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Environmental Sciences
China
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
86
Citations
26196
World Ranking
717
National Ranking
75

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award

Overview

Boqiang Qin is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, contributing extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their scholarly work focuses on key topics such as Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Water Quality and Pollution Assessment, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Boqiang Qin has published multiple papers in well-recognized venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • Water Depth Underpins the Relative Roles and Fates of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Lakes, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Anthropogenic Eutrophication of Shallow Lakes: Is it Occasional?, 2022, Water Research
  • Contributions of External Nutrient Loading and Internal Cycling to Cyanobacterial Bloom Dynamics in Lake Taihu, China: Implications for Nutrient Management, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Monitoring Water Quality Using Proximal Remote Sensing Technology, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Importance and Vulnerability of Lakes and Reservoirs Supporting Drinking Water in China, 2022, Fundamental Research

Frequent collaborators in Boqiang Qin's research include Yunlin Zhang, Kun Shi, Guangwei Zhu, Jianming Deng, and Yibo Zhang.

Their work predominantly appears in the following publication venues:

  • Water Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • UNC Libraries
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Science Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus inputs control phytoplankton growth in eutrophic Lake Taihu, China.

    Hai Xu;Hans W. Paerl;Boqiang Qin;Guangwei Zhu

  • Controlling harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a hyper-eutrophic lake (Lake Taihu, China): The need for a dual nutrient (N & P) management strategy

    Hans W. Paerl;Hai Xu;Mark J. McCarthy;Mark J. McCarthy;Guangwei Zhu

  • A Drinking Water Crisis in Lake Taihu, China: Linkage to Climatic Variability and Lake Management

    Boqiang Qin;Guangwei Zhu;Guang Gao;Yunlin Zhang

  • Environmental issues of Lake Taihu, China

    Boqiang Qin;Pengzhu Xu;Qinglong Wu;Liancong Luo

  • Long-term dynamics of phytoplankton assemblages: Microcystis-domination in Lake Taihu, a large shallow lake in China

    Yuwei Chen;Boqiang Qin;Katrin Teubner;Martin T. Dokulil

  • Mitigating cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in aquatic ecosystems impacted by climate change and anthropogenic nutrients.

    Hans W. Paerl;Wayne S. Gardner;Karl E. Havens;Alan R. Joyner

  • The contribution of phytoplankton degradation to chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in eutrophic shallow lakes: Field and experimental evidence

    Yunlin Zhang;Mark A. van Dijk;Mingliang Liu;Guangwei Zhu

  • Water Depth Underpins the Relative Roles and Fates of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Lakes

    Boqiang Qin;Jian Zhou;James J. Elser;Wayne S. Gardner

  • Lake eutrophication and its ecosystem response

    BoQiang Qin;Guang Gao;GuangWei Zhu;YunLin Zhang

  • Determining Critical Nutrient Thresholds Needed to Control Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms in Eutrophic Lake Taihu, China

    H. Xu;Hans W Paerl;B. Qin;G. Zhu

  • Global loss of aquatic vegetation in lakes

    Yunlin Zhang;Erik Jeppesen;Xiaohan Liu;Boqiang Qin

  • Why Lake Taihu continues to be plagued with cyanobacterial blooms through 10 years (2007-2017) efforts

    Boqiang Qin;Hans W. Paerl;Justin D. Brookes;Jianguo Liu

  • Global solutions to regional problems: Collecting global expertise to address the problem of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. A Lake Erie case study.

    George S. Bullerjahn;Robert M. McKay;Timothy W. Davis;David B. Baker

  • Dynamics of sediment resuspension and the conceptual schema of nutrient release in the large shallow Lake Taihu, China

    Boqiang Qin;Weiping Hu;Guang Gao;Liancong Luo

  • Internal phosphorus loading from sediments causes seasonal nitrogen limitation for harmful algal blooms.

    Shiming Ding;Musong Chen;Mengdan Gong;Xianfang Fan

  • Resolving the variability of CDOM fluorescence to differentiate the sources and fate of DOM in Lake Taihu and its tributaries

    Xin Yao;Yunlin Zhang;Guangwei Zhu;Boqiang Qin

  • Long-term remote monitoring of total suspended matter concentration in Lake Taihu using 250 m MODIS-Aqua data

    Kun Shi;Yunlin Zhang;Guangwei Zhu;Xiaohan Liu

  • Spatiotemporal Patterns and Ecophysiology of Toxigenic Microcystis Blooms in Lake Taihu, China: Implications for Water Quality Management

    T. G. Otten;H. Xu;B. Qin;G. Zhu

  • Cyanobacterial bloom management through integrated monitoring and forecasting in large shallow eutrophic Lake Taihu (China)

    Boqiang Qin;Wei Li;Guangwei Zhu;Yunlin Zhang

  • Nitrogen dynamics and microbial food web structure during a summer cyanobacterial bloom in a subtropical, shallow, well-mixed, eutrophic lake (Lake Taihu, China)

    Mark J. McCarthy;Peter J. Lavrentyev;Longyuan Yang;Lu Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Guangwei Zhu
Guangwei Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunlin Zhang
Yunlin Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kun Shi
Kun Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hans W. Paerl
Hans W. Paerl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Guang Gao
Guang Gao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hai Xu
Hai Xu Tianjin University
Justin D. Brookes
Justin D. Brookes University of Adelaide
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Yongjiu Cai
Yongjiu Cai Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guang R. Gao
Guang R. Gao University of Delaware

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