Category: Visiting Scholars & Alumni

• Visiting Scholar
• 715 W.State Street
• Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
• Purdue University
• email: lwx2016bjfu@163.com

Education

• 2018-Present , Ph.D. (Forestry) , Beijing Forestry University, China
• 2016-2018 , M.S. (Ecology), Beijing Forestry University, China
• 2012-2016 , B.S. (Forestry), Southwest Forestry University, China

PUBLICATIONS

Luo, W., Liang, J., Cazzolla Gatti, R., Zhao, X. & Zhang, C. Parameterization of biodiversity–productivity relationship and its scale dependency using georeferenced tree‐level data.
Journal of Ecology.

Awards

• 2018 Three prize of research presentation in the 7th academic workshop for graduate students of the Academy of Forestry.
• 2018 Academic Innovation Award of Beijing Forestry University
• 2017 Excellent graduate students of Beijing Forestry University
• 2017 First-class of the Graduate Students Academic Fellowship.
• 2017 Outstanding Student leaders of Beijing Forestry University
• 2016 First-class of the Graduate Students Academic Fellowship
• 2016 Outstanding Graduates of Yunnan Province
• 2016 Three Good Students of Yunnan Province
• 2015 First-class of the Graduate Students Academic Fellowship
• 2015 Outstanding Student leaders of Southwest Forestry University
• 2014 Three Good Students of Southwest Forestry University
• 2014 Outstanding Student leaders of Southwest Forestry University
• 2013 Three Good Students of Southwest Forestry University
• 2013 Outstanding Student leaders of Southwest Forestry University

• Visiting Scholar
• 715 W.State Street
• Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
• Purdue University
• email: xfc0707@163.com

EDUCATION

• 2017-Ph.D.in Ecology, Forestry College, Beijing Forestry University
• 2002-M.S.in Botany-Life Science College, Northeast Normal University
• 1996-B.S.in Wild Plant Resources Conservation and Utilization-Jilin Agricultural University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• To study the regeneration mechanism of secondary forests in Northeast China

• To study the cultivation and afforestation of Tilia mandshurica in Northeast China.

PUBLICATIONS/ PRODUCTIONS:

• Fucai Xia, Chunfang Pan, Xiuhai Zhao. 2012. Plants phenological response to climate change of temperate deciduous forest. Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 21 (5): 793-799
• Fucai Xia, Chunfang Pan, Xiuhai Zhao, Haiyan He, Haiyu Zhou. 2012. Influence of overstory on seasonal bariability of understory herbs in primary broad-leaved Korean pine forest of Changbai Mountain. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica, 13 (11): 1223-1230
• Fucai Xia, Xiuhai Zhao, Chunfang Pan, Juan Fan , Jinsong Wang, Ruiqiang Ni,  Jun Jiang. 2009. Seasonal variation of understory herbs in primary broad-leaved Korean pine forest and secondary aspen-birch forest in Changbai Mountains and its environmental interpretation. Journal of Northeast Forestry University, 11: 83 – 89
• Fucai Xia, Xiuhai Zhao, Chunfang Pan, Yuzhen Jia, Jinsong Wang. 2010. Stand structure of broad-leaved and Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) mixed forest in the Changbai Mountains. Chinese Journal of Applied Environment Biology, 4: 529-533.
• Fuicai Xia, Xiu’ai Zhao, Chun-fang Pan, Jinsong Wang, Rui-ang Ni, Lei Wang, Huaijiang He. 2011, Stand spatial structure of secondary birch forest in Changbaishan Mountain. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica, 2: 407-412.
• Fucai Xia, Xiuhai Zhao, Chunfang Pan, Xiaojing Zhao, YuhongWang. 2009. Species diversity and seasonal dynamics of herbs in a Korean pine broad-leaved forest of Changbai Mountains，Journal of Jilin Agricultural University, 1: 27-31.
• Fucai Xia, Xiuhai Hao, Daoli An, Ruiqiang Ni, JinsongWang, Juan Fan. 2013. Stand structure of secondary popular-birch forest in Changbai Mountains, Journal of South China Agricultural University, 3: 383-387.
• Yue Sun, Huaijing He, Liang Li, Jie Yao, Zhe Xie, Fengjie Wang, Fucai Xia.2016. Biomass and its distribution characteristics of filipendula palmata under the canopy of mixed coniferous and broad leaved forest in Jiaohe, Jilin Province, Chinese Journal of Applied Environment Biology, 22（6）: 1055–1062.
• Yue Sun，Fucai Xia，Huaijiang He，Baodong Liu，Gerong Wang，Liang Li. 2016. Community structure features of the larch-birch secondary forest on the northeastern slope of Changbai Mountains，northeast China．Journal of Beijing Forestry University, 38（12）: 28–38.
• Liang Li，Fucai Xia，Xiaoyan Wang，Xianlong Hang，Guowen Sun，Xiangju Wu，GuichunWang. 2017. A Study on stand spatial structure of broad-leaved Korean pine forest in Zhangguangcai Mountains，Acta Ecologica Sinica, 37(10): 3425-3436．
• Yue Sun，Huaijiang He，Liang Li，Caimin Song，Fengjie Wang，Fucai Xia. 2017. Biomass allocation and biomass allometric models of six early-summer herbs under the canopy of broad-leaved Korean pine forest during different growth periods in Jiaohe，Jilin Province，Acta Ecologica Sinica, 37(19): 6523-6533.
• Liang Li, Fucai Xia, Yue Sun, Xiao Zhang. 2017. Biomass allocation of eight early-spring herbs inbroadleaf-pinus koraiensis mixed forest．Journal of Beijing  Forestry University, 39(1): 35-38.

MEETINGS

• 2018- Regeneration of Secondary Forests in Northeast China Workshop: Response of Seed Rain to Cutting Disturbance
• 2018- Jilin Provincial Forestry Survey and Design Institute Forum: How to Monitor Forest Herbs

TEACHING

1996- Beihua University, Forestry College: Botany

SUPERVISION

• 2007-2012- Director- Youth Branch of China Forestry Society

• 2019-Director- Forest Seed Base and National Forest Germplasm Resource Bank of Jilin Province

• Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University
• Office: PFEN G021, 715 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907
• Phone: (662) 617-5391
• E-mail: zhan3600@purdue.edu or zxfmichelle@gmail.com
• Personal website: https://xz2359.wixsite.com/xufangzhang

Education

• Ph.D. in Forest Resources (2018) (Concentration: Forest Policy and Economics), College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State University.
• B. S. in Accounting (2013), College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Forestry University.

Research Interests

• Natural resource and environmental economics.
• Natural resource policy and law.
• International trade and trade policy.
• Carbon sequestration and climate change.
• Timberland investment and sustainable forest management.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• January 2019-present, Postdoctoral Research Associate, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University.
• January 2015-December 2018, Research Assistant, College of Forest Resources, Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University.
• September 2013- December 2015, Research Fellow, Research Center for Economics and Trade in Forest Products of the State Forestry Administration (SINO-RECTFOR).
• Anonymous Reviewer for Canadian Journal of Forest Research, China Population Resources and Environment, and Journal of China Agricultural University.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• Zhang, X., and Sun, C. (2018). The Financial Performance of Public Furniture Firms with Different Positions in Antidumping Actions. Forest Science, 64(5): 491-503.
• Sun, C., and Zhang, X. (2018). Duration of U.S. forest products trade. Forest Policy and Economics, 95(2018): 57-68.
• Zhang, X., Yang, H. and Zhang, X. (2016). Development level and trend in Chinese forestry carbon pools from 1989 to 2033. Resources Science, 38(2): 0290-0299 (in Chinese with English abstract).
• Zhang, X., Yang, H. and Yuan T. (2016). Construction of China’s forestry carbon measuring model under the chain of compound structure. China Population, Resources and Environment, 26(4): 80-89 (in Chinese with English abstract).
• Zhang, X., Yang, H., Zhang, X. and Hong, Y. (2015). Projection of global long-term carbon flow in forest product trade from a perspective of climate negotiation: 2010-2030. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, 24(11): 3679-3685.
• Yang, H., Zhang, X. and Hong, Y. (2014). Classification, production, and carbon stock of harvest wood products in China from 1961 to 2012. BioResource, 9(3): 4311-4322.
• Zhang, X. and Yang, H. (2014). Comparisons of carbon stock and reduction in harvest wood products of China and the United States based on climate change. Forestry Economics, 36(7): 26-37 (in Chinese with English abstract).
• Zhang, X. and Yang, H. (2014). Accounting methods and influences of carbon sequestration in harvest wood products based on climate change issues. Journal of Anhui Agricultural Sciences, 42(7): 2014-2017 (in Chinese with English abstract).
• Zhang, X. and Yang, H. (2013). The cycle of carbon flows in harvest wood products and methods of carbon reduction of the United States. Forestry Economics, 37(12): 58-63 (in Chinese with English abstract).