研究领域为全球变化生态学，主要运用树木年轮学方法从事以下三个方向的研究：1）森林健康历史，研究森林生态系统所经历的干扰历史并揭示干扰事件对森林健康的影响（生长衰退、释放、生态韧性等）；2）高山林线，认识青藏高原高山林线形成和树木生长过程； 3）古气候，运用长序列（数百年乃至上千年）高分辨率（年或季节）的树木年轮资料来重建过去气候变化。 

1.  国家自然科学基金面上项目，西藏柏木林在衰退事件后树木生长的恢复时间及其影响因素（主持人：张齐兵），正在执行

2. 国家自然科学基金面上项目：青藏高原东部阳坡和阴坡森林建群树种径向生长对干旱的响应和适应（主持人：吕利新），正在执行

3. 国家自然科学基金面上项目：基于树木生态韧性评估祁连山国家公园典型森林衰退风险（主持人：方欧娅），正在执行

4. 第二次青藏高原综合科学考察研究“藏东南森林和灌丛生态系统与资源管理”子专题“藏东南-昌都片区考察”（主持人：张齐兵），正在执行

5 国家自然科学基金重点项目：从树木年轮分析极端气候下森林衰退的发生历史与恢复力，（主持人：张齐兵）

6. 国家自然科学基金面上项目：五千年以来自然和人为干扰对新疆北部小叶桦湿地生态环境的影响研究（主持人：张芸）

7. 国家自然科学基金委面上项目：青藏高原东南部过去500年极端温度事件的演变特征及其动力机制（主持人：段建平）

8. 国家自然科学基金国际合作项目：森林生态系统在环境梯度上的结构和功能：青藏高原与芬兰的森林对比研究，（主持人：张齐兵）

9. 国家自然科学基金青年基金：青藏高原高山树线动态对梯度水分因子的响应（主持人：吕利新）

10. 国家自然科学基金面上项目：青藏高原典型高山林线树木生长和更新对全球变暖的响应（主持人：张齐兵）

11. 国家自然科学基金面上项目：三江源湿地生境动态评价的乔、灌、草年轮指标探索（主持人：张齐兵）

12. 国家自然科学基金重点项目：利用树木年轮分析青藏高原与中国东部气候变化和自然灾害的时空联系（主持人：张齐兵）

13. 国家自然科学基金面上项目：珠峰保护区高山森林对全球变化响应的树木年轮生态学研究（主持人：张齐兵）

14 国家自然科学基金委青年基金项目：基于树轮密度和宽度的不同季节温度变化对比研究（主持人：段建平）

15. 国家自然科学基金面上项目：新疆北部典型湿地7000aBP植被演变及环境因素分析（主持人：张芸）

研究论文（注*为通讯作者）：

2024

钟元, 郑嘉诚, 邱红岩, 吕利新*. 2024.  西藏东部主要建群树种径向生长对极端干旱的响应差异. 生态学报, 44(3):1221-1230.

2023

Pu X, Lyu LX*. 2023. Disentangling the impact of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance on rising water-use efficiency at different altitudes on the Tibetan plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 341: 109659.

Yang J, Zhao BW, Zheng JC, Zhang Q, Li Y, Ma FH, Fang OY*.2023. Linkage between spruce forest decline and cloud cover increase in the Qilian Mountains of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Trees-structure and function. 37:1097–1106

丹增欧珠, 郑嘉诚, 喻武, 张齐兵. 2023. 海拔4700米的两株大果圆柏年龄与生长史被测定. 国土绿化, 2023(8):24-26.

Chen F*, Man WM, Wang SJ, Esper J, Meko D, Büntgen U, Yuan YJ, Hadad M, Hu M, Zhao XE, Roig FA, Fang OY, Chen YP, Zhang HL, Shang HM, Yu SL, Luo X, He DM*, Chen FH*. 2023. Southeast Asian ecological dependency on Tibetan Plateau streamflow over the last millennium. Nature geoscience. 16, 1151–1158.

2022

Zheng JC, Lyu LX., Zhang QB. * 2022. Isolated Trees in Two Tibetan Plateau Treelines Reveal Growth Plasticity to Harsh Conditions of the Little Ice Age. Forests, 13, 1371. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13091371

Langzhen JY,  Zhang QB*, Jia HF, Zheng JC, Fang JP. 2022. Tree rings reveal a growth-decline event in A.D. 1875-1883 in a Tibetan Plateau juniper forest. Dendrochronologia, DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2022.125981.2021

Li Y, Zhang QB*, Fang OY, Mu YM, Jia HF, Lyu LX. 2022. Recovery time of juniper trees is longer in wet than dry conditions on the Tibetan Plateau in the past two centuries. Forest Ecology and Management. 497, DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119514.

Fang OY, Zhang QB*, Vitasse Y, Zweifel R. Cherubini P. 2022. The frequency and severity of past droughts shape the drought sensitivity of juniper trees on the Tibetan Plateau. Forest Ecology and Management. 486, DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.118968.

Mu YM, Lyu LX, Li Y,  Fang OY*. 2022. Tree-ring evidence of ecological stress memory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 289: 20221850.

Jia HF, Fang OY*, Lyu LX. 2022. Non-linear modelling reveals a predominant moisture limit on juniper growth across the southern Tibetan Plateau. Annals of Botany, 130:85-95.

Zhang WY, Wang Y, Xiao JY, and Lyu LX*.2022.  Species-specific coupling of tree-ring width and litter production in a temperate mixed forest. Forest Ecology And Management . 504, 119831.

Zhang Q, Lyu LX, and Wang Y*. 2022.Patterns of daily stem growth in different tree species in a warm-temperate forest in northern China. Dendrochronologia. 72: 125934.

Chen LX, Zhang Y*, Kong ZC. 2022. Airborne pollen patterns and their relationship with meteorological factors in the Betula microphylla-dominated wetland of Ebinur Lake, Xinjiang, China. Science China Earth Science. 64(10):1746-1760.

 Zhang Y*, Li XK,  Kong ZC, Du NQ, Wu MX. 2022. Subtropical forest vegetation development and climate change in Baishanzu area of Zhejiang Province, China, since the Holocene. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 608(111293):1-13.

2021

Wang Z, Lyu LX, Liu WX, Liang HX, Huang JG. and Zhang QB*. 2021. Topographic patterns of forest decline as detected from tree rings and NDVI. Catena. 198: 105011.

Mu YM, Zhang QB*, Fang OY, Lyu LX and Cherubini P. 2021. Pervasive tree-growth reduction in Tibetan juniper forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 480: 118642.

Fang OY,  Zhang QB*, Yann V, Roman Z, Paolo C. 2021. The frequency and severity of past droughts shape the drought sensitivity of juniper trees on the Tibetan plateau. Forest Ecology and Management. 486: 118968.

Mu YM,  Fang OY*, Lyu LX. 2021. Nighttime warming alleviates the incidence of juniper forest growth decline on the Tibetan Plateau. Science of the Total Environment, 782: 146924.

方欧娅*, 张永, 张启, 贾恒锋. 2021. 黄河上游甘蒙柽柳生长对极端旱涝的响应. 植物生态学报, 45(6): 641-649.

Li Y,  Zhang QB*, Fang OY, Mu YM, Jia HF, Lyu LX. 2021. Recovery time of juniper trees is longer in wet than dry conditions on the Tibetan Plateau in the past two centuries. Forest Ecology and Management. 497: 119514.

Pu X, Wang XC, and Lyu LX *. Recent Warming-Induced Tree Growth Enhancement at the Tibetan Treeline and the Link to Improved Water-Use Efficiency. Forests 2021. 12(12): 1702.

Pu X, Wang XC, and Lyu LX*. 2021. Tree-Ring Isotopes Provide Clues for Sink Limitation on Treeline Formation on the Tibetan Plateau. Atmosphere. 12(5): 540.

肖健宇, 张文艳, 牟玉梅, 吕利新*. 2021. 树木年轮揭示的东灵山主要树种间干旱耐受性差异. 应用生态学报, 32(10): 3487-3496.

李媛媛， 张 芸*， 孔昭宸， 杨振京. 2021.  新疆阿尔泰红山嘴地区的表土孢粉与现代植被. 植物生态学报, 45(2)：174-186

Wang L, Zhang Y*, Kong ZC. 2021. Late Pleistocene-Holocene vegetation and climate change in Ebinur Betula wetland, Xinjiang, NW China. Episodes.  44(3) : 249-257

Chen LX , Li YY , Zhang Y*, Kong ZC ,  Qiao XG, Yang ZJ, QiY . 2021.  Relationship between surface pollen and modern vegetation in northern Xinjiang, China: Implications for paleovegetation and paleoclimate reconstruction. Quaternary International. 589:124-134

2020

Zhang QB and Fang OY. 2020. Tree rings circle an abrupt shift in climate. Science. 370: 1037-1038. DOI: 10.1126/science.abf1700.

Tao Q, Zhang QB* and Chen X*. 2020. Tree-ring reconstructed diurnal temperature range on the eastern Tibetan plateau and its linkage to El Nino-Southern Oscillation. International Journal of Climatology. 2020. DOI: 10.1002/joc.6917.

Fang OY, Qiu HY and Zhang QB*. 2020. Species-specific drought resilience in juniper and fir forests in the central Himalayas. Ecological Indicators. 117.

2019

Cheng XH, Lyu LX, Buntgen U, Cherubini P, Qiu HY, Zhang QB*. 2019. Increased El Nino-Southern Oscillation sensitivity of tree growth on the southern Tibetan Plateau since the 1970s. International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.6032.

Lyu LX, Zhang QB*, Pellatt MG, Buntgen U, Li MH and Cherubini P. 2019. Drought limitation on tree growth at the Northern Hemisphere’s highest tree line. Dendrochronologia, 53: 40-47.

Fang OY and Zhang QB*. 2019. Tree resilience to drought increases in the Tibetan Plateau. Global Change Biology, 25: 245-253.

张齐兵, 方欧娅, 吕利新. 2019. 青藏高原树木年轮生态学研究. 北京: 科学出版社.

Mou YM,  Fang OY*, Cheng XH, Qiu HY. Recent tree growth decline unprecedented in the past four centuries in a Tibetan juniper forest. Journal of Forestry Research. 2019. 4: 1429-1436.

宋馥杉, 方欧娅*. 2019. 三江源国家公园大果圆柏生长衰退历史研究. 森林与环境学报, 39: 386-392.

Lyu LX*, Büntgen U, Treydte K , Yu KLg, Liang HX, Reinig F, Nievergelt D, Li MH, Cherubini P. 2019. Tree rings reveal hydroclimatic fingerprints of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics. 53(1): 1023-1037.

Zhang Y, KongZC, 2019.

Changes in wetland salinity, human activity and wetland vegetation abundances over t

he past 900 years.  Global and Planetary Change. 182:103000  

Li YM, Zhang Y*, Tong GB, Li CH, Zhao L, Kong ZC. 2019. Pollen assemblages and anthropogenic influences in the central and western regions of Yunnan Province. Science of the Total Environment. 646: 368-376   

2018

Fang OY, Alfaro RI,  Zhang QB*. 2018. Tree rings reveal a major episode of forest mortality in the late 18th century on the Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change. 163: 44-50.

张启, 方欧娅*. 2018. 山西忻州地区1900-2012年典型森林的健康历史. 生态学报, 38: 236-243.

Wang Y, Zhang Y, Fang OY, Shao XM*. 2018. Long-term changes in the tree radial growth and intrinsic water-use efficiency of Chuanxi spruce (Picea likiangensis var. balfouriana) in southwestern China. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 28: 833-844.

2017

Li Y and Zhang QB*  2017. History of tree growth declines recorded in old trees at two sacred sites in northern China. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8:1779. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01779.

Speer JH*, Brauning A,  Zhang QB,  Pourtahmasi K,. Gairee NP, Dawadi B, Rana P, Dhakal YR, Acharya RH, Adhikari DL, Adhikari S, Aryal PC, Bagale D, Baniya B, Bhandari S, Dahal N, Dahal S, Ganbaatar N, Giri A, Gurung DB, Khandu Y, Maharjan B, Maharjan R, Ahmad MR, Nath CD, Nepal B, Ngoma J, Pant R, Pathak ML, Paudel H, Sharma B, Hossain MS, Soronzonbold B, Thida S, Thapa I, Tiwar A. 2017. Pinus roxburghii stand dynamics at a heavily impacted site in Nepal:Research through an educational fieldweek. Dendrochronologia 41: 2–9.

Nie CY,  Zhang QB* and Lyu LX. 2017. Millennium-long tree-ring chronology reveals megadroughts on the southeastern Tibetan plateau. Tree-Ring Research, 73: 1-10.

方欧娅*, 贾恒锋, 邱红岩, 任海保. 2017. 青海省同德县乔木状甘蒙柽柳的年龄及其生长对环境的响应. 植物生态学报, 41:738-748.

汪舟, 方欧娅*. 2017.山东蒙山森林冠层绿度与树干径向生长的关系. 生态学报, 37: 7514-7527.

Lyu LX*, Suvanto S, Nöjd P, Henttonen HM, Harri Mäkinen, and Zhang QB. 2017. Tree growth and its climate signal along latitudinal and altitudinal gradients: comparison of tree rings between Finland and the Tibetan Plateau. Biogeosciences. 14 (12): 3083-3095.

2016

Zhang C and Zhang QB*. 2016. Is there a link between the rise and fall of the Tuyuhun tribe (northwestern China) and climatic variations in the 4th-7th centuries AD?. Journal of Arid Environments, 125: 145-150. 

Lyu LX, Zhang QB*, Deng X, and Mäkinen H. 2016. Fine-scale distribution of treeline trees and the nurse plant facilitation on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Ecological Indicators 66: 251-258.

Liang HX, Lyu LX*, and Wahab M. 2016. A 382-year reconstruction of August mean minimum temperature from tree-ring maximum latewood density on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, China. Dendrochronologia 37: 1-8.

Lyu LX, Deng X, and Zhang QB*. 2016. Elevation Pattern in Growth Coherency on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau. PLoS One 11(9): e0163201.

李宝, 程雪寒, 吕利新*. 2016. 西藏朗县地区不同龄级高山松林木径向生长对火干扰的响应. 植物生态学报, 40(5): 436-446.

2015

Zhang QB, Evans MN. and Lyu LX.  2015. Moisture dipole over the Tibetan Plateau during the past five and a half centuries. Nature Communications 6: 8062 doi: 10.1038/ncomms9062. 

Deng, X. and Zhang QB.  2015. Tree growth and climate sensitivity in open and closed forests of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Dendrochronologia, 33: 25-30. 

刘娟, 邓徐, 吕利新*. 2015. 西藏八宿川西云杉树线过渡区树木生长与气候关系的一致性. 植物生态学报, 39(5): 442-452.

程雪寒，吕利新*. 2015. 藏东南树木年轮记载的公元1560年以来的极端干旱事件. 第四纪研究, 35(5): 1093-1101

2014

Xing P,  Zhang QB and Lv LX. 2014. Absence of late-summer warming trend over the past two and half centuries on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 123: 27-35. 

Duan JP and Zhang QB. 2014. A 449 year warm season temperature reconstruction in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and its relation to solar activity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere, 119: 11578–11592. 

2013

Duan JP, Zhang QB and Lv LX. 2013. Increased Variability in Cold-Season Temperature since the 1930s in Subtropical China. Journal of Climate, 26: 4749-4757. 

Lv LX and Zhang QB. 2013. Tree-ring based summer minimum temperature reconstruction for Yadong County at the southern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Climate Research, 56: 91-101. 

常琳，罗运利，孙湘君. 2013. 南海北部MD05-2904站位2万年以来孢粉记录的古环境演变. 科学通报, 58:3079-3087

2012

Duan JP, Zhang QB*, Lv LX and Zhang C. 2012. Regional-scale winter-spring temperature variability and chilling damage dynamics over the past two centuries in southeastern China. Climate Dynamics, 39: 919-928.   

Xing P, Zhang QB* and Baker PJ. 2012. Age and radial growth pattern of four tree species in a subtropical forest of China. Trees-Structure and Function, 26: 283-290.  

Shi CM, Daux V, Zhang QB*, Risi C, Hou SG, Stievenard, M., Pierre, M., Li, ZS., and Masson-Delmotte, V. 2012. Reconstruction of southeast Tibetan plateau summer climate using tree ring △18O: moisture variability over the past two centuries. Climate of the Past, 8: 205-213.  

Zhang QB*, Li ZS, Liu PX and Xiao SC. 2012. On the vulnerability of oasis forest to changing environmental conditions: perspectives from tree rings. Landscape Ecology, 27: 343-353.   

Lv LX, Ovchinnikov DV, Kirdyanov A, and Zhang QB. Comparison of Temperature Sensitive Tree-Ring Chronologies in Southern Tibetan Plateau and Northern Siberia. Sci., Tech. and Dev. 2012, 31(2): 152-64.

Lv LX, and Zhang QB. Asynchronous recruitment history of Abies spectabilis along an altitudinal gradient in the Mt. Everest region. Journal of Plant Ecology. 2012. 5:147-156.

罗运利, 孙湘君. 2012. 3.15~0.67 Ma BP时段南海北部深海沉积物孢粉记录的植被演化及其对全球变化的响应. 科学通报, 57:2882-2891

2011

Li ZS, Zhang QB* and Ma KP. 2011. Tree-ring reconstruction of summer temperature for A.D. 1475-2003 in the central Hengduan Mountains, Northwestern Yunnan, China. Climatic Change, 110: 455-467.  

Wang XC and Zhang QB.  2011. Evidence of solar signals in tree rings of Smith fir from Sygera Mountain in southeast Tibet. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 73: 1959-1966.  

Li ZS, Shi CM, Liu YB, Zhang JL, Zhang QB.* and Ma KP.  2011. Summer mean temperature variation from 1710-2005 inferred from tree-ring data of the Baimang Snow Mountains, northwestern Yunnan, China. Climate Research, 47: 207-218.  

Shi CM, Masson-Delmotte V, Risi C, Eglin T, Stievenard M, Pierre M, Wang XC, Gao J, Breon F-M, Zhang QB* and Daux V. 2011. Sampling strategy and climatic implications of tree-ring stable isotopes on the southeast Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 301: 307-316.  

2010及以前

Liu YB and Zhang QB* 2010. Effect of climate on the growth of annual rings in the main roots of perennial forbs in Inner Mongolian semi-arid grassland, China. Journal of Vegetation Science, 21: 899-907.  

Shi CM, Masson-Delmotte V, Daux, V, Li ZS and Zhang QB* 2010. An unstable tree-growth response to climate in two 500 year chronologies, North Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Dendrochronologia, 28(4): 225-237.  

Pumijumnong N, Zhang QB, Eckstein D, Baas P.  2009. Tree-ring research in Asia (Preface). IAWA Journal, 30: 359.  

Guo G, Li ZS, Zhang QB*, Ma KP and Mu CL. 2009. Dendroclimatological studies of Picea Likiangensis and Tsuga Dumosa in Lijiang, China. IAWA Journal, 30: 435-441.  

Wang XC, Zhang QB*, Ma KP and Xiao SC. 2008. A tree-ring record of 500-year dry-wet changes in northern Tibet, China. The Holocene, 18: 579-588.  

Zhang QB and Shao XM. 2007. Tree Rings and Ecology: The 7th International Conference on Dendrochronology. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 49: 129-130.  

Liu YB. and Zhang QB*. 2007. Growth rings of roots in perennial forbs in Duolun grassland, Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 49: 144-149.  

Zhang QB* and Qiu HY. 2007. A millennium-long tree-ring chronology of Sabina przewalskii on northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Dendrochronologia. 24(2-3): 91-95.  

Huang JG and Zhang QB . 2007. Tree rings and climate for the last 680 years in Wulan area of northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Climatic Change. 80: 369-377.  

Wang T, Zhang QB, and Ma KP. 2006. Treeline dynamics in relation to climatic variability in the central Tianshan Mountains, northwestern China. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15(4): 406-415.  

Zhang QB and Hebda RJ. 2005. Abrupt climate change and variability in the past four millennia of the southern Vancouver Island, Canada. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L16708, doi:10.1029/2005GL022913.  

He JS, Zhang QB and Bazzaz FA. 2005. Differential drought responses between samplings and adult trees in four co-occurring species of New England. Trees-Structure and Function, 19: 442-450.  

Zhang QB* and Hebda R. 2004. Radial growth patterns of Douglas-fir along an elevational gradient in central coast British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 34:1946-1954.  

Zhang QB*, Cheng GD, Yao TD, Kang XC and Huang JG. 2003. A 2326-year tree-ring record of climate variability on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(14), 1739, doi:10.1029/2003GL017425.  

Zhang QB* and Alfaro R. 2003. Spatial synchrony of the two-year cycle   budworm outbreaks in central British Columbia, Canada. Oikos, 102: 146-154.  

Zhang QB and Alfaro R. 2002. Periodicity of two-year cycle budworm outbreaks in central British Columbia, a dendroecological analysis. Forest Science 48: 722-731.  

Zhang QB., Hebda R, Zhang QJ and Alfaro R. 2000. Modeling tree-ring growth responses to climatic variables using artificial neural networks. Forest Science, 46: 229-239.  

Zhang QB, Alfaro R, and Hebda R. 1999. Dendroecological studies of tree growth, climate and spruce beetle outreaks in sub-boreal forest of central British Columbia, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management, 121: 215-225.