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Huiyu Liu Professor

Research Interests: 
  • Non-linear ecology
  • Global change ecology
Bio: 

Educational Background

  • 2001/09-2006/06, Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographic Sciences, Ph.D., research interests: ecological modeling and multi-scale diagnosis of climate change.
  • 1997/09-2001/06, Hunan Normal University, College of Resources and Environment, BSc.  

Research Experience

  • 2015/07-Present, Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographic Sciences, Professor
  • 2012/09-2013/09, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences and Institute for Global Sustainability Science, Visiting Scholar
  • 2009/05-2015/07, Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor 
  • 2006/08-2009/05, Nanjing Normal University, College of Geographic Sciences, Lecturer 

Recent publications (*corresponding author)

  1. Fusheng Jiao, Xiaojuan Xu, Mingyang Zhang, Haibo Gong5, Hao Sheng, Kelin Wang, Huiyu Liu*. Bedrock regulated climatic controls on the interannual variation of land sink in South-West China karst through soil water availability. 2024,Catena.
  2.  Huiyu Liu, Xing Wang, Chuanzhuang Liang,Peng Xuea, Zheng Wang, Yu Chena, Mingyang Zhang *. Divergent nonlinear trends of global drought and its multivariate characteristics. 2024,Journal of Hydrology.
  3. Chuanzhuang Liang，Mingyang Zhang,Zheng Wang, Xueqiao Xiang,Haibo Gong , Kelin Wang, Huiyu Liu.The strengthened impact of water availability at interannual and decadal timescales on vegetation GPP.Global Change Biology. 2024. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17138
  4.  Haibo Gong, Mingyang Zhang*, Xueqiao Xiang, Huiyu Liu*,1 km monthly precipitation and temperatures dataset for China from 1952 to 2019 based on new baseline climatology surfaces, Science of The Total Environment, 2024，https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167613.
  5. Kong, Y., Zhang, M., Gong, H., Jiao, F., Xue, P., Wang, K., & Liu, H*. (2023). Divergent response of carbon sink to climate change along topographical gradient in China based on EEMD detrending. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128, e2023JG007641. https://doi. org/10.1029/2023JG007641.
  6. Huiyu Liu, Zheng Wang, Zhaoyue Wang, Yanzhuo Zeng, Peng Xue, Mingyang Zhang, Stability of the ecosystem gross primary productivity increasing in Chinese forestry ecological engineering area, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2023,356.10836.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108636.
  7. Mingyang Zhang, Kelin Wang*, Huiyu Liu*, Yuemin Yue, Yujia Ren, Yu Chen, Chunhua Zhang, Zhenhua Deng,Vegetation inter-annual variation responses to climate variation in different geomorphic zones of the Yangtze River Basin,China, Ecological Indicators, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110357.
  8. Jiaxiang Liu, Zheng Wang … Huiyu Liu*, et al., Effects of land use patterns on the interannual variations of carbon sinks of terrestrial ecosystems in China. Ecological Indicators.2023,146, 109914.
  9. Ming-Yang Zhang，Huiyu Liu*，Ke-Lin Wang*，et al., Nonlinear trends of vegetation Changes in different geomorphologic zones and land use types of the Yangtze River basin, China. Land degradation and development. 2023.https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4627.
  10. Haibo Gong, Li Cao, Duan Yafeng, Jiao Fusheng, Xu Xiaojuan, Zhang Mingyang, Wang Kelin, Huiyu Liu*. Multiple effects of climate changes and human activities on NPP increase in the Three-north Shelter Forest Program area. Forest Ecology and Management.2023, 529, 120732.
  11.  Haibo Gong , Mingyang Zhang*,  Huiyu Liu *, et al.,The weakening of the interannual relationship between the rate of vegetation spring green-up and temperature related to warmer and drier preseason over the northern extratropics Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022, 327.109231.
  12. Fusheng Jiao , Xiaojuan Xu , Mingyang Zhang *, Haibo Gong, Huiyu Liu *, Kelin Wang. Contributory factors of the secular trends to changes in ecosystem water-use efficiency in China. Journal of Hydrology, 2022, 615B, 128690.
  13. Xiaojuan Xu , Fusheng Jiao, Huiyu Liu ⁎, Haibo Gong, Changxin Zou, Naifeng Lin , Peng Xue ,Mingyang Zhang ⁎, Kelin Wang. Persistence of increasing vegetation gross primary production under the interactions of climate change and land use changes in Northwest China. Science of the Total Environment 834 (2022) 155086.
  14. Gong, Haibo, Li Cao, Fusheng Jiao, Huiyu Liu, Mingyang Zhang, Jialin Yi, and Xiaojuan Xu. ,Increasing Atmospheric Aridity Moderates the Accelerated Rate of Vegetation Green-Up Induced by Rising CO2 and Warming,2022,Remote Sensing , https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14163946.
  15. Haibo Gong, Fusheng Jiao, Li Cao & Huiyu Liu*.Long-term Precipitation Estimation Combining Time-Series Retrospective Forecasting and Downscaling-Calibration Procedure. Water Resources Management ,2022, 36,  3087–3106.
  16. Xue, P.; Liu, H*.; Zhang, M.;Gong, H.; Cao, L. Nonlinear Characteristics of NPP Based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition from 1982 to 2015—A Case Study of Six Coastal Provinces in Southeast China. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 15. https://doi.org/10.3390/ rs14010015.
  17. Zhang Mingyang, Deng Zhenhua, Yue Yuemin, Wang Kelin ⁎, Liu Huiyu ⁎.Nonlinear characteristics of the vegetation change and its response to climate change in the karst region of southwest China. Progress in Physical Geography 2022, 46(4):497-514.
  18. Huiyu Liu*, Junhe Jia, Zhenshan Lin, Zhaoyue Wang, Haibo Gong. Relationship between net primary production and climate change in different vegetation zones based on EEMD detrending – A case study of Northwest China . Ecological Indicators 122 (2021) 107276.
  19. Huiyu Liu*, Li Cao, Junhe Jia, et al. Effects of land use changes on the nonlinear trends of net primary productivity in arid and semiarid areas, China. Land Degradation & Development, 2021, 32(6): 2183-2196.
  20. Xiaojuan Xu, Huiyu Liu*, Fusheng Jiao, Haibo Gong, Zhenshan Lin. Nonlinear relationship of greening and shifts from greening to browning in vegetation with nature and human factors along the Silk Road Economic Belt. Science of the Total Environment. 2021.766,142553.
  21. Liu, X.; Liu, H*; Datta, P.; Frey, J.; Koch, B. Mapping an Invasive Plant Spartina alterniflora by Combining an Ensemble One-Class Classification Algorithm with a Phenological NDVI Time-Series Analysis Approach in Middle Coast of Jiangsu, China. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 4010.
  22. Xiaojuan Xu, Huiyu Liu *, Fusheng Jiao, Haibo Gong, Zhenshan Lin. Time-varying trends of vegetation change and their driving forces during 1981–2016 along the silk road economic belt. Catena 195 (2020) 104796.
  23. Jiao, Fusheng,Liu, Huiyu*,Xu, Xiaojuan, Gong, Haibo, Lin, Zhenshan. Trend Evolution of Vegetation Phenology in China during the Period of 1981–2016.Remote Sensing.2020,12,572.
  24. Liu, Huiyu*, Jiao, Fusheng, Yin, Jingqiu, Li, Tingyou, Gong, Haibo, Wang, Zhaoyue, Lin, Zhenshan. Nonlinear relationship of vegetation greening with nature and human factors and its forecast – A case study of Southwest China.Ecological Indicators. 2020,111, 106009.
  25. Wan Lei, Liu Huiyu*, Gong Haibo and Ren Yujia. Effects of Climate and Land Use changes on Vegetation Dynamics in the Yangtze River Delta, China Based on Abrupt Change Analysis.Sustainability, 2020, 12, 1955; doi: 10.3390/su12051955.
  26. Xiaojuan Xu,Huiyu Liu*, Fusheng Jiao, Yujia Ren, Haibo Gong, Zhenshan Lin & Changchun Huang (2020): Influence of climate change and human activity on total nitrogen and total phosphorus: a case study of Lake Taihu, China, Lake and Reservoir Management, 36(2):186-202. DOI:10.1080/10402381.2019.1711471.
  27. Xiangzhen Qi, Junhe Jia,Huiyu Liu⁎, Zhenshan Lin. Relative importance of climate change and human activities for vegetation changes on China's Silk Road economic belt over multiple timescales.Catena180 (2019) 224–237.
  28. Xu Xiaojuan,Liu Huiyu*, Linzhenshan, Jiao Fusheng, Gong Haibo. Relationship of Abrupt Vegetation Change to Climate Change and Ecological Engineering with Multi-Timescale Analysis in the Karst Region, Southwest China.Remote Sensing, 2019,11(13):1564, DOI: 10.3390/rs11131564.
  29. Qi Xiangzhen,Liu Huiyu*, Lin Zhenshan, Liu Xiang, Gong Haibo. Impacts of Age and Expansion Direction of Invasive Spartina alterniflora on Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics in Coastal Salt Marshes Along Eastern China.Estuaries and Coasts, 2019, DOI: 10.1007/s12237-019-00611-4.
  30. Haibo Gong,Huiyu Liu*, Fusheng Jiao, Zhenshan Lin, Xiaojuan Xu. Pure, shared, and coupling effects of climate change and sea level rise on the future distribution of Spartina alterniflora along the Chinese coast.Ecology and Evolution. 2019;9:5380–5391. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5129.
  31. Huiyu Liu*，Xiangzhen Qi，Haibo Gong，Lihe Li，Mingyang Zhang，Yufeng Li，Zhenshan Lin。Combined Effects of Global Climate Suitability and Regional Environmental Variables on the Distribution of an Invasive Marsh Species Spartina alterniflora.Estuaries and Coasts, 2019,42:99–111https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-018-0447-y.
  32. Huiyu Liu*, Mingyang Zhang, Zhenshan Lin, Xiaojuan Xu. Spatial heterogeneity of the relationship between vegetation dynamics and climate change and their driving forces at multiple time scales in Southwest China.Agricultural and forest meteorology.2018, 256-257, 10-21.
  33. Huiyu Liu*, Haibo Gong, Xiangzhen Qi, Yufeng Li, Zhenshan Lin. Relative importance of environmental variables for the distribution of the invasive marsh species Spartina alterniflora across different spatial scales.Marine and Freshwater Research, 2018, 69(5) 790-801.
  34. Liu Xiang,Liu Huiyu*, Gong Haibo. Appling the One-Class Classification Method of Maxent to Detect an Invasive Plant Spartina alterniflora with Time-Series Analysis.Remote Sensing. 2017, 9:11203.
  35. Liu, Huiyu*, Zhang, Mingyang., Lin, Zhenshan. Relative importance of climate changes at different time scales on net primary productivity—a case study of the Karst area of northwest Guangxi, China.Environ Monit Assess, 2017, 189:539.
  36. Huiyu Liu*, Zhenshan Lin*, Mingyang Zhang et al., Relative importance of sexual and asexual reproduction for range expansion of Spartina alterniflora in different tidal zones on Chinese coast.Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2017, 185:22-30.
  37. Huiyu Liu, Xiaojuan Xu, Zhenshan Lin* et al., Climatic and human impacts on quasi-periodic and abrupt changes of sedimentation rate at multiple time scales in Lake Taihu, China.Journal of Hydrology, 2016, 543:739–748.
  38. Xiang Liu, Huiyu Liu*,Zhenshan Lin, Lihe Li, Shicheng Lv. Spatial pattern changes of Spartina alterniflora with different invasion ages in the Yancheng coastal wetland.Acta Ecologica Sinica37 (2017) 307–314.
  39. Jia Junhe, Liu Huiyu, Lin Zhenshan. Multi-timescale changes in vegetation NPP and its response to climate change in Northwest China. Journal of Ecology,2019,39(14):5058~5069.
  40. Luo Shuang,Liu Huiyu,Gong Haibo.Nonlinear trend of vegetation cover change and its pattern analysis in China from 1982 to 2018[J]. Journal of Ecology,2022,42(20):8331-8342.
  41. Jiao Fusheng, Xu Xiaojuan, Gong Haibo et al. Elevation divergence of water use efficiency in response to climate change based on the de-trending of ensemble empirical modal decomposition - A case study of provinces along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road[J]. Journal of Ecology,2022,42(17):6985-6996.
  42. Lin Zhenshan, Liu Huiyu, Qi Xiangzhen. Evolutionary Mechanisms of Plant Population Dynamics, Science Press, 280,000 words, 2010.

Major scientific research projects undertaken

  1. Nonlinear response of vegetation NPP trend succession and multi-timescale changes to climate change and human activities and its prediction, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSF) Faceted Project 41971382(),2020-2023, Chairperson.
  2. Impacts of climate and land use change on the expansion of the distribution area of invasive alien plant Euphorbiaceae at different scales, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Top Project (31470519), 2015-2018, Chairperson.
  3. Response of plant invasion to spatio-temporal variability of habitats at different scales and its prediction, Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40901094), 2009-2012, Chair.