• Thank You to Our 2018 Peer Reviewers 

  Filippelli, Gabriel; Colwell, Rita; Anenberg, Susan C.; Balbus, John M.; Ceccarelli, Daniela; Hudson-Edwards, Karen; Jutla, Antarpreet; Miao, Chiyuan; Sandifer, Paul A.; Vengosh, Avner (Wiley, 2019-04)

  Public trust in science, effective science communication, and rapid and constructive response to authors about their submissions are of paramount importance to the scientific enterprise and indeed to society itself. This ...
• Thank You to Our 2020 Peer Reviewers 

  Filippelli, Gabriel; Colwell, Rita R.; Anenberg, Susan; Balbus, John; Ceccarelli, Daniela; Hudson‐Edwards, Karen A.; Jutla, Antarpreet; Miao, Chiyuan; Sandifer, Paul A.; Vengosh, Avner (Wiley, 2020-03)

  Peer review is at the heart of the scientific endeavor, ensuring that high‐quality discoveries are communicated in effective and impactful ways. As a voluntary and mostly anonymous effort, peer review is often poorly ...
• New Approaches to Identifying and Reducing the Global Burden of Disease From Pollution 

  Filippelli, Gabriel; Anenberg, Susan; Taylor, Mark; van Green, Alexander; Khreis, Haneen (Wiley, 2020-03-25)

  Pollution from multiple sources causes significant disease and death worldwide. Some sources are legacy, such as heavy metals accumulated in soils, and some are current, such as particulate matter. Because the global burden ...
• Addressing Pollution-Related Global Environmental Health Burdens 

  Filippelli, Gabriel M.; Taylor, Mark P. (AGU, 2018-02-19)

  New analyses are revealing the scale of pollution on global health, with a disproportionate share of the impact borne by lower‐income nations, minority and marginalized individuals. Common themes emerge on the drivers of ...
• Chemical fractionation of organic matter and organic phosphorus extractions from freshwater lake sediment 

  Kurek, M. R.; Harir, M.; Shukle, J. T.; Schroth, A. W.; Schmitt-Kopplin, P.; Druschel, G. K. (Elsevier, 2020-09)

  Lake sediment organic matter (OM) is composed of a variety of organic compounds differing in their biolability and origin. Sources of sediment OM can include terrestrial input from the watershed and algal/microbial metabolic ...
• Melting Himalayan Glaciers Threaten Domestic Water Resources in the Mount Everest Region, Nepal 

  Wood, Leah R.; Neumann, Klaus; Nicholson, Kirsten N.; Bird, Broxton W.; Dowling, Carolyn B.; Sharma, Subodh (Frontiers, 2020-04)

  Retreating glaciers and snowpack loss threaten high-altitude communities that rely upon seasonal melt for domestic water resources. But the extent to which such communities are vulnerable is not yet understood, largely ...
• Quantarctica, an integrated mapping environment for Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, and sub-Antarctic islands 

  Matsuoka, Kenichi; Skoglund, Anders; Roth, George; de Pomereu, Jean; Griffiths, Huw; Headland, Robert; Herried, Brad; Katsumata, Katsuro; Le Brocq, Anne; Licht, Kathy; Morgan, Fraser; Neff, Peter D.; Ritz, Catherine; Scheinert, Mirko; Tamura, Takeshi; Van de Putte, Anton; van den Broeke, Michiel; von Deschwanden, Angela; Deschamps-Berger, César; Van Liefferinge, Brice; Tronstad, Stein; Melvær, Yngve (Elsevier, 2021-06)

  Quantarctica (https://www.npolar.no/quantarctica) is a geospatial data package, analysis environment, and visualization platform for the Antarctic Continent, Southern Ocean (>40oS), and sub-Antarctic islands. Quantarctica ...
• The potential contribution of soil moisture to fog formation in the Namib Desert 

  Adhikari, Bishwodeep; Wang, Lixin (Elsevier, 2020-12)

  Fog is considered as an important source of water in many drylands, and the knowledge of possible sources of its formation is essential to make future predictions. Prior studies have suggested the presence of locally ...
• Satellite Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Reveals Heat Stress Impacts on Wheat Yield in India 

  Song, Yang; Wang, Jing; Wang, Lixin (MDPI, 2020)

  With continued global warming, the frequency and severity of heat wave events increased over the past decades, threatening both regional and global food security in the future. There are growing interests to study the ...
• Water use characteristics of the common tree species in different plantation types in the Loess Plateau of China 

  Wang, Jian; Fu, Bojie; Wang, Lixin; Lu, Nan; Li, Jianye (Elsevier, 2020-07)

  Knowledge concerning the water use characteristics of revegetated species has profound implications for understanding soil–plant interaction mechanisms and guiding ecological restoration strategies in water-limited ecosystems. ...
• National wetland mapping in China: a new product resulting from object-based and hierarchical classification of Landsat 8 OLI images 

  Mao, Dehua; Wang, Zongming; Du, Baojia; Li, Lin; Tian, Yanlin; Jia, Mingming; Zeng, Yuan; Song, Kaishan; Jiang, Ming; Wang, Yeqiao (Elsevier, 2020-06)

  Spatially and thematically explicit information of wetlands is important to understanding ecosystem functions and services, as well as for establishment of management policy and implementation. However, accurate wetland ...
• Responses and feedbacks of African dryland ecosystems to environmental changes 

  Wei, Fangli; Wang, Shuai; Brandt, Martin; Fu, Bojie; Meadows, Michael E.; Wang, Lixin; Wang, Lanhui; Tong, Xiaowei; Fensholt, Rasmus (Elsevier, 2021-02)

  Drylands occupy 43% of the African continent and play an important role in the global carbon cycle and in supporting local livelihoods. Understanding how dryland ecosystems respond to environmental changes, both structurally ...
• Climate change impacts on human health at an actionable scale: a state-level assessment of Indiana, USA 

  Filippelli, G. M.; Freeman, J. L.; Gibson, J.; Jay, S.; Moreno-Madriñán, M. J.; Ogashawara, I.; Rosenthal, F. S.; Wang, Y.; Wells, E. (Springer, 2020-12)

  Climate change is already being felt on local levels, with historical records from the State of Indiana (USA) revealing warmer winters and more extreme precipitation events. To refine our understanding of climate change ...
• Assessing Temperate Forest Growth and Climate Sensitivity in Response to a Long-Term Whole-Watershed Acidification Experiment 

  Malcomb, Jacob D.; Scanlon, Todd M.; Epstein, Howard E.; Druckenbrod, Daniel L.; Vadeboncoeur, Matthew A.; Lanning, Matthew; Adams, Mary Beth; Wang, Lixin (Wiley, 2020-06)

  Acid deposition is a major biogeochemical driver in forest ecosystems, but the impacts of long-term changes in deposition on forest productivity remain unclear. Using a combination of tree ring and forest inventory data, ...
• Invited Perspective: Assessing the Contaminant Exposure Risks of Urban Gardening: Call for Updated Health Guidelines 

  Saikawa, Eri; Filippelli, Gabriel M. (NIEHS, 2021-11)
• A δ2H offset correction method for quantifying root water uptake of riparian trees 

  Li, Yue; Ma, Ying; Song, Xianfang; Wang, Lixin; Han, Dongmei (Elsevier, 2021-02)

  Root water uptake plays an important role in water cycle in Groundwater-Soil-Plant-Atmosphere-Continuum. Stable isotopes (δ2H and δ18O) are effective tools to quantify the use of different water sources by plant roots. ...
• Investigating the role of evaporation in dew formation under different climates using 17O-excess 

  Tian, Chao; Jiao, Wenzhe; Beysens, Daniel; Kaseke, Kudzai Farai; Medici, Marie-Gabrielle; Li, Fadong; Wang, Lixin (Elsevier, 2021-01)

  With increasing aridity in many regions, dew is likely to play an increasingly important role in the ecohydrological processes in many ecosystems, especially in arid and semiarid regions. Few studies investigated the role ...
• Causes and consequences of pronounced variation in the isotope composition of plant xylem water 

  De Deurwaerder, Hannes P. T.; Visser, Marco D.; Detto, Matteo; Boeckx, Pascal; Meunier, Félicien; Kuehnhammer, Kathrin; Magh, Ruth-Kristina; Marshall, John D.; Wang, Lixin; Zhao, Liangju; Verbeeck, Hans (European Geosciences Union, 2020-10)

  Stable isotopologues of water are widely used to derive relative root water uptake (RWU) profiles and average RWU depth in lignified plants. Uniform isotope composition of plant xylem water (δxyl) along the stem length of ...
• Coupling Coordination Relationship between Urban Sprawl and Urbanization Quality in the West Taiwan Strait Urban Agglomeration, China: Observation and Analysis from DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Imagery and Panel Data 

  Lu, Chunyan; Li, Lin; Lei, Yifan; Ren, Chunying; Su, Ying; Huang, Yufei; Chen, Yu; Lei, Shaohua; Fu, Weiwei (MDPI, 2020-10)

  Urban sprawl is the most prominent characteristic of urbanization, and increasingly affects local and regional sustainable development. The observation and analysis of urban sprawl dynamics and their relationship with ...
• Dew formation reduction in global warming experiments and the potential consequences 

  Feng, Tianjiao; Zhang, Lixu; Chen, Qian; Ma, Zhiyuan; Wang, Hao; Shangguan, Zijian; Wang, Lixin; He, Jin-Sheng (Elsevier, 2021-02)

  Dew, as an important contribution of non-rainfall water (NRW), plays a vital role in ecosystem processes in arid and semi-arid regions and is expected to be affected by climate warming. Infrared heater warming systems have ...

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