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Shuqing An is affiliated with Nanjing University in China and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research encompasses various subfields including Ecology, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of Shuqing An's work include:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Plant responses to water stress

Shuqing An has published extensively in a number of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Plant and Soil
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Bioresource Technology

Some of the recent papers featuring Shuqing An's contributions are:

  • "Human activities' fingerprint on multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functions across a major river catchment in China," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Ecological risk of heavy metals in lake sediments of China: A national-scale integrated analysis," 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Urbanization has changed the distribution pattern of zooplankton species diversity and the structure of functional groups," 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • "Damming has changed the migration process of microplastics and increased the pollution risk in the reservoirs in the Shaying River Basin," 2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Exotic Spartina alterniflora Loisel. Invasion significantly shifts soil bacterial communities with the successional gradient of saltmarsh in eastern China," 2020, Plant and Soil

Shuqing An frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Xin Leng
  • Dehua Zhao
  • Wen Yang
  • Miao Zhang
  • Chen Chen

Best Publications

  • Current state of knowledge regarding the world’s wetlands and their future under global climate change: a synthesis

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Shuqing An;C. M. Finlayson;Brij Gopal

  • The spatiotemporal dynamics of rapid urban growth in the Nanjing metropolitan region of China

    Chi Xu;Maosong Liu;Cheng Zhang;Shuqing An

  • Spartina invasion in China: implications for invasive species management and future research

    S Q An;B H Gu;B H Gu;C F Zhou;Z S Wang

  • China's Natural Wetlands: Past Problems, Current Status, and Future Challenges

    Shuqing An;Harbin Li;Baohua Guan;Changfang Zhou

  • CH4 and N2O emissions from Spartina alterniflora and Phragmites australis in experimental mesocosms

    Xiaoli Cheng;Ronghao Peng;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo

  • Summer rain pulse size and rainwater uptake by three dominant desert plants in a desertified grassland ecosystem in northwestern China

    Xiaoli Cheng;Xiaoli Cheng;Shuqing An;Bo Li;Jiquan Chen

  • Alternative stable states in large shallow lakes

    Annette B.G. Janssen;Sven Teurlincx;Shuqing An;Jan H. Janse

  • Consequences of short-term C4 plant Spartina alterniflora invasions for soil organic carbon dynamics in a coastal wetland of Eastern China

    Wen Yang;Hui Zhao;Xinglong Chen;Shenglai Yin

  • Assessing the impact of urbanization on regional net primary productivity in Jiangyin County, China

    C. Xu;M. Liu;S. An;J.M. Chen

  • Human activities' fingerprint on multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functions across a major river catchment in China.

    Feilong Li;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt;Jianghua Yang;Shuqing An

  • Assessing the effects of short-term Spartina alterniflora invasion on labile and recalcitrant C and N pools by means of soil fractionation and stable C and N isotopes

    Xiaoli Cheng;Xiaoli Cheng;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Rachel Henderson

  • Impacts of Spartina alterniflora invasion on soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools sizes, stability, and turnover in a coastal salt marsh of eastern China

    Wen Yang;Shuqing An;Hui Zhao;Lingqian Xu

  • Short-time response in root morphology of Vallisneria natans to sediment type and water-column nutrient

    Yonghong Xie;Yonghong Xie;Shuqing An;Xin Yao;Keyan Xiao

  • Effects of topography on simulated net primary productivity at landscape scale.

    X.F. Chen;J.M. Chen;S.Q. An;W.M. Ju

  • Sulfur storage changed by exotic Spartina alterniflora in coastal saltmarshes of China

    Changfang Zhou;Changfang Zhou;Shuqing An;Zifa Deng;Daqiang Yin

  • Remote sensing of aquatic vegetation distribution in Taihu Lake using an improved classification tree with modified thresholds.

    Dehua Zhao;Hao Jiang;Tangwu Yang;Ying Cai

  • Spatial relationships among species, above-ground biomass, N, and P in degraded grasslands in Ordos Plateau, northwestern China

    X. Cheng;X. Cheng;S. An;J. Chen;B. Li

  • Soil organic carbon and nitrogen dynamics following Spartina alterniflora invasion in a coastal wetland of eastern China

    Wen Yang;Hui Zhao;Xin Leng;Xiaoli Cheng

  • Effects of plant and influent C:N:P ratio on microbial diversity in pilot-scale constructed wetlands

    Yongjun Zhao;Bo Liu;Wenguang Zhang;Changwei Hu

  • Estimation of water clarity in Taihu Lake and surrounding rivers using Landsat imagery

    Dehua Zhao;Ying Cai;Hao Jiang;Delin Xu

  • Potential of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence to estimate transpiration in a temperate forest

    Xiaoliang Lu;Xiaoliang Lu;Zhunqiao Liu;Zhunqiao Liu;Shuqing An;Diego G. Miralles

  • Plant size effects on the relationships among specific leaf area, leaf nutrient content, and photosynthetic capacity in tropical woody species

    Fude Liu;Wenjie Yang;Zhongsheng Wang;Zhen Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaoli Cheng
Xiaoli Cheng Yunnan University
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Jie Fu
Jie Fu Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Hai-Liang Zhu
Hai-Liang Zhu Nanjing University
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Bo Li
Bo Li Fudan University
Enfeng Liu
Enfeng Liu Shandong Normal University
Hongbo Shao
Hongbo Shao Qingdao University of Science and Technology
Ji Shen
Ji Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
C. Max Finlayson
C. Max Finlayson Charles Sturt University

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