*, Yang L, Guo Y, Sun J, Luo T, Pugnaire FI, Liang E*. 2026. Aridity Threshold Triggers Abrupt Increase in Shrub Biomass Through Changes in Leaf Functional Traits. Ecosystems 29: 16.
Zhang L*, Lu X, Zhu H, Gao S, Sun J, Zhu H, Fang J, Camarero JJ, Liang E. 2025. A rapid transition from spruce-fir to pine-broadleaf forests in response to disturbances and climate warming on the southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Plant Diversity 47:876-882.
Zhao W, SuoLang, Wang T, Wang Y Fan L, Luo T, Wang X, Yang L*, Zhang L*. 2025. Climate change is leading to geographic expansion of tropical birds—range expansion and niche modeling in the White-browed Crake (Pololimnas cinereus). BMC Ecology and Evolution 25:138.
Guo Y, Zhang L*, Shen W, Cui G, Tang Y, Luo T. 2025. Nitrogen and carbon supply controls tree radial growth at an alpine treeline. Journal of Plant Ecology, DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtaf177
Zhang X, Cui G, Zuo Z, Shen W, Liu X, Wang Z, Zhang L*. 2025. Phylogeny, functional types, and environment drive different leaf C:N:P stoichiometric patterns of alpine shrubs in Xizang, China. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, DOI:10.1029/2025JG009102
Ren Z, Zhang L*, Wang Q, Hu W, Shi Z*. 2025. A novel framework for assessing shrublines and their geophysical constraints in alpine regions through probabilistic vegetation mapping and seed-filling algorithm. Ecological Indicators, 177,113788.
Wang Y, Zhang L*, Pugnaire FI, Liang E. 2025. Forest maturation and its drivers on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 371, 110642.
Cui G, Wang Y, Pugnaire FI, Zhang L*. 2025. Non-linear responses of plants enhance their resistance to drought in drylands. The Innovation Geoscience, 3:100136.
Wang Y, Zhang L*. 2025. From primary forests to rubber plantations: A huge ecological loss. The Innovation, 6(5):100836.
Wang Y, Wei H, Zhang L*. 2025. Driving forces of grass-livestock balance shifted from human activities to climate change on the top of the earth. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 380,109387.
Yang L, Cui G, Zhao W, Zhang Z, Luo T and Zhang L*. 2023. Sensitivity of radial growth of subalpine conifer trees to climate warming on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Global Ecology & Conservation, 43, e02470.
Cui G, Pugnaire FI, Yang L, Zhao W, Ale R, Shen W, Luo T, Liang E, Zhang L*. 2023. Shrub-mediated effects on soil nitrogen determines shrub-herbaceous interactions in drylands of the Tibetan Plateau. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14:1137365.
Guo Y#, Zhang L#, Yang L, Shen W, Pan Y, Wright IJ, Luo Y, Luo T*. 2022. Enhanced leaf turnover and nitrogen recycling sustain CO2 fertilization effect on tree-ring growth. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6:1271-1278 (#contributed equally)
Zhang L*, Yang L, Shen W. 2020. Dramatic altitudinal variations in leaf mass per area of two plant growth forms at extreme heights. Ecological Indicators, 110. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105890
Zhang L, Luo T*, Zhu H, Daly C, Deng K. 2010. Leaf lifespan as a simple predictor of evergreen forest zonation in China. Journal of Biogeography, 37(1): 27-36.