Zheng Shi
Research Scientist
Institute for Environmental Genomics
School of Biological Sciences
2021.9 join IEG
101 David L. Boren Blvd., SRTC 2030
Norman, OK 73019, USA
Degrees and Institution(s)
Ph.D. Global Change Ecology. University of Oklahoma, USA
Research Areas
- Ecosystem Ecology
- Global Climate Change
- Ecosystem modeling
Research interests
- How carbon cycles in plant and soil respond to climate change such as warmer temperature, enriched atmospheric CO2 and precipitation paradigm changes.
- Use experimental data to inform ecosystem model parameterization across temporal and spatial scales
- Use machine learning technique to identify underlying mechanisms for land carbon cycling
Representative publications
- Shi, Z., F. M. Hoffman, M. Xu, U. Mishra, S. D. Allison, J. Zhou, and J. T. Randerson. 2024. Global-Scale Convergence Obscures Inconsistencies in Soil Carbon Change Predicted by Earth System Models. AGU Advances 5:e2023AV001068. doi.org/10.1029/2023AV001068
- Shi, Z., Allison, S.D., He, Y., Levine, P.A., Hoyt, A.M., Beem-Miller, J., Zhu, Q., Wieder,
- W.R., Trumbore, S. and Randerson, J.T., 2020. The age distribution of global soil carbon
- inferred from radiocarbon measurements. Nature Geoscience, 13(8): 555-559. doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0596-z
- Shi, Z., S. Crowell, Y. Luo, and B. Moore. 2018. Model structures amplify uncertainty in predicted soil carbon responses to climate change. Nature Communications 9:2171, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04526-9.
- van Gestel, N., Z. Shi, K. J. van Groenigen, C. W. Osenberg, L. C. Andresen, J. S. Dukes, M. J. Hovenden, Y. Luo, A. Michelsen, E. Pendall, P. B. Reich, E. A. G. Schuur, and B. A. Hungate. 2018. Predicting soil carbon loss with warming. Nature 554:E4, doi:10.1038/nature25745.
- Shi, Z., X. Xu, L. Souza, K. Wilcox, L. Jiang, J. Liang, J. Xia, P. García-Palacios, and Y. Luo. 2016. Dual mechanisms regulate ecosystem stability under decade-long warming and hay harvest. Nature Communications 7:11973, doi:10.1038/ncomms11973.
