Zuonan Cao

Address:

Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Soil Science and Geomorphology
Rümelinstraße 19-23
D-72070 Tübingen

Office: Westbau W302

Contact:

 +49(0)7071-29-74-081

zuonan.cao(at)uni-tuebingen.de

Consulting hours:

by arrangement
 

Function: Doctoral student

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Research Topics:

  • Soil quality, especially soil phosphorus
  • Soil and vegetation feedbacks on climate change in high mountain ranges of the Tibetan Plateau

Regions:

  • Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

CV:

*5th Oct 1991 in Qinghai, China

Memberships:

EGU European Geosciences Union 

Education:

since 09/2018

PhD student at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Germany

2015 - 2018

Studies of Geoecology [M.Sc.] at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Master-Thesis:” Calibration of NIRS measures for P fractions in grassland soil on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau”

2010 - 2014

Studies of Ecology [B.Sc.] at the China Agricultural University
Bachelor-Thesis:” Ecological stoichiometric analysis of forest litter”

Work experience:

11/2015 - 01/2018

Association chairman of “Verein der chinesischen Studenten und Wissenschaftler in Tübingen”

07/2013 - 08/2013

Intern-researcher at the Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve Administration

Species diversity survey, data processing on Brown-headed Gull and promotion of Przewalski's gazelle with video production.

Pulications

2024 Guan, Z.-H., Cao, Z., Li, X. G., Scholten, T., Kühn, P., Wang, L., Yu, R.-P., He, J.-S. (2024): Soil phosphorus availability mediates the effects of nitrogen addition on community- and species-level phosphorus-acquisition strategies in alpine grasslands. In: Science of The Total Environment, S. 167630. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167630
2023 Guan, Z.-H., Cao, Z., Li, X. G., Kühn, P., Hu, G., Scholten, T., Zhu, J., He, J.-S. (2023): Effects of winter grazing and N addition on soil phosphorus fractions in an alpine grassland on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Jg. 357, 108700. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2023.108700
2022 Cao, Z., Kühn, P., He, J.-S., Bauhus, J., Guan, Z.-H., Scholten, T. (2022): Calibration of Near-Infrared Spectra for Phosphorus Fractions in Grassland Soils on the Tibetan Plateau. Agronomy, 12(4), 783. doi: 10.3390/agronomy12040783

Conference Contributions and Proceedings:

2020

Zuonan Cao et al.: Soil and vegetation feedbacks on climate change in high mountain ranges of the Tibetan Plateau__using near and mid-infrared spectroscopy (FT-NMIRS) in soil properties, phosphorus (P) as an example. EGU General Assembly, 2020, Online. [Poster]