In Review or Revision
Gharun, M., Migliavacca, M., Angove, C., Zhou, Y., Buckeridge, K., Branquinho, C., Collalti, A., Nybakken, L., Zhiyanski, M., Sarginci, M., Macháčová, K., Guidi C., Koren, G., Ostonen, I., Sell, M., Pers-Kamczyc, E., Aslan, T., Preece, C., Prikaziuk, E., Özkan, U., Vitali, V., Havrdová, A., Grünzweig, J., Tomelleri, E., Ullah, S., Stoeva, L., Nestola, E., Vanguelova, E., & Guerrieri, R. Effect of global change drivers on carbon fluxes and resilience of European forests. Forest Ecology and Management, under review.
Xu, C., Liu, H., Yakir, D., Liang, B., Zhu, X., Zhou, Y., Marchesini, L.B., Bonal, D., Buchmann, N., Brümmer, C., Cleverly, J., Feng, S., Korkiakoski, M., Liddell, M.J., Mauder, M., Montagnani, L., Varlagin, A., Vitale, L., Wang, S., Woodgate, W., Grünzweig, J.M. Photosynthetic Optimum Temperature Plays a Minor Role in the Recent Increase of Terrestrial Carbon Uptake (2000–2019). One Earth, under revision
Zhou, J., Quan, Q., Huang, W., Hanson, P., Ricciuto, D., Mayes, M., Griffiths, N., Salmon, V., Weber, S., Jiang, L., Zhou, Y., Shi, X., Chen, W., Zhang, Y., & Luo, Y. The fate of peatland carbon interactively determined by elevated carbon dioxide and warming. Nature Climate Change, under review.
Published
Google Scholar (* = corresponding author; underline = mentored student; reverse-chronological)
Selected Publications
Chandel, A. K., Cattry, M., Zhou, Y., Duong, H., Litvak, M. E., Pockman, W. T., and Luo, Y., 2026. Hydraulic Redistribution Decreases with Precipitation Magnitude and Frequency in a Dryland Ecosystem: A Data-Model Fusion Approach, Biogeosciences, 23, 2045–2058, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-2045-2026.
Zhou, Y. * and Williams, C.A., 2025. Forest carbon modeling improved through hierarchical assimilation of pool‐based measurements. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17(3), p.e2024MS004622.
Luo, Y., Wei, N., Lu, X., Zhou, Y., Tao, F., Quan, Q., Liao, C., Jiang, L., Xia, J., Huang, Y. and Niu, S., 2025. Large CO2 removal potential of woody debris preservation in managed forests. Nature Geoscience, pp.1-7.
Ruehr, S., Keenan, T.F., Williams, C., Zhou, Y., Lu, X., Bastos, A., Canadell, J.G., Prentice, I.C., Sitch, S. and Terrer, C., 2023. Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 4(8), pp.518-534.
Zhou, Y. *, Williams, C.A., Hasler, N., Gu, H. and Kennedy, R., 2021. Beyond biomass to carbon fluxes: Application and evaluation of a comprehensive forest carbon monitoring system. Environmental Research Letters, 16(5), p.055026.
Zhou, Y., Williams, C.A., Lauvaux, T., Davis, K.J., Feng, S., Baker, I., Denning, S. and Wei, Y., 2020. A multiyear gridded data ensemble of surface biogenic carbon fluxes for North America: Evaluation and analysis of results. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125(2), p.e2019JG005314.
Other Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Rudgers, J., and co-authors, 2026. Precipitation variability interacts with mean precipitation to restructure a semi-arid grassland community. Ecology. Accepted.
Quan, Q., Zhou, J., Hanson, P.J., Ricciuto, D., Sebestyen, S.D., Weston, D.J., Chanton, J.P., Wilson, R.M., Kostka, J.E., Zhou, Y., Wei, N., Jiang, L. , Mayes, M.A., Stelling, J.M., Richardson, A.D., Dusenge, M.E., Way, D., Warren, J., and Luo, Y., Drought-induced peatland carbon loss exacerbated by elevated CO2 and warming. Science 390, 367-370 (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adv7104.
Dong, Y., Zhou, Y.*, Zhang, L., Tian, F., Xie, Q., Chen, Y., Ruan, L. and Zhang, B., 2025. An Enhanced Phenology Dataset for Global Drylands from 2001 to 2019. Scientific Data, 12(1), p.1167.
Zhou, Y., 2024. Hybrid Modeling in Earth System Science. In Y. Luo & B. Smith (Eds.), Land Carbon Cycle Modeling Matrix Approach, Data Assimilation, Ecological Forecasting, and Machine Learning. CRC Press. Taylor and Francis.
Dong, Y., Zhou, Y.*, Zhang, L., Gu, Y. and Sutrisno, D., 2023. Intensive land-use is associated with development status in port cities of Southeast Asia. Environmental Research Letters, 18(4), p.044006.
Hou, E., Ma, S., Huang, Y., Zhou, Y., Kim, H.S., López‐Blanco, E., Jiang, L., Xia, J., Tao, F., Williams, C. and Williams, M., 2023. Across‐model spread and shrinking in predicting peatland carbon dynamics under global change. Global Change Biology, 29(10), pp.2759-2775.
Rudgers, J.A., and co-authors, 2023. Infrastructure to factorially manipulate the mean and variance of precipitation in the field. Ecosphere, 14(7), p.e4603
Sun, J., Wei, X., Zhou, Y., Chan, C. and Diao, J., 2022. Hurricanes substantially reduce the nutrients in tropical forested watersheds in Puerto Rico. Forests, 13(1), p.71.
Gourdji, S.M., Karion, A., Lopez‐Coto, I., Ghosh, S., Mueller, K.L., Zhou, Y., Williams, C.A., Baker, I.T., Haynes, K.D. and Whetstone, J.R., 2022. A modified Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model (VPRM) for the eastern USA and Canada, evaluated with comparison to atmospheric observations and other biospheric models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(1), p.e2021JG006290.
Feng, S., Lauvaux, T., Williams, C.A., Davis, K.J., Zhou, Y., Baker, I., Barkley, Z.R. and Wesloh, D., 2021. Joint CO2 mole fraction and flux analysis confirms missing processes in CASA terrestrial carbon uptake over North America. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35(7), p.e2020GB006914.
Wei, Y., and co-authors, 2021. Atmospheric Carbon and Transport – America (ACT – America) data sets: Description, management, and delivery. Earth and Space Science, 8(7), p.e2020EA001634
Zhang, L., Xiao, J., Zheng, Y., Li, S. and Zhou, Y., 2020. Increased carbon uptake and water use efficiency in global semi-arid ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters, 15(3), p.034022
Gafforov, Y., Ordynets, A., Langer, E., Yarasheva, M., de Mello Gugliotta, A., Schigel, D., Pecoraro, L., Zhou, Y., Cai, L. and Zhou, L.W., 2020. Species diversity with comprehensive annotations of wood-inhabiting poroid and corticioid fungi in Uzbekistan. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, p.598321.
Zhou, Y., Zhang, L., Xiao, J., Williams, C.A., Vitkovskaya, I. and Bao, A., 2019. Spatiotemporal transition of institutional and socioeconomic impacts on vegetation productivity in Central Asia over last three decades. Science of the Total Environment, 658, pp.922-935.
Feng, S., Lauvaux, T., Davis, K.J., Keller, K., Zhou, Y., Williams, C., Schuh, A.E., Liu, J. and Baker, I., 2019. Seasonal characteristics of model uncertainties from biogenic fluxes, transport, and large‐scale boundary inflow in atmospheric CO2 simulations over North America. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(24), pp.14325-14346.
Gu, H., Williams, C.A., Hasler, N. and Zhou, Y., 2019. The carbon balance of the southeastern US forest sector as driven by recent disturbance trends. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(9), pp.2786-2803.
Yan, M., Li, Z., Tian, X., Zhang, L. and Zhou, Y., 2019. Improved simulation of carbon and water fluxes by assimilating multi-layer soil temperature and moisture into process-based biogeochemical models. Forest Ecosystems, 6(1), p.12.
Zheng, Y., Zhang, L., Zhou, Y. and Zhang, B., 2017. Vegetation change and its driving factors in global drylands during the period of 1982–2012. Arid Zone Research, 34(1), pp.59-66.
Feng, Q., Zhou, L., Chen, E., Liang, X., Zhao, L. and Zhou, Y., 2017. The performance of airborne C-band PolInSAR data on forest growth stage types classification. Remote Sensing, 9(9), p.955.
Zhang, L., Xiao, J., Zhou, Y., Zheng, Y., Li, J. and Xiao, H., 2016. Drought events and their effects on vegetation productivity in China. Ecosphere, 7(12), p.e01591.
Zhou, Y., Zhang, L., Fensholt, R., Wang, K., Vitkovskaya, I. and Tian, F., 2015. Climate contributions to vegetation variations in central Asian drylands: Pre-and post-USSR collapse. Remote Sensing, 7(3), pp.2449-2470.
Xiao, J., Zhou, Y. and Zhang, L., 2015. Contributions of natural and human factors to increases in vegetation productivity in China. Ecosphere, 6(11), pp.1-20.
Zhou, Y., Zhang, L., Xiao, J., Chen, S., Kato, T. and Zhou, G., 2014. A comparison of satellite-derived vegetation indices for approximating gross primary productivity of grasslands. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 67(1), pp.9-18.
Zhang, B., Zhang, L., Guo, H., Leinenkugel, P., Zhou, Y., Li, L. and Shen, Q., 2014. Drought impact on vegetation productivity in the Lower Mekong Basin. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35(8), pp.2835-2856.
Presentations (selected)
2026 Zhou, Y., Gharun, M., Xiao, J., Guerrieri, R., Li, X., & Buchmann, N. Atmospheric Deposition Outweighs Dryness in Regulating European Ecosystem Productivity. Swiss Forest Lab Science Day, Bern, Switzerland.
2025 Zhou, Y., Gharun, M., & Buchmann, N. Interactive Effect of Nitrogen Deposition and Drought on Forest Carbon Sequestration. eLTER meeting, Tampere, Finland.
[Invited] Zhou, Y. Improved estimation of forest carbon dynamics via model-data fusion. Grassland Seminar, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
2024 Zhou, Y., Litvak, M.E., Fan, J., Guo, W., Duman, T., Gomes, C., & Luo, Y. AI-powered interpretation of dryland carbon dynamics, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington DC, USA.
2023 Zhou, Y., Rudgers, J., Cui, E., Lehmann, J., Quan, Q., Xia, J., Wang, R., Sun, Y., Gomes, C., You, F., & Luo, Y. Convergent Pattern of Plant Strategies in Varied Dryness Conditions, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
2022 Zhou, Y., Hou, E., Litvak, M.E., Rudgers, J., Collins, S.L., Pockman, W., & Luo, Y. Improved Estimates of Carbon and Water Dynamics by TECO-Dryland and Data Assimilation, AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago, USA.
2019 Zhou, Y., Williams, C.A., Kulakowski, D., & Rogan, J. Linking Biomass Data with Carbon Cycle Modeling, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
2018 Zhou, Y., Williams, C.A., Lauvaux, T., Feng, S., Keller, K., & Davis, K.J. A multi-year gridded data product of surface biogenic carbon fluxes for North America: Evaluation and analysis of results, AGU fall meeting, Washington DC, USA.
Zhou, Y. & Williams, C.A. Improving the Predictive Ability of the Global Carbon Cycle Models, Ecological Society of America annual meeting, New Orleans, USA.