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6934
World Ranking
6795
National Ranking
679

Overview

Xiaohua Gou is affiliated with Lanzhou University in China and specializes in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research encompasses a range of topics primarily within global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and water science and technology.

The main research themes focus on plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, climate variability and models, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, land use and ecosystem services, forest ecology and management, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Selected recent publications highlight the scope and variety of Gou's work:

  • Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Understanding ecological civilization in China: From political context to science, 2023, AMBIO
  • Spatial patterns in the C:N:P stoichiometry in Qinghai spruce and the soil across the Qilian Mountains, China, 2020, CATENA
  • Characteristics and Trends of household carbon emissions research from 1993 to 2019: A bibliometric analysis and its implications, 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Drought limits wood production of Juniperus przewalskii even as growing seasons lengthens in a cold and arid environment, 2020, CATENA

Gou frequently collaborates with various researchers, including Linlin Gao, Xuejia Wang, Haijiang Yang, Yang Deng, and Junzhou Zhang.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets include SSRN Electronic Journal, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Ecological Indicators, CATENA, and Journal of Hydrology.

Best Publications

  • El Niño modulations over the past seven centuries

    Jinbao Li;Jinbao Li;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Edward R. Cook;Mariano S. Morales

  • Tree‐ring based drought reconstruction for the central Tien Shan area in northwest China

    Jinbao Li;Jinbao Li;Xiaohua Gou;Edward R. Cook;Fahu Chen

  • Drought reconstruction for North Central China from tree rings: the value of the Palmer drought severity index

    Jinbao Li;Jinbao Li;Fahu Chen;Edward R. Cook;Xiaohua Gou

  • Rapid tree growth with respect to the last 400 years in response to climate warming, northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Xiaohua Gou;Xiaohua Gou;Fahu Chen;Gordon Jacoby;Edward Cook

  • Streamflow variations of the Yellow River over the past 593 years in western China reconstructed from tree rings

    Xiaohua Gou;Xiaohua Gou;Fahu Chen;Edward Cook;Gordon Jacoby

  • Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole

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  • Desertification and its relationship with permafrost degradation in Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) plateau

    Meixue Yang;Shaoling Wang;Tandong Yao;Xiaohua Gou

  • Tree ring based streamflow reconstruction for the Upper Yellow River over the past 1234 years

    XiaoHua Gou;Yang Deng;FaHu Chen;MeiXue Yang

  • The soil moisture distribution, thawing–freezing processes and their effects on the seasonal transition on the Qinghai–Xizang (Tibetan) plateau

    Meixue Yang;Tandong Yao;Xiaohua Gou;Toshio Koike

  • Reconstructed droughts for the southeastern Tibetan Plateau over the past 568 years and its linkages to the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean climate variability

    Keyan Fang;Keyan Fang;Xiaohua Gou;Fahu Chen;Jinbao Li

  • Millennium tree-ring reconstruction of drought variability in the eastern Qilian Mountains, northwest China

    Xiaohua Gou;Xiaohua Gou;Yang Deng;Linlin Gao;Fahu Chen

  • Tree-ring based drought reconstruction for the Guiqing Mountain (China): linkages to the Indian and Pacific Oceans

    Keyan Fang;Keyan Fang;Xiaohua Gou;Fahu Chen;Rosanne D'Arrigo

  • Climatic response of thick leaf spruce (Picea crassifolia) tree-ring width at different elevations over Qilian Mountains, northwestern China

    X. Gou;F. Chen;M. Yang;J. Li

  • Drought variations in the eastern part of northwest China over the past two centuries: Evidence from tree rings

    Keyan Fang;Xiaohua Gou;Fahu Chen;Meixue Yang

  • Tree-ring based reconstruction of drought variability (1615–2009) in the Kongtong Mountain area, northern China

    Keyan Fang;Xiaohua Gou;Fahu Chen;Changzhi Liu

  • Asymmetric variability between maximum and minimum temperatures in Northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from tree rings

    XiaoHua Gou;FaHu Chen;MeiXue Yang;Jacoby Gordon

  • Annual precipitation reconstruction since AD 775 based on tree rings from the Qilian Mountains, northwestern China

    Yong Zhang;Yong Zhang;Qinhua Tian;Xiaohua Gou;Fahu Chen

  • Tree-Ring Based Drought Reconstruction (A.D. 1855-2001) For The Qilian Mountains, Northwestern China

    Qinhua Tian;Xiaohua Gou;Yong Zhang;Jianfeng Peng

  • An 850‐year tree‐ring‐based reconstruction of drought history in the western Qilian Mountains of northwestern China

    Xiaohua Gou;Xiaohua Gou;Linlin Gao;Linlin Gao;Yang Deng;Fahu Chen

  • Changing relationships between tree growth and climate in Northwest China

    Yongxiang Zhang;Yongxiang Zhang;Martin Wilmking;Xiaohua Gou

  • Moisture variability across China and Mongolia: 1951–2005

    Jinbao Li;Jinbao Li;Edward R. Cook;Rosanne D’arrigo;Fahu Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Fahu Chen
Fahu Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jinbao Li
Jinbao Li University of Hong Kong
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Yang Deng
Yang Deng Montclair State University
Rosanne D'Arrigo
Rosanne D'Arrigo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huijun Wang
Huijun Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nicole Davi
Nicole Davi Columbia University
Shang-Ping Xie
Shang-Ping Xie University of California, San Diego
Patrick Fonti
Patrick Fonti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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