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Nengwang Chen

Nengwang Chen

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
3675
World Ranking
9004
National Ranking
784

Overview

Nengwang Chen is affiliated with Xiamen University in China and focuses their research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly output includes significant work in related subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Water Science and Technology, and Pollution.

The main topics covered in Chen's research encompass marine and coastal ecosystems, soil and water nutrient dynamics, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, hydrology and watershed management studies, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, and environmental DNA in biodiversity studies.

Chen has published research in several notable scientific journals, often collaborating with other experts. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Research
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Co-authorship is a significant aspect of Chen's work, with recurrent collaborators such as Fenfang Wang, Kai Xiao, Zeyang Lu, Yao Wang, and Dan Yu.

Recent research papers by Chen showcase a diverse presence in environmental topics and appear in prominent venues. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Persistent eutrophication and hypoxia in the coastal ocean" (2023, Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures)
  • "Harmful algal blooms in inland waters" (2024, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • "Distinct mechanisms underlying the assembly of microeukaryotic generalists and specialists in an anthropogenically impacted river" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Carbonate chemistry and carbon sequestration driven by inorganic carbon outwelling from mangroves and saltmarshes" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "Tidal driven nutrient exchange between mangroves and estuary reveals a dynamic source-sink pattern" (2020, Chemosphere)

Best Publications

  • A GIS-based approach for mapping direct use value of ecosystem services at a county scale: Management implications

    Nengwang Chen;Huancheng Li;Lihong Wang

  • Persistent eutrophication and hypoxia in the coastal ocean

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  • Nutrient enrichment and N:P ratio decline in a coastal bay–river system in southeast China: The need for a dual nutrient (N and P) management strategy

    Nengwang Chen;Benrong Peng;Huasheng Hong;Nicholas Turyaheebwa

  • Response of bacterial communities to environmental changes in a mesoscale subtropical watershed, Southeast China.

    Anyi Hu;Xiaoyong Yang;Nengwang Chen;Liyuan Hou

  • Distinct mechanisms underlying the assembly of microeukaryotic generalists and specialists in an anthropogenically impacted river.

    Mahmoud Gad;Liyuan Hou;Jiangwei Li;Yang Wu

  • Effect of storm events on riverine nitrogen dynamics in a subtropical watershed, southeastern China

    Nengwang Chen;Jiezhong Wu;Huasheng Hong

  • Influence of a summer storm event on the flux and composition of dissolved organic matter in a subtropical river, China

    Liyang Yang;Weidong Guo;Nengwang Chen;Huasheng Hong

  • Storm induced estuarine turbidity maxima and controls on nutrient fluxes across river-estuary-coast continuum.

    Nengwang Chen;Michael D. Krom;Michael D. Krom;Yinqi Wu;Dan Yu

  • Automated determination of nitrate plus nitrite in aqueous samples with flow injection analysis using vanadium (III) chloride as reductant

    Shu Wang;Kunning Lin;Nengwang Chen;Dongxing Yuan

  • Predicting Dynamic Riverine Nitrogen Export in Unmonitored Watersheds: Leveraging Insights of AI from Data-Rich Regions.

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  • Nitrogen sources and exports in an agricultural watershed in Southeast China

    Nengwang Chen;Nengwang Chen;Huasheng Hong;Luoping Zhang;Wenzhi Cao

  • Atmospheric nitrogen deposition and its long-term dynamics in a southeast China coastal area.

    Nengwang Chen;Huasheng Hong;Quanjia Huang;Jiezhong Wu

  • Modeled long-term changes of DIN:DIP ratio in the Changjiang River in relation to Chl-α and DO concentrations in adjacent estuary

    Jianing Wang;Weijin Yan;Nengwang Chen;Xinyan Li

  • Effect of dissolved oxygen and nitrogen on emission of N2O from rivers in China

    Jianing Wang;Nengwang Chen;Weijin Yan;Bei Wang

  • Porewater exchange drives nutrient cycling and export in a mangrove-salt marsh ecotone

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  • Recent progress in coupled surface–ground water models and their potential in watershed hydro-biogeochemical studies: A review

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  • Spatial-temporal variation of dissolved N2 and denitrification in an agricultural river network, southeast China

    Nengwang Chen;Jiezhong Wu;Zhuhong Chen;Ting Lu

  • Tidal driven nutrient exchange between mangroves and estuary reveals a dynamic source-sink pattern.

    Fenfang Wang;Peng Cheng;Nengwang Chen;Yi-Ming Kuo

  • Warming increases nutrient mobilization and gaseous nitrogen removal from sediments across cascade reservoirs.

    Xingpeng Zhou;Nengwang Chen;Zhihao Yan;Shuiwang Duan

  • Hydrological controls on nitrogen (ammonium versus nitrate) fluxes from river to coast in a subtropical region: Observation and modeling.

    Xinjuan Gao;Nengwang Chen;Dan Yu;Yinqi Wu

  • Phosphorus export during storm events from a human perturbed watershed, southeast China: Implications for coastal ecology

    Nengwang Chen;Yinqi Wu;Zhuhong Chen;Huasheng Hong

  • Direct measurement of dissolved N2 and denitrification along a subtropical river-estuary gradient, China

    Jiezhong Wu;Nengwang Chen;Huasheng Hong;Ting Lu

  • Urbanization increased river nitrogen export to western Taiwan Strait despite increased retention by nitrification and denitrification

    Jingjie Lin;Nengwang Chen;Fenfang Wang;Zhenyu Huang

  • Integrated management of nutrients from the watershed to coast in the subtropical region

    Nengwang Chen;Huasheng Hong

  • Impacts of human disturbance on the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle in a subtropical river system revealed by nitrifier and denitrifier genes.

    Jingjie Lin;Nengwang Chen;Xin Yuan;Qing Tian

  • Understanding how estuarine hydrology controls ammonium and other inorganic nitrogen concentrations and fluxes through the subtropical Jiulong River Estuary, S.E. China under baseflow and flood-affected conditions

    Dan Yu;Nengwang Chen;Michael D. Krom;Michael D. Krom;Jingjie Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Huasheng Hong
Huasheng Hong Xiamen University
Bangqin Huang
Bangqin Huang Xiamen University
Dongxing Yuan
Dongxing Yuan Xiamen University
Jian Ma
Jian Ma City University of Hong Kong
Anyi Hu
Anyi Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael D. Krom
Michael D. Krom University of Haifa
Chang-Ping Yu
Chang-Ping Yu National Taiwan University
Craig R. Tobias
Craig R. Tobias University of Connecticut
Aron Stubbins
Aron Stubbins Northeastern University
Walter R. Boynton
Walter R. Boynton University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences

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