曾振中，主要从事生态水文、陆气相互作用、全球环境变化和地球系统模拟等相关领域研究，致力于了解地球系统的动力机制，实现人类社会的可持续发展。当前研究侧重于热带地区的农业扩张、环境影响及其解决方案。累计发表SCI论文50篇，其中第一或通讯作者论文14篇（包括Science、Nature Climate Change、Nature Geoscience等），被引用2686次（Google Scholar统计结果；2019/09/26），部分研究成果被成为IPCC报告的支撑材料，并多次被科技媒体报道（普林斯顿大学主页、AAAS、Science Daily等）。获邀担任IPCC第六次评估报告的同行评审专家，同时担任Nature Sustainability等23份SCI学术期刊的同行评审员。

教育背景
2011-2016，北京大学，城市与环境学院，博士
2007-2011，中山大学，地理科学与规划学院，学士

工作经历
2019-今，南方科技大学，环境科学与工程学院，副教授（研究员）
2016-2019，美国普林斯顿大学，土木与环境工程系，博士后研究员

科研项目
2016-2019 年，普林斯顿大学蓝三家族-泰国可持续发展项目（B0891），90万美元。

研究领域
1.地表水文学
2.全球环境变化
3.地球系统科学
4.地球系统模拟
5.气候变异及其归因
6.植被气候相互作用
7.生态水文、植被遥感、土地利用变化

学术服务
1. 2019 IPCC第六次报告受邀同行评审专家

2. 2017 会议组织（CONFERENCE CONVENED）Agricultural Expansion and Forest Loss in Tropical Regions: Observations, Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions. American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (Session Chair)

3. 2014-2019 杂志审稿：Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Atmosphere, Climate Dynamics, Energies, Environment Development and Sustainability, Environmental Research Letters, Geophysical Research Letter, Global Change Biology, International Journal of Digital Earth, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Journal of Geographical Sciences, Journal of Water and Climate Change, Land Degradation and Development, Landscape Ecology, Nature Sustainability, PLOS ONE, Remote Sensing, Science of the Total Environment, Scientific Reports, Water

学术交流报告
1. 2019 Zeng, Z. Implications of climate change for China. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. (Invited Talk)

2. 2019 Zeng, Z. Biosphere feedbacks and climate change: the role of recent greening of the Earth. Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA. (Invited Talk)

3. 2018 Zeng, Z. Biophysical climate impacts of Earth’s greening. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. (Oral Talk)

4. 2018 Zeng, Z. Highland cropland expansion and forest loss in Southeast Asia in the 21st century. Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. 2018 (Invited Talk)

5. 2018 Zeng, Z., Yang, L., Lin, P., Liu, M., Wei, Z., Peng, L., Pan, M., & Wood, W. Modelled hydrological impacts of the deforestation in Mainland Southeast Asia. American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, USA. (Oral Talk)

6. 2017 Zeng, Z., Estes, L., Chen, A., Searchinger, T., Hua, F., Guan, K. & Wood, E. Rapid highland forest loss in Southeast Asia during the early 21st century. American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. 2017 (Poster)

7. 2016 Zeng, Z., Tian, D., Estes, L., Evans, T., Wood, E. & Caylor, K. Can we forecast farmers’ yields? The relationships between rainfall variability, farmers’ expectations, and actual yields in a tropical dryland. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA. 2016 (Poster)

8. 2015 Zeng, Z., Chen, A., Ciais, P., Li, Y., Li, L., Vautard, R., Yang, H., Zhou, L. & Piao, S. Anthropogenic aerosol forcing as indicated by the reversion of warming-elevation relationship. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA. 2015 (Oral Talk)

9. 2014 Zeng, Z., Wang, T., Zhou, F., Ciais, P., Mao, J., Shi, X. & Piao, S. A worldwide analysis of spatiotemporal changes in water balance-based evapotranspiration from 1982 to 2009. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA. 2014 (Oral Talk)

10. 2013 Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Chen, A., Lin, X., Nan, H., Li, J. & Ciais, P. Committed changes in tropical tree cover under the projected 21st century climate change. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA. 2013 (Poster)

11. 2012 Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Lin, X., Yin, G., Peng, S., Philippe, C. & Ranga, B. Global evapotranspiration over the past three decades: estimation based on the water balance equation combined with empirical models. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA. 2012 (Poster)

发表论著

1. Zeng, Z.*, Ziegler, A. D., Searchinger, T., Yang, L., Chen, A., Ju, K., Piao, S., Li, L., Ciais, P., Chen, D., Liu, J., Azorin-Molina, C., Chappell, A., Medvigy, D. & Wood, E. F. A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production. Nature Climate Change. 2019 (accepted).
2. Cai, X., Riley, W., Zhu, Q., Tang, J., Zeng, Z., Bisht, G. & Randerson, J. Improving representation of deforestation effects on evapotranspiration in the E3SM land model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2019.
3. Lian, X., Piao, S., Li, L., Li, Y., Huntingford, C., Ciais, P., Cescatti, A., Janssens, A., Penuelas, J., Buermann, W., Chen, A., Li, X., Myneni, R., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Yang, Y., Zeng, Z., Zhang, Y. & McVicar T. Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation. Science Advance. 2019.
4. Peng, L., Zeng, Z., Wei, Z., Chen, A., Wood, E. F. & Sheffield, J. Determinants for the ratio of actual to potential evapotranspiration, Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14577, 2019.
5. Zeng, Z.*, Estes, L., Ziegler, A. D., Chen, A., Searchinger, T., Hua, F., Guan, K., Jintrawet, A. & Wood, E. F. Highland cropland expansion and forest loss in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century. Nature Geoscience. doi: 10.1038/s41561-018-0166-9,2018 (*, corresponding author).
6. Zeng, Z.*, Gower, B. & Wood, E. F. Accelerating forest loss in Southeast Asian Massif in the 21st century: a case study in Nan Province, Thailand. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14366, 2018 (*, corresponding author).
7. Li, Y., Zeng, Z.*, Huang, L., Lian, X. & Piao, S. Comment on “Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth”. Science. doi: 10.1126/science.aap7950, 2018 (* corresponding author).
8. Zeng, Z.#, Peng, L.#, & Piao, S. Response of terrestrial evapotranspiration to Earth’s greening. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.03.001, 2018 (# same contribution).
9. Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Li, L., Wang, T., Ciais, P., Lian, X., Yang, Y., Mao, J., Shi, X. & Myneni, R. Impact of Earth greening on the terrestrial water cycle. Journal of Climate. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0236.1, 2018.
10. Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Li, L., Ciais, P., Li, Y., Cai, X., Yang, L., Liu, M. & Wood, E. F. Global terrestrial stilling: does Earth’s greening play a role?. Environmental Research Letters. doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaea84, 2018.
11. Lian, X., Piao, S., Huntingford, C., Li, Y., Zeng, Z., Wang, X., Ciais, P., McVicar, T., Peng, S., Ottle, C., Yang, H., Yang, Y., Zhang, Y. & Wang, T. Partitioning global land evapotranspiration using CMIP5 models constrained by field observations. Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/s41558-018-0207-9, 2018.
12. Li, X., He, Y., Zeng, Z., Lian, X., Yao, Y., Wang, X., Ciais, P., …, Zhou, G. & Piao, S. Spatiotemporal pattern of terrestrial evapotranspiration in China during the past thirty years. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.04.020, 2018.
13. Li, Y., Piao, S., Li, L., Huang, L., Ciais, P., He, Y., Li, X., Lian, X., Peng, S., Zeng, Z., Wang, K., Wang, X. & Zhou, L. Divergent hydrological response to large scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China. Science Advance. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aar4182, 2018.
14. Guan, K., Li, Z., Rao, N., Gao, F., Xie, D., Hien, N. & Zeng, Z. Using MODIS-Landsat fused data and ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 to map paddy rice and estimate crop yields for Thai Binh Province in Viet Nam. Remote Sensing of Environment. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2018.2834383, 2018.
15. Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Li, L., Zhou, L., Ciais, P., Wang, T., Li, Y., Lian, X., Wood, E. F., Friedlingstein, P., Mao, J., Estes, L., Myneni, R., Peng, S., Shi, X., Seneviratne, S. & Wang, Y. Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades, Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/nclimate3299, 2017.
16. Yang, H., Piao, S., Zhou, F., Huang, M., Ciais, P., Peng., S. & Zeng, Z. Regional patterns of future runoff changes from Earth system models constrained by observation. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1002/2017GL073454, 2017.
17. Lian, X., Zeng, Z., Yao, Y., Peng, S., Wang, K. & Piao, S. Spatiotemporal variations in the difference between satellite-observed daily maximum land surface temperature and station-based daily maximum near-surface air temperature. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. doi: 10.1002/2016JD025366, 2017.
18. Zeng., Z., Zhu, Z., Lian, X., Li, L., Chen, A., He, X. & Piao, S. Responses of land evapotranspiration to Earth’s greening in CMIP5 Earth System Models, Environmental Research Letter. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/104006, 2016.
19. Feng, X., Fu, B., Piao, S., Wang, S., Ciais, P., Zeng, Z., Lu, Y., Zeng, Y., Li, Y., Jiang, X. & Wu, B. Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits. Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3092, 2016.
20. Li, B., Gasser, T., Ciais, P., Zhou, F., Balkanski, Y., Boisier, J., Hauglustaine, D., Li, L., Li, Y., Liu, H., Liu, J., Peng, S., Piao, S., Shen, Z., Sun, Z., Wang, R, Wang, T., Yin, G., Yin, Y., Zeng, Z. & Tao S. The contribution of China's emissions to global climate forcing. Nature. doi: 10.1038/nature17165, 2016.
21. Yue, L., Wang, T., Zeng, Z., Peng, P., Lian, X. & Piao, S. Evaluating biases in simulated land surface albedo from CMIP5 earth system models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. doi: 10.1002/2016JD024774, 2016.
22. Zhu, Z., Piao, S., Myneni, R., Huang, M., Zeng, Z., Canadell, J., Ciais, P., …, Zaehle, S. & Zeng, N. Greening of the Earth and its drivers. Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/nclimate3004, 2016.
23. Zhang, Y., Zhu, Z., Liu, Z., Zeng, Z., Ciais, P., Huang, M, Liu, Y & Piao, S., Seasonal and interannual changes in photosynthetic activity of tropical forests in Southeast Asia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.04.009, 2016.
24. Fu, Y., Piao, S., Ciais, P., Huang, M., Menzel, A., Peaucelle, M., Peng, S., Song, Y., Vitasse, Y., Zeng, Z., Zhao, H., Zhou, G., Penuelas, J. & Jassens, I. Long-term linear trends mask phenological shifts. International Journal of Biometeorology. doi: 10.1007/s00484-016-1253-5, 2016.
25. Zhao, C., Piao, S., Wang, X., Huang, Y., Ciais, P., Elliott, J., Huang, M., Janssens, I., Li, T., Lian, X., Liu, Y., Müller, C., Peng, S., Wang, T., Zeng, Z. & Peñuelas, J, Plausible rice yield losses under future climate warming. Nature Plants. doi: 10.1038/nplants.2016.202, 2016.
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29. Zeng, Z., Chen, A., Ciais, P., Li, Y., Li, L., Vautard, R., Yang, H., Zhou, L. & Piao, S. Regional air pollution brightening reverses the greenhouse gases induced warming-elevation relationship. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1002/2015GL064410, 2015.
30. Li, Y., Zeng, Z., Zhao, L. & Piao, S. Spatial patterns of climatological temperature lapse rate in mainland China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. doi: 10.1002/2014JD022978, 2015.
31. Fu, Y., Zhao, H., Piao, S., Peaucelle, M., Peng, S., Zhou, G., Ciais, P., Huang, M., Menzel, A., Penuelas, J., Song, Y., Vitasse, Y., Zeng, Z. & Jassens, I. Declining global warming effects on the phenology of spring leaf unfolding. Nature. doi: 10.1038/nature15402, 2015.
32. Yang, H., Piao, S., Zeng, Z., Ciais, P., Yin, Y., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Anders, A., Guimberteau M., Huntingford, C., Levis, S., Levy, P., Li, Y., Lomas, M., Peylin, P., Poulter, B., Viovy, N., Zaehle, S., Zeng, N. & Zhao, Fang. Multi-criteria evaluation of discharge simulation in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. doi: 10.1002/2015JD023129, 2015.
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34. Zhou, F., Shang, Z., Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Ciais, P., Raymond, P., Wang, X., Wang, R., Chen, M., Yang, C., Tao, S., Zhao, Y., Meng, Q., Gao, S. & Mao Q. New model for capturing the variations of fertilizer-induced emission factors of N2O. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. doi: 10.1002/2014GB005046, 2015.
35. Shen, M., Piao, S., Jeong, S., Zhou, L., Zeng, Z., Ciais, P., Chen, D., Jin, C., Li, L., Myneni, R., Yang, K., Zhang, G., Zhang, Y. & Yao, T. Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1504418112, 2015.
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45. Peng, S., Piao, S., Zeng, Z., Ciais, P., Zhou, L., Li, L.Z.X., Myneni, R.B., Yin, Y. & Zeng, H. Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1315126111, 2014.
46. Piao, S., Nan, H., Huntingford, C., Ciais, P., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Peng, S., Ahlström, A., Canadell, J., Cong, N., Levis, S., Levy, P., Liu, L., Lomas, M., Mao, J., Myneni, R., Peylin, P., Poulter, B., Shi, X., Yin, G., Viovy, N., Wang, T., Wang, X., Zaehle, S., Zeng, N., Zeng, Z. & Chen, A. Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6018, 2014.
47. Tan, J., Piao, S., Chen, A., Zeng, Z., Ciais, P., Janssens, I., Mao, J., Myneni, R., Peng, S., Peñuelas, J., Shi, X. & Vicca, S. Seasonally different response of photosynthetic activity to daytime and night-time warming in the Northern Hemisphere. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12724, 2014.
48. Zhou, F., Shang, Z., Ciais, P., Tao, S., Piao, S., Raymond, P., He, C., Li, B., Wang, R., Wang, X., Peng, S., Zeng, Z., Chen, H., Ying, N., Hou, X. & Xu, P. A new high-resolution N2O emission inventory for China in 2008. Environmental Science & Technology. doi: 10.1021/es5018027, 2014.
49. Zeng, Z., Piao, S., Chen, A., Lin, X., Nan, H., Li, J. & Ciais, P. Committed changes in tropical tree cover under the projected 21st century climate change. Scientific Report. doi: 10.1038/srep01951, 2013.
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