男，博士生导师，国家优青项目主持者，海南大学生态系统功能监测与评估团队负责人。从事全球变化对陆地生态系统影响研究。长期以来，借助长期定位监测、野外控制实验、模型模拟以及遥感观测等多种技术手段，从不同时间尺度与空间尺度揭示气候变化对生态系统结构功能的影响，在气候变化对陆地生态系统碳水循环影响方面取得了重要进展。以第一或通讯作者在前沿SCI刊物发表论文30余篇，含Ecology Letters，Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology，Journal of Climate, JGR-Biogeosciences, Journal of Hydrology等生态学与地学主流期刊论文。曾获中国科学院优秀博士论文、中国科学院青年创新促进会会员、中国生态学会青年科技奖等荣誉，主持国家级项目10余项，经费总计>2000万元，2019年获批国家自然科学基金优秀青年基金项目。
教育背景
1999年9月-2003年6月：北京林业大学水土保持学院，水土保持学，学士；
2003年9月-2008年6月：中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所，生态学，博士。
工作经历
2008-2012：中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所，助理研究员;
2012-2013：University of Montana, 访问****;
2012-2017：中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所，副研究员;
2015-2017：中国科学院大学岗位教授;
2017-2018：Colorado State University, 访问****；
2017-2021：华南师范大学地理科学学院， 研究员。
2021- 海南大学，教授
科研项目
主要从事陆地生态系统碳水循环及其对全球变化响应研究。近年来主持的代表性项目如下：
2010-2012：国家自然科学基金面上项目，中国典型草地生态系统水碳耦合指标对气候变化响应的样带研究（40万元），主持;
2010-2014：973项目子课题， 中国典型生态系统碳汇关键过程与机理研究（70万元）， 主持;
2011-2015：中科院科技先导专项专题，内蒙古森林生态系统固碳现状、速率、机制和潜力研究（232万元），主持;
2014-2016：国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目，气候与土地利用变化对中国陆地生态系统蒸散的影响研究（26万元），主持;
2014-2017：中科院地理所优秀青年人才基金项目，中国陆地生态系统水分利用效率时空变异特征（40万元），主持;
2015-2018：特色研究培育建设服务项目课题，张家口-承德地区防护林体系生态效益评估与生态建设方案（80万元），主持;
2016-2017：地方委托项目，鄱阳湖水生态综合模型研究及开发-湿地景观动态模型的植物生物量模块（57万元），主持;
2016-2018：中科院重点实验室青年创新研究团队项目，草地降水-生产力关系对气候变化的响应（60万元），主持;
2016-2019：国家自然科学基金面上项目，草地生态系统水分利用效率对降水模式改变的响应机制（75万元），主持;
2017-2021：国家重点科技研发项目子课题，黄土高原地表蒸散时空变异格局研究（52万元），主持;
2017-2021：国家重点科技研发项目子课题，中国北方生态脆弱区生态系统生产力形成机制研究（120万元），主持;
2020-2022：国家自然科学基金优秀青年基金项目，全球变化与生态系统响应（130万元），主持.
2020-2024: 国家重大专项“第二次青藏高原综合科学考察研究”任务，青藏高原碳汇关键区调查（220万元）, 主持.


学术成果
围绕全球变化背景下生态系统生产力，生态系统碳水循环相互关系，生态系统蒸散，生态系统水分利用效率，生态模型与遥感等主题，发表科研论文40余篇，主要发表于Ecology Letters, Global Change Biology，Global Ecology and Biogeography等前沿刊物。
Publications (*corresponding author)：
2020：
Kai-li Cheng, Zhong-min Hu*, Sheng-gong Li*, Qun Guo, Yan-bin Hao, Wen-ping Yuan. 2020. Improvement of predicting ecosystem productivity by modifying carbon-water- nitrogen coupling processes in a temperate grassland. Journal of Plant Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaa072
Genan Wu, XitianCai, Trevor F. Keenan, Shenggong Li*, Xiangzhong Luo, Ruochen Cao, Fa Li, Adam J Purdy, Wei Zhao, Xiaomin Sun, Zhongmin Hu*. 2020. Evaluating three evapotranspiration estimates from model of different complexity over China using the ILAMB benchmarking system. Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125553
Zhi-Yun Jiang, Zhong-Min Hu*, Derrick Y.F. Lai, Dao-Rui Han, Mei Wang, Min Liu, Meng Zhang, Ming-Yan Guo. 2020. Light grazing facilitates carbon accumulation in subsoil in Chinese grasslands: A meta-analysis, Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15326
Genan Wu, Zhongmin Hu*, Trevor F. Keenan, Shenggong Li*, Wei Zhao, Ruochen Cao, Yuzhe Li, Qun, Guo, Xiaomin Sun. 2020. Incorporating spatial variations in parameters for improvements of an evapotranspiration model, Journal of Geophysical Research–Biogeosciences, doi/10.1029/2019JG005504
Guangcun Hao, Zhongmin Hu*, Kai Di, Shenggong Li. 2020. Rainfall pulse response of carbon exchange to the timing of natural intra-annual rainfall in a temperate grass ecosystem. Ecological Indicators, 118, 106730
Ruochen Cao, Zhongmin Hu*, Zhiyun Jiang, Yuting Yang, Wei Zhao, Genan Wu, Xiaoming Feng, Ruru Chen, Guangcun Hao. 2020. Shifts in ecosystem water use efficiency on China's Loess Plateau caused by the interaction of climatic and biotic factors over 1985-2015. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 291, 108100
Peilin Li, Zhongmin Hu*, Yongwen Liu. Shift in the trend of browning in Southwestern Tibetan Plateau in the past two decades. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2020. 287, doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107950
Zhi-Yun Jiang, Zhi-Guang Yang, Si-Yi Zhang, Chao-Ming Liao, Zhong-Min Hu*, Ruo-Chen Cao, Hua-Wu Wu. Revealing the spatio-temporal variability of evapotranspiration and its components based on an improved Shuttleworth-Wallace model in the Yellow River Basin. Journal of Environmental Management. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110310
2019
Guangcun Hao, Zhongmin Hu*, Qun Guo, Kai Di, Shenggong Li. 2019. Median to strong rainfall intensity favors carbon sink in a temperate grassland ecosystem in China. Sustainability, 11(22), 6376.
Wei Zhao, Zhongmin Hu*, Qun Guo, Genan Wu, Ruru Chen, and Shenggong Li. 2019. Contributions of climatic factors to inter-annual variability of vegetation index in northern China grasslands. Journal of Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0587.1

2018：
Hu Z, Guo Q, Li S, Piao S, Knapp AK, Ciais P, Li X, Yu G. 2018. Shifts in the dynamics of productivity signal ecosystem state transitions at the biome-scale. Ecology Letters, 21: 1457–1466. doi: 10.1111/ele.13126.
Hu Z, Shi H, Cheng K, Wang Y-P, Piao S, Li Y, Zhang L, Xia J, Zhou L, Yuan W, Running S, Li L, Hao Y, He N, Yu Q, Yu G. 2018. Joint structural and physiological control on the inter-annual variation in productivity in a temperate grassland: a data-model comparison. Global Change Biology, 24(7): 2965-2979.

2017:
Hu Zhongmin*, Wu Genan, Zhang Liangxia, Li Shenggong, Zhu Xianjin, Zheng Han, Zhang Leiming, Sun Xiaomin, Yu Guirui. Modeling and Partitioning of Regional Evapotranspiration Using a Satellite-Driven Water-Carbon Coupling Model. Remote Sensing, 2017, 9(1) DOI: 10.3390/rs**
You Chengmin, Wu Fuzhong, Gan Youmin, Yang Wanqin*, Zhongmin Hu*, Xu Zhenfeng, Tan Bo, Liu Lin, Ni Xiangyin. Grass and forbs respond differently to nitrogen addition: a meta-analysis of global grassland ecosystems. Scientific Reports, 7, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01728-x
Zhao Wei, Hu Zhongmin*, Li Shenggong*, Guo Qun, Liu Zhengjia, Zhang Leiming. Comparison of surface energy budgets and feedbacks to microclimate among different land use types in an agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China. Science of The Total Environment, 2017, 599–600: 891–898

2016：
Qun Guo, Shenggong Li, Zhongmin Hu*, Wei Zhao, Guirui Yu, Xiaomin Sun, Linghao Li, Naishen Liang, Wenming Bai. Responses of gross primary productivity to different sizes of precipitation events in a temperate grassland ecosystem in Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Arid Land, 2016, 8(1): 36-46.
Qun Guo, Zhongmin Hu*, Shenggong Li*, Guirui Yu, Xiaomin Sun, Linghao Li, Naishen Liang, Wenming Bai. 2016. Exogenous N addition enhances the responses of gross primary productivity to individual precipitation events in a temperate grassland. Scientific Reports, 6, doi:10.1038/srep26901
Hu Zhongmin, Li Shenggong, Guo Qun, Niu Shuli, Yu Guirui*. 2016. A synthesis of the effect of grazing exclusion on carbon dynamics in grasslands in China. Global Change Biology, 22(4),1385–1393.

吴戈男,胡中民*,李胜功,郑涵,朱先进,孙晓敏,于贵瑞,李景保. SWH双源蒸散模型模拟效果验证及不确定性分析. 2016, 71 (11): 1886-1897.

2015：
Xian-Jin Zhu, Gui-Rui Yu, Qiu-Feng Wang, Zhong-Min Hu, Han Zheng, Sheng-Gong Li, Xiao-Min Sun, Yi-Ping Zhang, Jun-Hua Yan, Hui-Min Wang, Feng-Hua Zhao, Jun-Hui Zhang, Pei-Li Shi, Ying-Nian Li, Liang Zhao, Fa-Wei Zhang, Yan-Bin Hao. Spatial variability of water use efficiency in China's terrestrial ecosystems. Global and Planetary Change, 2015, 129: 37-44.
Xian-Jin Zhu, Gui-Rui Yu, Zhong-Min Hu, Qiu-Feng Wang, Hong-Lin He, Jun-Hua Yan, Hui-Min Wang, and Jun-Hui Zhang. Spatiotemporal variations of T/ET (the ratio of transpiration to evapotranspiration) in three forests of Eastern China. Ecological Indicators, 2015, 52: 411-421.
Liang-Xia Zhang, De-Cheng Zhou, Jiang-Wen Fan, and Zhong-Min Hu*. Comparison of four light use efficiency models for estimating terrestrial gross primary production. Ecological Modelling, 2015, 300: 30-39.
Wei Yan, Zhongmin Hu, Yuping Zhao, Xianzhou Zhang, Yuzhi Fan, Peili Shi, Yongtao He, Guirui Yu, and Yingnian Li. Modeling Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange of Alpine Grasslands with a Satellite-Driven Model. Plos One, 2015, 10(4).
Yuzhe Li, Jiangwen Fan, Zhongmin Hu, Quanqin Shao, Liangxia Zhang, and Hailing Yu. Influence of Land Use Patterns on Evapotranspiration and Its Components in a Temperate Grassland Ecosystem. Advances in Meteorology, 2015.
Qun Guo, Zhongmin Hu*, , Shenggong Li*, , Guirui Yu, Xiaomin Sun, Leiming Zhang, Songlin Mu, Xianjin Zhu, Yanfen Wang, Yingnian Li, Wei Zhao. Contrasting responses of gross primary productivity to precipitation events in a water-limited and a temperature-limited grassland ecosystem. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2015, 214: 169-177.
Zhi Chen, Guirui Yu, Xianjin Zhu, Qiufeng Wang, Shuli Niu, and Zhongmin Hu. Covariation between gross primary production and ecosystem respiration across space and the underlying mechanisms: A global synthesis. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2015, 203: 180-190.
何利元，胡中民*，郭群，李胜功，白文明，李凌浩.氮磷添加对内蒙古温带草地地上生物量的影响.应用生态学报（Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology）,2015,(08):2291-2297.
郭群，李胜功，胡中民*，赵玮，王敏.内蒙古温带草原典型草地生态系统生产力对水分在不同时间尺度上的响应[J]. 中国沙漠（Journal of Desert Research）,2015,(03):616-623.

2014：
Xianjin Zhu, Guirui Yu, Qiufeng Wang, Zhongmin Hu, Shijie Han, Junhua Yan, Yanfen Wang, and Liang Zhao. Seasonal dynamics of water use efficiency of typical forest and grassland ecosystems in China. Journal of Forest Research, 2014, 19(1): 70-76.
Yanlian Zhou, Weimin Ju, Xiaomin Sun, Zhongmin Hu, Shijie Han, T. Andrew Black, Rachhpal S. Jassal, and Xiaocui Wu. Close relationship between spectral vegetation indices and V-cmax in deciduous and mixed forests. Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 2014, 66.
Lei, ZHOU, Ming-Hua, SONG, Shao-Qiang, WANG, Jiang-Wen, FAN, Ji-Yuan, LIU, ZHONG, HP, Gui-Rui, YU, Lu-Peng, GAO, Zhong-Min, HU, Bin, CHEN and Wei-Xing, WU. Patterns of Soil N-15 and Total N and Their Relationships with Environmental Factors on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Pedosphere, 2014, 24(2): 232-242.
Liangxia Zhang, Zhongmin Hu*, Jiangwen Fan*, Decheng Zhou, and Fengpei Tang. A meta-analysis of the canopy light extinction coefficient in terrestrial ecosystems. Frontiers of Earth Science, 2014, 8(4): 599-609.
Zhongmin Hu, Xuefa Wen, Xiaomin Sun, Linghao Li, Guirui Yu, Xuhui Lee, and Shenggong Li*. Partitioning of evapotranspiration through oxygen isotopic measurements of water pools and fluxes in a temperate grassland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2014, 119(3).

2013：
Shaoqiang Wang, Jiangwen Fan, Minghua Song, Guirui Yu, Lei Zhou, Jiyuan Liu, Huaping Zhong, Lupeng Gao, Zhongmin Hu, Weixing Wu, Ting Song. Patterns of SOC and soil C-13 and their relations to climatic factors and soil characteristics on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Plant and Soil, 2013, 363(1-2): 243-255.
Zhongmin Hu, Shenggong Li*, Guirui Yu, Xiaomin Sun, Leiming Zhang, Shijie Han, and Yingnian Li. Modeling evapotranspiration by combing a two-source model, a leaf stomatal model, and a light-use efficiency model. Journal of Hydrology, 2013, 501: 186-192.
郭群，胡中民*，李轩然，李胜功.降水时间对内蒙古温带草原地上净初级生产力的影响[J].生态学报（Acta Ecologica Sinica）,2013,33(15):4808-4817.

2012：
Geli Zhang, Jinwei Dong, Xiangming Xiao, Zhongmin Hu, and Sage Sheldon, Sheldon S. Effectiveness of ecological restoration projects in Horqin Sandy Land, China based on SPOT-VGT NDVI data. Ecological Engineering, 2012, 38(1): 20-29.
Xue-Fa Wen, Xuhui Lee, Xiao-Min Sun, Jian-Lin Wang, Zhong-Min Hu, Sheng-Gong Li, and Gui-Rui Yu. Dew water isotopic ratios and their relationships to ecosystem water pools and fluxes in a cropland and a grassland in China. Oecologia, 2012, 168(2): 549-561.
Zhongmin Hu, Shenggong Li*, Jinwei Dong, Jiangwen Fan. Assessment of changes in the state of the rangelands of Inner Mongolia, China between 1998 and 2007 using remotely sensed data. Rangeland Journal, 2012, 34(1): 103-109.
Qun Guo, Zhongmin Hu*, Shenggong Li*, Xuanran Li, Xiaomin Sun, and Guirui Yu. Spatial variations in aboveground net primary productivity along a climate gradient in Eurasian temperate grassland: effects of mean annual precipitation and its seasonal distribution. Global Change Biology, 2012, 18(12): 3624-3631.

2011：
Yongchun Zhou, Jiangwen Fan, Wenyan Zhang, Warwick Harris, Huaping Zhong, Zhongmin Hu, and Lulu Song. Factors influencing altitudinal patterns of C3 plant foliar carbon isotope composition of grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. Alpine Botany, 2011, 121(2): 79-90.

2010：
Zhongmin Hu, Guirui Yu, Jiangwen Fan, Huaping Zhong, Shaoqiang Wang, Shenggong Li*. Precipitation-use efficiency along a 4500-km grassland transect. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2010, 19(6): 842-851.
Liu Shuai, Li Shenggong, Yu Guirui, Asanuma Jun, Sugita M, Zhang Leiming, Hu Zhongmin, Wei Yafen. Seasonal and interannual variations in water vapor exchange and surface water balance over a grazed steppe in central Mongolia. Agricultural Water Management, 2010, 97(6): 857-864.

2009：
Liu Shuai, Li Shenggong, Yu Guirui, Sun Xiaomin, Zhang Leiming, Hu Zhongmin, Li Yingnian, Zhang XZ. Surface energy exchanges above two grassland ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Biogeosciences Discussions, 2009, 6(5): 9161-9192.
Hu Zhongmin, Yu Guirui*, Zhou Yanlian, Sun Xiaomin, Li Yingnian, Shi Peili, Wang Yanfen, Zheng Zemei, Song Xia, Zhang Li, Li Shenggong. 2009. Partitioning of evapotranspiration and its controls in four grassland ecosystems: application of a two-source model. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, 149, 1410-1420.
Fu Yuling, Zheng Zemei, Yu Guirui, Hu Zhongmin, Sun Xiaomin, Shi Peili, Wang Yanfen, Zhao Xinquan. Environmental influences on carbon dioxide fluxes over three grassland ecosystems in China. Biogeosciences, 2009, 6(12): 2879-2893.
Fan Jiangwen, Wang Junbang, Harris Warwick, Zhong Huaping, Hu Zhongmin, Han B, Zhang Wenyan, Wang Junbang. Allocation of vegetation biomass across a climate-related gradient in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Journal of Arid Environments, 2009, 73(4-5): 521-528.
胡中民，于贵瑞*，王秋凤，赵风华.生态系统水分利用效率研究进展[J].生态学报（Acta Ecologica Sinica）,2009,29(3)

2008：
Hu Zhongmin, Yu Guirui*, Fu Yuling, Sun Xiaomin, Li Yingnian, Wangw Yanfen, and Zheng Zemei. Effects of vegetation control on ecosystem water use efficiency within and among four grassland ecosystems in China. Global Change Biology, 2008, 14(7): 1609-1619.
Fan, Jiangwen, Huaping Zhong, Warwick Harris, Guirui Yu, Shaoqiang Wang, Zhongmin Hu, and Yanzhen Yue. Carbon storage in the grasslands of China based on field measurements of above- and below-ground biomass. Climatic Change, 2008, 86(3-4): 375-396.

2007：
Hu Zhongmin, Fan Jiangwen, Zhong Huaping Yu Guirui. Spatiotemporal dynamics of aboveground primary productivity along a precipitation gradient in Chinese temperate grassland. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences, 2007, 50(5): 754-764.
社会兼职
亚洲通量网执委会成员（Steering committee member of AsiaFlux），中国林学会气象专业委员会常务理事，广东省可持续发展协会理事，美国地球物理学会（AGU）会员，中国生态学会会员，中国草地学会会员。
Journal of Plant Ecology编委，《热带生物学报》副主编。Global Change Biology, Remote Sensing of Environment, Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, Climatic Change, Water Resources Research, Functional Ecology, Journal of Hydrology等领域主流刊物审稿人。