[1] 国家自然科学基金面上项目“基于光谱技术的牧草质量和产量同步反演—以内蒙古典型草原为例”，2021 - 2024，主持

[2] 国家重点研发计划“陆地生态系统碳源汇监测技术及指标体系”子课题“陆地生态系统碳源汇遥感估算方法研究”，2017 - 2021，主持

[3] 国家自然科学基金青年项目“内蒙古草原植被生产力稳定性的时空格局及其影响因素”，2018 - 2020，主持

[4] 云南省社会发展专项“云南高原湖泊生态保护关键技术研究及示范”子课题“土地利用变化和农业面源污染对云南高原湖泊水环境的影响”，2021 - 2024年，主持

代表性论文专著：（^#共同第一作者，*标记为通讯作者）

[1] Zhao X*, Wu B, Xue JX, Shi Y, Zhao MY, Geng XQ, Yan ZB, Shen HH, and Fang JY. 2023. Mapping Forage Biomass and Quality of the Inner Mongolia Grasslands by Combining Field Measurements and Sentinel-2 Observations. Remote Sensing, 15, 1973.

[2] Zhao X, Shen HH, Geng XQ, Fang JY* 2021. Three-decadal destabilization of vegetation activity on the Mongolian Plateau. Environmental Research Letters, 16, 034049.

[3] Zhao X, Yang YH, Shen HH, Geng XQ and Fang JY*. 2019. Global soil–climate–biome diagram: linking surface soil properties to climate and biota. Biogeosciences, 16, 2857–2871.

[4] Tang XL^#, Zhao X^#, Bai YF^#, Tang ZY^#, Wang WT, Zhao YC, Wan HW, Xie ZQ, Shi XZ, Wu BF, Wang GX, Yan J, Ma KP, Du S, Li SG, Han SJ, Ma YX, Hu HF, He NP, Yang YH, Han WX, He HL, Yu GR, Fang JY*, Zhou GY*. 2018. Carbon pools in China’s terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115:4021–4026.

[5] Zhao X*, Hu H, Shen H, Zhou D, Zhou L, Myneni R, and Fang J. 2015. Satellite-indicated long-term vegetation changes and their drivers on the Mongolian Plateau. Landscape Ecology, 30:1599–1611.

[6] Zhao X, Zhou D, and Fang J. 2012. Satellite-based Studies on Large-Scale Vegetation Changes in China. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 54:713–728.

[7] Zhao X, Tan K, Zhao S, and Fang J*. 2011. Changing climate affects vegetation growth in the arid region of the northwestern China. Journal of Arid Environments 75:946–952.