Extended List of Publications

Journals

• 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.


• Wang, X., Qiu, Z. D., Li, Q., Wang, B., Qiu, Z. X. , Downs, W., Xie, G., Xie, J., Deng, T., Takeuchi, G., Tseng, J., Chang, M., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Biasatti, D., Sun, Z., Fang, X., and Meng, Q., 2007, Vertebrate paleontology, biostratigraphy, geochronology, and paleoenvironment of Qaidam Basin in northern Tibetan Plateau, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 254: 363-385.


• 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.


• Lee, M.K., Griffin, J., Saunders, J., Wang, Y., and Jean, J. S., 2007, Reactive Transport of Trace Elements and Isotopes in the Eutaw Coastal Plain Aquifer, Alabama, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, G02026, doi:10.1029/2006JG000238.


• Jiang, S., Wise, S.W., and Wang, Y, 2007, Cause of the Middle/Late Miocene Carbonate Crash: Dissolution or Low Productivity? , Proc. ODP Sci. Results, 206: 1-24.


• Ewing, S. A., Sanderman, J., Baisden, W. T., Wang, Y. , and Amundson, R., 2006, Role of large-scale soil structure in organic carbon turnover: Evidence from California grassland soils, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, G03012, doi:10.1029/2006JG000174.


• 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.


• Wang, Y., Hsieh, Y. P., Landing, W., Choi, Y., Salters, V. and Campbell, D., 2002, Chemical and carbon isotopic evidence for the source and fate of dissolved organic matter in the Florida Everglades, Biogeochemistry, 61: 269-289.


• Rogers, K., and Wang, Y., 2002, Late Matuyama Climate Shift in the Southern Rocky Mountains: Evidence from Carbon and Oxygen Stable Isotope Ratios in Pleistocene Pocket Gopher Teeth (Colorado, New Mexico), Quaternary Research, 57: 200-207.


• Choi, Y., Wang, Y., Hsieh, Y. and Robinson, L., 2001, Carbon sequestration and vegetation succession in a coastal wetland: Evidence from carbon isotopes, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 15 : 311-320.


• Wang, Y. Amundson, R., and Niu, X., 2000, Seasonal and altitudinal variation in decomposition of soil organic matter inferred from radiocarbon measurements of soil CO2 flux, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 14: 199-211.


• Wang, Y. Amundson, R., and Trumbore, S., 1999, The impact of land-use change on C turnover in soils, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 13: 47-57.


• Wang, Y., Huntington, T., Osher, L., Wassenaar, L., Trumbore, S., Amundson, R., Harden, J, McKnight, R., Schiff, S., Aiken, G., Lyons, w., and Baron, J., 1998, Carbon cycling in the terrestrial environments. IN: Kendall, C. and McDonnell, J. (eds), , Isotope Tracers in Catchment Hydrology, Elsevier Science Publishers.


• Amundson, R., Stern, L., Baisden, T., and Wang, Y., 1998, . The isotopic composition of soil and soil-respired CO2, Geoderma , vol. 82: 83-114.


• Wang, Y., Jahren, H., and Amundson, R., 1997, Potential for 14C Dating of Biogenic Carbonate in Hackberry (Celtis) Endocarps, Quaternary Research, 47: 337-343.


• Wang, K., Chatterton, B. D. E., and Wang, Y., 1997, An organic carbon isotope record of Late Ordovician to Early Silurian marine sedimentary rocks, Yangtze Sea, South China: Implications for CO2 changes during the Hirnantian glaciation, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol.132: 147-158.


• Wang, Y., Amundson, R. and Trumbore, S., 1996, Radiocarbon dating of soil organic matter, Quaternary Research , vol. 45: 282-288.


• Wang, Y. McDonald, E., Amundson, R., McFadden, L., and Chadwick, O., 1996, An isotopic study of soils in chronological sequences of alluvial deposits, Providence mountains, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 108: 379-391.


• Cerling, T. E. and Wang, Y., 1996, Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in soil CO2 and soil carbonate: theory, practice, and application, In: Boutton, T. W. and Yamasaki, S. I. (eds), Mass Spectrometry of Soils, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York , p. 113-131.


• Slate, J., Smith, G. A., Wang, Y., and Cerling, T. E., 1996, Carbonate-paleosol genesis in the plio-Pleistocene St. David Formation, Southeastern Arizona, Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 66: 85-94.


• Amundson, R., Chakwick, O., Kendall, C, Wang, Y., and DeNiro, M., 1996, Isotopic evidence for shifts in atmospheric circulation patterns during the late Quaternary in mid-North America, Geology, vol. 24: 23-26.


• Amundson, R., Wang, Y., Chadwick, O., Trumbore, S., McFadden, L., McDonald, E., Wells, S., and DeNiro, M., 1994, Factors and processes governing the carbon-14 content of carbonate in desert soils, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 125: 385-405.


• Wang, Y., Amundson, R. and Trumbore, S., 1994, A model for soil 14CO2 and its implications for using 14C to date pedogenic carbonate, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , Vol. 58: 393-399.


• Wang, Y., and Cerling, T. E., 1994, A model of fossil tooth and bone diagenesis: Implications for paleodiet reconstruction from stable isotopes, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 107: 281-289.


• Wang, Y., Cerling, T. E. and MacFadden, B. J., 1994, Fossil horses and carbon isotopes: new evidence for Cenozoic dietary, habitat, and ecosystem changes in North America, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 107:269-279.


• MacFadden, B. J., Wang, Y., Cerling, T. E., and Anaya, F., 1994, South American fossil mammals and carbon isotopes: a 25 million-year sequence from the Bolivian Andes, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 107: 257-268.


• Cerling, T. E., Quade, J., and Wang, Y., 1994, Expansion and emergence of C4 plants, Nature, 371: 112.


• Wang, Y., Amundson, R. and Trumbore, S., 1993, Processes controlling 14CO2 in soils: model development, Chemical Geology, vol.107: 225-226.


• Smith, G. A., Wang, Y., Cerling, T. E., and Geissman, J. W., 1993, Comparison of a paleosol-carbonate isotope record to other records of Pliocene-early Pleistocene climate in the western United States, Geology, vol. 21: 691-694.


• Wang, Y., Cerling, T. E., Quade, J., Bowman, J. R., Smith, G. A., and Lindsay, E. H., 1993, Stable isotopes of paleosols and fossil teeth as paleoecology and paleoclimate indicators: an example from the St. David Formation, Arizona, In : Swart, P. K., Lohmann, K. C., McKenzie, J., and Savin, S. (editors), Climate Change in Continental Isotopic Records. Geophysical Monograph 78 , American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, pp 241-248.


• Wang, Y., T. E. Cerling and Effland, B., 1993, Stable isotope ratios of soil carbonate and soil organic matter as indicators of forest invasion of prairie near Ames, Iowa, Oecologia, vol. 95: 365-369.


• Cerling, T. E., Wang, Y. and Quade, J., 1993, Expansion of C4 ecosystems as an indicator of global ecological change in the late Miocene, Nature, vol. 361: 344-345.


• Rogers, K., Larson, E. E., Smith, G., Katzman, D., Cerling, T. E., Wang, Y., Baker, R. G., Lohmann, K. C., Repenning, C. A., Patterson, P. and Mackie, G., 1992, Pliocene and Pleistocene geologic and climatic evolution in the San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 94: 55-86.


• Cerling, T. E., Quade, J., Wang, Y. and Bowman, J. R., 1989, Carbon isotopes in soils and paleosols as ecology and paleoecology indicators, Nature, Vol. 341: 138-139.


• Wang, Y. and Zheng, S. H., 1989, Paleosol Nodules as Pleistocene Paleoclimatic indicators, Luochuan, P. R. China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 76: 39-44.

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