Research Interests

• Paleoclimate and paleoecology
• Response of the soil carbon cycle to natural and anthropogenic perturbations
• Source and fate of dissolved organic carbon and nutrients in wetland ecosystems

Selected Publications

• Wang, Y., Wang, X., Xu, Y., Zhang, C. Li, Q., Tseng, Z. J., Takeuchi, G., Dang T., 2008, Stable isotopes in fossil mammals, fish and shells from Kunlun Pass Basin, Tibetan Plateau: Paleoclimatic and paleoelevation implications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 270: 73-85.


• Wang, Y., Kromhout, E., Zhang, C., Xu, Y., Parker, W., Deng, T., Qiu, Z., 2008, Stable isotopic variations in modern herbivore tooth enamel, plants and water on the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for paleoclimate and paleoelevation reconstructions, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 260: 359-374.


• Stern, J., Wang, Y., Gu, B., and Newman, J., 2007, Distribution and turnover of carbon in natural and constructed wetlands in the Florida Everglades, Applied Geochemistry, 22: 1936-1948.


• Wang, Y., Deng, T., and Biasatti, D., 2006, Ancient diets indicate significant uplift of southern Tibet after ca. 7 Ma, Geology, 34: 309-312.


• Wang, Y. and Deng, T., 2005, A 25 m.y. isotopic record of paleodiet and environmental change from fossil mammals and paleosols from the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 236: 322-338.


• Gaboardi, M., Deng, T., and Wang, Y., 2005, Middle Pleistocene climate and habitat change at Zhoukoudian, China: the carbon and oxygen isotopic record from herbivore tooth enamel, Quaternary Research, 63: 329-338.


• Choi, Y., Wang, Y., 2004, Dynamics of carbon sequestration in a coastal wetland using radiocarbon measurements, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 18, No. 4, GB4016.


• Wang, Y. and Hsieh, Y. P., 2002, Uncertainties and novel prospects in the investigation of the soil carbon dynamics, Chemosphere, 49: 791-804.