Main work

In recent years, Prof. Shi Zhongjie has led or participated in more than 10 scientific research projects, including the National natural science foundation of China, National key research and development, National basic science and technology survey special project, etc. Currently, he had published over 100 scientific papers (including over 40 papers by Science Cited Index), 5 monographs (including 2 monographs with first author), won 3 prizes from the LiangXi Forestry Science and Technology Award.

Key research projects

• "Biotic-Environmental Synergistic Mechanism and Restoration Strategy of Forest Decline in Northern Semi-arid China", 2023~2025, from International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Projects between Governments.

• "Mechanism of Natural Regeneration and Regulation of Pinus sylvestris var. Mongolia Plantation in Arid and Semiarid Regions of Inner Mongolia", 2023-2025, from Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia.

• "Tree growth modulated interactively by multi-drivers and its climate sensitive mechanism of Mongolian pine natural forests on the latitude gradient", 2021-2024, from National Natural Science Foundation of China.

• "Dendroecological study on the tree growth dynamic and their climate adaptability of natural Mongolia Pine forest modulated by competitions in Hulunbuir sand land", 2017-2020, from National Natural Science Foundation of China.

• "Remote sensing monitoring technological import of desert dust flux from land to Ocean" from the '948' project State Forestry Administration P.R. China.

• "Hydrological balance and simulation of Eucalyptus Plantation from a small watershed", 2008-2010 from National Natural Science Foundation of China.

• "Spatial self-organization pattern and its ecohydrological response mechanism Artemisia ordosica shrub in Mu Us Sand land", 2013-2016, from National Natural Science Foundation of China. Participant.

• "Formation Mechanism and Scale Effect of Soil Water Spatial Pattern in the Upper of Jinghe River Based on Landscape Pattern Changes", 2015-2018, from National Natural Science Foundation of China. Participant.

• "Optimal integration and demonstration of ecological husbandry in desertification grassland" in subject "Technological integration and demonstration of Ecological husbandry and desertification grassland management", 2016-2020, from National Key Research and Development Program of China. Subject Leader.

• "Assessment technique of dust biogeochemical cycle function in desert ecosystem" , 2008-2011, from National forestry public welfare industry research project. Participant.

• "Technological Integration and Application of Desertification Combating in the Silk Road Economic Belt", 2016-2018, from Fundamental Research Funds of Chinese Academy of Forestry. Project Leader.

• "Spatial and temporal dynamic and influencing factors of land degradation in the Silk Road Economic Belt" in the project of "Cooperative Research of Land degradation Monitoring and Assessment in the Silk Road Economic Belt between China and Kazakhstan ", 2015-2017, from the International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China. subject leader.

• "Scientific investigation for the background and pattern of geographical environment in the international economic corridor between China, Mongolia and Russia", 2017-2020, from the National basic science & technology resources survey Program of China.

Awards & achievements

• Lu Qi, Guo Hao, Cui Xianghui, Shi Zhongjie, Wu Bo, Xiao Shengchun, Zhang Yuqing, Hao Yuguang, Yang Xiaohui, Guo Cuiping. Functional assessment and service value accounting of desert ecosystems. National Forestry and Grassland Administration/China Forestry Society, LiangXi Forestry Science and Technology Award, Second Prize, 2020.

• Yan Deren, Yang Xiaohui, Shi Zhongjie, Yuan Limin, Liu Yanshu. Research and Demonstration of Vegetation Restoration and Desertification Land Management Technology in Hunshandak Sandy Land. National Forestry and Grassland Administration/China Forestry Society, LiangXi Forestry Science and Technology Award, Third Prize, 2019.

• Shi Zhongjie, Yang Xiaohui, Yan Deren, Wu Bo, Yu Hong, Yuan Limin, Liu Yanshu, Zhang Xiao, Zhang Youjun, Cao Yanli. Mechanism and regulation techniques of disturbance recovery in sandy Mongolian pine forests. National Forestry and Grassland Administration/China Forestry Society, LiangXi Forestry Science and Technology Award, Second Prize, 2018.

Published articles & books

Papers:

• Zhang Xiao, Fan Zhaofei, Shi Zhongjie, Pan Leilei, SeMyung Kwon, Yang Xiaohui, Liu Yanshu. 2022. Tree characteristics and drought severity modulate the growth resilience of natural Mongolian pine to extreme drought episodes. Science of the Total Environment, 840: 154742. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154742

• Wu Qianqian, Zhang Xiao, Xu Shuxing, Yang Xiaohui, Liu Yanshu, Li Hanzhi, Shi Zhongjie. 2022. Climatic Responses and their Influencing Factors of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Tree Growth in Inland Asia. Journal of Desert Research, 42(4):1-10.

• Zhang Xiao, Wu Mengwan, SeMyung Kwon, Pan Leilei, HanHui, Yang Xiaohui, Liu Yanshu, Shi Zhongjie. 2022. Radial growth responses of Mongolian pine (pinus sylvestris var. mongolica) plantations at different ages to climate and groundwater level   changes. Acta Ecologica Sinica,  DOI:10.5846/stxb202104170996.

• Xu Shuxing, Wu Qianqian, Qiao Dianxue, Mo Yinglin, Zhang Xiao, Liu Yanshu, Yang Xiaohui, Shi Zhongjie. 2021. Spatioteporal pattern and effecting factors of wild fire in Eastern Mongolia. Journal of Desert Research, 41(2):83-91.

• Genbatu Ge, Zhongjie Shi, Yuanjun Zhu, Xiaohui Yang, Yuguang Hao. 2020. Land use/cover classification in an arid desert-oasis mosaic landscape of China using remote sensed imagery: Performance assessment of four machine learning algorithms. Global Ecology and Conservation, 22：e00971

• L Guo, N Shan, Y Zhang, F Sun, W Liu, Z Shi, Q Zhang. 2019. Separating the effects of climate change and human activity on water use efficiency over the Beijing-Tianjin Sand Source Region of China. Science of the Total Environment 690: 584-595

• Y Liu, Z Shi, L Gong, R Cong, X Yang, DJ Eldridge.2019. Is the removal of aboveground shrub biomass an effective technique to restore a shrub‐encroached grassland? Restoration Ecology 27 (6), 1348-1356

• Y Zhu, D Shan, B Wang, Z Shi, X Yang, Y Liu.2019. Floristic features and vegetation classification of the Hulun Buir steppe in North China: geography and   climate-driven steppe diversification. Global Ecology and Conservation 20：e00741

• X Zhang, X Zhang, H Han, Z Shi, X Yang. 2019. Biomass Accumulation and Carbon Sequestration in an Age-Sequence of Mongolian Pine Plantations in Horqin   Sandy Land, China. Forests 10 (2)：197

• Zhiyong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Xiaohui Yang, Zhongjie Shi,Yanshu Liu.Grazing Altered the Pattern of Woody Plants and Shrub Encroachment in a Temperate Savanna Ecosystem. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16(3):330. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16030330

• Yanshu Liu, Xiaohui Yang, Dashuan Tian, Richun Cong, Xiao Zhang, Qingmin Pan, Zhongjie Shi. 2018. Resource reallocation of two grass species during regrowth after defoliation. Frontiers in Plant Science, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01767.

• Nan Shan, Zhongjie Shi, Xiaohui Yang, Hao Guo, Xiao Zhang, Zhiyong Zhang. 2018. Oasis irrigation-induced hydro-Climatic effects: A case study in the hyper-arid region of Northwest China[J]. Atmosphere, 9: 142.

• Wei Wei, Zhu Yuanjun, Li Hao, Zhang Kebin, Wang Baitian, Yang Xiaohui, Shi Zhongjie. 2018. Spatio-Temporal Reorganization of Cropland Development in Central Asia during the Post-Soviet Era: A Sustainable Implication in Kazakhstan. Sustainability,10: 4042.

• W Wei, B Wang, K Zhang, Z Shi, G Ge, X Yang.2018.Temporal Trends and Spatial Patterns of Temperature and Its Extremes over the Beijing-Tianjin Sand Source Region (1960–2014), China. Advances in Meteorology

• Lina Jiang, Xiao Wang, Long Li, Zhongjie Shi, Xiaohui Yang. 2017. Spatial Association of Shrubs and Their Interrelation to Burrowing Site Preference of Subterranean Rodents on Dune Slope in the Otindag Sandy Land, China. Sustainability  9:1729. doi:10.3390/su9101729. (SCI收录，IF=1.789)

• Genbatu Ge, Zhongjie Shi, Xiaohui Yang , Yuguang Hao, Hao Guo, Fandjinou Kossi, Zhiming Xin, Wei Wei, Zhiyong Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Yanshu Liu, Junhui Liu. 2017. Analysis of Precipitation Extremes in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China: Spatio-Temporal Characteristics and Topography Effects. Atmosphere 8:127. doi:10.3390/atmos8070127. (SCI收录，IF=1.487)

• Wei Wei, Zhongjie Shi, Xiaohui Yang, Zheng Wei, Yanshu Liu, Zhiyong Zhang, Genbatu Ge, Xiao Zhang, Hao Guo, Kebin Zhang, Baitian Wang. 2017. Recent Trends of Extreme Precipitation and Their Teleconnection with Atmospheric Circulation in the Beijing-Tianjin Sand Source Region, China, 1960–2014. Atmosphere 8: 83. doi:10.3390/atmos8050083

• Yanshu Liu, Jiangwen Fan, Zhongjie Shi, Xiaohui Yang, Warwick Harris.2017. Relationships between plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) densities and biomass and biodiversity indices of alpine meadow steppe on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau China. Ecological Engineering 102: 509–518 (SCI收录, IF=2.914).

• Zhongjie Shi, Lihong Xu, Lingshui Dong, Jixi Gao, Xiaohui Yang, et al., 2016. Growth-Climate response and drought reconstruction from tree-ring of Mongolian pine in Hulunbuir, Northeast China. Journal of Plant Ecology, 9(1):51-60

• Nan Shan, Zhongjie Shi, Xiaohui Yang, Xiao Zhang, Hao Guo, Bo Zhang, Zhiyong Zhang. 2016. Trends in potential evapotranspiration from 1960 to 2013 for a desertification-prone region of China. International Journal of Climatology doi:10.1002/joc.4566

• Zhongjie Shi, Lihong Xu, Xiaohui Yang, Hao Guo, et al. 2016.Trends in reference evapotranspiration and its attribution over the past 50 years in the Loess Plateau, China: implications for ecological projects and agricultural production. Stochastic   Environmental Research and Risk Assessment doi: 10.1007/s00477-015-1203-5

• Zhongjie Shi, Nan Shan, Lihong Xu, Xiaohui Yang, Jixi Gao, et al., 2016. Spatiotemporal variation of temperature, precipitation and wind trends in a desertification prone region of China from 1960 to 2013. International Journal of Climatology doi:10.1002/joc.4635

• Lihong Xu, Zhongjie Shi, Yanhui Wang, Xinzheng Chu, et al. 2016. Agricultural irrigation-induced climatic effects: a case study in the middle and southern Loess Plateau area, China. International Journal of Climatology doi:10.1002/joc.4869

• Jixi Gao, Hao Zheng, Zhongjie Shi, Yanguo Teng, et al. 2016. The influence of vegetation types on water yields in the Da Hinggan Mountains of China. The Forestry Chronicle 92(3):307-315.

• Nan Shan, Zhongjie Shi, Xiaohui Yang, Jixi Gao, Dawei Cai. 2015. Spatiotemporal Trends of Reference Evapotranspiration and its Driving Factors in the Beijing-Tianjin Sand Source Control Project Region, China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 200:322-333.

• Lihong Xu, Zhongjie Shi, Yanhui Wang, et al. 2015. Spatiotemporal variation and driving forces of reference evapotranspiration in Jing River Basin, northwest China. Hydrological Processes, doi: 10.1002/hyp.10541.

• Nan Shan, Xiaohui Yang, Zhongjie Shi, Xisu Zhao. 2015. Temporal-spatial change of the sensitivity of potential evapotranspiration to climatic influencing factors in Beijing-Tianjin Sand Source Control Project Zone from 1959 to 2011. Journal of Desert Research 35(5):1330-1337. (In Chinese)

• Tian Y, Cao J, Yang X, Shan N, Shi Z, 2015. Patterns of carbon allocation in a chronosequence of Caragana intermedia plantations in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. iForest 8:756-764.

• Zhongjie Shi, Xiaohui Yang, Hao Guo, et al., 2014. Benefits of Sandstorm Control in China. The Forestry Chronicle, 90(2): 132-135.

• Gao Jixi, Shi Zhongjie, et al., 2013. Precipitation variability in Hulunbuir, northeastern China since 1829 A.D reconstructed from tree-rings and its linkage with remote oceans. Journal of Arid Environment, 95:14-21.

• Wang Yange, Yang Xiaohui, Shi Zhongjie. 2013. The formation of the patterns of desert shrub communities on the western Ordos Plateau, China: the roles of seed dispersal and sand burial. PLOS ONE 8(7): e69970.

• Shi Zhongjie, Gao Jixi, et al., 2013. Tree-ring based reconstruction of mean maximum temperatures since AD 1829. The Forestry Chronicle, 89(2): 183-190.

• Nan Shan, Xiaohui Yang, Zhongjie Shi, Feng Yan. 2012. Spatial and temporal distribution of aerosol optical depth in China based on MODIS. Science of Soil and Water Conservation 10(5):24-30. (In Chinese)

• Zhongjie Shi, Jixi Gao, Lihong Xu, Chaoyang Feng, Shihai Lv, Jianxun Shang. 2011. Effect of vegetation on changes of temperature and precipitation in Inner Mongolia,China. Ecology and Environmental Sciences 20(11): 1594-1601. (In   Chinese)

• Shi Zhongjie, Xu Daping, Gao Jixi, Song Aiyun, Yu Chuntang, Zhang Ningnan, Hu Zhesen. Carbon Storage and Its Distribution of Eucalyptus Urophylla × E.tereticornis Plantations in Hainan Island, Southern China. Scientia Silvae Sinicae 47(10): 21-28. (In Chinese)

• Zhongjie Shi, Yanhui Wang, et al., 2010. Fraction of incident rainfall within the canopy of a pure stand of Pinus armandii with revised Gash model in the Liupan Mountains of China. Journal of Hydrology, 385：44-50.

• Shi Zhongjie, Zhang Ningnan, He Changqing, Qiu Zhijun, Xu Daping, Gao Jixi, Hu Zhesen. 2010. Eco-hydrological effect of the canopy, litter and soil of a eucalyptus plantation in South China. Acta Ecologica Sinica 30(7):1932-1939. (In Chinese)

• Xu Lihong, Shi Zhongjie, Wang Yanhui, Xiong Wei, Yu Pengtao. 2010. Canopy interception characteristics of main vegetation types in Liupan Mountains of China. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology 21(10):2487-2493. (In Chinese)

• Xu Lihong, Wang Yanhui, Yu Pengtao, Shi Zhongjie, Xiong Wei, Mo Fei, Zhang Shulan and Dong Xiaohong. 2010. Hydrological Impacts of Afforestation: A Case Study Based on Simulation of TOPOG in the Small Watershed of Caogou in Liupan Mountains, China. Journal of Resources and Ecology. 1(3): 110-116.

• Shi Zhongjie, Wang Yanhui, Xu Lihong, Xiong Wei, Yu Pengtao, Guo Hao. Rainfall redistribution and its spatial variation in the stand of Pinus armandii in the Liupan Mountains, China. Acta Ecologica Sinica 29(1): 76-85. (In Chinese)

• Shi Zhongjie, Wang Yanhui, Xu Lihong, Xiong Wei, Yu Pengtao, Guo Hao, Zhang Leiyan. 2009. Hydrological functions of litter layer of typical forest types in the Liupan Mountains of Ningxia, northwestern China. Journal of Beijing Forestry University 31(1):91-99. (In Chinese)

• Shi Zhongjie, Xu Daping, Zhang Ningnan, Qiu Zhijun, Hu Zhesen, Guo Junyu. 2009. Progress in Researches on Hydrological Effects of Eucalyptus Plantation. Scientia Silvae Sinicae 45(11):135-140. (In Chinese)

• Shi Zhongjie, Wang Yanhui, Xu Lihong, Xiong Wei, Yu Pengtao, Hu Zhesen, Gao Jixi. 2009. Effect of topographic form and vegetation type on the runoff coefficient in the Xiangshuihe Watershed of Liupan Mountains. Science of Soil and Water Conservation, 7(4):31-37. (In Chinese)

• Pengtao Yu, Valentina Krysanova, Yanhui Wang, Wei Xiong, Fei Mo, Zhongjie Shi, Hailong Liu, Tobias Vetter, Shaochun Huang. 2009. Quantitative estinate of water yield reduction caused by forestation in a water-limited area in northwest China. Geophysical Research Letters 36, 02406, doi: 10.1029/2008GL036744.

• Yanhui Wang, Pentao Yu, Wei Xiong, Zhenxi Shen, Mingchun Guo, Zhongjie Shi, Apeng Du, Liangmin Wang. 2008. Water-yield reduction after afforestation and related processes in the semiarid Liupan Mountains, Northwest China. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 44(5):1086-1097.

• Shi Zhongjie, Wang Yanhui, Yu Pengtao, et al., 2008. Effect of rock fragments on the percolation and evaporation of forest soil in Liupan Mountains, China. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 28(12):6090-6098.

• Shi ZhongJie, Wang YanHui, Xu Li-Hong, Xiong Wei, Yu Pengtao, Guo Hao, Xu Daping. 2008. The influence of rock fragments on the characteristics of macropore and water effluent of forest soils in the Liupan Mountains, Northwest China. Acta Ecologica Sinica 28(10): 4929-4939. (In Chinese)

• Guo Junyu, Shi Zhongjie, Xu Daping, Tai Likun, Zhou Weiwei, Yang Zengjiang. 2008. Effect of natural secondary forest and its artificial regeneration forests on soil physical   properties and carbon storage in Hainan island, China. Ecology and   Environment 17(6):2366-2369. (In Chinese)

• Zhongjie Shi, Yanhui Wang, et al., 2007. Cause of formation of forested soil macropores in the Liupan Mountains of Northwest, China. Progress in Hydro Sciences and Engineering, Volume 3/2007, pp 141-158.

• Shi Zhongjie, Wang Yanhui, Xu Lihong, Yu Pengtao, Xiong Wei, Xu Daping. 2007. Soil macropore   characteristics under typical vegetations in Liupan Mountains. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 18(12):2675-2680. (In Chinese)

• Shi Zhongjie, Wang Yanhui, Xu Lihong, Xiong Wei, Yu Pengtao, Xu Daping. 2007. Effect of rock fragments on   the formation of soil macroporosity of typical vegetation in Liupan Mountains of northwest, China. Journal of Mountain Science 5: 541-547. (In Chinese)

• Shi Zhongjie, Du Apeng, Hu Zhesen, Xu Daping. 2007. Effect of soil water stress on active oxygen metabolism of chestnut seedling leaves. Forest Research 20(5): 683-687. (In Chinese)

• Shi Zhongjie, Wang Yanhui, Xiong Wei, Yu Pengtao, Guo Hao, Zhang Leiyan, Dong Xiaohong. 2006. The spatial heterogeneity of throughfall under the Larix principis-rupprechtii single tree's canopy. Acta Ecologica Sinica 26(9):2877-2886. (In Chinese)

Monographs:

• SHI ZHONGJIE, YANG XIAOHUI and CAO XIAOMING. Vegetation change and ecological disasters in China-Mongolia-Russia Economic corridor. Beijing: Science Press. 2023.

• SHI ZHONGJIE, YU HONG, YANG XIAOHUI and WEI WEI. Response of Natural Forest of Sandy Mongolian Pinus to Fire Disturbance and Climate Change. Beijing: Science Press. 2018.

• LU QI, JIA XIAOHONG. Desert Ecology. Beijing: Chinese Forestry Press. 2019, (Associated editor)

• Yang Xiaohui, Shi Zhongjie, Zhu Jiangang. Spatial Analysis: A Guide for Ecologists. Beijing: Higher Education Press. 2014.

• Study on Function Evaluation and Service Value of Desert Ecosystem, published by Science Press in 2014, Focusing on the Assessment and Ecosystem Service Accounting for the Dust Biogeochemical Cycle (Chapter 8).