Virginia Tech

Agroecosystem Modeling Lab

Selected Publications


2025


  1. Shi, Y., Pan, S., You, Y., Prior, S.A., Tian, D., Yu, H., Yu, Q. and Tian, H. (2025). Extreme Dry‐Heat Climate Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity in Wheat Production: Insights and Mitigation Strategies. Global Change Biology, 31(7), p.e70349.
  2. Liu, H., Miao, Y., Chen, Y., Shen, Y., You, Y., Wang, Z., Gang, C. (2025). Responses of soil greenhouse gases fluxes to land management in forests and grasslands: A global meta-analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 967, p.178773.
  3. Pan, N., Tian, H., Shi, H., Pan, S., Canadell, J., Chang, J., Ciais, P., Davidson, E., Hugelius, G., Ito, A., Jackson, R., Joos, F., Lienert, S., Millet, D., Olin, S., Patra, P., Thompson, R., Vuichard, N., Wells, K., Wilson, C., You, Y., Zaehle, S. (2025). Climate change rivals fertilizer use in driving soil nitrous oxide emissions in the northern high latitudes: Insights from terrestrial biosphere models. Environment International, p.109297.

2024


  1. You, Y., Tian, H., Pan, S., Shi, H., Lu, C., Batchelor, W.D., Cheng, B., Hui, D., Kicklighter, D., Liang, X.Z., Li, X., Melillo, J., Pan, N., Prior, S. A., Reilly, J. (2024). Net greenhouse gas balance in U.S. croplands: How can soils be part of the climate solution? Global Change Biology, 30(1), p.e17109.
  2. Zhang, J., Tian, H., You, Y., Liang, X.Z., Ouyang, Z., Pan, N., Pan, S. (2024). Balancing non‐CO2 GHG emissions and soil carbon change in U.S. rice paddies: A retrospective meta‐analysis and agricultural modeling study. AGU Advances, 5(1), p.e2023AV001052.
  3. Tian, H., Pan, N., Thompson, R. L., Canadell, J. G., Suntharalingam, P., Regnier, P., Davidson, E. A., Prather, M., Ciais, P., Muntean, M., Pan, S., Winiwarter, W., Zaehle, S., Zhou, F., Jackson, R. B., Bange, H. W., Berthet, S., Bian, Z., Bianchi, D., Bouwman, A. F., Buitenhuis, E. T., Dutton, G., Hu, M., Ito, A., Jain, A. K., Jeltsch-Thömmes, A., Joos, F., Kou-Giesbrecht, S., Krummel, P. B., Lan, X., Landolfi, A., Lauerwald, R., Li, Y., Lu, C., Maavara, T., Manizza, M., Millet, D. B., Mühle, J., Patra, P. K., Peters, G. P., Qin, X., Raymond, P., Resplandy, L., Rosentreter, J. A., Shi, H., Sun, Q., Tonina, D., Tubiello, F. N., van der Werf, G. R., Vuichard, N., Wang, J., Wells, K. C., Western, L. M., Wilson, C., Yang, J., Yao, Y., You, Y., Zhu, Q. (2024). Global nitrous oxide budget (1980–2020). Earth System Science Data, 16(6), 2543–2604.
  4. Chang, S., Su, K., Jiang, X., You, Y., Li, C., Wang, L. (2024). Exploring the impact of urban regeneration programs on wildlife and human well-being: A case study in Nanning, China. Ecological Indicators, 159, p.111640.

2023


  1. Bian, Z., Tian, H., Pan, S., Shi, H., Lu, C., Anderson, C., Cai, W.-J., Hopkinson, C. S., Justic, D., Kalin, L., Lohrenz, S., McNulty, S., Pan, N., Sun, Ge, Wang, Z., Yao, Y., You, Y. (2023). Soil legacy nutrients contribute to the decreasing stoichiometric ratio of N and P loading from the Mississippi River Basin. Global Change Biology, 29(24), pp.7145-7158.
  2. Chang, S., Su, K., Jiang, X., You, Y., Li, C., Wang, L. (2023). Impacts and predictions of urban expansion on habitat connectivity networks: A multi-scenario simulation approach. Forests, 14(11), p.2187.
  3. Zeng, J., Su, K., Li, C., Lu, J., Jiang, X., You, Y. (2023). Construction and analysis of multi-species ecological network, a case study of the Southeast Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. Forests, 14(11), p.2149.
  4. Li, C., Su, K., Liang, X., Jiang, X., Wang, J., You, Y., Wang, L., Chang, S., Wei, C., Zhang, Y., Liao, Z. (2023). Identification of priority areas to provide insights for ecological protection planning: A case study in Hechi, China. Ecological Indicators, 154, p.110738.
  5. Wei, C., Zeng, J., Wang, J., Jiang, X., You, Y., Wang, L., Zhang, Y., Liao, Z., Su, K. (2023). Assessing the impact of climate and human activities on ecosystem services in the Loess Plateau ecological screen, China. Remote Sensing, 15(19), p.4717.
  6. Gang, C., Shi, H., Tian, H., Pan, S., Pan, N., Xu, R., Wang, Z., Bian, Z., You, Y., Yao, Y. (2023). Uncertainty in land use obscures global soil organic carbon stock estimates. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 339, p.109585.
  7. Liao, Z., Su, K., Jiang, X., Wang, J., You, Y., Wang, L., Chang, S., Wei, C., Zhang, Y., Li, C. (2023). Spatiotemporal variation and coupling of grazing intensity and ecosystem based on four quadrant model on the Inner Mongolia. Ecological Indicators, 152, p.110379.
  8. Wang, L., Wang, S., Liang, X., Jiang, X., Wang, J., Li, C., Chang, S., You, Y., Su, K. (2023). How to optimize high-value GEP areas to identify key areas for protection and restoration: The integration of ecology and complex networks. Remote Sensing, 15(13), p.3420.
  9. Liu, H., Liu, Y., Chen, Y., Fan, M., Chen, Y., Gang, C., You, Y., Wang, Z. (2023). Dynamics of global dryland vegetation were more sensitive to soil moisture: Evidence from multiple vegetation indices. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 331, p.109327.
  10. Zhang, Y., Su, K., Jiang, X., You, Y., Zhou, X., Yu, Z., Chen, Z., Wang, L., Wei, C., Liao, Z. (2023). Response of ecosystem services to impervious surface changes and their scaling effects in Loess Plateau ecological screen, China. Ecological Indicators, 147, p.109997.
  11. Wei, C., Su, K., Jiang, X., You, Y., Zhou, X., Yu, Z., Chen, Z., Liao, Z., Zhang, Y., Wang, L. (2023). Increase in precipitation and fractional vegetation cover promote synergy of ecosystem services in China’s arid regions—Northern sand-stabilization belt. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, p.1116484.

2022


  1. You, Y., Tian, H., Pan, S., Shi, H., Bian, Z., Gurgel, A., Huang, Y., Kicklighter, D., Liang, X.Z., Lu, C., Melillo, J., Miao, R., Pan, N., Reilly, J., Ren, W., Xu, R., Yang, J., Yu, Q., Zhang, J. (2022). Incorporating dynamic crop growth processes and management practices into a terrestrial biosphere model for simulating crop production in the United States: Toward a unified modeling framework. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 325, p.109144.
  2. Ma, Y., Sun, D., Liu, W., You, Y., Wang, S., Sun, Z., Wang, S. (2022). Using a remote-sensing-based piecewise retrieval algorithm to map chlorophyll-a concentration in a highland river system. Remote Sensing, 14(23), p.6119.
  3. Gang, C., Wang, Z., You, Y., Liu, Y., Xu, R., Bian, Z., Pan, N., Gao, X., Chen, M., Zhang, M. (2022). Divergent responses of terrestrial carbon use efficiency to climate variation from 2000 to 2018. Global and Planetary Change, 208, p.103709.

2020


  1. You, Y., Pan, S. (2020). Urban vegetation slows down the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) in the United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(18), p.e2020GL089286.
  2. You, Y., Wang, S., Pan, N., Ma, Y., Liu, W. (2020). Growth stage-dependent responses of carbon fixation process of alpine grasslands to climate change over the Tibetan Plateau, China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 291, p.108085.
  3. Liu, W., Wang, S., Ma, Y., Shen, M., You, Y. (2020). A remote sensing method for retrieving chlorophyll-a concentration from river water body. Journal of Geo-information Science, 22(10), 2062-2077.

Before 2019


  1. You, Y., Wang, S., Ma, Y., Wang, X., Liu, W. (2019). Improved modeling of gross primary productivity of alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau using the Biome-BGC model. Remote Sensing, 11(11), p.1287.
  2. You, Y., Wang, S., Wang, B., Ma, Y., Shen, M., Liu, W., Xiao, L. (2019). Study on hierarchical building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing imagery. Journal of Remote Sensing, 23(1), pp.125-136.
  3. Liu, W., Wang, S., Yang, R., Ma, Y., Shen, M., You, Y., Hai, K., Baqa, M.F. (2019). Remote sensing retrieval of turbidity in alpine rivers based on high spatial resolution satellites. Remote Sensing, 11(24), p.3010.
  4. Wang, S., Shen, M., Ma, Y., Chen, G., You, Y., Liu, W. (2019). Application of remote sensing to identify and monitor seasonal and interannual changes of water turbidity in Yellow River Estuary, China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124(7), pp.4904-4917.
  5. You, Y., Wang, S., Ma, Y., Chen, G., Wang, B., Shen, M., Liu, W. (2018). Building detection from VHR remote sensing imagery based on the morphological building index. Remote Sensing, 10(8), p.1287.
  6. Shen, M., Wang, S., Ma, Y., Su, L., You, Y. (2018). Turbidity patterns identification based on self-organizing maps at Yellow River Estuary. Journal of Geo-information Science, 20(8), 1190-1200.