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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Zhang K. (2013).
Parameter Identification for Root Growth Based on Soil Water Potential
Measurements – An Inverse Modeling Approach. Procedia Environmental Sciences
19: 574-579.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.