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    Hong Yang
    PeerJ Editor & Author
    1,865 Points

    Contributions by role

    Editor 1800
    PeerJ author 65

    Contributions by subject area

    Soil-Science 800
    Agricultural-Science 700
    Ecohydrology 700
    Biogeochemistry 600
    Natural-Resource-Management 500
    Ecology 500
    Environmental-Impacts 400
    Plant-Science 300
    Freshwater-Biology 300
    Ecosystem-Science 200
    Environmental-Contamination-and-Remediation 100
    Computational-Science 100
    Aquatic-and-Marine-Chemistry 100
    Bioinformatics 100
    Environmental-Sciences 100
    Coupled-Natural-and-Human-Systems 100
    Biological-Oceanography 100
    Zoology 100
    Biogeography 100
    Animal-Behavior 100
    Climate-Change-Biology 100
    Spatial-and-Geographic-Information-Science 100
    Microbiology 100

    Hong Yang

    PeerJ Editor & Author

    Summary

    Dr. Hong Yang is a Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, UK. His research interests include the effects of climate change and human activities on water environment, water-energy-carbon nexus, and resource management. He has led and been involved in research projects funded by UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), European Research Council (ERC), Research Council of Norway (RCN), Chinese Natural Science Foundation (CNSF) and Chinese Academy of Science (CAS).

    Biogeochemistry Ecohydrology Environmental Sciences Food, Water & Energy Nexus Natural Resource Management

    Editing Journals

    PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

    Past or current institution affiliations

    University of Reading

    Work details

    Associate Professor

    University of Reading
    Department of Geography and Environmental Science

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    PeerJ Contributions

    • Articles 1
    • Edited 9
    May 16, 2019
    Vehicle emission and atmospheric pollution in China: problems, progress, and prospects
    8 citations
    982 downloads
    3,012 views
    Jin Wang, Qiuxia Wu, Juan Liu, Hong Yang, Meiling Yin, Shili Chen, Peiyu Guo, Jiamin Ren, Xuwen Luo, Wensheng Linghu, Qiong Huang
    environmental-contamination-and-remediation
    environmental-impacts
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6932 PubMed 31143547

    Academic Editor on

    November 16, 2020
    Nitrogen fertilization affects maize grain yield through regulating nitrogen uptake, radiation and water use efficiency, photosynthesis and root distribution
    269 downloads
    391 views
    Wennan Su, Shakeel Ahmad, Irshad Ahmad, Qingfang Han
    agricultural-science
    plant-science
    soil-science
    natural-resource-management
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10291 PubMed 33240631
    April 8, 2020
    Temporal and spatial variability in snow cover over the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, from 2001 to 2015
    2 citations
    202 downloads
    565 views
    Wenqian Chen, Jianli Ding, Jingzhe Wang, Junyong Zhang, Zhe Zhang
    ecology
    ecohydrology
    spatial-and-geographic-information-science
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8861 PubMed 32296602
    November 27, 2019
    Diatoms as indicators of the effects of river impoundment at multiple spatial scales
    2 citations
    391 downloads
    892 views
    Hendrik J. Krajenbrink, Mike Acreman, Michael J. Dunbar, Libby Greenway, David M. Hannah, Cédric L.R. Laizé, David B. Ryves, Paul J. Wood
    freshwater-biology
    ecohydrology
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8092 PubMed 31799075
    July 15, 2019
    Scenarios of availability of water due to overexploitation of the aquifer in the basin of Laguna de Santiaguillo, Durango, Mexico
    356 downloads
    766 views
    María de Lourdes Corral-Bermudez, Eduardo Sánchez-Ortiz, Dioselina Álvarez-Bernal, Martín Omar Gutiérrez-Montenegro, Erika Cassio-Madrazo
    coupled-natural-and-human-systems
    natural-resource-management
    environmental-impacts
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6814 PubMed 31341725
    July 12, 2019
    Functional properties of bacterial communities in water and sediment of the eutrophic river-lake system of Poyang Lake, China
    3 citations
    553 downloads
    1,536 views
    Ze Ren, Xiaodong Qu, Wenqi Peng, Yang Yu, Min Zhang
    bioinformatics
    ecology
    microbiology
    freshwater-biology
    biogeochemistry
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7318 PubMed 31338262
    June 17, 2019
    Importance of active layer freeze-thaw cycles on the riverine dissolved carbon export on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau permafrost region
    5 citations
    762 downloads
    1,311 views
    Chunlin Song, Genxu Wang, Tianxu Mao, Xiaopeng Chen, Kewei Huang, Xiangyang Sun, Zhaoyong Hu
    biogeochemistry
    environmental-impacts
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7146 PubMed 31245186
    June 4, 2019
    Assessing the performance of a suite of machine learning models for daily river water temperature prediction
    12 citations
    734 downloads
    1,506 views
    Senlin Zhu, Emmanuel Karlo Nyarko, Marijana Hadzima-Nyarko, Salim Heddam, Shiqiang Wu
    computational-science
    ecohydrology
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7065 PubMed 31198649
    May 3, 2019
    Effects of species-dominated patches on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen storage in a degraded grassland in China
    1 citation
    375 downloads
    1,106 views
    Yujuan Zhang, Shiming Tang, Shu Xie, Kesi Liu, Jinsheng Li, Qian Chen, Ding Huang, Kun Wang
    agricultural-science
    ecology
    soil-science
    biogeochemistry
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6897 PubMed 31110928
    June 13, 2018
    Suitable oasis scales under a government plan in the Kaidu-Konqi River Basin of northwest arid region, China
    250 downloads
    1,036 views
    Aihong Fu, Weihong Li, Yaning Chen, Yuting Liu
    agricultural-science
    natural-resource-management
    https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4943 PubMed 29915692
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