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Zaihua Liu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their research focuses on topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, karst systems and hydrogeology, microbial community ecology and physiology, geology and paleoclimatology research, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Frequent collaborators in Liu's scholarly work include Hailong Sun, Haibo He, Qian Bao, Sibo Zeng, and Chaowei Lai.

Liu has published numerous articles in a variety of scientific outlets. The most common venues feature:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Research
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Some of Liu's recent papers include:

  • Global karst springs hydrograph dataset for research and management of the world's fastest-flowing groundwater, 2020, Scientific Data
  • High stability of autochthonous dissolved organic matter in karst aquatic ecosystems: Evidence from fluorescence, 2022, Water Research
  • Lake metabolic processes and their effects on the carbonate weathering CO2 sink: Insights from diel variations in the hydrochemistry of a typical karst lake in SW China, 2022, Water Research
  • Organic carbon source tracing and the BCP effect in the Yangtze River and the Yellow River: Insights from hydrochemistry, carbon isotope, and lipid biomarker analyses, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • The sensitivity of the carbon sink by coupled carbonate weathering to climate and land-use changes: Sediment records of the biological carbon pump effect in Fuxian Lake, Yunnan, China, during the past century, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • A new direction in effective accounting for the atmospheric CO2 budget: Considering the combined action of carbonate dissolution, the global water cycle and photosynthetic uptake of DIC by aquatic organisms

    Zaihua Liu;Wolfgang Dreybrodt;Haijing Wang;Haijing Wang

  • LIMITATIONS OF HENDY TEST CRITERIA IN JUDGING THE PALEOCLIMATIC SUITABILITY OF SPELEOTHEMS AND THE NEED FOR REPLICATION

    Jeffrey A. Dorale;Zaihua Liu

  • Contribution of carbonate rock weathering to the atmospheric CO2 sink.

    Z. Liu;J. Zhao

  • Temperature dependence of oxygen- and clumped isotope fractionation in carbonates: A study of travertines and tufas in the 6-95 °C temperature range

    Sándor Kele;Sándor Kele;Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach;Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach;Enrico Capezzuoli;A. Nele Meckler

  • Seasonal, diurnal and storm-scale hydrochemical variations of typical epikarst springs in subtropical karst areas of SW China: Soil CO2 and dilution effects

    Zaihua Liu;Zaihua Liu;Zaihua Liu;Qiang Li;Hailong Sun;Jinliang Wang

  • ATMOSPHERIC CO2 SINK:SILICATE WEATHERING OR CARBONATE WEATHERING

    Zaihua Liu;Wolfgang Dreybrodt;Huan Liu

  • Dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate minerals in H2OCO2 solutions in turbulent flow: The role of the diffusion boundary layer and the slow reaction H2O + CO2 → H+ + HCO3−

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  • Large and active CO2 uptake by coupled carbonate weathering

    Zaihua Liu;G.L. Macpherson;Chris Groves;Jonathan B. Martin

  • Hydrodynamic control of inorganic calcite precipitation in Huanglong Ravine, China: Field measurements and theoretical prediction of deposition rates

    Liu Zaihua;U. Svensson;W. Dreybrodt;Yuan Daoxian

  • Effect of different land use/land cover on karst hydrogeochemistry: A paired catchment study of Chenqi and Dengzhanhe, Puding, Guizhou, SW China

    Min Zhao;Cheng Zeng;Zaihua Liu;Shijie Wang

  • Sensitivity of the global carbonate weathering carbon-sink flux to climate and land-use changes

    Sibo Zeng;Zaihua Liu;Georg Kaufmann

  • Comparative study of dissolution rate-determining mechanisms of limestone and dolomite

    Zaihua Liu;Daoxian Yuan;Wolfgang Dreybrodt

  • Hydrochemical variations during flood pulses in the south-west China peak cluster karst: impacts of CaCO3-H2O-CO2 interactions

    Zaihua Liu;Chris Groves;Daoxian Yuan;Joe Meiman

  • South China karst aquifer storm-scale hydrochemistry.

    Zaihua Liu;Chris Groves;Daoxian Yuan;Joe Meiman

  • Deep source CO2 in natural waters and its role in extensive tufa deposition in the Huanglong Ravines, Sichuan, China

    K. Yoshimura;Z. Liu;J. Cao;D. Yuan

  • Response of epikarst hydrochemical changes to soil CO2 and weather conditions at Chenqi, Puding, SW China

    Rui Yang;Zaihua Liu;Cheng Zeng;Min Zhao

  • Hydrochemical and isotope characteristics of spring water and travertine in the Baishuitai area (SW China) and their meaning for paleoenvironmental reconstruction

    Z. Liu;M. Zhang;Q. Li;S. You;S. You

  • Significance of the carbon sink produced by H 2 O-carbonate-CO 2 -aquatic phototroph interaction on land

    Zaihua Liu;Wolfgang Dreybrodt

  • Wet-dry seasonal variations of hydrochemistry and carbonate precipitation rates in a travertine-depositing canal at Baishuitai, Yunnan, SW China; implications for the formation of biannual laminae; in travertine and for climatic reconstruction

    Zaihua Liu;Hailong Sun;Lu Baoying;Liu Xiangling

  • Global karst springs hydrograph dataset for research and management of the world’s fastest-flowing groundwater

    Tunde Olarinoye;Tom Gleeson;Vera Marx;Stefan Seeger

  • A possible important CO2 sink by the global water cycle

    ZaiHua Liu;ZaiHua Liu;Wolfgang Dreybrodt;HaiJing Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Dreybrodt
Wolfgang Dreybrodt University of Bremen
Min Zhao
Min Zhao University of the Sunshine Coast
Nico Goldscheider
Nico Goldscheider Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Qiang Li
Qiang Li Brookhaven National Laboratory
Martin Sauter
Martin Sauter University of Göttingen
Jean-Loup Guyot
Jean-Loup Guyot Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
David Labat
David Labat Géosciences Environnement Toulouse
Bartolomé Andreo
Bartolomé Andreo University of Malaga
Mario Parise
Mario Parise University of Bari Aldo Moro
Tom Gleeson
Tom Gleeson University of Victoria

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