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Hongyan Liu

Hongyan Liu

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
73
Citations
21936
World Ranking
1401
National Ranking
135

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
22006
World Ranking
5273
National Ranking
169

Overview

Hongyan Liu is affiliated with Peking University in China and has contributed extensively to environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including atmospheric science, global and planetary change, plant science, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology.

Their research focuses on main topics such as plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, geology and paleoclimatology, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, silicon effects in agriculture, forest ecology and management, and archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Hongyan Liu frequently publishes in scientific journals like The Science of The Total Environment, Global Change Biology, Land Degradation and Development, CATENA, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Frequent coauthors include Boyi Liang, Liang Shi, Chongyang Xu, Xiuchen Wu, and Lidan Liu, reflecting collaborations across various studies in environmental and earth sciences.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Effect of straw returning on soil organic carbon in rice-wheat rotation system: A review, 2020, Food and Energy Security
  • Bedrock geochemistry influences vegetation growth by regulating the regolith water holding capacity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Unintended consequences of combating desertification in China, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Patterns in nonstructural carbohydrate contents at the tree organ level in response to drought duration, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems, 2023, Nature Climate Change

Best Publications

  • The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China

    Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Yao Huang;Zehao Shen

  • Characteristics of concentrations and chemical compositions for PM 2.5 in the region of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, China

    P. S. Zhao;F. Dong;D. He;X. J. Zhao

  • NO x emissions in China: historical trends and future perspectives

    B. Zhao;S. X. Wang;H. Liu;J. Y. Xu

  • Rapid warming accelerates tree growth decline in semi-arid forests of Inner Asia

    Hongyan Liu;A. Park Williams;Craig D. Allen;Dali Guo

  • Differentiating drought legacy effects on vegetation growth over the temperate Northern Hemisphere

    Xiuchen Wu;Hongyan Liu;Xiaoyan Li;Philippe Ciais

  • Tannins as an alternative to antibiotics

    Arakkaveettil Kabeer Farha;Qiong-Qiong Yang;Gowoon Kim;Hua-Bin Li

  • Dry direct-seeded rice as an alternative to transplanted-flooded rice in Central China

    Hongyan Liu;Saddam Hussain;Manman Zheng;Shaobing Peng

  • The contribution of China’s emissions to global climate forcing

    Bengang G. Li;Thomas Gasser;Philippe Ciais;Shilong L. Piao;Shilong L. Piao

  • OsGRAS23 , a rice GRAS transcription factor gene, is involved in drought stress response through regulating expression of stress-responsive genes

    Kai Xu;Shoujun Chen;Tianfei Li;Xiaosong Ma

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • The surface pollen of the woodland–steppe ecotone in southeastern Inner Mongolia, China

    Hongyan Liu;Haiting Cui;Richard Pott;Martin Speier

  • Soil organic carbon dynamics under long-term fertilizations in arable land of northern China

    W. J. Zhang;X. J. Wang;X. J. Wang;M. G. Xu;S. M. Huang

  • State-of-the-art review of dark tea: From chemistry to health benefits

    Fang-Jun Lin;Xin-Lin Wei;Hong-Yan Liu;Hang Li

  • Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems

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  • NDVI‐indicated decline in desertification in China in the past two decades

    Shilong Piao;Jingyun Fang;Hongyan Liu;Biao Zhu

  • The edge of two worlds: A new review and synthesis on Eurasian forest-steppes

    László Erdős;Didem Ambarlı;Oleg A. Anenkhonov;Zoltán Bátori

  • The challenge to NO x emission control for heavy-duty diesel vehicles in China

    Y. Wu;S. J. Zhang;M. L. Li;Y. S. Ge

  • Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Studies Disclose Key Metabolism Pathways Contributing to Well-maintained Photosynthesis under the Drought and the Consequent Drought-Tolerance in Rice

    Xiaosong Ma;Hui Xia;Yunhua Liu;Haibin Wei

  • The role of water channel proteins and nitric oxide signaling in rice seed germination

    Hong-Yan Liu;Xin Yu;Da-Yong Cui;Mei-Hao Sun

  • Bedrock geochemistry influences vegetation growth by regulating the regolith water holding capacity

    Zihan Jiang;Hongyan Liu;Hongya Wang;Jian Peng

  • Transgenerational Variations in DNA Methylation Induced by Drought Stress in Two Rice Varieties with Distinguished Difference to Drought Resistance

    Xiaoguo Zheng;Liang Chen;Mingshou Li;Qiaojun Lou

  • Genome sequencing of the important oilseed crop Sesamum indicum L

    Haiyang Zhang;Hongmei Miao;Lei Wang;Lingbo Qu

  • Holocene History of Desertification along the Woodland-Steppe Border in Northern China

    Hongyan Liu;Lihong Xu;Haiting Cui

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiuchen Wu
Xiuchen Wu Beijing Normal University
Zhaoliang Song
Zhaoliang Song Tianjin University
Xiaoyong Du
Xiaoyong Du Renmin University of China
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Timothy A. Quine
Timothy A. Quine University of Exeter
Hailong Wang
Hailong Wang Foshan University
Lixiao Nie
Lixiao Nie Hainan University
Jian Peng
Jian Peng Peking University
Ren-You Gan
Ren-You Gan Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Shaobing Peng
Shaobing Peng Huazhong Agricultural University

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