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Chih-Yu Chiu

Chih-Yu Chiu

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
3991
World Ranking
7906
National Ranking
12

Overview

Chih-Yu Chiu is a researcher affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan, focusing primarily on Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Molecular Biology. The main topics of their research cover Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Gut Microbiota and Health.

Chiu has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Jeng-Wei Tsai, Keisuke Nakayama, Yo-Jin Shiau, Hao-Chi Lin, and Wen-Cheng Liu.

Their publications appear in a range of scientific venues, with numerous papers published in:

  • Forests
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers associated with Chih-Yu Chiu demonstrate a focus on carbon cycling, soil microbial dynamics, and ecosystem processes, including:

  • Terrestrial loads of dissolved organic matter drive inter-annual carbon flux in subtropical lakes during times of drought, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Functional response of the soil microbial community to biochar applications, 2020, GCB Bioenergy
  • Biogeochemical Processes of C and N in the Soil of Mangrove Forest Ecosystems, 2020, Forests
  • The impacts of the hydraulic retention effect and typhoon disturbance on the carbon flux in shallow subtropical mountain lakes, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Influence of Thermal Stratification on Seasonal Net Ecosystem Production and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in a Shallow Subtropical Lake, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem respiration: Drivers of daily variability and background respiration in lakes around the globe

    Christopher T. Solomon;Denise A. Bruesewitz;David C. Richardson;Kevin C. Rose

  • Soil mineral–organic matter–microbe interactions: Impacts on biogeochemical processes and biodiversity in soils

    Pan-Ming Huang;Ming-Kuang Wang;Chih-Yu Chiu

  • Effects of weather-related episodic events in lakes: an analysis based on high frequency data.

    Eleanor Jennings;Stuart E. Jones;Lauri Arvola;Peter A. Staehr

  • Characterization of soil organic matter in different particle-size fractions in humid subalpine soils by CP/MAS 13C NMR

    Jenn-Shing Chen;Chih-Yu Chiu

  • Differences in the composition and diversity of bacterial communities from agricultural and forest soils

    Rima Upchurch;Chih-Yu Chiu;Karin Everett;Glen Dyszynski

  • Effects of proline on copper transport in rice seedlings under excess copper stress

    Chien-Teh Chen;Tsai-Huei Chen;Kuo-Fu Lo;Chih-Yu Chiu

  • Seasonal dynamics of soil microbial biomass in coastal sand dune forest

    Tsai-Huei Chen;Chih-Yu Chiu;Guanglong Tian

  • The distribution and influence of heavy metals in mangrove forests of the Tamshui Estuary in Taiwan

    Chih-Yu Chiu;Chang-Hung Chou

  • Effects of cadmium amendments on low-molecular-weight organic acid exudates in rhizosphere soils of tobacco and sunflower.

    Po-Neng Chiang;Ming Kuang Wang;Chih Yu Chiu;Shu-Yen Chou

  • Functional response of the soil microbial community to biochar applications

    Wenhuan Xu;William B. Whitman;Michael J. Gundale;Chuan-Chi Chien

  • Changes in soil microbial community structure and activity in a cedar plantation invaded by moso bamboo

    Ed-Haun Chang;Chih-Yu Chiu

  • Changes in the Soil Bacterial Communities in a Cedar Plantation Invaded by Moso Bamboo

    Yu-Te Lin;Sen-Lin Tang;Chuang-Wen Pai;William B. Whitman

  • Typhoons initiate predictable change in aquatic bacterial communities

    Stuart E. Jones;Chih Yu Chiu;Timothy K. Kratz;Jiunn Tzong Wu

  • Seasonal dynamics, typhoons and the regulation of lake metabolism in a subtropical humic lake

    Jeng-Wei Tsai;Jeng-Wei Tsai;Timothy K. Kratz;Paul C. Hanson;Jiunn-Tzong Wu

  • Spatial changes of soil fungal and bacterial biomass from a sub-alpine coniferous forest to grassland in a humid, sub-tropical region

    Karl Tony Imberger;Chih-Yu Chiu

  • Determination of low molecular weight dicarboxylic acids and organic functional groups in rhizosphere and bulk soils of Tsuga and Yushania in a temperate rain forest

    Meng-Chun Chen;Ming-Kuang Wang;Chih-Yu Chiu;Pan-Ming Huang

  • Phylogenetically distinct methanotrophs modulate methane oxidation in rice paddies across Taiwan

    Yo-Jin Shiau;Yuanfeng Cai;Zhongjun Jia;Chi-Ling Chen

  • Particle size fractionation of fungal and bacterial biomass in subalpine grassland and forest soils

    Chih-Yu Chiu;Tsai-Huei Chen;Karl Imberger;Guanglong Tian

  • Bacterial Community Diversity in Undisturbed Perhumid Montane Forest Soils in Taiwan

    Yu-Te Lin;Yu-Ju Huang;Sen-Lin Tang;William B. Whitman

  • Biogeochemical Processes of C and N in the Soil of Mangrove Forest Ecosystems

    Yo-Jin Shiau;Chih-Yu Chiu

  • The effect of altitudinal gradient on soil microbial community activity and structure in moso bamboo plantations

    Ed-Haun Chang;Tsai-Huei Chen;Guanglong Tian;Chih-Yu Chiu

  • Effect of topography on the composition of soil organic substances in a perhumid sub-tropical montane forest ecosystem in Taiwan

    Jenn-Shing Chen;Chih-Yu Chiu

  • Differential bacterial dynamics promote emergent community robustness to lake mixing: an epilimnion to hypolimnion transplant experiment.

    A. Shade;C.-Y. Chiu;K. D. McMahon

Frequent Co-Authors

William B. Whitman
William B. Whitman University of Georgia
David C. Coleman
David C. Coleman University of Georgia
Timothy K. Kratz
Timothy K. Kratz University of Wisconsin–Madison
Zhongjun Jia
Zhongjun Jia Chinese Academy of Sciences
Katherine D. McMahon
Katherine D. McMahon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul C. Hanson
Paul C. Hanson University of Wisconsin–Madison
James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Ashley Shade
Ashley Shade Michigan State University
Yoshiyuki Iizuka
Yoshiyuki Iizuka Academia Sinica
Stuart E. Jones
Stuart E. Jones University of Notre Dame

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