Main work

Professor (2008- ) at China National Bamboo Research Center, major study areas are as follows: 

• forest soil nutrients cycling,

• bamboo forest soil ecology and management, and

• degraded soil restoration and biomass waste utilization.

Key research projects

• Regulation technology of soil microbial environment in bamboo forest. 2023.12-2028.11

• High-valued utilization of bamboo shoot processing waste and related key processing equipment. 2022.1-2024.12

Published articles & books

• Zhang Xiaoping, Li Qiaoling, Zhong Zheke*, Bian Fangyuan, Yang Chuanbao, Huang Zhiyuan. 2023. Determining changes in microbial nutrient limitations in bamboo soils under different management practices via enzyme stoichiometry. CATENA, 223, 106939.

• Zhang Xiaoping, Huang Zhiyuan, Zhong Zheke*, Li Qiaoling, Bian Fangyuan, Yang Chuanbao. 2022. Metagenomic insights into the characteristics of soil microbial communities in the decomposing biomass of Moso bamboo forests under different management practices. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 1051721.

• Zhang Xiaoping, Huang Zhiyuan, Zhong Zheke*, Li Qiaoling, Bian Fangyuan, Gao Guibin, Yang Chuanbao, Wen Xing.2022. Evaluating the rhizosphere and endophytic microbiomes of a bamboo plant in response to the long-term application of heavy organic amendment. Plants, 11(16), 2129.

• Gai Xu, Li Shaocui, Zhang Xiaoping, Bian Fangyuan, Yang Chuanbao, Zhong Zheke*. 2021. Effects of chicken farming on soil extracellular enzyme activity and microbial nutrient limitation in Lei bamboo forest (Phyllostachys praecox) insubtropical China. Applied Soil Ecology, 104106.

• Bian Fangyuan, Zhong Zheke*, Chengzhe Li, Xiaoping Zhang, Lijian Gu, Zichen Huang, Xu Gai, Zhiyuan Huang. 2021. Intercropping improves heavy metal phytoremediation efficiency through changing properties of rhizosphere soil in bamboo plantation. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 08,416: 125898.

• Zhang Xiaoping, Gai Xu, Zhong Zheke*, Bian Fangyuan, Yang Chuanbao, Li Yongfu, Wen Xing. 2021. Understanding variations in soil properties and microbial communities in bamboo plantation soils along a chromium pollution gradient. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 10, 222, 112507.

• Gai Xu, Li Shaocui, Zhang Xiaoping, Bian Fangyuan, Yang Chuanbao, Zhong Zheke*.2021.Changes in soil phosphorus availability and associated microbial properties after chicken farming in Lei bamboo (Phyllostachys praecox) forest ecosystems. Land Degradation & Development, DOI: 10.1002/ldr.3963.

• Gai Xu,Zhong Zheke*, Zhang Xiaoping, Bian Fangyuan, Yang Chuanbao. 2021. Effects of chicken farming on soil organic carbon fractions and fungal communities in a Lei bamboo (Phyllostachys praecox) forest in subtropical China. Forest Ecology and Management, 04, 479:118603.

• Yang Chuanbao, Zhang Xiaoping, Ni Huijing, Gai Xu, Huang Zichen, Du Xuhua*, Zhong Zheke*. 2021. Soil carbon and associated bacterial community shifts driven by fine root traits along a chronosequence of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) plantations in subtropical China. Science of the Total Environment, 06, 752: 142333.

• Zhang Xiaoping, Gai Xu, Yang Chuanbao, Ying Jiafu, Li Weifen, Du Xuhua*, Zhong Zheke*, Shao Qiong, Bian Fangyuan. 2021. Effects of chicken farming on soil properties and root-associated bacterial communities in a bamboo (Phyllostachys praecox) ecosystem. Applied Soil Ecology, 157, 103725.

• Fangyuan Bian, Zheke Zhong*, Xiaoping Zhang, Chuanbao Yang, Xu Gai. 2020. Bamboo–Anuntapped plant resource for the phytoremediation of heavy metalcontaminated soils. Chemosphere, 01, 246: 125750.

• Xiaoping Zhang, Fangyuan Bian, Zheke Zhong*, Xu Gai, Chuanbao Yang. 2020. Deciphering the rhizosphere microbiome of a bamboo plant in response to different chromium contamination levels. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 11(399): 123107.

• Chuanbao Yang, Huijing Ni, Zheke Zhong*, Xiaoping Zhang, Fangyuan Bian. 2019. Changes in soil carbon pools and components induced by replacing secondary evergreen broadleaf forest with Moso bamboo plantations in subtropical China. CATENA, 05, 180: 309–319.

• Zhang Xiaoping, Zhong Zheke^*, Bian Fangyuan, Yang Chuanbao. 2019. Effects of composted bamboo residue amendments on soil microbial communities in an intensively managed bamboo (Phyllostachys praecox) plantation. Applied Soil Ecology, 136: 178-183.