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2.Zhou,M.H.*,Zhu,B.,Wang,X.G.,Wang,Y.Q. (2017) Long-term field measurements of annual methane and nitrous oxide emissions from a Chinese subtropical wheat-rice rotation system. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 115,21-34.

3.Zhou,M.H.*,Butterbach-Bahl,K.,Vereecken,H.,Bruggemann,N. (2017) A meta-analysis of soil salinization effects on nitrogen pools,cycles and fluxes in coastal ecosystems. Global Change Biology 23,1338-1352.

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5.Zhou,M.H.*,Wang,X.G.,Wang,Y.Q.,Zhu,B. (2018) A three-year experiment of annual methane and nitrous oxide emissions from the subtropical permanently flooded rice paddy fields of China: Emission factor,temperature sensitivity and fertilizer nitrogen effect. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 250,299-307.

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Zhou,M.H.*,Wang,X.G.,Ren,X.,Zhu,B. (2019) Afforestation and deforestation enhanced soil CH4 uptake in a subtropical agricultural landscape: Evidence from multi-year and multi-site field experiments. Science of the Total Environment 662,313-323.

7.Zhou,M.H.,Zhu,B.,Bruggemann,N.,Dannenmann,M.,Wang,Y.Q.,Butterbach-Bahl,K. (2016) Sustaining crop productivity while reducing environmental nitrogen losses in the subtropical wheat-maize cropping systems: A comprehensive case study of nitrogen cycling and balance. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 231,1-14.

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9.Zhou,M.H.,Brandt,P.,Pelster,D.,Rufino,M.C.,Robinson,T.,Butterbach-Bahl,K. (2014) Regional nitrogen budget of the Lake Victoria Basin,East Africa: syntheses,uncertainties and perspectives. Environmental Research Letters 

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Zhou,M.H., Butterbach-Bahl,K. (2014) Assessment of nitrate leaching loss on a yield-scaled basis from maize and wheat cropping systems. Plant and Soil 374,977-991.

11.Zhou,M.H.,Zhu,B.,Butterbach-Bahl,K.,Wang,X.G.,Zheng,X.H. (2014) Nitrous oxide emissions during the non-rice growing seasons of two subtropical rice-based rotation systems in southwest China. Plant and Soil 383,401-414.

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Zhou,M.H.,Zhu,B.,Butterbach-Bahl,K.,Zheng,X.H.,Wang,T.,Wang,Y.Q. (2013) Nitrous oxide emissions and nitrate leaching from a rain-fed wheat-maize rotation in the Sichuan Basin,China. Plant and Soil 362,149-159.

13.Zhou,M.H.,Zhu,B.,ButterbachBahl,K.,Wang,T.,Bergmann,J.,Bruggemann,N.,Wang,Z.H.,Li,T.K.,Kuang,F.H. (2012) Nitrate leaching,direct and indirect nitrous oxide fluxes from sloping cropland in the purple soil area,southwestern China. Environmental Pollution 162,361-368.

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Zhu,YH.,Li,ZY,Zhao,D.,Zhang,BW,Zhu,B.,Yao,ZS,Ralf,K.,Butterbach-Bahl,K.,Zhou,MH*. (2025) Effects of conservation agriculture on soil N₂O emissions and crop yield in global cereal cropping systems. Global Change Biology,31,e70048.   

15.Wang,XL,Zhou,MH*;Zhu,B., Zhang,JB, Mueller,C.,Ralf,K.,Butterbach-Bahl,K. (2025) Contrasting effects of crop straw and green manure amendments on soil gross N transformations in a soil-maize system: a short-term 15N incubation case study. Plant and Soil https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-07149-w

16.Xu,P.,Jiang,MD.,Khan,I.,Zhou,MH*,Shaaban,M.,Hu,RG (2024) Contrasting regulating effects of soil available nitrogen,carbon,and critical functional genes on soil N2O emissions between two rice-based rotations. Plant and Soil,507,299-316.

17.Wang,XL,Zhou,MH*;Zhu,B;Bruüggemann,N, Zhang,W, Butterbach-Bahl,K. (2024) Land use types affect soil microbial NO₃^- immobilization through changed fungal and bacterial contribution in alkaline soils of a subtropical montane agricultural landscape. Biology and Fertility of Soils 60,237-252

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Zhang,B.W.,Zhou,MH*,Zhu,B.,Pfuelb,L.,Burkart,S.,Liu,H.B.,Butterbach-Bahl,K.,Well,R. (2023) Threshold-like effect of soil NO3- concentrations on denitrification product N2O/(N2O+N2) ratio is mediated by soil pH. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 187,109213.

19.Harerimana,B.,Zhou,MH*,Zhu,B.,Xu,P. (2023) Regional estimates of nitrogen budgets for agricultural systems in the East African Community over the last five decades. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 43,1396.

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Zheng,J.,Zhou,MH*,Zhu,B.,Fan,J.L.,Lin,H.Y.,Ren,B.,Zhang,F.C. (2023) Drip fertigation sustains crop productivity while mitigating reactive nitrogen losses in Chinese agricultural systems: evidence from a meta-analysis. Science of The Total Environment 886,163804.

21.Zhang,B.W.,Zhou,MH*,Zhu,B.,Xiao,Q.Y.,Zheng,X.H.,Zhang,J.B.,Muller,C.,Butterbach-Bahl,K. (2022) Soil clay minerals: An overlooked mediator of gross N transformations in Regosolic soils of subtropical montane landscapes. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 168.

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Gu,F.,Zhang,X.B.,Ren,B.,Zhou,MH* (2022) A new approach for dating recent silting soils of debris flow deposits from the changes of Pb-210(ex) concentration in surface layers. Catena 217.

23.Lin,H.Y.,Zhou,MH*,Zeng,F.R.,Xu,P.,Ma,S.L.,Zhang,B.W.,Li,Z.Y.,Wang,Y.Q.,Zhu,B. (2022) How do soil organic carbon pool,stock and their stability respond to crop residue incorporation in subtropical calcareous agricultural soils?Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 332.

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Jiang,N.,Bah,H.,Zhou,MH*,Xu,P.,Zhang,B.W.,Zhu,B. (2022) Effects of straw and biochar amendment on hydrological fluxes of dissolved organic carbon in a subtropical montane agricultural landscape. Environmental Pollution 296.

25.Shaaban,M.,Khalid,M.S.,Hu,R.G.,Zhou,MH* (2022) Effects of water regimes on soil N2O,CH4 and CO2 emissions following addition of dicyandiamide and N fertilizer. Environmental Research 212.

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Song,L.,Kuang,F.H.,Zhou,MH*,Zhu,B.,Skiba,U. (2022) Bulk phosphorous deposition at four typical land use sites in Southwest China. Chemosphere 288.

27.Zhang,B.W.,Zhou,MH*,Zhu,B.,Xiao,Q.Y.,Wang,T.,Tang,J.L.,Yao,Z.S.,Kiese,R.,Butterbach-Bahl,K.,Bruggemann,N. (2021) Soil type affects not only magnitude but also thermal sensitivity of N2O emissions in subtropical mountain area. Science of the Total Environment 797.

28.Chen, P., Zhou, MH*, Wang, S.J., Luo, W.J., Peng, T., Zhu, B., Wang, T. (2020) Effects of afforestation on soil CH4 and N2O fluxes in a subtropical karst landscape. Science of the Total Environment 705.