主要从事硅-碳-水循环与全球变化研究，为黄土科学全国重点实验室方向三学术带头人，极端气候变化下硅-碳-水循环路径取得创新认识，聚焦于“植硅体/生物硅生物地球化学过程”；利用土壤过程模拟、动力学和元素示踪等地球化学方法，结合室内和野外土壤-植物系统控制实验，研究生物硅源对生态系统生物地球化学循环和全球变化的响应过程。

地球化学、环境科学、地质学、地质工程

2025.12 - 今 中国科学院地球环境研究所 研究员

2024.01 - 今 黄土科学全国重点实验室 副主任

2023.10 - 今 比利时法语鲁汶大学 客座研究员

2023.10 - 2025.11 中国科学院地球环境研究所 副研究员

2019.05 - 2023.09 比利时法语鲁汶大学 FNRS学者

2013.01 - 2013.03 澳大利亚南十字大学，地球科学学院 访问学者

1. Li Z, Wang Y, Yong Hu, Peng Shi, Yue K, Song Z. 2025. Extreme climate-driven quartz dissolution alters global river-ocean silicon and carbon cycles. Science Bulletin, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2025.12.006.

2. Wang Y, Li Z*. 2025. Hidden deep soil moisture droughts. Nature Climate Change, 5, 1273–1274.

3.  Li Z, Wang Y, Yue K, Yang Y, Song Z. 2025. Why are readily soluble phytoliths more resilient? Earth-Science Reviews, 264, 105105.

4.  Li Z, Wang Y, Song Z. 2025. Developing new varieties of deep-rooted crops: silicon and agroecosystem services. npj Sustainable Agriculture, 3(1), 2.

5.  Yuan J, Wu Q, Li Z*, Peñuelas J, Sardans J, Peng C, Peng Y, Fan Y, Heděnec P, Yuan C, An N, Wu F, Yue K. 2025. Global Patterns of Leaf Litter C:N:P Stoichiometry Under Current and Future Climate Scenarios. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(5), e2024GB008431.

6.  Jin X, Li Z*, Peñuelas J, Sardan J, Wu Q, Peng Y, Heděnec P, Li Z, Yuan C, Yuan J, Chen Z. Zhao Z, Wu F, Yue K. 2025. Quantitative assessment on the distribution patterns of microplastics in global inland waters. Communications Earth & Environment, 30;6(1), 331.

7.  Chen Y, Jin S, Wei W, Cai S, Su Y, Yue K, Yang X, Li Z, Chen J, Liu J, Yang Y, Wang M, Zheng D, Li Z*. 2025. Silicon fertilization increases the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon in Chinese fir forest ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management, 122998.

8.  Barhebwa F, Li Z*, Bragarda C, Vanlauwe B, Delvaux B. 2024. Is silicon beneficial for cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)? Plant and Soil, 500(1), 623-643.

9.  Li Z*, Meunier J.D, Delvaux B. 2023. Goethite affects phytolith dissolution through clay particle aggregation and pH regulation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 349, 11-22.

10.  Li Z*, Meunier J.D, Delvaux B. 2022. Aggregation reduces the release of bioavailable silicon from allophane and phytolith. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 325, 87-105.

11.  Vander Linden C, Li Z*, Iserentant A, Van Ranst E, de Tombeur F, Delvaux B. 2021. Rainfall is the major driver of plant silicon availability in perudic gibbsitic Andosols. Geoderma, 404, 115295.

12.  Li Z*, Felix D, Vander Linden C, Cornelis JT, Delvaux B. 2020. Soil microaggregates store phytoliths in a sandy loam. Geoderma 360, 114037.

13.  Li Z*, Cornelis JT, Vander Linden C, Van Ranst E, Delvaux B. 2020. Neoformed aluminosilicate and phytogenic silica are competitive sinks in the silicon soil-plant cycle. Geoderma, 368C, 114308.

14.  Li Z, Guo F, Cornelis J-T, Song Z, Wang X, Delvaux B. 2020. Combined silicon-phosphorus fertilization affects the biomass and phytolith stock of rice plants. Frontier in Plant Science, 11, 67.

15.  Li Z*, Delvaux B. 2019. Phytolith-rich biochar: a potential Si fertilizer in desilicated soils. Global Change Biology-Bioenergy, 11(11), 1264-1282.

16.  Li Z*, Unzué-Belmonte D, Cornelis J-T, Vander Linden C, Struyf E, Ronsse F, Delvaux B. 2019. Effects of phytolithic rice-straw biochar, soil buffering capacity and pH on silicon bioavailability. Plant and Soil, 438(1-2), 187-203.

17.  Li Z, Song Z, Cornelis J-T. 2014. Impact of rice cultivar and organ on elemental composition of phytoliths and the release of bio-available silicon. Frontiers in Plant Science, 5, 529.

18.  Li Z, Song Z, Jiang P. 2013. Biogeochemical sequestration of carbon within phytoliths of wetland plants: a case study of Xixi wetland, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 58(20), 2480-2487.

19.  Li Z, Song Z, Parr JF, Wang H. 2013. Occluded C in rice phytoliths: implications to biogeochemical carbon sequestration. Plant and Soil, 370(1-2), 615-623.

20.  Li Z, Song Z, Li B. 2013. The production and accumulation of phytolith-occluded carbon in Baiyangdian reed wetland of China. Applied Geochemistry, 37, 117-124.