Prof. Kefeng Zhang

Ningbo Institute of Technology

Zhejiang University, China

Professor

Email: kfzhang@hotmail.com

Qualifications

1998 Ph.D., Edinburgh University, UK

1987 M.S., Zhejiang University, China

1984 B.S., Zhejiang University, China

Publications (Selected)

1. Zhang K., Bosch-Serra A.D., Boixadera J., Thompson A.J. (2015). Investigation of Water Dynamics and the Effect of Evapotranspiration on Grain Yield of Rainfed Wheat and Barley under a Mediterranean Environment: A Modelling Approach. PLOS ONE, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131360.
2. Zhang H.N., Gan H.H., Jin H.X., Zhang K.F. (2015). Transformation of nitrogen in biofilters used in drinking water treatment. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, 24(4): 1209-1214.
3. Zhang H.N., Zhang K.F., Jin H.X., Gu L., Yu X. (2015). Variations in dissolved organic nitrogen concentration in biofilters with different media during drinking water treatment. Chemosphere, doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.10.092.
4. Zhang K. (2013). Parameter Identification for Root Growth Based on Soil Water Potential Measurements – An Inverse Modeling Approach. Procedia Environmental Sciences 19: 574-579.
5. Sun Y., Hu K., Zhang K., Jiang L., Xu Y. (2012). Simulation of nitrogen fate for greenhouse cucumber grown under different water and fertilizer management using the EU-Rotate_N model. Agricultural Water Management 112: 21-32.
6. Burns I.G., Zhang K., Turner M.K., Lynn J., McClement S., Hand P., Pink D. (2011). Genotype and Environment effects on nitrate accumulation in a diversity set of 48 lettuce accessions at commercial maturity: their association with shoot weight and development, and with the concentrations of water, assimilated carbon and assimilated nitrogen in their tissues. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 91: 2217–2233.
7. Zhang K., Hilton H.W., Greenwood D.J., Thompson A.J. (2011). A novel use of soil sensor measurements and inverse modeling techniques for determining the FAO56 crop coefficients. Agricultural Water Management, 98, 1081-1090.
8. Zhang K., Zhang T., Yang D. (2010). An explicit hydrological algorithm for basic flow and transport equations and its application in agro-hydrological models for water and nitrogen dynamics. Agricultural Water Management, 98, 114–123.
9. Zhang K., Greenwood D.J., Spracklen W.P., Rahn C.R., Hammond J.P., White P.J., Burns I.G. (2010). A universal agro-hydrological model for water and nitrogen cycles in the soil-crop system SMCR_N: critical update and further validation. Agricultural Water Management, 97, 1411–1422.
10. Zhang K. (2010). Evaluation of a generic agro-hydrological model for water and nitrogen dynamics (SMCR_N) in the soil-wheat system. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 137, 202–212.
11. Zhang K., Burns I.G., Greenwood D.J., Hammond J.P., White P.J. (2010). Developing a reliable strategy to infer the effective soil hydraulic properties from field evaporation experiments for agro-hydrological models. Agricultural Water Management, 97, 399–409.
12. Rahn C.R., Zhang K., Lillywhite R., Ramos C., Doltra J., de Paz J.M., Riley H., Fink M., Nendel C., Thorup Kristensen K., Pedersen A., Piro F., Venezia A., Firth C., Schmutz U., Rayns F., Strohmeyer K. (2010). EU-Rotate_N – a European decision support system – to predict environmental and economic consequences of the management of nitrogen fertiliser in crop rotations. European Journal of Horticultural Science, 75, 20–32.
13. Pedersen A., Zhang, K., Thorup-Kristensen K., Jensen L.S. (2010). Modellingdiverse root density dynamics and deep nitrogen uptake – A simple approach. Plant and Soil, 326, 493–510.
14. Greenwood D.J., Zhang K., Hilton H., Thompson A. (2010). Opportunities for improving irrigation efficiency with quantitative models, soil water sensors and wireless technology. Journal of Agricultural Science, 148, 1–16.