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Shuqing Zhao

Shuqing Zhao

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
13396
World Ranking
5420
National Ranking
554

Overview

Shuqing Zhao is affiliated with Peking University in China and specializes in Environmental Science, with a specific focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research topics broadly cover areas linked to urban and environmental dynamics, including Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Urban Green Space and Health, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Remote Sensing and Land Use, Urban Transport and Accessibility, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Notable recent papers published by Shuqing Zhao include:

  • Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality (2022) in Science China Life Sciences
  • Comparing the spatial and temporal dynamics of urban expansion in Guangzhou and Shenzhen from 1975 to 2015: A case study of pioneer cities in China's rapid urbanization (2020) in Land Use Policy
  • Urbanization imprint on land surface phenology: The urban-rural gradient analysis for Chinese cities (2021) in Global Change Biology
  • A national-scale assessment of land subsidence in China's major cities (2024) in Science
  • The Cooling Effect of Urban Green Spaces in Metacities: A Case Study of Beijing, China's Capital (2021) in Remote Sensing

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Shuqing Zhao include Shuguang Liu, Zhiyu Xu, Pengke Shen, Chen Yang, and Lu Yang.

Zhao's publications often appear in venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, Sustainable Cities and Society, and Land Use Policy.

Best Publications

  • Changes in Forest Biomass Carbon Storage in China Between 1949 and 1998

    Jingyun Fang;Anping Chen;Changhui Peng;Shuqing Zhao

  • The footprint of urban heat island effect in China

    Decheng Zhou;Shuqing Zhao;Liangxia Zhang;Ge Sun

  • Surface urban heat island in China's 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers

    Decheng Zhou;Shuqing Zhao;Shuguang Liu;Liangxia Zhang

  • Rapid loss of lakes on the Mongolian Plateau.

    Shengli Tao;Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Xia Zhao;Shuqing Zhao

  • Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: processes, data, models, and challenges

    Shuguang Liu;Benjamin Bond-Lamberty;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rodrigo Vargas

  • Ecological consequences of rapid urban expansion: Shanghai, China

    Shuqing Zhao;Liangjun Da;Zhiyao Tang;Hejun Fang

  • Prevalent vegetation growth enhancement in urban environment

    Shuqing Zhao;Shuguang Liu;Decheng Zhou

  • A comparative study of urban expansion in Beijing, Tianjin and Shijiazhuang over the past three decades

    Wenjia Wu;Shuqing Zhao;Chao Zhu;Jinliang Jiang

  • Remotely sensed assessment of urbanization effects on vegetation phenology in China's 32 major cities.

    Decheng Zhou;Decheng Zhou;Shuqing Zhao;Liangxia Zhang;Shuguang Liu

  • Land use change in Asia and the ecological consequences

    Shuqing Zhao;Changhui Peng;Changhui Peng;Hong Jiang;Hong Jiang;Dalun Tian

  • Altitudinal changes in carbon storage of temperate forests on Mt Changbai, Northeast China

    Biao Zhu;Biao Zhu;Xiangping Wang;Jingyun Fang;Shilong Piao

  • Biodiversity changes in the lakes of the Central Yangtze

    Jingyun Fang;Zhiheng Wang;Shuqing Zhao;Yongke Li

  • Urbanization-induced population migration has reduced ambient PM2.5 concentrations in China.

    Huizhong Shen;Shu Tao;Yilin Chen;Philippe Ciais;Philippe Ciais

  • The Grain for Green Project induced land cover change in the Loess Plateau: A case study with Ansai County, Shanxi Province, China

    Decheng Zhou;Shuqing Zhao;Chao Zhu

  • Changing climate affects vegetation growth in the arid region of the northwestern China

    X. Zhao;K. Tan;S. Zhao;J. Fang

  • Changes in China's lakes: climate and human impacts.

    Shengli Tao;Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Suhui Ma;Qiong Cai

  • Urban land expansion in China's six megacities from 1978 to 2015.

    Weicheng Fei;Shuqing Zhao

  • Quantifying the response of forest carbon balance to future climate change in Northeastern China: Model validation and prediction

    Changhui Peng;Changhui Peng;Xiaolu Zhou;Shuqing Zhao;Shuqing Zhao;Xiangping Wang

  • Valuing urban green spaces in mitigating climate change: A city-wide estimate of aboveground carbon stored in urban green spaces of China's Capital.

    Yan Sun;Shuai Xie;Shuqing Zhao

  • Rates and patterns of urban expansion in China’s 32 major cities over the past three decades

    Shuqing Zhao;Decheng Zhou;Chao Zhu;Wenyuan Qu

  • Spatiotemporal dynamics of urban expansion in 13 cities across the Jing-Jin-Ji Urban Agglomeration from 1978 to 2015

    Yan Sun;Shuqing Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Shuguang Liu
Shuguang Liu Central South University of Forestry and Technology
Jingyun Fang
Jingyun Fang Peking University
Zhiyao Tang
Zhiyao Tang Peking University
Changhui Peng
Changhui Peng University of Quebec at Montreal
Wenping Yuan
Wenping Yuan Sun Yat-sen University
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Geoffrey M. Henebry
Geoffrey M. Henebry Michigan State University
Haihua Shen
Haihua Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Anping Chen
Anping Chen Colorado State University
Biao Zhu
Biao Zhu Peking University

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