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Overview

Qinglong L. Wu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research spans a broad range of topics within the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Ecology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Pollution.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding of microbial community ecology and physiology, with additional research covering marine and coastal ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, genomics and phylogenetic studies, protist diversity and phylogeny, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, and gut microbiota and health.

Qinglong L. Wu has published research in prominent venues, with a significant number of papers appearing in:

  • Water Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Environmental Research
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Their recent publications include:

  • Tissue concentrations, trophic transfer and human risks of antibiotics in freshwater food web in Lake Taihu, China (2020, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety)
  • Contrasting Patterns in Diversity and Community Assembly of Phragmites australis Root-Associated Bacterial Communities from Different Seasons (2020, Applied and Environmental Microbiology)
  • Climate mediates continental scale patterns of stream microbial functional diversity (2020, Microbiome)
  • Biotransformation of lincomycin and fluoroquinolone antibiotics by the ammonia oxidizers AOA, AOB and comammox: A comparison of removal, pathways, and mechanisms (2021, Water Research)
  • Interactions between bacteria and fungi in macrophyte leaf litter decomposition (2020, Environmental Microbiology)

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include Jin Zeng, Peng Xing, Dayong Zhao, Lijuan Ren, and Huabing Li, who have each co-authored multiple publications with Qinglong L. Wu.

Best Publications

  • Environmental issues of Lake Taihu, China

    Boqiang Qin;Pengzhu Xu;Qinglong Wu;Liancong Luo

  • Intragenomic Heterogeneity of 16S rRNA Genes Causes Overestimation of Prokaryotic Diversity

    Dong-Lei Sun;Xuan Jiang;Qinglong L. Wu;Ning-Yi Zhou

  • Bacterioplankton Community Composition along a Salinity Gradient of Sixteen High-Mountain Lakes Located on the Tibetan Plateau, China

    Qinglong L. Wu;Qinglong L. Wu;Gabriel Zwart;Michael Schauer;Miranda P. Kamst-van Agterveld

  • Isolation of novel ultramicrobacteria classified as actinobacteria from five freshwater habitats in Europe and Asia.

    Martin W. Hahn;Heinrich Lünsdorf;Qinglong Wu;Qinglong Wu;Michael Schauer

  • The filtration-acclimatization method for isolation of an important fraction of the not readily cultivable bacteria.

    Martin W Hahn;Peter Stadler;Qinglong L Wu;Qinglong L Wu;Matthias Pöckl

  • Diversity and co-occurrence network of soil fungi are more responsive than those of bacteria to shifts in precipitation seasonality in a subtropical forest

    Dan He;Weijun Shen;Jennifer Eberwein;Qian Zhao

  • Submersed macrophytes play a key role in structuring bacterioplankton community composition in the large, shallow, subtropical Taihu Lake, China.

    Qinglong L. Wu;Qinglong L. Wu;Gabriel Zwart;Jianfeng Wu;Miranda P. Kamst-van Agterveld

  • Do patterns of bacterial diversity along salinity gradients differ from those observed for macroorganisms

    Jianjun Wang;Dongmei Yang;Yong Zhang;Yong Zhang;Ji Shen

  • Network analysis reveals seasonal variation of co-occurrence correlations between Cyanobacteria and other bacterioplankton.

    Dayong Zhao;Feng Shen;Jin Zeng;Rui Huang

  • Differences in structure and dynamics of Polynucleobacter communities in a temperate and a subtropical lake, revealed at three phylogenetic levels

    Qinglong L. Wu;Qinglong L. Wu;Martin W. Hahn

  • Patterns and assembly processes of planktonic and sedimentary bacterial community differ along a trophic gradient in freshwater lakes

    Jin Zeng;Congcong Jiao;Congcong Jiao;Dayong Zhao;Huimin Xu;Huimin Xu

  • Cometabolic biotransformation and microbial-mediated abiotic transformation of sulfonamides by three ammonia oxidizers

    Li Jun Zhou;Ping Han;Ping Han;Yaochun Yu;Baozhan Wang

  • Short-term bacterial community composition dynamics in response to accumulation and breakdown of Microcystis blooms.

    Huabing Li;Peng Xing;Meijun Chen;Yuanqi Bian

  • Regional and global elevational patterns of microbial species richness and evenness

    Jianjun Wang;Sandra Meier;Janne Henrik Soininen;Emilio O. Casamayor

  • Determination of virus abundance, diversity and distribution in a municipal wastewater treatment plant.

    Qinglong Wu;Wen-Tso Liu

  • Occurrence, spatiotemporal distribution, mass balance and ecological risks of antibiotics in subtropical shallow Lake Taihu, China.

    Li-Jun Zhou;Qinglong L. Wu;Bei-Bei Zhang;Yong-Gang Zhao

  • The Passive Yet Successful Way of Planktonic Life: Genomic and Experimental Analysis of the Ecology of a Free-Living Polynucleobacter Population

    Martin W. Hahn;Thomas Scheuerl;Jitka Jezberová;Ulrike Koll

  • Trends in the occurrence and risk assessment of antibiotics in shallow lakes in the lower-middle reaches of the Yangtze River basin, China

    Li-Jun Zhou;Jie Li;Yongdong Zhang;Lingyang Kong

  • High predictability of the seasonal dynamics of a species-like Polynucleobacter population in a freshwater lake.

    Qinglong L. Wu;Qinglong L. Wu;Martin W. Hahn

  • Low Taxon Richness of Bacterioplankton in High-Altitude Lakes of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau, with a Predominance of Bacteroidetes and Synechococcus spp.†

    Peng Xing;Martin W. Hahn;Qinglong L. Wu

  • Heterogeneity of archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidizing communities in Lake Taihu, China.

    Yucheng Wu;Yan Xiang;Jianjun Wang;Jicheng Zhong

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhongbo Yu
Zhongbo Yu Hohai University
Martin W. Hahn
Martin W. Hahn University of Innsbruck
Jianjun Wang
Jianjun Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Wen-Tso Liu
Wen-Tso Liu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shuang-Jiang Liu
Shuang-Jiang Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ji Shen
Ji Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner University of Vienna
Rui Zhang
Rui Zhang National University of Singapore

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