1988年在兰州大学生物系获学士学位，2000年在加拿大University of Victoria获博士学位。现任中国生态学会常务理事，中国科学探险协会常务理事兼副秘书长，青藏高原研究会理事，中国林学会森林生态专业委员会委员。担任Forests期刊编委。迄今发表SCI刊物论文60余篇。已培养硕士和博士20余名，正在指导博士生和硕士生7名。 

主要研究工作：  

研究领域为全球变化生态学，主要运用树木年轮学方法从事以下三个方向的研究：1）森林健康历史，研究森林生态系统所经历的干扰历史并揭示干扰事件对森林健康的影响（生长衰退、释放、生态韧性等）；2）高山林线，认识青藏高原高山林线形成和树木生长过程； 3）古气候，运用长序列（数百年乃至上千年）高分辨率（年或季节）的树木年轮资料来重建过去气候变化。 

主持和参加的科研项目：  

1.国家自然科学基金面上项目，西藏柏木林在衰退事件后树木生长的恢复时间及其影响因素，2023/01-2026/12，主持。

2.第二次青藏高原综合科学考察研究“藏东南森林和灌丛生态系统与资源管理”子专题“藏东南-昌都片区考察”，2019/01-2023/12，主持。

研究论文（注*为通讯作者）：  

2022

Zheng, J., Lyu, L., Zhang, Q.-B. * 2022. Isolated Trees in Two Tibetan Plateau Treelines Reveal Growth Plasticity to Harsh Conditions of the Little Ice Age. Forests, 13, 1371. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13091371

Langzhen J.Y., Zhang Q-B.*, Jia H.F., Zheng J.C., Fang J.P. 2022. Tree rings reveal a growth-decline event in A.D. 1875-1883 in a Tibetan Plateau juniper forest. Dendrochronologia, DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2022.125981.2021

Li Y., Zhang Q-B.*, Fang O.Y., Mu Y.M., Jia H.F., Lyu L.X. 2022. Recovery time of juniper trees is longer in wet than dry conditions on the Tibetan Plateau in the past two centuries. Forest Ecology and Management. 497, DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119514.

Fang O.Y., Zhang Q-B.*, Vitasse Y., Zweifel R. Cherubini P. 2022. The frequency and severity of past droughts shape the drought sensitivity of juniper trees on the Tibetan Plateau. Forest Ecology and Management. 486, DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.118968.

2021

Wang Z., Lyu L.X.,Liu W.X., Liang H.X., Huang J.G. and Zhang Q-B.*. 2021. Topographic patterns of forest decline as detected from tree rings and NDVI. Catena. 198: 105011.

Mu Y.M., Zhang Q-B.*, Fang O.Y., Lyu L.X. and Cherubini P. 2021. Pervasive tree-growth reduction in Tibetan juniper forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 480: 118642.

2020

Zhang Q-B. and Fang O.Y. 2020. Tree rings circle an abrupt shift in climate. Science. 370: 1037-1038. DOI: 10.1126/science.abf1700.

Tao Q., Zhang Q-B.* and Chen Xing*. 2020. Tree-ring reconstructed diurnal temperature range on the eastern Tibetan plateau and its linkage to El Nino-Southern Oscillation. International Journal of Climatology. 2020. DOI: 10.1002/joc.6917.

Fang O.Y., Qiu H.Y. and Zhang Q-B.* 2020. Species-specific drought resilience in juniper and fir forests in the central Himalayas. Ecological Indicators. 117.

2019

Cheng X.H,, Lyu L.X., Buntgen U., Cherubini P., Qiu H.Y., Zhang Q-B.*. 2019. Increased El Nino-Southern Oscillation sensitivity of tree growth on the southern Tibetan Plateau since the 1970s. International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.6032.

Lyu L.X., Zhang Q-B.*, Pellatt M.G., Buntgen U., Li M.H. and Cherubini P. 2019. Drought limitation on tree growth at the Northern Hemisphere’s highest tree line. Dendrochronologia, 53: 40-47.

Fang O.Y. and Zhang Q-B.*. 2019. Tree resilience to drought increases in the Tibetan Plateau. Global Change Biology, 25: 245-253.

2018

Fang O.Y., Alfaro R.I. and Zhang Q-B.*. 2018. Tree rings reveal a major episode of forest mortality in the late 18th century on the Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 163: 44-50.

2017

Li Y. and Zhang Q-B.* 2017. History of tree growth declines recorded in old trees at two sacred sites in northern China. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8:1779. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01779.

Lyu L.X., Suvanto S., Nojd P., Henttonen H.M., Makinen H. and Zhang Q-B. 2017. Tree growth and its climate signal along latitudinal and altitudinal gradients: comparison of tree rings between Finland and the Tibetan Plateau. Biogeosciences, 14: 3083–3095.

James H. Speer*, Achim Brauning, Qi-Bin Zhang, Kambiz Pourtahmasi,Narayan P. Gairee, Binod Dawadi, Prabina Rana, Yub Raj Dhakal, Ram Hari Acharya,Dhruba Lochan Adhikari, Shankar Adhikari, Prakash Chandra Aryal, Damodar Bagale,Binod Baniya, Sanjaya Bhandari, Navin Dahal, Suchana Dahal,Narmandakh Ganbaatar, Anjana Giri, D.B Gurung, Yeshey Khandu, Binu Maharjan,Rajan Maharjan, Rayees Ahmad Malik, Cheryl D. Nath, Bikash Nepal, Justine Ngoma,Ramesh Pant, Mitra Lal Pathak, Hari Paudel, Bimal Sharma, Md Sarwar Hossain,Bayarbaatar Soronzonbold, Thida Swe, Ichchha Thapa, Achyut Tiwar. 2017. Pinus roxburghii stand dynamics at a heavily impacted site in Nepal:Research through an educational fieldweek. Dendrochronologia 41: 2–9.

Nie C.Y., Zhang Q-B.* and Lyu L.X. 2017. Millennium-long tree-ring chronology reveals megadroughts on the southeastern Tibetan plateau. Tree-Ring Research, 73: 1-10.

2016

Lyu，LX, Zhang, Q.-B.*, Deng, X and Makinen, H. 2016. Fine-scale distribution of treeline trees and the nurse plant facilitation on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Ecological Indicators, 66: 251-258. 

Lyu, LX, Deng, X and Zhang, Q.-B.*. 2016. Elevation pattern in growth coherency on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. PLoS ONE, 11(9) e0163201. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163201. 

Zhang, C. and Zhang, Q.-B.*. 2016. Is there a link between the rise and fall of the Tuyuhun tribe (northwestern China) and climatic variations in the 4th-7th centuries AD?. Journal of Arid Environments, 125: 145-150. 

2015

Zhang, Q.-B., Evans, M.N. and Lyu, LX. 2015. Moisture dipole over the Tibetan Plateau during the past five and a half centuries. Nature Communications, 6: 8062 doi: 10.1038/ncomms9062. 

Deng, X. and Zhang, Q.-B. 2015. Tree growth and climate sensitivity in open and closed forests of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Dendrochronologia, 33: 25-30. 

2014

Xing, P., Zhang, Q.-B. and Lv LX. 2014. Absence of late-summer warming trend over the past two and half centuries on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 123: 27-35. 

Duan, JP and Zhang, Q.-B. 2014. A 449 year warm season temperature reconstruction in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and its relation to solar activity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere, 119: 11578–11592. 

2013

Duan, JP, Zhang, Q.-B. and Lv, LX. 2013. Increased Variability in Cold-Season Temperature since the 1930s in Subtropical China. Journal of Climate, 26: 4749-4757. 

Lv, LX and Zhang, Q.-B. 2013. Tree-ring based summer minimum temperature reconstruction for Yadong County at the southern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Climate Research, 56: 91-101. 

2012

Lv, LX, Ovchinnikov, DV, Kirdyanov, AV and Zhang, Q.-B.* 2012. Comparison of temperature sensitive tree-ring chronologies in southern Tibetan Plateau and northern Siberia. Science, Technology and Development, 31(2): 152-164.  

Duan, JP, Zhang, Q.-B.*, Lv, LX and Zhang, C. 2012. Regional-scale winter-spring temperature variability and chilling damage dynamics over the past two centuries in southeastern China. Climate Dynamics, 39: 919-928.   

Lv, LX and Zhang, Q.-B.*. 2012. Asynchronous recruitment history of Abies spectabilis along an altitudinal gradient in the Mr.Everest region. Journal of Plant Ecology, 5 (2): 147-156.  

Xing, P., Zhang, Q.-B.* and Baker, PJ. 2012. Age and radial growth pattern of four tree species in a subtropical forest of China. Trees-Structure and Function, 26: 283-290.  

Shi, CM, Daux, V., Zhang, Q.-B.*, Risi, C., Hou, SG., Stievenard, M., Pierre, M., Li, ZS., and Masson-Delmotte, V. 2012. Reconstruction of southeast Tibetan plateau summer climate using tree ring △18O: moisture variability over the past two centuries. Climate of the Past, 8: 205-213.  

Zhang, Q.-B.*, Li, ZS, Liu, PX and Xiao, SC. 2012. On the vulnerability of oasis forest to changing environmental conditions: perspectives from tree rings. Landscape Ecology, 27: 343-353.   

2011

Li, ZS, Zhang, Q-B*and Ma, KP. 2011. Tree-ring reconstruction of summer temperature for A.D. 1475-2003 in the central Hengduan Mountains, Northwestern Yunnan, China. Climatic Change, 110: 455-467.  

Wang, X.C. and Zhang, Q.-B. 2011. Evidence of solar signals in tree rings of Smith fir from Sygera Mountain in southeast Tibet. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 73: 1959-1966.  

Li, Z.S., Shi, C.M., Liu, Y.B., Zhang, J.L., Zhang, Q.-B.* and Ma, K.P. 2011. Summer mean temperature variation from 1710-2005 inferred from tree-ring data of the Baimang Snow Mountains, northwestern Yunnan, China. Climate Research, 47: 207-218.  

Shi, CM, Masson-Delmotte, V., Risi, C., Eglin, T., Stievenard, M., Pierre, M., Wang, XC, Gao, J., Breon, F-M, Zhang, Q.-B.* and Daux, V. 2011. Sampling strategy and climatic implications of tree-ring stable isotopes on the southeast Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 301: 307-316.  

2010及以前

Liu, YB and Zhang, Q-B.* 2010. Effect of climate on the growth of annual rings in the main roots of perennial forbs in Inner Mongolian semi-arid grassland, China. Journal of Vegetation Science, 21: 899-907.  

Shi, CM, Masson-Delmotte, V., Daux, V., Li ZS and Zhang Q-B.* 2010. An unstable tree-growth response to climate in two 500 year chronologies, North Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Dendrochronologia, 28(4): 225-237.  

Pumijumnong, N., Zhang, Q-B, Eckstein, D., Baas, P. 2009. Tree-ring research in Asia (Preface). IAWA Journal, 30: 359.  

Guo, G, Li, ZS, Zhang, Q-B*, Ma, KP and Mu CL. 2009. Dendroclimatological studies of Picea Likiangensis and Tsuga Dumosa in Lijiang, China. IAWA Journal, 30: 435-441.  

Wang, XC, Zhang, Q-B*, Ma, K.P. and Xiao SC. 2008. A tree-ring record of 500-year dry-wet changes in northern Tibet, China. The Holocene, 18: 579-588.  

Zhang, Q-B and Shao, X.M. 2007. Tree Rings and Ecology: The 7th International Conference on Dendrochronology. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 49: 129-130.  

Liu Y.B. and Zhang, Q-B*. 2007. Growth rings of roots in perennial forbs in Duolun grassland, Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 49: 144-149.  

Zhang, Q-B* and Qiu, HY. 2007. A millennium-long tree-ring chronology of Sabina przewalskii on northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Dendrochronologia. 24(2-3): 91-95.  

Huang, JG and Zhang, Q-B* .2007. Tree rings and climate for the last 680 years in Wulan area of northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Climatic Change. 80: 369-377.  

Wang, T, Zhang, Q-B, and Ma, KP. 2006. Treeline dynamics in relation to climatic variability in the central Tianshan Mountains, northwestern China. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15(4): 406-415.  

Zhang, Q-B*, and Hebda, RJ. 2005. Abrupt climate change and variability in the past four millennia of the southern Vancouver Island, Canada. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L16708, doi:10.1029/2005GL022913.  

He, J.S., Zhang, Q.-B., and Bazzaz, F.A. 2005. Differential drought responses between samplings and adult trees in four co-occurring species of New England. Trees-Structure and Function, 19: 442-450.  

Zhang, Q.-B.*, and Hebda, R. 2004. Radial growth patterns of Douglas-fir along an elevational gradient in central coast British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 34:1946-1954.  

Zhang, Q.-B.*, Cheng, G., Yao, T., Kang, X., and Huang, J. 2003. A 2326-year tree-ring record of climate variability on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(14), 1739, doi:10.1029/2003GL017425.  

Zhang, Q.-B.*, and Alfaro, R. 2003. Spatial synchrony of the two-year cycle   budworm outbreaks in central British Columbia, Canada. Oikos, 102: 146-154.  

Zhang, Q.-B., and Alfaro, R. 2002. Periodicity of two-year cycle budworm outbreaks in central British Columbia, a dendroecological analysis. Forest Science 48: 722-731.  

Zhang, Q.-B., Hebda, R., Zhang, Q.-J., and Alfaro, R. 2000. Modeling tree-ring growth responses to climatic variables using artificial neural networks. Forest Science, 46: 229-239.  

Zhang, Q.-B., Alfaro, R., and Hebda, R. 1999. Dendroecological studies of tree growth, climate and spruce beetle outreaks in sub-boreal forest of central British Columbia, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management, 121: 215-225.