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Xiangdong Yang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their research topics cover areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Geological formations and processes, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Yang has published extensively in several frequent venues, including:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Quaternary International
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Key recent papers by Xiangdong Yang include:

  • Possible obliquity-forced warmth in southern Asia during the last glacial stage, 2020, Science Bulletin
  • Seasonal imprint of Holocene temperature reconstruction on the Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Paleoclimate Significance of Reconstructed Rainfall Isotope Changes in Asian Monsoon Region, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • A modern pollen dataset of China, 2021, Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology
  • Revealing anthropogenic effects on lakes and wetlands: Pollen-based environmental changes of Liangzi Lake, China over the last 150 years, 2021, CATENA

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Rong Wang, Enlou Zhang, Cheng Zhao, Qinghui Zhang, and Xuhui Dong. Rong Wang appears as a collaborator in twelve publications, while Enlou Zhang and several others have contributed to multiple papers alongside Yang.

Best Publications

  • Flickering gives early warning signals of a critical transition to a eutrophic lake state

    Rong Wang;John A. Dearing;Peter G. Langdon;Enlou Zhang

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Holocene vegetation history of Lake Erhai, Yunnan province southwestern China: the role of climate and human forcings

    Ji Shen;Richard T. Jones;Xiangdong Yang;John A. Dearing

  • Latest Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and climate history inferred from an alpine lacustrine record, northwestern Yunnan Province, southwestern China

    Xiayun Xiao;Simon G. Haberle;Ji Shen;Xiangdong Yang

  • Extending the timescale and range of ecosystem services through paleoenvironmental analyses, exemplified in the lower Yangtze basin

    John A. Dearing;Xiangdong Yang;Xuhui Dong;Enlou Zhang

  • Late Holocene forcing of the Asian winter and summer monsoon as evidenced by proxy records from the northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Xingqi Liu;Hailiang Dong;Xiangdong Yang;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • Contrasting patterns in elevational diversity between microorganisms and macroorganisms

    Jianjun Wang;Janne Soininen;Yong Zhang;Beixin Wang

  • Modern pollen samples from alpine vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau

    Ge Yu;Lingyu Tang;Xiangdong Yang;Xiankun Ke

  • Carbon burial by shallow lakes on the Yangtze floodplain and its relevance to regional carbon sequestration

    Xuhui Dong;N. John Anderson;Xiangdong Yang;Xu chen

  • A 16000-year pollen record of Qinghai Lake and its paleo-climate and paleoenvironment

    Xingqi Liu;Ji Shen;Sumin Wang;Xiangdong Yang

  • Surface sediment diatom assemblages and epilimnetic total phosphorus in large, shallow lakes of the Yangtze floodplain: their relationships and implications for assessing long-term eutrophication

    Xiangdong Yang;N. John Anderson;Xuhui Dong;Ji Shen

  • Tracking eutrophication in Taihu Lake using the diatom record: potential and problems

    Xuhui Dong;Xuhui Dong;Helen Bennion;Rick Battarbee;Xiangdong Yang

  • Nutrient dynamics linked to hydrological condition and anthropogenic nutrient loading in Chaohu Lake (southeast China)

    Xu Chen;Xiangdong Yang;Xuhui Dong;Xuhui Dong;Qian Liu;Qian Liu

  • Possible obliquity-forced warmth in southern Asia during the last glacial stage

    Cheng Zhao;Cheng Zhao;Eelco J. Rohling;Eelco J. Rohling;Zhengyu Liu;Xiaoqiang Yang

  • Environmental changes in Chaohu Lake (southeast, China) since the mid 20th century: The interactive impacts of nutrients, hydrology and climate

    Xu Chen;Xu Chen;Xiangdong Yang;Xuhui Dong;Enfeng Liu

  • Seasonal imprint of Holocene temperature reconstruction on the Tibetan Plateau

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  • Patterns of elevational beta diversity in micro- and macroorganisms

    Jianjun Wang;Janne Soininen;Yong Zhang;Beixin Wang

  • Poverty alleviation strategies in eastern China lead to critical ecological dynamics.

    Ke Zhang;John A. Dearing;Terence P. Dawson;Xuhui Dong

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

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

  • Diatom response to climate forcing of a deep, alpine lake (Lugu Hu, Yunnan, SW China) during the Last Glacial Maximum and its implications for understanding regional monsoon variability

    Qian Wang;Xiangdong Yang;N. John Anderson;Enlou Zhang

  • Spatial pattern of Abies and Picea surface pollen distribution along the elevation gradient in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and Xinjiang, China

    Houyuan Lu;Naiqin Wu;Xiangdong Yang;Caiming Shen;Caiming Shen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ji Shen
Ji Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Enlou Zhang
Enlou Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sumin Wang
Sumin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peter G. Langdon
Peter G. Langdon University of Southampton
Rong Wang
Rong Wang Nanyang Technological University
John A. Dearing
John A. Dearing University of Southampton
Enfeng Liu
Enfeng Liu Shandong Normal University
N. John Anderson
N. John Anderson Loughborough University
Suzanne McGowan
Suzanne McGowan University of Nottingham
Qian Liu
Qian Liu Chengdu University

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