Xin Kun

Prof.  Xin Kun

Organization: Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry

Research category: Ecology

Research field: Mangrove ecological protection and restoration

E-mail: xinkun@caf.ac.cn

Main work

  • 2019.08 to now, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, CAF

  • 2001.06 to 2019.07, Hainan Normal University

  • 1996.09-2001.06, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Master and Doctor Degree

  • 1991.09-1995.07, North-East Normal University, Bachelor Degree

Key research projects

  • 2023.10-2024.10. Key projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology: Control technology and demonstration of Spartina alterniflora

  • 2021.01-2023.12. Key projects of Guangdong Province: Research and demonstration of mangrove ecological restoration and function enhancement technology in Guangdong Province

  • 2021.01-2022.01. State Forestry and grass Bureau key project: Study on human activities and wetland conservation and restoration

  • 2021.01-2023.12. National Forest and Grass Service project: Mangrove ecological protection and restoration technical specification standard

  • 2020.01-2022.12. Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Forestry: Study on the law and mechanism of rapid expansion of Derris   trifoliata in mangrove wetland

  • 2020.09-2022.08. Platform projects of Guangdong province: Background survey of mangrove ecosystem in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

  • 2017.01-2020.12. National Natural Science Foundation of China: Study on succession regularity and influencing factors of mangrove plant community driven by Sphaeromatidae disaster

  • 2014.01-2015.12. Key project of Hainan Provincial Science and Technology Department: Research on early warning and control technology of Sphaeroma disaster in mangrove

  • 2013.01-2016.12. National Natural Science Foundation of China: Spatial distribution of mangrove soil organic carbon and its influencing factors

  • 2008.01-2010.12. Key projects of the Ministry of Education: Study on Mangrove landscape Pattern Dynamics and Influencing Factors

  • 2007.01-2009.12. National Natural Science Foundation of China: Multiscale assessment of mangrove health status

Awards & achievements

  • Key technologies and applications of forest vegetation restoration and water conservation function improvement in the upper reaches of Minjiang River, 2020, First Prize of Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award;

  • Coupling and long-term evolution mechanism of forest vegetation ecohydrological processes in the Minjiang River Basin in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, 2015, First Prize of Liang Xi Forestry Science and Technology Award.

Published articles & books

  • Zhongtong Peng, Qifeng Mo, Liangjun Zhu, Qingao Lu, Jiaqing Cai, Mingming Guo, Kun Xu, Yuandong Zhang*, 2023, Divergent responses of Picea crassifolia Kom. in different forest patches to climate change in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Forest Ecosystems, 10, 100153.

  • Zhongtong Peng, Yuandong Zhang*, Liangjun Zhu, Mingming Guo, Qingao Lu, Kun Xu, Hui Shao, Qifeng Mo, Shirong Liu, 2023, Spatial and temporal patterns of the sensitivity of radial growth response by Picea schrenkiana to regional climate change in the Tianshan Mountains, Journal of Forestry Research, 34(6), 1669-1681

  • Qingao Lu, Yuandong Zhang*, Bochao Song, Hui Shao, Xiaorui Tian, Shirong Liu, 2023, The responses of ecological indicators to compound extreme climate indices in Southwestern China, Ecological Indicators, 157, 111253

  • Hui Shao, Yuandong Zhang*, Zhen Yu, Fengxue Gu, Zhongtong Peng, 2022, The resilience of vegetation to the 2009/2010 extreme drought in Southwest China, Forests, 13, 851.

  • Chunming Shi, Cong Gao, Yuandong Zhang*, Fangzhong Shi,Miaogen Shen, Songlin Shi, 2021,The majority of tree growth on the monsoonal Tibetan Plateau has benefited from recent summer warming[J], Catena, 207,105649.

  • Hui Shao, Yuandong Zhang*, Fengxue Gu, Chunming Shi, Ning Miao, Shirong Liu, 2021, Impacts of climate extremes on ecosystem metrics in southwest China, Science of the Total Environment, 776, 145979.

  • Zhongda Hu, Yuandong Zhang*, Fengxue Gu, Yaobin Li, Hui Shao, Shirong Liu, 2020, Local residents' perceptions of climate and ecological changes in the eastern Tibetan Plateau, Regional Environmental Change, 20,56.

  • Wenqi Song, Changcheng Mu, Yuandong Zhang*, Xu Zhang, Zongshan Li, Huiying Zhao, Xiaochun Wang*, 2020, Moisture-driven changes in the sensitivity of the radial growth of Picea crassifolia to temperature, Northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Dendrochronologia 64, 125761.

  • Mingming Guo, Yuandong Zhang*, Shirong Liu*, Fengxue Gu, Xiaochun Wang, Zongshan Li, Chunming Shi, Zexin Fan, 2019, Divergent growth between spruce and fir at alpine treelines on the east edge of the Tibetan Plateau in response to recent climate warming, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 276–277,107631.

Other results

  • Technical specification for restoration and sustainable management of degraded forests in Southwest China.