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Kam-biu Liu is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions within several specialized subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography, and Geology.

Key areas of study for Liu include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Geological formations and processes, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Aeolian processes and effects, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Liu has a substantial publication record with numerous papers appearing in respected venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Geomorphology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • MethodsX

Some of Liu's recent papers are:

  • "Comparing the Yangtze and Mississippi River Deltas in the light of coupled natural-human dynamics: Lessons learned and implications for management" (2021) in Geomorphology
  • "The effect of global warming on the establishment of mangroves in coastal Louisiana during the Holocene" (2021) in Geomorphology
  • "A Geochemical Record of Late-Holocene Hurricane Events From the Florida Everglades" (2020) in Water Resources Research
  • "Mangrove expansion at poleward range limits in North and South America: Late-Holocene climate variability or anthropocene global warming?" (2022) in CATENA
  • "Rapidly Changing Range Limits in a Warming World: Critical Data Limitations and Knowledge Gaps for Advancing Understanding of Mangrove Range Dynamics in the Southeastern USA" (2023) in Estuaries and Coasts

Liu collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Qiang Yao
  • Erika Rodrigues
  • Marcelo Cancela Lisboa Cohen
  • Junghyung Ryu
  • Terrence A. McCloskey

Best Publications

  • Late glacial stage and holocene tropical ice core records from huascaran, peru.

    L G Thompson;E Mosley-Thompson;M E Davis;Ping-Nan Lin

  • Earliest domestication of common millet (Panicum miliaceum) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years ago.

    Houyuan Lu;Jianping Zhang;Kam-biu Liu;Naiqin Wu

  • Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

    Connor Nolan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Judy R.M. Allen;Patricia M. Anderson

  • Reconstruction of Prehistoric Landfall Frequencies of Catastrophic Hurricanes in Northwestern Florida from Lake Sediment Records

    Kam-biu Liu;Miriam L. Fearn

  • Lake-sediment record of late Holocene hurricane activities from coastal Alabama

    Kam-biu Liu;Miriam L. Fearn

  • Palaeovegetation of China: a pollen data‐based synthesis for the mid‐Holocene and last glacial maximum

    G. Yu;G. Yu;G. Yu;X. Chen;X. Chen;J. Ni;J. Ni;R. Cheddadi

  • Examining the ENSO-typhoon hypothesis

    James B. Elsner;Kam Biu Liu

  • Phytoliths as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in China I: phytolith-based transfer functions

    Hou-Yuan Lu;Nai-Qin Wu;Xiang-Dong Yang;Hui Jiang;Hui Jiang

  • Phytoliths Analysis for the Discrimination of Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica) and Common Millet (Panicum miliaceum)

    Houyuan Lu;Jianping Zhang;Naiqin Wu;Kam-biu Liu

  • A pollen record of Holocene climatic changes from the Dunde ice cap, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Kam-biu Liu;Zuju Yao;Lonnie G. Thompson

  • Forest changes in the Amazon Basin during the last glacial maximum

    Kam-biu Liu;Kam-biu Liu;P. A. Colinvaux

  • Quantitative relationships between modern pollen rain and climate in the Tibetan Plateau

    Caiming Shen;Caiming Shen;Kam biu Liu;Lingyu Tang;Jonathan T. Overpeck

  • Modern pollen distributions in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the development of transfer functions for reconstructing Holocene environmental changes

    Houyuan Lu;Naiqin Wu;Kam-biu Liu;Liping Zhu

  • Holocene variations in the Asian monsoon inferred from the geochemistry of lake sediments in central Tibet

    Carrie Morrill;Carrie Morrill;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Julia E. Cole;Kam Biu Liu

  • Late pleistocene temperature depression and vegetation change in Ecuadorian Amazonia

    Mark B. Bush;Paul A. Colinvaux;Michael C. Wiemann;Dolores R. Piperno

  • Phytoliths as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in China II: palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the Loess Plateau

    Hou-Yuan Lu;Nai-Qin Wu;Kam-Biu Liu;Hui Jiang

  • Spatial Variations in Major U.S. Hurricane Activity: Statistics and a Physical Mechanism

    James B. Elsner;Kam-Biu Liu;Bethany Kocher

  • A 1,000-Year History of Typhoon Landfalls in Guangdong, Southern China, Reconstructed from Chinese Historical Documentary Records

    Kam-biu Liu;Caiming Shen;Kin-sheun Louie

  • Culinary archaeology: Millet noodles in Late Neolithic China

    Houyuan Lu;Xiaoyan Yang;Maolin Ye;Kam-Biu Liu

  • Phytoliths of common grasses in the coastal environments of southeastern USA

    Houyuan Lu;Houyuan Lu;Kam-biu Liu

  • Quaternary history of the temperate forests of China

    Kam-biu Liu

  • Environmental change in the Yangtze River delta since 12,000 years B.P.

    Kam-Biu Liu;Shuncai Sun;Xinhe Jiang

  • Hurricanes and typhoons : past, present, and future

    Richard J. Murnane;Kam-biu Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Nina S. N. Lam
Nina S. N. Lam Louisiana State University
Jonathan T. Overpeck
Jonathan T. Overpeck University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Houyuan Lu
Houyuan Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Carrie Morrill
Carrie Morrill National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Lonnie G. Thompson
Lonnie G. Thompson The Ohio State University
Julia E. Cole
Julia E. Cole University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James B. Elsner
James B. Elsner Florida State University
Jian Ni
Jian Ni Zhejiang Normal University
Qinghai Xu
Qinghai Xu Hebei Normal University
Mark B. Bush
Mark B. Bush Florida Institute of Technology

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