Publications

Zhang, T., Ü. Niinemets, J. Sheffield, and J.W. Lichstein. 2018. Shifts in tree functional composition amplify the response of forest biomass to climate. Nature 556: 99-102. (Full text)

Fisher, R.A., C.D. Koven, W.R. Anderegg, B.O. Christoffersen, M.C. Dietze, C.E. Farrior, J.A. Holm, G.C. Hurtt, R.G. Knox, P.J. Lawrence, J.W. Lichstein, M. Longo, M., A.M. Matheny, D. Medvigy, H.C. Muller-Landau, T.L. Powell, S.P. Serbin, H. Sato, J.K. Shuman, B. Smith, A.T. Trugman, T. Viskari, H. Verbeeck, E. Weng, C. Xu, X. Xu, T. Zhang, and P.R. Moorcroft. 2018. Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities. Global Change Biology 24: 35-54. (Full text)

Weng, E.S., S. Malyshev, J.W. Lichstein, C.E. Farrior, R. Dybzinski, T. Zhang, and S.W. Pacala. 2015. Scaling from individual trees to forests in an Earth system modeling framework using a mathematically tractable model of height-structured competition. Biogeosciences 12: 2655-2694. (Full text)

Zhang, T., J.W. Lichstein, and R.A. Birdsey. 2014. Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in the dynamics of eastern U.S. forests: implications for developing broad-scale forest dynamics models. Ecological Modelling 279: 89-99. (Full text)

Lichstein, J.W., N-Z. Golaz, S. Malyshev, E. Shevliakova, T. Zhang, J. Sheffield, R.A. Birdsey, J.L. Sarmiento, and S.W. Pacala. 2014. Confronting terrestrial biosphere models with forest inventory data. Ecological Applications 24: 699-715. (Full text)

Kramer, D.B., T. Zhang, K.S. Cheruvelil, A. Ligmann-Zielinska, and P.A. Soranno. 2013. A multi-objective, return on investment analysis for freshwater conservation planning. Ecosystems 16: 823-837. (Full text)

Zhang, T. and X. Yang. 2013. Predicting nitrogen loading with land-cover composition: how can watershed size affect model performance? Environmental Management 51: 96-107. (Full text)

Zhang, T., P.A. Soranno, K.S. Cheruvelil, D.B. Kramer, M.T. Bremigan, and A. Ligmann-Zielinska. 2012. Evaluating the effects of upstream lakes and wetlands on lake phosphorus concentrations using a spatially-explicit model. Landscape Ecology 27: 1015-1030. (Full text)

Zhao, T., D.G. Brown, H. Fang, D.M. Theobald, T. Liu, and T. Zhang. 2012. Vegetation productivity consequences of human settlement growth in the eastern United States. Landscape Ecology 27: 1149-1165. (Full text)

Zhang, T. 2011. Distance-decay patterns of nutrient loading at watershed scale: regression modeling with a special spatial aggregation strategy. Journal of Hydrology 402: 239-249. (Full text)

Yang, X. and T. Zhang. 2011. Detecting estuarine bathymetric changes with historical nautical data and GIS. In: A. Anbazhagan, S. K. Subramanian, and X. Yang (Eds.), Geoinformatics in Applied Geomorphology. CRC Press. pp. 105-117. (Full text)

Zhang, T. 2010. A spatially explicit model for estimating annual average loads of nonpoint source nutrient at watershed scale. Environmental Modeling and Assessment 15: 569-581. (Full text)

Zhang, T. and X. Yang. 2006. Analyzing historical bathymetric change in Tampa Bay, Florida: a preliminary study. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 29: 87-95. (Full text)

Ma, H., Q. Zeng, and T. Zhang. 2000. Simulation and analysis for the microwave backscattering coefficient of rice, IEEE 2000 International IGRASS 1: 369-371. (Full text)

Zeng, Q., H. Ma, and T. Zhang. 2000. Modeling the microwave backscattering mechanisms of rice. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium, Universitatis Pekinensis, 36: 131-141 (in Chinese with English abstract). (Full text)