Zhiping Zhang

• Doctor of Philosophy
• M.S. at Lanzhou University

In this study, the daily observational precipitation data and NCEP reanalysis data during 1951–2014, and Lagrangian method were used to investigate the moisture sources of summer extreme precipitation events in North Xinjiang. The results show that water vapor at low and upper levels of most summer heavy rain (more than 50 mm d⁻¹ and less than 100...

Recent climate warming has resulted in the reduction of lake ice cover and significant changes in phytoplankton communities, but due to the traditional view of low production under lake ice in winter as well as the logistical challenges of winter conditions to field sampling, the influence of under‐ice limnological processes on winter diatom dynami...

Inland lakes in arid Central Asia are particularly susceptible to the impact of climate change and human activities. Ebinur Lake, the largest salt inland lake in Xinjiang, Northwest China, has experienced rapid shrinkage, with human activities identified as the primary influencing factor. However, it remains unclear how human water use in different...

Quantitatively distinguishing between climate change and anthropogenic activities is crucial for flood management in the middle‐lower reaches of the Yangtze River (MLRYR). However, the quantitative contribution of climate change and anthropogenic activities to flood occurrences in the region over long time scales (spanning more than one climatic st...

In saline lakes, the paleoenvironmental interpretation of long-chain alkenones (LCAs) is difficult due to the inputs of Isochrysidales Group 2i, which are ice-related bloomers. Here, we perform detailed analysis of LCAs and long-chain alkenoates in sediment cores from Lake Daihai in north China. During the late Holocene, alkenone-inferred temperatu...

Warfare has played an important role in fire regimes; however, it remains unclear whether and when it may have impacted fire history along the Silk Roads. Based on a high-resolution record of black carbon in alpine-lake sediment, and warfare data from historical documents, we explore the relationships between fire, fuel, climate, and human activity...

The lower Yangtze is one of the regions of origin of rice agriculture but it is unclear if environmental change drove the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture. Long-term and continuous lacustrine records of anthropogenic fire are a more effective means of addressing this problem than the fragmentary terrestrial records available for the...

Uncertainty regarding the timing of the highest Holocene water level of enclosed Dali Lake in northern China has led to controversy about whether the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) peaked in the early Holocene or the mid-Holocene. Therefore, a record combining a reliable chronology with unambiguous lake level indicators is essential to resolve th...

Cyanobacterial blooms in freshwater systems are a global threat to human and aquatic ecosystem health, exhibiting particularly harmful effects when toxin-producing taxa are present. While climatic change and nutrient over-enrichment control the global expansion of total cyanobacterial blooms, it remains unknown to what extent this expansion reflect...

There are debates regarding whether a wet and warm climate or a dry and cold climate dominated Holocene fire activity in northern China on the millennial timescale, and when human activities overtook climate change as the dominant control on fire occurrence in the region. Here we present a high-resolution fire history for the past ∼15,500 years fro...

Lakes are one of the most important freshwater resources on Earth and they provide a wide range of ecosystem services. However, due to rapid economic development and the intensification of human activities, many lakes have become eutrophic, which may threaten their status as water resources. Human activities have played a significant role in lake e...

The scarcity of research in NE China on lake ecosystem responses to large-scale climate oscillations since the last deglaciation limits our abilities for informing conservation practices and policies in the context of recent global warming. Here, a high-resolution, sedimentary diatom record covering the past ∼17,500 years was retrieved from Lake Mo...

The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) northern boundary is a critical indicator of EASM variations. Movement of the boundary is modulated by both the EASM and the mid-latitude westerlies. Here, we use the Earth system model EC-Earth to quantify the contribution of orbital forcing and vegetation feedbacks in modulating the movement of EASM northern b...

Cyanobacterial blooms in water bodies have occurred on a worldwide basis in the last few decades, and knowledge of their occurrence under natural conditions, and of the mechanisms responsible, is important for understanding their origin. However, little is known about the long-term trends in cyanobacterial abundance in the pre-industrial era, and i...

It is unclear whether the Holocene climatic optimum (HCO) occurred synchronously throughout the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) region, and if it did, whether it occurred in the early Holocene (EH, 11.7–8.0 ka, ka = 1000 years before present, where the “present” is defined as the year CE 1950), or in the middle Holocene (MH, 8.0–4.0 ka). This is b...

The late Holocene is generally regarded as an interval of monsoon recession and decreased precipitation in North China. However, the extent to which this affected the status of lakes in North China is unclear. In the study, we analyzed multiple proxies (δ¹³C, magnetic susceptibility [χlf], and exogenous element concentrations) from Lake Mayinghai,...

The scarcity of modern process studies of the relationship between climatic variables and lake-water oxygen isotope (δ ¹⁸ O LW ) composition has restricted our understanding of the climatic significance of oxygen isotope (δ ¹⁸ O) records from lake sediments. We measured changes in δ ¹⁸ O LW at four lakes (Nanyihu, Gonghai, Mayinghai and Xihaizi) at...

Human activities over the last ∼100 years have fundamentally changed the biogeochemistry of the global nitrogen cycle. For example, increased nitrogen deposition from industrial and agricultural sources has been linked to lake acidification and nutrient fertilization, and thus it has the potential to significantly influence lake ecosystems. Records...

The use of pollen analysis to reconstruct regional vegetation changes, and subsequently climate, is a common approach in paleoclimatic reconstruction. However, it is unclear whether or not vegetation exhibits a lagged response to climate change during shifts from rapid cooling to rapid warming. The Younger Dryas (YD) cold event, spanning the last g...

With the continued global warming, the frequency of flood or drought disaster caused by extreme changes of East Asian Summer Monsoon(EASM)will increase, thus it is important to investigate the variability of the EASM on various time-scales and to explore its underlying forcing mechanisms. In order to figure out aforementioned problem, we chose the...