(1) Cheng Zhang, Ze Ren. The role of subsurface ice in sustaining bacteria in continental and maritime glaciers. Science of the Total Environment. 2023, 896 165324.
(2) Xia Li, Yan-zi Cai, Ze-zheng Liu, Xiao-biao Mo, Li Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Bao-shan Cui, Ze Ren. Impacts of river discharge, coastal geomorphology, and regional sea level rise on tidal dynamics in Pearl River Estuary. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2023, 10, 1-12.
(3) Ze Ren, Kang Ma, Xu-an Jia, Qing Wang, Cheng Zhang and Xia Li. Metagenomics Unveils Microbial Diversity and Their Biogeochemical Roles in Water and Sediment of Thermokarst Lakes in the Yellow River Source Area. Microbial Ecology. 2023, 85, 904-915.
(4) Ze Ren, Yi-tong Zhang, Xia Li, Cheng Zhang*. Biogeography of Micro-Eukaryotic Communities in Sediment of Thermokarst Lakes Are Jointly Controlled by Spatial, Climatic, and Physicochemical Factors Across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2022, 10, 901107.
(5) Ze Ren†, Cheng Zhang†, Xia Li, Kang Ma, Bao-shan Cui*. Abundant and Rare Bacterial Taxa Structuring Differently in Sediment and Water in Thermokarst Lakes in the Yellow River Source Area, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022, 13, 774514.
(6) Ze Ren, Sheng-kui Cao, Tao Chen, Cheng Zhang, Jin-lei Yu. Bacterial functional redundancy and carbon metabolism potentials in soil, sediment, and water of thermokarst landscapes across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Implications for the fate of permafrost carbon. Science of The Total Environment. 2022, 852, 158340.
(7) Ze Ren, Xia Li, Cheng Zhang, Qing Wang, Le Fang, Sheng-kui Cao and Jin-lei Yu. From permafrost soil to thermokarst lake sediment: A view from C:N:P stoichiometry. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 2022, 10, 986879.
(8) Ze Ren, Xu-an Jia, Yi-tong Zhang, Kang Ma, Cheng Zhang, Xia Li. Biogeography and environmental drivers of zooplankton communities in permafrost-affected lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Global Ecology and Conservation. 2022, 38, e02191.
(9) Ze Ren, Wei Luo and Cheng Zhang. Rare bacterial biosphere is more environmental controlled and deterministically governed than abundant one in sediment of thermokarst lakes across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022, 13, 944646.
(10) Ze Ren, Kang Ma, Xuan Jia, Qing Wang, Cheng Zhang, Xia Li. Community Assembly and Co-Occurrence Patterns of Microeukaryotes in Thermokarst Lakes of the Yellow River Source Area. Microorganisms. 2022, 10, 481.
(11) Li-ping Li , Yan-chao Jin, Le Fang, Cheng Zhang. Direct photolysis of diclofenac under simulated sunlight: Transformation pathway and biological concerns. Chemosphere. 2022, 307, 135775
(12) Ze Ren†, Cheng Zhang†, Xia Li, Kang Ma, Zhe Zhang, Ke-xin Feng, Bao-shan Cui*. Bacterial Communities Present Distinct Co-occurrence Networks in Sediment and Water of the Thermokarst Lakes in the Yellow River Source Area. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2021, 12, 716732.