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Overview

Enlou Zhang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Earth-Surface Processes, and Oceanography.

The main topics covered in Zhang's work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Zhang frequently publishes in several scientific journals, with notable contributions in:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews (10 publications)
  • CATENA (8 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (6 publications)
  • Scientific Data (4 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (4 publications)

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhang are:

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Possible obliquity-forced warmth in southern Asia during the last glacial stage, 2020, Science Bulletin
  • Comprehensive assessment of heavy metal pollution and ecological risk in lake sediment by combining total concentration and chemical partitioning, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • The Position of the Current Warm Period in the Context of the Past 22,000 Years of Summer Climate in China, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, Scientific Data

Enlou Zhang has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Weiwei Sun, Zhenyu Ni, Xianqiang Meng, Rong Wang, and Enfeng Liu. Each of these collaborators has contributed to multiple papers alongside Zhang, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic beta diversity in bacterial assemblages across ecosystems: deterministic versus stochastic processes

    Jianjun Wang;Ji Shen;Yucheng Wu;Chen Tu

  • Flickering gives early warning signals of a critical transition to a eutrophic lake state

    Rong Wang;John A. Dearing;Peter G. Langdon;Enlou Zhang

  • Variation of East Asian monsoon precipitation during the past 21 k.y. and potential CO2 forcing

    Huayu Lu;Huayu Lu;Shuangwen Yi;Zhengyu Liu;Joseph A. Mason

  • Characteristics and sources of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in lakes of the Yungui Plateau, China, differing in trophic state and altitude

    Yunlin Zhang;Enlou Zhang;Yan Yin;Mark A. van Dijk

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

    Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

  • Spatial distribution, contamination and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in surface sediments of Erhai Lake, a large eutrophic plateau lake in southwest China

    Qi Lin;Enfeng Liu;Enlou Zhang;Kai Li

  • Latest Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and climate history inferred from an alpine lacustrine record, northwestern Yunnan Province, southwestern China

    Xiayun Xiao;Simon G. Haberle;Ji Shen;Xiangdong Yang

  • Extending the timescale and range of ecosystem services through paleoenvironmental analyses, exemplified in the lower Yangtze basin

    John A. Dearing;Xiangdong Yang;Xuhui Dong;Enlou Zhang

  • Late Holocene forcing of the Asian winter and summer monsoon as evidenced by proxy records from the northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Xingqi Liu;Hailiang Dong;Xiangdong Yang;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • A 16000-year pollen record of Qinghai Lake and its paleo-climate and paleoenvironment

    Xingqi Liu;Ji Shen;Sumin Wang;Xiangdong Yang

  • Chemical weathering since the Little Ice Age recorded in lake sediments: a high-resolution proxy of past climate

    Zhangdong Jin;Sumin Wang;Ji Shen;Enlou Zhang

  • Possible obliquity-forced warmth in southern Asia during the last glacial stage

    Cheng Zhao;Cheng Zhao;Eelco J. Rohling;Eelco J. Rohling;Zhengyu Liu;Xiaoqiang Yang

  • Vegetation, fire, and climate history during the last 18 500 cal a BP in south-western Yunnan Province, China

    Xiayun Xiao;J. I. Shen;Simon G. Haberle;Yong Han

  • Comprehensive assessment of heavy metal pollution and ecological risk in lake sediment by combining total concentration and chemical partitioning.

    Zhenzhen Yu;Enfeng Liu;Enfeng Liu;Qi Lin;Enlou Zhang

  • Diatom response to climate forcing of a deep, alpine lake (Lugu Hu, Yunnan, SW China) during the Last Glacial Maximum and its implications for understanding regional monsoon variability

    Qian Wang;Xiangdong Yang;N. John Anderson;Enlou Zhang

  • A 1000-year chironomid-based salinity reconstruction from varved sediments of Sugan Lake, Qaidam Basin, arid Northwest China, and its palaeoclimatic significance

    JianHui Chen;FaHu Chen;EnLou Zhang;Stephen J. Brooks

  • Holocene high-resolution quantitative summer temperature reconstruction based on subfossil chironomids from the southeast margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Enlou Zhang;Jie Chang;Jie Chang;Yanmin Cao;Weiwei Sun

  • Historical records and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in sediment from a representative plateau lake, China.

    Hezhong Yuan;Enfeng Liu;Enlou Zhang;Wenlei Luo

  • A high-resolution climatic change since Holocene inferred from multi-proxy of lake sediment in westerly area of China

    QingFeng Jiang;QingFeng Jiang;Ji Shen;XingQi Liu;EnLou Zhang

  • Millennial-scale hydroclimate variations in southwest China linked to tropical Indian Ocean since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Enlou Zhang;Cheng Zhao;Bin Xue;Zhonghui Liu

  • Mid- to late-Holocene East Asian summer monsoon variability recorded in lacustrine sediments from Jingpo Lake, Northeastern China

    Rong Chen;Ji Shen;Chunhai Li;Enlou Zhang

  • Sarcocheilichthys vittatus, a new species of gudgeon (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Poyang lake basin in Jiangxi Province, South China.

    Chang-Ting An;E Zhang;Jian-Zhong Shen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ji Shen
Ji Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Enfeng Liu
Enfeng Liu Shandong Normal University
Xiangdong Yang
Xiangdong Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peter G. Langdon
Peter G. Langdon University of Southampton
James Shulmeister
James Shulmeister University of Canterbury
Rong Wang
Rong Wang Nanyang Technological University
Sumin Wang
Sumin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huayu Lu
Huayu Lu Nanjing University
John A. Dearing
John A. Dearing University of Southampton
Vasilis Dakos
Vasilis Dakos University of Montpellier

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