Asia Hub Project 2017

Principal Investigators: Weixin Ou and Steve Pueppke 

Chen, D., H. Li, W. Zhang, S. G. Pueppke, J. Pang and Y. Diao. 2020. Spatiotemporal dynamics of nitrogen transport in the Qiandao Lake basin, a large hilly monsoon basin of Southeastern China. Water 12, 1075; doi:10.3390/w12041075.

Pueppke, S. G., W. Zhang, H. Li, D. Chen, and W. Ou. 2019. An integrative framework to control nutrient loss: Insights from two hilly basins in China's Yangtze River Delta. Water 11, 2036; doi 10.3390/w11102036.

Tao, Y., Z. Zhang, W. Ou, J. Guo and S. G. Pueppke. 2020. How does urban form influence PM2.5 concentrations: Insights from 350 different-sized cities in the rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta region of China, 1998-2015. Cities 98, 102581; doi:10.1016/j.cities.2019.102581.

Wu, Y., Y. Tao, G. Yang, W. Ou, S. G. Pueppke, X. Sun, G. Chen and Q. Tao. 2018. Impact of land use change on multiple ecosystem services in the rapidly urbanizing Kunshan City of China: Past trajectories and future projections. Land Use Policy 85, 419-427.

Yi, J., J. Guo, M. Ou, S. G. Pueppke, W. Ou, Y. Tao and J. Qi. 2019. Sustainability assessment of the water-energy-food nexus in Jiangsu Province, China. Habitat Int. 95, 10294; doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2019.102094.

Zhang, W., H. Li, A. D. Kendall, W. D. Hyndman, Y. Diao, J. Geng and J. Pang. 2019. Nitrogen transport and retention in a headwater catchment with dense distributions of lowland ponds. Sci. Total Environ. 683, 37-48.

Zhang, W., H. Li, D. W. Hyndman, Y. Diao, J. Geng and S. G. Pueppke. 2020. Water quality trends under rapid agricultural expansion and enhanced in-stream interception in a hilly watershed of Eastern China. Environ. Res. Lett. Doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab8981.

Zhang, W., H. Li, S. G. Pueppke, Y. Diao, X. Nie, J. Geng, D. Chen and J. Pang. 2020. Nutrient loss is sensitive to land cover changes and slope gradients of agricultural hillsides: Evidence from four contrasting pond systems in a hilly catchment. Agric. Water Mgmt. 237, 106165; doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106165.

Zhang, W., S. G. Pueppke, H. Li, J. Geng, Y. Diao and D. W. Hyndman. 2019. Modeling phosphorus sources and transport budgets in a headwater catchment with rapid agricultural expansion in the upper Taihu Lake basin. Environ. Pollution 255, 113273; doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113273.

Asia Hub Publications: China and Kazakhstan 

Chen, J., Z. Ouyang, R. John, G. M. Henebry, P. Y. Groisman, A. Karniele, S. G. Pueppke, M. Kussainova, A. Amartuvshin, A. Tulobaev, T. I. Espolov, C. Crank, A. Kadhim, J. Qi and G. Gutman. 2020. Social-ecological systems across the Asian Drylands Belt (ADB). In G. Gutman, J. Chen, G. M. Henebry and M Kappas, Eds. Landscape Dynamics of Drylands across Greater Central Asia: People, Societies and Ecosystems, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 191-225.

Graham, N. A., S. G. Pueppke, and T. Uderbayev. 2017. The current status and future of Central Asia's fish and fisheries: Confronting a wicked problem. Water 9, 701; doi:10.3390/w9090701.

Nurtazin, S. T., N. Thevs, M. Iklasov, N. Graham R. Salmurzauli, and S. G. Pueppke. 2019. Challenges to the sustainable use of water resources in the Ili River basin of Central Asia. E3S Web of Conferences 81, 01009; doi:10.1051/e3sconf/ 20198101009.

Nurtazin, S., S. G. Pueppke, T. Ospan, A. Mukhitdinov and T. Elebessov. 2020. Quality of drinking water in the Balkhash District of Kazakhstan's Almaty Region. Water 12, 392; doi:10.3390/w12020392.

Pueppke, S. G., M. K. Iklasov, V. Beckmann, S. T. Nurtazin, N. Thevs, S. Sharakhmetov, and B. Hoshino. 2018. Challenges for sustainable use of the fish resources from Lake Balkhash, a fragile lake in an arid ecosystem. Sustainability 10, 1234; doi:10.3390/su10041234.

Pueppke, S.G., Q. Zhang, and S. T. Nurtazin. 2018. Irrigation in the Ili River Basin of Central Asia: From ditches to dams to diversion. Water 10, 1659; doi:10.3390/w10111650.

Pueppke, S. G., S. T. Nurtazin, N. A. Graham, and J. Qi. 2018. Central Asia's Ili River ecosystem as a wicked problem: Unraveling complex interrelationships at the interface of water, energy, and food. Water 10, 541; doi:10.3390/w10050541.

Qi, J., S. G. Pueppke, R. Kulmatov, T. Bobushev, S. Tao, T. I. Yespolov, M. Beksultanov and X. Chen. 2020. The complexity and challenges of Central Asia's water-energy-food systems. In G. Gutman, J. Chen, G. M. Henebry and M Kappas, Eds. Landscape Dynamics of Drylands across Greater Central Asia: People, Societies and Ecosystems, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 71-85.

Qi, J., S. Tao, S. G. Pueppke, T. E. Espolov, M. Beksultanov, X. Chen and X. Cai. 2019. Changes in land use/land cover and net primary productivity in the transboundary Ili-Balkhash basin of Central Asia, 1995-2015. Environ. Res. Commun. 2, 011006; doi:10.1088/2515-7620/ab5e1f.

Other Publications

Rojas-Sossa, J., Zhong, Y., Valenti, F., Blackhurst, J., Marsh, T., Kirk, D., Fang, D., Dale, B., and Liao, W. 2019. Effect of ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) treated corn stover on anaerobic microbes and corresponding digestion performance. Biomass and Bioenergy 127, 105263.