●	Sept. 2011–Jun. 2018: M.S. and Ph.D. in Physical Geography, Lanzhou University
        Ph.D. dissertation: Cambial phenology and intra-annual radial growth dynamics of conifers over the Qilian Mountains
        Supervisor: Prof. Xiaohua Gou
●	Dec. 2016–Dec. 2017: Visiting student, Harvard Forest, Harvard University
        Supervisor: Dr. Neil Pederson
●	Sept. 2007–Jun. 2011: B.S. in Ecology, Lanzhou University

●	Dendroecology; Wood anatomy; Tree physiology; Xylogenesis; Climate change; Ecophysiology; Carbon transaction.

●	Aug. 2020–Present: Research Fellow, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
●	Oct. 2018–Mar. 2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University.
        Supervisors: Prof. Jin-Sheng He and Prof. Xiaohua Gou

●	2018, The Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Gansu Province
●	2018, The Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Lanzhou University

●	Xiaohua Gou. Effects of global change on forest structure and function in the Upper Yellow River region. Principal investigator, National Science Foundation of China (No. U21A2006; CNY 600,000/2,630,000), Jan. 2022-Dec. 2025
●	Junzhou Zhang. Relationships between intra-annual radial growth and carbon supply in trees over the eastern Qilian Mountains. Fellowship for Youth, National Science Foundation of China (No. 42001043; CNY 240,000), Jan. 2021-Dec. 2023
●	Junzhou Zhang. Growth and ecophysiology of trees in the Qilian Mountains. Research Foundation for Talented Scholars, Lanzhou University (CNY 1,000,000), Sep. 2020-Aug. 2025
●	Xiaohua Gou. Impact of climate change and human activities on the ecological environment of the Qilian Mountain Nature Reserve. Principal investigator, National Key Rechearch and Development Program of China (No. 2019YFC0507401, CNY 200,000/4,210,000), Dec. 2019-Nov. 2022
●	Junzhou Zhang. Intra-annual radial growth dynamics of trees and their relationship with water-carbon interactions. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019M653788, CNY 80,000), Jun. 2019-Dec. 2020
●	Junzhou Zhang. Relationship between xylogenesis and carbon supply in different tree species over the eastern Qilian Mountains. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (for postdoc, No. lzujbky-2019-pd04, CNY 80,000), Jan. 2019-Dec. 2020

2024
●	Kaixuan Yang; Junzhou Zhang*; Haowen Fan; Yuan Yan. Climatic implications in earlywood and latewood width indices of Chinese pine in north central China. Journal of Forestry Research.2024. 35: 50.
●	Fang Wang; Junzhou Zhang*; Patrick Fonti; Qipeng Sun; Yuetong Wang; Fen Zhang; Yanfang Wang; Jiqin Yang; Xiaohua Gou*. Effects of site aridity and species on stand transpiration in high-elevation dryland ecosystems. Journal of Hydrology, 2024. 630: 130662.
●	Junzhou Zhang*; Xiaohua Gou*; Yuetong Wang; Qipeng Sun; Junjun Liu; Fang Wang; Min Xu; Jiqin Yang; Patrick Fonti. Impacts of site aridity on intra-annual radial variation of two alpine coniferous species in cold and dry ecosystems. Ecological Indicators, 2024, 158: 111420.

2023
●	Zongying Cao; Junzhou Zhang*; Xiaohua Gou*; Yuetong Wang; Qipeng Sun; Jiqin Yang; Rubén D. Manzanedo; Neil Pederson. Increasing forest carbon sinks in cold and arid northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Science of The Total Environment, 2023, 905: 167168
●	Junzhou Zhang*; Xiaohua Gou*; Tim Rademacher; Lijuan Wang; Yulin Li; Qipeng Sun; Fang Wang; Zongying Cao. Interaction of age and elevation on xylogenesis in Juniperus przewalskii in a cold and arid region. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023, 337: 109480
●	Haijiang Yang; Xiaohua Gou*; Bing Xue; Weijing Ma; Wennong Kuang; Zhenyua Tu; Linlin Gao; Dingcai Yin; Junzhou Zhang. Research on the change of alpine ecosystem service value and its sustainable development path. Ecological Indicators, 2023. 146: 109893

2022
●	Jianguo Liu; Xiaohua Gou*; Fang Wang; Fen Zhang; Junzhou Zhang; Jingqing Xia; Yanfang Wang. Nutrient allocation strategies of four conifers from semiarid to extremely arid environments. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 2022, 186: 257-265

2021
●	Fang Wang; Fen Zhang*; Xiaohua Gou; Patrick Fonti; Jingqing Xia; Zongying Cao; Jianguo Liu; Yanfang Wang; Junzhou Zhang. Seasonal variations in leaf-level photosynthesis and water use efficiency of three isohydric to anisohydric conifers on the Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2021, 308-309: 108581
●	Junzhou Zhang; Xiaohua Gou*; M. Ross Alexander; Jingqing Xia; Fang Wang; Fen Zhang; Zihong Man; Neil Pederson. Drought limits wood production of Juniperus przewalskii even as growing seasons lengthens in a cold and arid environment. Catena, 2021, 196:104936. 

2020
●	Junzhou Zhang; M. Ross Alexander; Xiaohua Gou*; Annie Deslauriers; Patrick Fonti; Fen Zhang; Neil Pederson. Extended xylogenesis and stem biomass production in Juniperus przewalskii Kom. during extreme late-season climatic events. Annals of Forest Science, 2020, 77: 99.
●	Jianguo Liu; Xiaohua Gou*; Anna Guninac; Xi-En Longd; Fen Zhang; Junzhou Zhang. Soil nitrogen pool drives plant tissue traits in alpine treeline ecotones. Forest Ecology and Management. 2020, 477:118490.
●	Minyan Jin; Jinjun Li; Zongxi Che; Fang Wang; Junzhou Zhang*; Xiaohua Gou. Intra-annual radial growth responses of Qilian juniper (Juniperus przewalskii) to climate factors in the central Qilian Mountains, northwest China. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2020, 40(21):  7699-7708. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

2019
●	Fang Wang; Xiaohua Gou*; Fen Zhang; Yanfang Wang; Ailing Yu; Junzhou Zhang; Patrick Fonti; Jianguo Liu. Variations in leaf traits of Juniperus przewalskii from an extremely arid and cold environment. Science of The Total Environment, 2019, 689: 434-443.
●	Fang Wang; Fen Zhang; Xiaohua Gou*; Junzhou Zhang; Yanfang Wang; Haoge Niu. Spatial and temporal variations of leaf nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry of Qilian juniper (Sabina przewalskii) in the middle section of the Qilian Mountains, northwest China. Journal of Lanzhou University: Natural Sciences, 2019, 55(4):525-532 (In Chinese with English Abstract)

2018
●	Junzhou Zhang; Xiaohua Gou*; Ruben D Manzanedo; Fen Zhang; Neil Pederson; Cambial phenology and xylogenesis of Juniperus przewalskii over a climatic gradient is influenced by both temperature and drought, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2018, 260-261: 165-175. 
●	Junzhou Zhang; Xiaohua Gou*; Neil Pederson; Fen Zhang; Haoge Niu; Shoudong Zhao; Fang Wang; Cambial phenology in Juniperus przewalskii along different altitudinal gradients in a cold and arid region, Tree Physiology, 2018, 38(6): 840-852.
●	Haoge Niu; Fen Zhang; Ailing Yu; Fang Wang; Junzhou Zhang; Xiaohua Gou*. Intra-annual stem radial growth dynamics of Picea wilsorii in response to climate in the eastern Qilian Mountains. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2018, 38: 7412-7420 (In Chinese with English Abstract)

2013-2016
●	Junzhou Zhang; Xiaohua Gou*; Yongxiang Zhang; Ming Lu; Xiangyu Xu; Fen Zhang; Wenhuo Liu; Linlin Gao; Forward modeling analyses of Qilian Juniper (Sabina przewalskii) growth in response to climate factors in different regions of the Qilian Mountains, northwestern China, Trees - Structure and Function, 2016, 30(1): 175-188.
●	Ming Lu; Xiaohua Gou*; Junzhou Zhang; Fen Zhang; Zihong Man. Seasonal radial growth dynamics of Qilian Juniper and its response to environmental factors in eastern Qilian Mountains. Quaternary Science. 2015, 35(5): 1201–1208. (In Chinese with English Abstract)
●	Qiuyan Chen; Xiaohua Gou*; Junzhou Zhang; Ming Lu; Xiangyu Xu; Fen Zhang. Tree-ring indicted of winter–spring temperature in Shennongjia Mountain area of Central China over the past 172 years. Quaternary Science. 2015, 35(5):1145–1154. (In Chinese with English Abstract)
●	Junzhou Zhang; Xiaohua Gou*; Zhiqian Zhao; Wenhuo Liu; Fen Zhang; Zongying Cao; Feifei Zhou. Improved method of obtaining micro-core paraffin sections in dendroecological research. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. 2013, 37(10): 972–977. (In Chinese with English Abstract)
●	Feifei Zhou; Xiaohua Gou*; Junzhou Zhang; Zhiqian Zhao; Qiuyan Chen; Zongying Cao. Application of Picea wilsonii roots to determine erosion rates in Eastern Qilian Mountains, Northwest China. Trees - Structure and Function, 2013, 37: 371–378
●	Xiaohua Gou; Feifei Zhou; Yongxiang Zhang; Qiuyan Chen; Junzhou Zhang. Forward modeling analysis of regional scale tree-ring patterns around the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Northwest China. Biogeosciences. 2013, 10: 9969–9988.