Zhang Zhiming:
Associate Professor of Institute of Ecology and Geobotany
School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, China
TEl & Fax: 0086-871-65033785
Email: zzming76@ynu.edu.cn; zhiming_zhang76@hotmail.com
Education:
B. S. 1999, Yunnan University, China. - Biology.
M. S. 2002, Institute of Ecology and Geobotany, Yunnan University, China. - Ecology, with the thesis: The relationships between topography and vegetation spatial distribution pattern in Meili Snow Mountain, Yunnan Province, China.
Ph.D. 2011, Ghent University, Belgium. - Applied Biological Science: Land Management and Forestry, with the thesis: Quantification of vegetation change in upper and middle Mekong River watershed using spaceborne remote sensing data.
Work experience:
Ø September, 1999 to April, 2000
Project name: The plan of conservation and development in Northwest of Yunnan, China
Funded by The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Job Responsibilities: Making a vegetation map, after that making the map of prior protecting vegetation types.
Ø May, 2000 to December, 2000
Project name: The relationships between the local people and the Meili Snow Mountain
Funded by The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Job Responsibilities: Analyzing the relationships between plants and the local people, such as which plant are used as Chinese medicine, food, and feed for livestocks.
Ø March, 2001 to November, 2001
Project name: Making vegetation map in Meil Snow Mountain, Northwest of Yunnan, China
Funded by The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Job Responsibilities: Making a high accuracy vegetation map in Meili Snow Mounatin, Northwest of Yunnan, China using satellite image data
Ø October, 2003 to September, 2004
Project name: Mapping and protecting alpine mosaic system in Northwest of Yunnan, China
Funded by The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Job Responsibilities: Making a high accuracy vegetation map of alpine mosaic system in Northwest of Yunnan, China using satellite image data
Ø March, 2007 to December, 2007
Project name: Laojun Mountain National Park Planning
Funded by The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Job Responsibilities: Management zone design in Laojun Mountain National Park.
Ø April, 2008 to December, 2008
Project name: Meili Snow Mountain National Park Planning
Funded by The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Job Responsibilities: Management zone design in Meili Snow Mountain National Park.
Ø March, 2003 to September, 2011
Project name: Establishment of a Centre for Eco-Management and Spatial Information Techniques (CEMSIT), Yunnan University (P.R. of China)
Funded by Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad (VLIR ZEIN2002PR264-886), Belgium
Job Responsibilities: PhD work.
Ø April, 2012 to August, 2015
Project name: Change Detection and Driving Forces Analysis of Karst Rocky Desertification in Southwest of China
Funded by China's Ecological Environment 10 Years ( 2000-2010) change detection and Assessment (STSN-04-00), Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Science.
Job Responsibilities: Post-doctoral research.
Research interests:
Land-cover and vegetation mapping, vegetation change detection, sustainable forest management, regional landscape planning, environmental degradation
Research projects:
Ø "The 'pattern-process' interactions of mountain landscape affected by Grain to Green and Village Road Network Construction policies" founded by National Natural Science Foundation (41361046) (2014-2017);
Ø “The correlation between pattern of mountain ecosystems change and process respond to grain to green policy” founded by National Natural Science Foundation (40901097) (2010-2012);
Ø “The driving forces of the spatial pattern of alpine treeline in Meili Snow Mountain, Yunnan, China” founded by Research Foundation of Education Department, Yunnan Province (09C0009) (2009-2011);
Ø “Mapping vegetation using satellite imagery, DEM and plant community data” founded by Research Foundation of Education Department, Yunnan Province (04Y220B) (2004-2006);
Ø “Eco-zones design in Deqin County, Yunnan” founded by Asian development Bank (2007 -2010)
Publications:
1 Zhiming Zhang, Frieke Van Coillie, Ou Xiaokun, Robert De Wulf, 2014. Integration of Satellite Imagery, Topography and Human Disturbance Factors Based on Canonical Correspondence Analysis Ordination for Mountain Vegetation Mapping: A Case Study in Yunnan, China. Remote Sensing, 6(2):1026-1056.
2 Wenli Wang, Chirstian Körner, Zhiming Zhang, Ruidong Wu, Yupeng Geng, Xiaokun Ou, 2013. No slope exposure effect on alpine treeline position in the Three Parallel Rivers Region, SW China. Alpine Botany, DOI: 10.1007/s00035-013-0118-3.
3 Zhiming Zhang, Sherman Ruth, Zijiang Yang, Ruidong Wu, Wenli Wang, Mei Yin, Guihua, Yang, Xiaokun Ou, 2013. Integrating participatory with a GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis for protected area zoning in China. Journal for Nature Conservation, 21: 225-240.
4 Zhiming Zhang, Frieke Van Coillie, Eva M. De Clercq, Ou Xiaokun, Robert De Wulf, 2013. Mountain vegetation change quantification using surface landscape metrics in Lancang Watershed, China. Ecological Indicators, 31: 49-58.
5 Zhiming Zhang, Frieke Van Coillie, Robert De Wulf, Eva M. De Clercq, Ou Xiaokun, 2012. Comparison of Surface and Planimetric Landscape Metrics for Mountainous Vegetation Pattern Quantification in Lancang Watershed, China. Mountain Research Development, 32(2): 213-225.
6 Zhiming Zhang, Robert R. De Wulf, Frieke M.B. Van Coillie, Lieven P.C. Verbeke, Eva M. De Clercq, Xiaokun Ou, 2011. The influence of different topographic correction strategies on vegetation classification accuracy in the Lancang watershed, China. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 5: 053512, DOI:10.1117/1.3569124.
7 Zhang Zhiming, Luo Qinpu, Wang Wenli, Yin Mei, Sun Zhenhua, Ou Xiaokun, Liu Xiaokang, 2010. A comparison of 2D and 3D landscape metrics for vegetation patterns change quantification in mountainous areas. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 30(21): 5886-5893 (in Chinese).
8 Zhou Qing, Zhang Zhiming, Ou Xiaokun, Yang Mingyu, 2010. Multivariable analysis of socio-economic factors to drive the land-use changes in the area of Manwan Dam. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 30(1): 0165-0173 (in Chinese).
9 Zhang Zhiming, Sun Changqing, Ou Xiaokun, 2009. Mountain vegetation spatial pattern changes affected by Slope Land Conservation Program (SLCP). Journal of Mountain Science, 27(5): 513-523 (in Chinese).
10 Zhang Zhiming, Eva M. De Clercq, Ou Xiaokun, Robert R. De Wulf, Lieven P.C. Verbeke, 2008. Mapping dominant communities vegetation in Meili Snow Mountain, Yunnan Province, China using satellite imagery and plant community data. Geocarto International, 23(2): 135-153.
11 Zhang Zhiming, Lieven P.C. Verbeke, Eva M. De Clercq, Ou Xiaokun, Robert R. De Wulf, 2007. Vegetation change detection using artificial neural networks with ancillary data in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 52(Supp.Ⅱ): 232-243.
12 Ou Xiaokun, Zhang Zhiming, Wang Chongyun, Wu Yucheng, 2006. Study on vegetation ecology in Meili Snow Mountain. Chinese Science Press, Beijing (in Chinese).
13 Zhang Zhiming, Ou Xiaokun, Wu Yucheng, 2004. Accuracy assessment of vegetation mapping in Meili Snow Mountian, Yunnan Province, China. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 15 (9): 1517-1522 (in Chinese).
