Zhaozhong Feng

Post doc

Telefon: 031-786 6663
E-post: zhaozhong.feng@bioenv.gu.se
Fax: 031-786 2560

I defended my Ph D thesis in Ecology at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in June 2004. During my Ph D studies, I focused on nitrate leaching in arid agro-ecosystem. After graduation, I transferred my research interest to air pollutant (ozone). During 2007-2011, I worked as a special researcher in the lab of Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Graduate school of agricultural and life sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan. The funding was supported by Eco-Frontier Fellow of the Ministry of Environment, Japan (2007-2009) and Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (2009-2011). My work focused on the possible mechanisms on differential responses of modern cultivars of winter wheat to elevated ozone under fully open-air field conditions (FACE systems) and quantitative review on effects of ozone on the growth, physiology of major crops by using meta-analysis technique. Now, the new post-doctoral position started from March 2011in Dr. Johan Uddling’s group at University of Gothenburg. The work will focus on functional meta-analyses of the impact of atmospheric change on plant–atmosphere gas exchange, and simulations of future agriculture and forest ecosystem processes/services as well as interactions between forest composition and atmospheric chemistry in a changing climate.

Research

• Meta-analysis on the response of plants to global change
• Plant eco-physiological response to climate change and air pollution
• Carbon and nitrogen cycle among soil, vegetation, and atmosphere
• Modeling plant productivity in the future climate and air quality
• Deposition of trace gases to vegetation surfaces

International Publications

Feng ZZ, Niu JF, Zhang WW, Wang XK, Yao FF, Tian Y. Effects of ozone exposure on sub-tropical evergreen Cinnamomum camphora seedlings grown in different nitrogen loads. Trees, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s00468-011- 0538-x.

Zhang WW, Niu JF, Wang XK, Tian Y, Yao FF, Feng ZZ*. Effects of ozone exposure on growth and photosynthesis of the seedlings of Liriodendron chinense (Hemsl.) Sarg, a native tree species of subtropical China. Photosynthetica, 2011, 49: 29-36 (*correspondence author)

Zhu XK, Feng ZZ*, Sun TF, Liu XC, Tang HY, Zhu JG, Guo WS, Kobayashi K. Effects of elevated ozone concentration on yield of four Chinese cultivars of winter wheat under fully open-air field conditions. Global Change Biology, 2011, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02400.x (*co-first author)

Feng ZZ, Pang J, Kobayashi K, Zhu JG, Ort DR. Differential responses in two varieties of winter wheat to elevated ozone concentration under fully open-air field conditions. Global Change Biology, 2011, 17: 580-591.

Feng ZZ, Pang J, Nouchi I, Kobayashi K, Yamakawa, T, Zhu JG. Apoplastic ascorbate contributes to the differential ozone sensitivity in two varieties of winter wheat under fully open-air field conditions. Environmental Pollution, 2010, 158: 3539-3545.

Feng ZZ, Wang SG, Szantoi Z, Chen S, Wang XK. Protection of plants from ambient ozone by applications of ethylenediurea (EDU): A meta-analytic review. Environmental Pollution, 2010, 158: 3236-3242.

Chen Z, Wang XK, Yao FF, Zheng FX, Feng ZZ. Elevated ozone induced changes in soil microbial community structure and function in a rice (Oryza sativa L.) paddy. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2010, 74: 829-837.

Feng ZZ, Kobayashi K. To what extent do current and future concentrations of surface ozone affect crop yield? Implications of a meta-analysis. Atmospheric Environment, 2009, 43 (8):1510-1519.

Feng ZZ, Kobayashi K, Wang XK, Feng ZW. A meta-analysis of responses of wheat yield formation to elevated ozone concentration. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2009, 54(2): 249-255.

Chen Z, Wang XK, Feng ZZ, Xiao Q, Duan XN. Impact of elevated O3 on soil microbial community function under wheat crop. Water Air and Soil Pollution, 2009, 198: 189-198.

Feng ZZ, Kobayashi K, Ainsworth EA. Impact of elevated ozone concentration on growth, physiology and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.): A meta-analysis. Global Change Biology, 2008, 14: 2696-2708

Feng ZZ, Zeng HQ, Wang XK, Zheng QW, Feng ZW. Sensitivity of Metasequoia glyptostroboides to ozone stress. Photosynthetica, 2008, 46(3): 463-465.

Wang XK, Zheng QW, Feng ZZ, Xie JQ, Feng ZW, Ouyan ZY, Manning WJ. Comparison of a diurnal vs steady state ozone exposure profile on growth and yield of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) in open-top chambers in the Yangtze Delta, China. Environmental Pollution, 2008, 156: 449-453.

Chen Z, Wang XK, Feng ZZ, Zheng FX, Duan XN, Yang WR. Effects of elevated ozone on growth and yield of field-grown rice in Yangtze River Delta, China. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2008, 20(3): 320-325.

Feng ZZ, Yao FF, Chen Z, Wang XK, Feng ZW. Gas exchange and yield components response of field-grown Triticum aestivum L. to elevated ozone in China. Photosynthetica, 2007, 45(3): 441-446.

Wang XK, Zheng QW, Yao FF, Chen Z, Feng ZZ, Manning WJ. Assessing the impact of ambient ozone on growth and yield of a rice (Oryza sativa L.) and a wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar grown in the Yangtze Delta, China, using three rates of application of ethylenediurea (EDU). Environmental Pollution, 2007, 148(2): 390-395.

Feng ZZ, Wang XK, Feng ZW. Response of gas exchange of rape to ozone concentration and exposure regimes. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2006, 26(3): 823-829.

Feng ZZ, Wang XK, Feng ZW. Soil N and salinity leaching after autumn irrigation and its impact on groundwater in Hetao Irrigation District, China. Agriculture Water Management, 2005, 71:131-143.

Huang Y, Wang SL, Feng ZW, Ouyang ZY, Wang XK, Feng ZZ. Changes in soil quality due to introduction of broad-leaf trees into clear-felled Chinese fir forest in the mid-subtropics of China. Soil Use and Management, 2004, 20: 418-425.

Feng ZZ, Guo AH, Feng ZW. Amelioration of chilling stress by triadimefon in cucumber seedlings. Plant Growth Regulation, 2003, 39: 277-283.

Feng ZZ, Guo AH, Feng ZW. Delay of senescence of detached cucumber cotyledons by triadimefon. Biologia Plantarum, 2003, 46 (4): 571-575.