Zuonan Cao
Address:
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Soil Science and Geomorphology
Rümelinstraße 19-23
D-72070 Tübingen
Office: Westbau W302
Consulting hours:
by arrangement
Function: Doctoral student
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 |
2010 - 2014 | Studies of Ecology [B.Sc.] at the China Agricultural University |
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] |