Lu Zhai

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
74 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Lu Zhai is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Lu Zhai has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 25 papers in Ecology and 23 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Lu Zhai's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (10 papers). Lu Zhai is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (10 papers). Lu Zhai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Lu Zhai's co-authors include Donald L. DeAngelis, Su Yean Teh, Jinchi Zhang, Hock Lye Koh, Yuhong Li, Stephanie S. Romañach, Zhaohui Jia, Chong Li, Daniel Pauly and Miaojing Meng and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Lu Zhai

69 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Conservation and restoration of mangroves: Global status, perspectives, and prognosis

2018 285 citations Lu Zhai et al. profile →
Meta-analysis reveals the effects of microbial inoculants on the biomass and diversity of soil microbial communities

2024 47 citations Chong Li, Xinli Chen et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lu Zhai United States	19	456	364	290	176	146	74	1.1k
Chen Hua China	16	378 0.8×	341 0.9×	294 1.0×	289 1.6×	339 2.3×	46	1.2k
Nadia S. Santini Australia	20	838 1.8×	376 1.0×	303 1.0×	91 0.5×	75 0.5×	39	1.3k
Wen Yang China	24	922 2.0×	129 0.4×	297 1.0×	124 0.7×	379 2.6×	69	1.4k
Ikuo Ninomiya Japan	21	241 0.5×	507 1.4×	268 0.9×	634 3.6×	147 1.0×	49	1.1k
Aiyen Tjoa Indonesia	14	297 0.7×	206 0.6×	154 0.5×	101 0.6×	139 1.0×	39	774
Stacey M. Trevathan‐Tackett Australia	26	1.7k 3.7×	278 0.8×	118 0.4×	36 0.2×	61 0.4×	69	2.3k
Francisco García Novo Spain	22	324 0.7×	410 1.1×	575 2.0×	426 2.4×	111 0.8×	56	1.3k
Aliny P. F. Pires Brazil	17	529 1.2×	385 1.1×	130 0.4×	224 1.3×	77 0.5×	42	1.3k
Don Butler Australia	25	533 1.2×	735 2.0×	249 0.9×	716 4.1×	85 0.6×	58	1.5k
Bart R. Johnson United States	20	264 0.6×	415 1.1×	212 0.7×	265 1.5×	98 0.7×	45	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Lu Zhai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lu Zhai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lu Zhai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lu Zhai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lu Zhai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lu Zhai. Lu Zhai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Atkins, Jeff W., et al.. (2025). Individual Tree and Sapling Aboveground Biomass (AGB) Estimates for 35 NEON Terrestrial Observation Sites for 2014–2023. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 130(6). 1 indexed citations

Li, Chong, Xuefei Cheng, Zhaohui Jia, et al.. (2025). Vertically oriented roots affect soil water infiltration by decomposition and altering soil structure: An examination based on CT technology and innovation in soil infiltration research methods. Plant and Soil. 515(2). 1633–1649.

Joshi, Omkar, et al.. (2025). Drought impact on tree productivity: Varying roles of tree size and structural diversity in 18 woody species along gradients of slow-fast growth strategies. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 369. 110592–110592.

Ma, Shilin, Yan Li, Bo Zhang, et al.. (2024). Determinants of rhizospheric organic carbon fractions and accumulation in four different vegetations of coastal saline-alkali soils. CATENA. 246. 108454–108454. 4 indexed citations

Zhai, Lu, et al.. (2024). Drought impacts on the efficacy of invasive grass control by clipping: A study on Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense). Biological Conservation. 296. 110724–110724. 1 indexed citations

Li, Qian, Lu Zhai, Chujie Liao, et al.. (2024). Comprehensive assessment of rocky desertification treatment in Southwest China karst. Land Degradation and Development. 35(10). 3461–3476. 11 indexed citations

Zhai, Lu, Rodney E. Will, & Bo Zhang. (2024). Structural diversity is better associated with forest productivity than species or functional diversity. Ecology. 105(4). e4269–e4269. 18 indexed citations

Li, Chong, Xinli Chen, Zhaohui Jia, et al.. (2024). Meta-analysis reveals the effects of microbial inoculants on the biomass and diversity of soil microbial communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(7). 1270–1284. 47 indexed citations breakdown →

Will, Rodney E., et al.. (2024). Future Climate Change Shifts the Ranges of Major Encroaching Woody Plant Species in the Southern Great Plains, USA. Earth s Future. 12(7). 3 indexed citations

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Zhai, Lu, et al.. (2024). Carbon sink efficiency of Chinese mollusk mariculture. Aquaculture. 596. 741781–741781. 4 indexed citations

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Edwards, Owen M., et al.. (2024). Physiological and morphological traits affect contemporary range expansion and implications for species distribution modelling in an amphibian species. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(2). 195–209. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Shilin, Tao Li, Bo Zhang, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the influence of seawater intrusion and vegetation type on coastal arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in China. Land Degradation and Development. 35(16). 4935–4947. 1 indexed citations

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Jacobs, John M., et al.. (2024). Fundamental principles of the effect of habitat fragmentation on species with different movement rates. Conservation Biology. 39(3). e14424–e14424. 1 indexed citations

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Hastings, Alan, et al.. (2023). The comparison of dispersal rate between invasive and native species varied by plant life form and functional traits. Movement Ecology. 11(1). 73–73. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Chong, Zhaohui Jia, Tao Li, et al.. (2023). The positive effects of mineral-solubilizing microbial inoculants on asymbiotic nitrogen fixation of abandoned mine soils are driven by keystone phylotype. The Science of The Total Environment. 882. 163663–163663. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Bo, Lu Zhai, Gary N. Ervin, & David R. Coyle. (2023). Effective and timely use of models to inform on-the-ground management of invasive plants. Biological Invasions. 25(7). 2089–2102. 3 indexed citations

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Zhai, Lu, et al.. (2023). Application of the Gini Index on the Evaluation of the Environmental Heterogeneity and Habitat Suitability Index for Larval Gobies. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 11(2). 381–381. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Chong, Hui Nie, Zhaohui Jia, et al.. (2023). Mineral-solubilizing microbial inoculant positively affects the multifunctionality of anthropogenic soils in abandoned mining areas. Journal of Environmental Management. 344. 118553–118553. 11 indexed citations

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Zhai, Lu, David R. Coyle, Daijiang Li, & Alexandra Jonko. (2021). Fire, insect and disease‐caused tree mortalities increased in forests of greater structural diversity during drought. Journal of Ecology. 110(3). 673–685. 14 indexed citations

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Zhai, Lu, et al.. (2015). [Spatial pattern of fish assemblage and the relationship with environmental factors in Yellow River Estuary and its adjacent waters in summer].. PubMed. 26(9). 2852–8. 7 indexed citations

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