Research Progress

  • 09.26 2024

    Drought reduces nitrogen supply and N2O emission in coastal bays

    Mingzhen Zhang, Dan Yu, Yiqi Yu, Ruifeng Yan, Yasong Li, Weijie Gong, Kai Xiao, Shaobin Li, Nengwang Chen*Water Researchhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.122362Published: 14 September 2024 Abstract Severe droughts are increasingly prevalent under global climate change, disrupting watershed hydrology and coastal nitrogen cycling. However, the specific effects of drought on nitrogen transport...

  • 09.24 2024

    High salinity restrains microplastic transport and increases the risk of pollution in coastal wetlands

    Xiaoting Zhang, Zhanyi Shen, Jianyong Wu, Manlin Su, Linke Zheng, Minwei Xie, Hualong Hong, Xiaohong Huang, Haoliang Lu* Water Researchhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.122463Published: 21 September 2024AbstractMicroplastics (MPs) pollution in coastal wetlands has attracted global attention. However, few studies have focused on the effect of soil properties and structure on MP transport in ...

  • 09.03 2024

    Constraining the twilight zone remineralization in the South China Sea basin: Insights from the multi-method intercomparison

    Chao Xu, Mingwang Xiang, Bingzhang Chen, Yibin Huang*, Guoqiang Qiu, Yuchen Zhang, Haili Wang, Bangqin Huang* Progress in Oceanographyhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103316Published: 19 August 2024AbstractThe twilight zone remineralization (TZR) consumes over 70% of organic carbon exported from the sunlit ocean, significantly affecting oceanic carbon sequestration and atmospheric CO2 conc...

  • 08.31 2024

    Microplastics emerge as a hotspot for dibutyl phthalate sources in rivers and oceans: Leaching behavior and potential risks

    Lujian Lin, Bo Yuan, Huiling Liu, Yue Ke, Weifeng Zhang a, Hanyi Li, Haoliang Lu, Jingchun Liu,  Hualong Hong*, Chongling Yan*Journal of Hazardous Materialshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134920Published: 15 August 2024AbstractDibutyl phthalate (DBP) as a plasticizer has been widely used in the processing of plastic products. Nevertheless, these DBP additives have the potential to be rel...

  • 06.28 2024

    Modeling of algal blooms: Advances, applications and prospects

    Yichong Wang, Chao Xu, Qianru Lin, Wupeng Xiao*, Bangqin Huang, Wenfang Lu, Nengwang Chen, Jixin Chen* Ocean and Coastal Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107250Published: 01 September 2024AbstractAlgal blooms represent a pivotal ecological phenomenon in marine ecosystems, exerting significant influence on energy transfer, material cycling, and ecological structure and function...

  • 06.19 2024

    Asynchronous methane and carbon dioxide fluxes drive temporal variability of mangrove blue carbon sequestration

    Xudong Zhu*, Jingke Chen, Lichun Li, Mingjie Li, Tingting Li, Zhangcai Qin, Fan Wang, Xiaosong Zhao Geophysical Research Lettershttps://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107235Published: 04 June 2024AbstractThe climate benefit of blue carbon sequestered by mangrove forests can be partially offset by CH4 emission, but this offset is rarely assessed using multi-year high-frequency measurements. Here, four-ye...

  • 06.05 2024

    Assessing N2 fixation flux and its controlling factors in the (sub)tropical western North Pacific through high-resolution observations

    Xinran Yu, Zuozhu Wen, Ruotong Jiang, Jin-Yu Terence Yang, Zhimian Cao, Haizheng Hong, Yuntao Zhou*, Dalin Shi*Limnology and Oceanography Lettershttps://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10404Published: 03 May 2024AbstractThe (sub)tropical western North Pacific is potentially an area of intense nitrogen (N2) fixation in the global ocean, despite limited understanding of the flux and controlling factors. We ...

  • 03.28 2024

    Global corporate tax competition challenges climate change mitigation

    Yuwan Duan, Zengkai Zhang*, Yuze Li, Shouyang Wang, Cuihong Yang, Yi LuNature Climate Changehttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01952-0?utm_source=xmol&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=meta&utm_campaign=DDCN_1_GL01_metadataPublished: 28 March 2024AbstractMany countries have cut their corporate tax rates in the past decades to attract foreign investment. To prevent this, a global minimum ...

  • 03.27 2024

    Changes in isotope fractionation during nitrate assimilation by marine eukaryotic and prokaryotic algae under different pH and CO2 conditions

    Chen, Y., Yang, J.-Y.T., Tang, J.-M., Hong, H., Kao, S.-J., Dai, M. and Shi, D.Limnology and Oceanographyhttps://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lno.12546Published: 11 March 2024AbstractThe impact of environmental factors on nitrogen (N) and oxygen (O) isotope effects during algal nitrate assimilation causes uncertainty in the field application of sedimentary N isotope records and ...

  • 02.13 2024

    Prioritizing ecological restoration in hydrologically sensitive areas to improve groundwater quality

    Yao Wang, Yiqi Yu, Xin Luo, Qiaoguo Tan, Yuqi Fu, Chenhe Zheng, Deli Wang*, Nengwang Chen*Water Researchhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121247Published: March 15, 2024AbstractGreening is the optimal way to mitigate climate change and water quality degradation caused by agricultural expansion and rapid urbanization. However, the ideal sites to plant trees or grass to achieve a win–win sol...