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Overview

Ying Wu is affiliated with East China Normal University in China and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. The primary research focus spans several subfields including oceanography, ecology, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and atmospheric science. Their work emphasizes marine and coastal ecosystems, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, microbial community ecology and physiology, isotope analysis in ecology, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and marine biology and ecology research.

Notable recent publications by Ying Wu cover a range of topics related to plant stress responses and environmental impacts. These include:

  • ERF subfamily transcription factors and their function in plant responses to abiotic stresses, 2022, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Carbon dots as light converter for plant photosynthesis: Augmenting light coverage and quantum yield effect, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Other significant works coauthored with scientists such as Yadong Li, Timothy I. Eglinton, Jinming Xu, and Mei Wang include:

  • Climate control on terrestrial biospheric carbon turnover, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Copper nanoclusters-based fluorescent sensor array to identify metal ions and dissolved organic matter, 2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • The hidden threat: Unraveling the impact of microplastics on reproductive health, 2024, The Science of The Total Environment

Ying Wu frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including Shan Jiang, Jing Zhang, Jie Jin, Yan Chang, and Sumei Liu. These collaborators have contributed jointly to multiple scientific articles.

The scientist's publication venues reveal a focus on environmental and marine sciences, including:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Acta Oceanologica Sinica
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

The distribution of research topics and fields indicates an emphasis on understanding and analyzing biogeochemical processes, marine ecosystems, and environmental changes. This interdisciplinary approach connects atmospheric science, oceanography, and ecology to address complex environmental questions.

Best Publications

  • Nutrient gradients from the eutrophic Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary to the oligotrophic Kuroshio waters and re-evaluation of budgets for the East China Sea Shelf

    J. Zhang;J. Zhang;S.M. Liu;J.L. Ren;Y. Wu

  • Sources and distribution of carbon within the Yangtze River system

    Y. Wu;J. Zhang;J. Zhang;S.M. Liu;Z.F. Zhang

  • Hypoxia off the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary: Oxygen depletion and organic matter decomposition

    Zhuo-Yi Zhu;Jing Zhang;Ying Wu;Ying-Ying Zhang

  • Oxygen depletion off the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary

    Daoji Li;Jing Zhang;Daji Huang;Ying Wu

  • Effluent, nutrient and organic matter export from shrimp and fish ponds causing eutrophication in coastal and back-reef waters of NE Hainan, tropical China

    Lucia S. Herbeck;Daniela Unger;Ying Wu;Tim C. Jennerjahn

  • Distribution of organic matter in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary and their stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios: Implications for source discrimination and sedimentary dynamics

    J. Zhang;J. Zhang;Y. Wu;T.C. Jennerjahn;V. Ittekkot

  • Human impacts on the large world rivers: Would the Changjiang (Yangtze River) be an illustration?

    J. Zhang;Z. F. Zhang;S. M. Liu;Y. Wu

  • Recent sediment accumulation and carbon burial in the East China Sea

    Bing Deng;Jing Zhang;Jing Zhang;Ying Wu

  • Persistent organochlorine residues in sediments from Chinese river/estuary systems

    Ying Wu;Jing Zhang;Qing Zhou

  • Occurrence of n-alkanes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the core sediments of the Yellow Sea

    Ying Wu;Jing Zhang;Tie-zhu Mi;Bin Li

  • Spatial variations of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous and sulfur in the salt marsh sediments of the Yangtze Estuary in China

    Junli Zhou;Ying Wu;Qinshu Kang;Jing Zhang;Jing Zhang

  • Estuarine phytoplankton dynamics and shift of limiting factors: A study in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary and adjacent area

    Zhuo-Yi Zhu;Wai-Man Ng;Su-Mei Liu;Jing Zhang

  • Climate control on terrestrial biospheric carbon turnover

    Timothy I. Eglinton;Timothy I. Eglinton;Valier V. Galy;Jordon D. Hemingway;Xiaojuan Feng

  • Nutrient dynamics from the Changjiang (Yangtze River) estuary to the East China Sea

    Su Mei Liu;Xiao Hong Qi;Xiaona Li;Hao Ran Ye

  • Carbon and nitrogen composition and stable isotope as potential indicators of source and fate of organic matter in the salt marsh of the Changjiang Estuary, China

    Junli Zhou;Ying Wu;Jing Zhang;Jing Zhang;Qinshu Kang

  • Tracing suspended organic nitrogen from the Yangtze River catchment into the East China Sea

    Ying Wu;Thorsten Dittmar;Kai-Uwe Ludwichowski;Gerhard Kattner

  • Molecular and structural characterization of dissolved organic matter during and post cyanobacterial bloom in Taihu by combination of NMR spectroscopy and FTICR mass spectrometry.

    Fenfen Zhang;Mourad Harir;Franco Moritz;Jing Zhang

  • Spatial variability in the abundance, composition, and age of organic matter in surficial sediments of the East China Sea

    Ying Wu;Timothy I. Eglinton;Timothy I. Eglinton;Liyang Yang;Bing Deng

  • Impact of extreme drought and the Three Gorges Dam on transport of particulate terrestrial organic carbon in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River

    Hao Yu;Hao Yu;Ying Wu;Jing Zhang;Bing Deng

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the sediments of the Yalujiang Estuary, North China.

    Ying Wu;Jing Zhang;Zhijian Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jing Zhang
Jing Zhang East China Normal University
Sumei Liu
Sumei Liu Ocean University of China
Tim C Jennerjahn
Tim C Jennerjahn University of Bremen
Thorsten Dittmar
Thorsten Dittmar Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Meixun Zhao
Meixun Zhao Ocean University of China
Gerhard Kattner
Gerhard Kattner Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Daji Huang
Daji Huang Ministry of Natural Resources
Xinyu Guo
Xinyu Guo Ehime University
Hui Wu
Hui Wu East China Normal University

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