Shulan Zhang （Female）
Address: College of Resources and Environment
Northwest A&F University
712100 Yangling, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China
Office phone: +86 29 87080055
e-mail: zhangshulan@nwafu.edu.cn; zhshulan@hotmail.com
Nationality: Chinese
Education
PhD: soil science, 2002-2005, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden. Main supervisor: Harald Grip (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), Co-supervisor: Per-Erik Jansson. The Ph.D. thesis Soil hydraulic properties and water balance under various soil management regimes on the Loess Plateau, China.
MS: plant nutrient and fertilization, 1989-1992, Northwest A&F University, China
BS: soil science and agriculture chemistry, 1985-1989, Northwest A&F University, China
Employments
2009- Professor of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition at Northwest A & F University, China
2000-2008 Associate professor of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition at Northwest A & F University, China
1992-2000 Research assistant of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition at Institute of Soil and Fertilizer, Shaanxi Academy of Agricultural Science, China
Research Interests
1) Nutrients (Nitrogen) and water management for cereal crops on drylands, one aspect is focusing on improving water use efficiency through agronomic and nutrient management practices and understanding mechanisms. Another is optimizing nutrient and water management for increasing crop yield and nutrient use efficiency, reducing nutrient losses.
2) Soil management and soil fertility, mostly concentrating on long-term effects of differed soil management and fertilization regimes on soil carbon sequestration and other related soil physical, chemical and biological properties.
Ongoing research projects
1) Integrated research and demonstration for reducing applications of fertilizer and pesticide for winter wheat in Fen-Wei Plain. 2018-2020, National Key Research and Development Program.
2) Use process of soil water at planting by winter wheat under plastic mulching and its regulating mechanisms in the Loess Plateau. 2017-2020, National Natural Science Foundation of China.
3) Measures and mechanisms for reducing nitrogen and phosphorus leaching in brown earth. 2016-2020, National Key Research and Development Program.
International cooperation
2013- to date: Victor Oscar Sadras, principal scientist in crop ecophysiology, South Australian Research & Development Institute.
2007-2010: Improving Livelihoods on Shaanxi Farms by reducing non-point N Pollution through Improved Nutrient Management. A co-operation project between Rothamsted Research, UK and Northwest A&F University, China.
2001-2005: Increasing the productivity per unit area of agricultural systems on dry lands in the Loess Plateau. A co-operation project to transfer knowledge and technology between Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Northwest A&F University, China.
1997-2000: Improve N use efficiency and reduce N losses. A co-operation project between Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Northwest A&F University, China.
Publications in international journals since 2011
Changlu Hu, Victor O. Sadras, Guoyan Lu, Panxin Zhang, Yan Han, Lin Liu, Junyu Xie, Xueyun Yang, Shulan Zhang. A global meta-analysis of split nitrogen application for improved wheat yield and grain protein content. Soil Till Res. 2021, 213, 105111
Lin Liu, Victor O. Sadras, Jiaxing Xu, Changlu Hu, Xueyun Yang, and Shulan Zhang. Genetic improvement of crop yield, grain protein and nitrogen use efficiency of wheat, rice and maize in China. Adv Agron, 2021, 168, 204-252.
Asif Khan, Xin Jin, Xueyun Yang, Shengli Guo, Shulan Zhang. Phosphorus Fractions Affected by Land Use Changes in Soil Profile on the Loess Soil. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 2021,21, 722-732.
Wang Ren-jie, Song Jia-shan, Feng Yong-tao, Zhou Jiang-xiang, Xie Jun-yu, Asif Khan, Che Zong-xian, Zhang Shu-lan, Yang Xue-yun. Changes in soil organic carbon pools following long-term fertilization under rain-fed cropping system in the Loess Plateau, China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2021, 20(9): 2512–2525
Fenglian Lv, Jiashan Song, Donna Giltrap, Yongtao Feng, Xueyun Yang, Shulan Zhang*. Crop yield and N2O emission affected by long-term organic manure substitution fertilizer under winter wheat-summer maize cropping system. Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 732: 139321.
Renjie Wang, Jiangxiang Zhou, Junyu Xie, Asif Khan, Xueyun Yang, Benhua Sun & Shulan Zhang*. Carbon Sequestration in Irrigated and Rain-Fed Cropping Systems Under Long-Term Fertilization Regimes. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2020, 20(3):941-952.
Changlu Hu, Victor O. Sadras, Guoyan Lu, Xin Jin, Jiaxing Xu, Yulian Ye, Xueyun Yang, Shulan Zhang*. Dual-purpose winter wheat: interactions between crop management, availability of nitrogen and weather conditions. Field Crops Research, 2019, 241, 107579.
Changlu Hu, Victor O. Sadras, Guoyan Lu, Runze Zhang, Xueyun Yang, Shulan Zhang*. Root pruning enhances wheat yield, harvest index and water-use efficiency in semiarid area. Field Crops Research, 2019, 230, 62-71.
Lin Liu, Shan Yao, Hongtao Zhang, Ayaz Muhammed, Jiaxing Xu, Ruonan Li, Dongjie Zhang, Shulan Zhang* , Xueyun Yang*. Soil nitrate nitrogen buffer capacity and environmentally safe nitrogen rate for winter wheat-summer maize cropping in Northern China. Agricultural Water Management, 2019, 213: 445–453.
Asif Khan, Lu Guoyan, Zhang Hongtao, Wang Renjie, Lv Fenglian, Xu Jiaxing, Xueyun Yang, Shulan Zhang*. 2019. Land Use Changes Impact Distribution of Phosphorus in Deep Soil Profile. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 19: 565–573.
Asif Khan, Guoyan Lu, Muhammed Ayaz, Hongtao Zhang, Renjie Wang, Fenglian Lv, Xueyun Yang, Benhua Sun, Shulan Zhang. 2018. Phosphorus efficiency, soil phosphorus dynamics and critical phosphorus level under long-term fertilization for single and double cropping systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 256, 1–11.
J. Xie, B. Peng, R. Wang, J. Batbayar, M. Hoogmoed, Y, Yang, S. Zhang, X. Yang, B. Sun.2018. Responses of crop productivity and physical protection of organic carbon by macroaggregates to long-term fertilization of an Anthrosol. European Journal of Soil Science, 2018
Junyu Xie, Miaomiao Hou, Yingtian Zhou, Renjie Wang, Shulan Zhang, Xueyun Yang, Benhua Sun. 2017. Carbon sequestration and mineralization of aggregate-associated carbon in an intensively cultivated Anthrosol in north Chian as affected by long term fertilization. Geoderma, 296, 1-9.
Zheng Wang, V.O. Sadras, Xueyun Yang, Xiaoyu Han, Fang Huang, Shulan Zhang. 2017. Synergy between breeding for yield in winter wheat and high-input agriculture in North-West China. Field Crops Research, 209, 136-143.
Zheng Wang, V.O. Sadras, Marianne Hoogmoed, Xueyun Yang, Fang Huang, Xiaoyu Han, Shulan Zhang. 2017. Shifts in nitrogen and phosphorus uptake and allocation in response to selection for yield in Chinese winter wheat. Crop & Pasture Science, 68, 807-816.
Shulan Zhang, Renjie Wang, Xueyun Yang, Benhua Sun & Qinghui Li 2016. Soil aggregation and aggregating agents as affected by long term contrasting management of an Anthrosol. Scientific Reports 6:39107,|DOI: 10.1038/srep39107
Shulan Zhang, Jie Li, Xueyun Yang, Benhua Sun 2016. Long-term effects of soil management regimes on carbon contents and respiration rates of aggregate size fractions. Soil Use and Management, 32,525-534.
Shi, Y., Zhao, X., Gao, X., Zhang, S.，Wu, P. 2016. The Effects of Long-term Fertiliser Applications on Soil Organic Carbon and Hydraulic Properties of a Loess Soil in China. Land Degrad. Develop., 27: 60–67.
Shulan Zhang, Xueyun Yang and Lars Lovdahl 2016. Soil Management Practice Effect on Water Balance of a Dryland Soil during Fallow Period on the Loess Plateau of China. Soil & Water Res., 11, 2016 (1): 64–73.
Zhang, S., Gao, P., Tong, Y., Norse, D., Lu, Y., Powlson, D. 2015. Overcoming nitrogen fertilizer over-use through technical and advisory approaches: A case study from Shaanxi Province, northwest China. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 209, 89–99.
Hu C., Ding M., Qu C., Sadras V., Yang X., Zhang S*. 2015. Yield and water use efficiency of wheat in the Loess Plateau:Responses to root pruning and defoliation. Field Crops Research 179, 6–11.
Zhang S., Li Z., Liu J, Li Q, Yang X. 2015. Long-term effects of straw and manure on crop micronutrient nutrition under a wheat-maize cropping system. J. Plant Nutrition, 38, 742-753.
Zhang S., Li Z., Yang X. 2015. Effects of Long-Term Inorganic and Organic Fertilization on Soil Micronutrient Status. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 46:1778–1790.
XIE Jun-yu2, XU Ming-gang, Qiangjiu Ciren, YANG Yang, ZHANG Shu-lan*, SUN Ben-hua, YANG Xue-yun. 2015. Soil aggregation and aggregate associated organic carbon and total nitrogen under long-term contrasting soil management regimes in loess soil. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 14(12): 2405–2416.
Zhang S., Li H., Yang X., Sun B. 2015. Effects of soil management regimes on biochemical properties of a loess soil. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 15 (3), 711-725.
Yang X., Sun B., Zhang S. 2014. Trends of yield and soil fertility in a long-term wheat-maize system. J. Integra. Agr. 13(2): 402-414.
Zhang, S., Sadras, V., Chen, X., Zhang, F., 2014. Water use efficiency of dryland maize in the Loess Plateau in response to crop management. Field Crops Res. 163: 55-63.
Zhang S., Sadras V., Chen X., Zhang F. 2013. Water use efficiency of dryland wheat in the Loess Plateau in responseto soil and crop management. Field Crops Research 151, 9–18.
Yang X., Ren W., Sun B., Zhang S. 2012. Effects of contrasting soil management regimes on total and labile soil organic carbon fractions in a loess soil in China. Geoderma 177–178, 49–56.
Yang X., Li P., Zhang S., Sun B., Chen X. 2011. Long-term-fertilization effects on soil organic carbon, physical properties, and wheat yield of a loess soil. J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci. 174, 775–784.
Yang X., Yang Y., Sun B., Zhang S. 2011. Long-term fertilization effects on yield trends and soil properties under a winter wheat–summer maize cropping system. African Journal of Agricultural Research 6(14), 3392-3401.
Zhang S., Li P., Yang X., Wang Z., Chen X. 2011. Effects of tillage and plastic mulch on soil water, growth and yield of spring-sown maize. Soil & Tillage Research, 112, 92–97.