B.A., Pomology, Sichuan Agricultural University, P.R. China, 1993.

M.Sc., Phytopathology, Sichuan Agricultural University, P.R. China, 1996.

Ph.D., Phytology, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004.

Visiting scholar, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA, 2014.

Biodiversity Conservation/Ecosystem Ecology

My research interest lies in the selection and adaption between organisms and their habitats and sustainable utilization of plants, which is focused on the following three inter-related topics:

1. Conservation and sustainable utilization of rare and endangered medicinal plants. This mainly uses molecular biological methods to explore the key genes and metabolic pathways of important secondary metabolites.

2. Studies on invasive alien species. It is mainly about the Invasion mechanism and dynamics of the invasive alien plants.

3. Ecosystem ecology. Study the response and mechanism of forest ecosystem to global climate change.

1. QIU Xiao-Ping, ZHANG Yi, LUO Ying-Gang, ZHANG Yong-Mei*.SmCYP71D373 of Salvia miltiorrhiza catalyzes the methyl oxidation reaction of tanshinone IIA-19 position. Industrial Crops & Products, 2024,212:118323

2. ZHANG Yi, HAO Li, WANG Na, ZHANG Yong-Mei*. Transcriptome-wide identification and expression profiling of SWEET family in Bletilla striata and regulation analysis with non-coding RNAs. Industrial Crops & Products 2023, 201:116876

3. JIANG Han, Zhang Yi, TU Wen-Qin, SUN Geng, WU Ning, ZHANG Yong-Mei*. The General Trends of Genetic Diversity Change in Alien Plants’Invasion. Plants, 2023, 12:2690.

4. ZHANG Yi, LIAO Zi-Yan, JIANG Han, TU Wen-Qin , WU Ning, QIU Xiao-Ping, ZHANG Yong-Mei*. Climatic Variability Caused by Topographic Barrier Prevents the Northward Spread of Invasive Ageratina adenophora . Plants, 2022, 11:3108.

5. TU Wen-Qin, XIONG Qin-Li, QIU Xiao-Ping, ZHANG Yong-Mei*. Dynamics of invasive alien plant species in China under climate change scenarios. Ecological Indicators, 2021，129：107919.

6. TU Wen-Qin, WANG Yin-Zhang, GAO Yun-Dong, ZHANG Li-Bing, ZHANG Yong-Mei*. The first complete chloroplast genome of the fern genus Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 2020, 5(1): 441–442.

7. LIU Fu-Rong, ZHANG Yong-Mei*. Effects of Experimental Warming and CO2 Concentration Doubling on 13C CPMAS NMR Spectra of Humin in Coniferous Forest Ecosystems of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau in China. Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2019，28（4）：1-7.

8. LIU Fu-Rong, ZHANG Yong-Mei*, LUO Jian-Xun. The Effects of Experimental Warming and CO2 Concentration Doubling on Soil Organic Carbon Fractions of a Montane Coniferous Forest on the Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. European Journal of Forest Research. 2018, 137:211-221.

9. ZHANG Yong-Mei, XU Pei-Li, ZENG Qiong, LIU Yi-Ming, LIAO Xun, HOU Mei-Fang. Magnetism-assisted modification of screen printed electrode with magnetic multi-wall carbon nanotubes for electrochemical determination of dopamine. Materials Science and Engineering. 2017, C74:62-69.

10. ZHANG Yong-Mei, BAO Wei-Kai, PANG Xue-Yong, WU Ning, ZHOU Guo-Yi. Changes of enzyme activities in different restoration ages Spruce forests on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences. 2005b, 10(4):701-706.

11. ZHANG Yong-Mei, WU Ning, ZHOU Guo-Yi, BAO Wei-Kai. Changes in enzyme activities of spruce (Picea balfouriana) forest soil as related to burning in the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Applied Soil Ecology, 2005a, 30:215-225.

12. ZHANG Yong-Mei, ZHOU Guo-Yi, WU Ning, BAO Wei-Kai. Soil enzyme activity changes in different-aged spruce forests of the Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Pedosphere, 2004, 14(3):305-312.

13. QIU Xiao-Ping, ZHANG Yi, CHEN Yulin, ZHANG Yong-Mei*. Utilization status and developmental potential of Lamiaceae as medicinal plant resources in China. Chin J Appl Environ Biol, 2023, 29 (2): 346-356.

14. QIU Xiao-Ping, ZHANG Yi, ZHANG Yong-Mei*. Effects of Global Climate Change on the Potential Suitable Habitats of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge. Chinese Journal of Information on TCM, 2022, 29(9):1-10.

15. LIU Fu-Rong, DENG Shu-Lin, ZHANG Yong-Mei*. Effects of elevated temperature and CO2 concentration doubling on soil total soluble nitrogen in subalpine coniferous forest of western Sichuan，China．Acta Ecologica Sinica，2016，36( 3) : 652-660.

16. DENG Shu-Lin, LIU Fu-Rong, ZHANG Yong-Mei*. Effects of elevated temperature and doubling of CO2 concentration on the soil concentration on the soil microbial community structure in the subalpine coniferous forest of western microbial community structure in the subalpine coniferous forest of western Sichuan, China Sichuan, China. Chin J Appl Environ Biol., 2016，22 (1): 0020-0026.