博士，副研究员，硕士生导师。2018年获生态学博士学位，其中2015-2017年于加拿大农业部Swift Current研究站开展联合培养博士研究；2019—2022年于地理资源所从事博士后研究，出站后留所工作至今。主持国家自然科学基金面上项目、青年科学基金项目，国家重点研发计划子课题，中国科学院特别研究助理资助计划等国家级及院级项目；作为骨干参与中国科学院国际科学计划合作项目、第二次青藏高原综合科学考察等重大科研任务。目前已在 Nature Plants、Nature Communications、Global Change Biology、Global Ecology and Biogeography、Journal of Ecology 等国际顶级期刊发表SCI论文70余篇。现任 Ecological Processes 期刊特邀编辑，并担任 Nature Ecology and Evolution、Global Change Biology、Ecology Letters、Functional Ecology 等十余个国内外学术期刊的同行评审人。

研究方向：聚焦全球变化背景下草地生物多样性与生态系统功能（BEF）关系，综合运用野外控制实验、样带调查和全球数据整合等手段，重点关注：（1）气候变化下BEF关系的时空动态格局；（2）多营养级多样性对生态系统功能的级联调控机制；（3）生物多样性在区域及全球生态恢复中的功能评价与应用。

招生方向：欢迎具有生态学或相关交叉学科背景的同学推免或报考研究生，同时常年招收客座研究生，热忱期待有志于全球变化生态学研究的青年学子加入团队。

联系方式：zhangrx@igsnrr.ac.cn

主要学术论文

1.  Zhang RY, Su CF, Wang YH, Wang SP, Tian DS, Wang JS, Jiang L., Chen XL, Zhu JT, Pan JX, Zhao G., Quan Q., Yan P., He YL, Li Y., Song L. Peng JL, Yan YJ, He YC, Wei XH, Niu SL*. (2026) Decadal-scale observations are key to detecting the stabilizing effects of plant diversity in natural ecosystems. Nature Plants, 12, 37-48.

2.  Li TT^#, Zhang RY^#, Chen XL, Wang YH, Huang YY, Fu Z., Yu KL, Wu CY, He YC, Wang JS, Niu SL*, Tian DS*. (2025) Divergent resource limitations of belowground versus aboveground productivity across grasslands. Nature Communications, 17, 335.

3. Ye YQ, Zhang RY*, Tian DS,Wang JS, Yu GR, Niu SL*.  (2025). Natural Regeneration Enhances Long-Term Soil Carbon Storage in Various Fractions More Effectively Than Active Restoration: Meta-Analysis. Global Change Biology,31 (5), e70255.

4.  Li Y, Wang JS, Zhang RY*, Tian DS, Pan JX, Liu N, Niu SL. (2025). Soil Bacterial β- Diversity as a Key Determinant of Belowground Productivity in Warming Alpine Ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 31 (4), e70161.

5.  Ma F, Zhang RY*, Svenning JC, Zhang F, He Y, Wang JS, Tian DS, Zhou QP, Niu SL.* (2024). Decoupled responses of the stability of above-and belowground productivity to drought and clipping in an alpine meadow. Journal of Ecology,112(11), 2585-2597.

6.  Zhang RY, Tian DS, Wang JS, Niu SL* (2023) Critical role of multidimensional biodiversity in contributing to ecosystem sustainability under global change. Geography and Sustainability, 4(3): 232-243.

7.  Zhang RY, Tian DS*, Wang JS, Pan JX, Zhu JT, Li Y, Yan YJ, Song L, Wang S, Chen C, Niu SL* (2022) Dryness weakens the positive effects of plant and fungal beta diversities on above- and belowground biomass. Global Change Biology 28 (22):6629-6639.

8.  Zhang RY, Tian DS, Chen HYH, Seabloom EW, Han GD, Wang SP, Yu GR, Li ZL, Niu SL* (2022) Biodiversity alleviates the decrease of grassland multifunctionality under grazing disturbance: A global meta-analysis. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31 (1):155-167.

9.  Zhang RY, Wang JS, Niu SL*. (2021) Toward a sustainable grazing management based on biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 48: 36-43.

10. Zhang RY, Wang ZW, Niu SL, Tian DS, Wu Q, Gao XF, Schellenberg MP, Han GD (2021) Diversity of plant and soil microbes mediates the response of ecosystem multifunctionality to grazing disturbance. Science of the Total Environment 776.

11. Zhang RY, Schellenberg MP, Tian DS, Ma FF, Zhang TY, Wang H, Wu Q, Bai YT, Han GD, Niu SL (2021) Shifting community composition determines the biodiversity-productivity relationship under increasing precipitation and N deposition. Journal of Vegetation Science 32 (2) 12998.

12. Zhang RY, Wang ZW, Han GD*, Schellenberg MP*, Wu Q, Gu C (2018) Grazing induced changes in plant diversity is a critical factor controlling grassland productivity in the Desert Steppe, Northern China. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.265: 73-83.

13. Zhang RY, Schellenberg MP*, Han GD, Wang H, Li JX (2018) Drought weakens the positive effects of defoliation on native rhizomatous grasses but enhances the drought-tolerance traits of native caespitose grasses. Ecology and Evolution.8(23): 12126-12139.