• Fog and Dew as Potable Water Resources: Maximizing Harvesting Potential and Water Quality Concerns 

  Kaseke, Kudzai F.; Wang, Lixin (Wiley, 2018)

  Fog and dew are often viewed as economic nuisances causing significant financial losses in the transportation industry and agricultural sector. However, they are also critical components of the hydrological cycle, especially ...
• Nitrogen preference across generations under changing ammonium nitrate ratios 

  Daryanto, Stefani; Wang, Lixin; Gilhooly, William P., III; Jacinthe, Pierre-André (Oxford, 2018-03)

  Aims Nitrogen (N) in natural environments is typically supplied by a mixture of ammonia (NH4+) and nitrate (NO3−). However, factors that underlie either NH4+ or NO3− preference, and how such preference will change across ...
• Spatial Expansion and Soil Organic Carbon Storage Changes of Croplands in the Sanjiang Plain, China 

  Man, Weidong; Yu, Hao; Li, Lin; Liu, Mingyue; Mao, Dehua; Ren, Chunying; Wang, Zongming; Jia, Mingming; Miao, Zhenghong; Lu, Chunyan; Li, Huiying (MDPI, 2017-04)

  Soil is the largest pool of terrestrial organic carbon in the biosphere and interacts strongly with the atmosphere, climate and land cover. Remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS) were used to study ...
• Spatially and temporally variable sulfur cycling in shallow-sea hydrothermal vents, Milos, Greece 

  Houghton, Jennifer L.; Gilhooly, William P., III; Kafantaris, Fotios-Christos A.; Druschel, Gregory K.; Lu, Guang-Sin; Amend, Jan P.; Godelitsas, Athanasios; Fike, David A. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Shallow-sea hydrothermal systems are ideal for studying the relative contributions to sedimentary sulfur archives from ambient sulfur-utilizing microbes and from fluxes of hydrothermally derived sulfur. Here we present ...
• Responses of Chinese fir and Schima superba seedlings to light gradients: Implications for the restoration of mixed broadleaf-conifer forests from Chinese fir monocultures 

  Liu, Bo; Liu, Qingqing; Daryanto, Stefani; Guo, Si; Huang, Zhijun; Wang, Zhengning; Wang, Lixin; Ma, Xiangqing (Elsevier, 2018-07)

  Although Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook) plantations are widely grown for timber production in southern China, they have low biodiversity and provide limited ecosystem services. To address this problem, ...
• Evaluating ecohydrological modelling framework to link atmospheric CO2 and stomatal conductance 

  Lu, Xuefei; Wang, Lixin (Wiley, 2018)

  The establishment of an accurate stomatal conductance (gs) model in responding to CO2 enrichment under diverse environmental conditions remains an important issue as gs is the key to understand the plant–water–atmosphere ...
• Effects of atmospheric cold fronts on stratification and water quality of a tropical reservoir: implications for aquaculture 

  Araújo, Carlos A. S.; Sampaio, Fernanda G.; Alcântara, Enner; Curtarelli, Marcelo P.; Ogashawara, Igor; Stech, José L. (Inter Research, 2017-09-28)

  Stratification and mixing patterns of a water body are influenced by the variability of atmospheric systems, which can also modify their biogeochemical properties. The primary goal of this study was to analyze the effect ...
• Enhanced canopy growth precedes senescence in 2005 and 2010 Amazonian droughts 

  Liu, Yi Y.; van Dijk, Albert I. J. M.; Miralles, Diego G.; McCabe, Matthew F.; Evans, Jason P.; de Jeu, Richard A. M.; Gentine, Pierre; Huete, Alfredo; Parinussa, Robert M.; Wang, Lixin; Guan, Kaiyu; Berry, Joe; Restrepo-Coupe, Natalia (Elsevier, 2018-06)

  Unprecedented droughts hit southern Amazonia in 2005 and 2010, causing a sharp increase in tree mortality and carbon loss. To better predict the rainforest's response to future droughts, it is necessary to understand its ...
• Evidence for Extending Anomalous Miocene Volcanism at the Edge of the East Antarctic Craton 

  Licht, Kathy J.; Groth, T.; Townsend, J. P.; Hennessy, Andrea J.; Hemming, S. R.; Flood, T. P.; Studinger, M. (Wiley, 2018-04)

  Using field observations followed by petrological, geochemical, geochronological, and geophysical data, we infer the presence of a previously unknown Miocene subglacial volcanic center ~230 km from the South Pole. Evidence ...
• Impacts of Climate Change on Tibetan Lakes: Patterns and Processes 

  Mao, Dehua; Wang, Zongming; Yang, Hong; Li, Huiying; Thompson, Julian; Li, Lin; Song, Kaishan; Chen, Bin; Gao, Hongkai; Wu, Jianguo (MDPI, 2018-02-26)

  High-altitude inland-drainage lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP), the earth’s third pole, are very sensitive to climate change. Tibetan lakes are important natural resources with important religious, historical, and cultural ...
• Vegetation changes and water cycle in a changing environment 

  Wang, Lixin; Wei, Xiaohua; Bishop, Kevin; Reeves, Alison D.; Ursino, Nadia; Winkler, Rita (European Geosciences Union, 2018-03-08)
• Optical types of inland and coastal waters 

  Spyrakos, Evangelos; O'Donnell, Ruth; Hunter, Peter D.; Miller, Claire; Scott, Marian; Simis, Stefan G. H.; Neil, Claire; Barbosa, Claudio C. F.; Binding, Caren E.; Bradt, Shane; Bresciani, Mariano; Dall'Olmo, Giorgio; Giardino, Claudia; Gitelson, Anatoly A.; Kutser, Tiit; Li, Lin; Matsushita, Bunkei; Martinez‐Vicente, Victor; Matthews, Mark W.; Ogashawara, Igor; Ruiz‐Verdú, Antonio; Schalles, John F.; Tebbs, Emma; Zhang, Yunlin; Tyler, Andrew N. (Wiley, 2018-03-01)

  Inland and coastal waterbodies are critical components of the global biosphere. Timely monitoring is necessary to enhance our understanding of their functions, the drivers impacting on these functions and to deliver more ...
• Middle to Late Pleistocene stability of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet at the head of Law Glacier 

  Kaplan, M. R.; Licht, Kathy J.; Winckler, G.; Schaefer, J. M.; Bader, Nicole; Mathieson, C.; Roberts, M.; Kassab, Christine M.; Schwartz, R.; Graly, Joseph A. (GSA, 2017-08)

  Past behavior of outlet glaciers draining the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) remains unresolved prior to Marine Isotope Stage 2 (MIS2). Study of blue ice moraines provides a relatively untapped approach to understand ...
• Relationship between soil water content and soil particle size on typical slopes of the Loess Plateau during a drought year 

  Zhang, Xiao; Zhao, Wenwu; Wang, Lixin; Liu, Yuanxin; Liu, Yue; Feng, Qiang (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  In the context of global climate change as well as local climate warming and drying on the Loess Plateau of China, understanding the relationship between soil particle size and soil water distribution during years of ...
• Sand dune stabilization changes the vegetation characteristics and soil seed bank and their correlations with environmental factors 

  Wang, Yongcui; Chu, Lei; Daryanto, Stefani; Linyou, Lü; Ala, MuSa; Wang, Lixin (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  Currently the amount of data available on the effect of sand dune stabilization on species conservation in inter-dune lowland is very limited, especially for the sand dune systems in semi-arid regions. In this study, we ...
• A meta-analysis of pesticide loss in runoff under conventional tillage and no-till management 

  Elias, Daniel; Wang, Lixin; Jacinthe, Pierre-Andre (Springer, 2018-02)

  Global agricultural intensification has led to increased pesticide use (37-fold from 1960 to 2005) and soil erosion (14% since 2000). Conservation tillage, including no-till (NT), has been proposed as an alternative to ...
• Transpiration Dominates Ecosystem Water‐Use Efficiency in Response to Warming in an Alpine Meadow 

  Quan, Quan; Zhang, Fangyue; Tian, Dashuan; Zhou, Qingping; Wang, Lixin; Niu, Shuli (Wiley, 2018-02)

  As a key linkage of C and water cycles, water‐use efficiency (WUE) quantifies how much water an ecosystem uses for carbon gain. Although ecosystem C and water fluxes have been intensively studied, yet it remains unclear ...
• Fog Spatial Distributions over the Central Namib Desert - An Isotope Approach 

  Kaseke, Kudzai Farai; Tian, Chao; Wang, Lixin; Seely, Mary; Vogt, Roland; Wassenaar, Theo; Mushi, Roland (2018)

  Fog is a characteristic feature of the Namib Desert and is essential to life in this fog dependent system. It is often acknowledged that advective fog from the ocean is the dominant fog type over the Namib Desert fog-zone ...
• Exploring The Paradox of Increased Global Health and Degraded Global Environment—How Much Borrowed Time is Humanity Living on? 

  Filippelli, Gabriel M. (Wiley, 2018)

  Ample documentation of the global environmental degradation of air, land, and water paints a grim picture for the future of humanity. And yet by all measures global human health and well‐being have been improving significantly ...
• Warm-based basal sediment entrainment and far-field Pleistocene origin evidenced in central Transantarctic blue ice through stable isotopes and internal structures 

  Graly, Joseph A.; Licht, Kathy J.; Kassab, Christine M.; Bird, Broxton W.; Kaplan, Michael R. (Cambridge University Press, 2018-04)

  Stable isotopes of water (δ18O and δ2H) were measured in the debris-laden ice underlying an Antarctic blue ice moraine, and in adjoining Law Glacier in the central Transantarctic Mountains. Air bubble content and morphology ...

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