Quan-Xing Liu's Lab

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French Drains
Sprinkler Installation
Irrigation Systems
Grading & leveling

Selected publications in the most recent years from my lab and myself. #= Lab members, $ =Corresponding authors;

Years: prior 2005-2014, 2015-2021, 2022-present

46. Anyuan Li, Norikazu Matsuoka, Fujun Niu, Jing Chen, Zhenpeng Ge, Wensi Hu, Desheng Li, Bernard Hallet, Johan van de Koppel, Nigel Goldenfeld, and Quan-Xing Liu*,

Ice needles weave patterns of stones in freezing landscapes, PNAS, 2021, 118 e2110670118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2110670118

45. Junlin Ren, Jianshe Chen, Changlin Xu, Johan van de Koppel, Mads S. Thomsen, Shiyun Qiu, Fangyan Cheng, Wanjuan Song, Quan-Xing Liu, Chi Xu, Junhong Bai, Yihui Zhang, Baoshan Cui, Mark D. Bertness, Brian R. Silliman, Bo Li, and Qiang He*, An invasive species erodes the performance of coastal wetland protected areas,

Science Advances, 2021 (7), eabi8943. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi8943

44. Bowen Li, Weiwenhui Liang, Quan-Xing Liu, Shijian Fu, Cuizhu Ma, Qiqing Chen, Lei Su, Nicholas J. Craig, and Huahong Shi*, Fish Ingest Microplastics Unintentionally,

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2021 (55). [PDF]. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01753.

43. Xinyu Miao, Hanchao Zhang, Wenli Xia, Qiang He, Teng Wen, Bo Wang, Shuqing N. Teng, Quan-Xing Liu, Kechang Niu, and Chi Xu^$, Can we use plant performance as indicators to infer plant-crab interactions in coastal saltmarshes,

Ecological Indicators, 2021 (129): 107911. [PDF]. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107911.

42. Mingji Huang, Wensi Hu, Siyuan Yang, Quan-Xing Liu, He-Peng Zhang^$,

Circular swimming motility and disordered hyperuniform state in an algae system,

PNAS, 2021 (118): e2100493118. [PDF]. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2100493118.

Commentaries by Prof. Salvatore Torquato, [PDF].

41. Weili Gao, Fang Shen^$, Kai Tan, Weiguo Zhang, Quan-Xing Liu, Nina S.N. Lam, Jianzhong Ge,

Monitoring terrain elevation of intertidal wetlands by utilising the spatial-temporal fusion of multi-source satellite data: A case study in the Yangtze (Changjiang) Estuary.

Geomorphology, 2021 (383): 107683. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107683.

40. Li-Xia Zhao, Kang Zhang, Koen Siteur, Xiu-Zhen Li, Quan-Xing Liu^$, and Johan van de Koppel^$,

Fairy circles reveal the resilience of self-organized salt marshes,

Science Advances, 2021 (7): eabe1100. [PDF] DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe1100.

In the news: NewScientist; Inverse; 中国科学报;

New.sciencenet.cn(中国科学网);

Focus; XINHUA News; ECNU news; Science Video;

Youtube; Smithsonian Magazine;

La Vanguardia; Mysterious Universe; 科学·视频.

39. Wen-Si Hu, Mingji Huang, He-Peng Zhang, Feng Zhang, Wim Vyerman and Quan-Xing Liu^$,

Movement behavioral plasticity of benthic diatoms driven by optimal foraging,

revision, Phys. Rev. E, 2020. bioAxiv, 682153. Movies [Movie S1] and [Movie S2].

38. Jonathan A. Sherratt, Quan-Xing Liu, Johan van de Koppel,

A Comparison of the “Reduced Losses” and “Increased Production” models for mussel bed dynamics,

Buil Math Biol., 2021 (83) 99. [PDF] DOI: 10.1007/s11538-021-00932-1

Celebrating James D. Murray’s contributions to Mathematical Biology.

37. Kang Zhang, Wen-Si Hu, and Quan-Xing Liu^$,

Quantitative inferring three mechanisms from the spatiotemporal patterns,

Mathematics, 2020 (8) 112. [PDF] DOI: doi.org/10.3390/math8010112.

36. Zheng Zhu and Quan-Xing Liu^$,

Enhanced transport of nutrients powered by microscale flows of the self-spinning dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp.,

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019 (222) jeb197947. [PDF] DOI: 10.1242/jeb.197947. [Supplementary PDF]

35. Li-Xia Zhao, Chi Xu^$, Zhen-Ming Ge, Johan van de Koppel and Quan-Xing Liu^$,

The shaping role of self-organization: linking vegetation patterning, plant traits and ecosystem functioning,

Proc. Roy. Soc. B, 2019 (286) 20182859. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2859.

34. Wei Chen, Zhen-Ming Ge, Bei-Li Fei, Chao Zhang, Quan-Xing Liu and Li-Quan Zhang,

Soil carbon and nitrogen storage in recently restored and mature native Scirpus marshes in the Yangtze Estuary, China: Implications for restoration,

Ecological Engineering, 2017 (104) 150-157. [PDF]

33. Yongli Song^$, Heping Jiang, Quan-Xing Liu and Yuan Yuan,

Spatiotemporal dynamics of the diffusive mussel-algae model near Turing-Hopf bifurcation,

SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst., 2017 (16) 2030-2062 [PDF] DOI:

32. Quan-Xing Liu^$, Max Rietkerk, Peter M.J. Herman, Theunis Piersma, John M. Fryxell, Johan van de Koppel, Bridging physics and biology, Physics of Life Review, 2016 (19) 142-146. [PDF]

DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2016.11.006

31. Quan-Xing Liu^$, Max Rietkerk, Peter M.J. Herman, Theunis Piersma, John M. Fryxell and Johan van de Koppel,

Phase separation driven by density-dependent movement: a novel mechanism for ecological patterns,

Physics of Life Review, 2016 (19) 107-121. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2016.07.009

Commentaries by Prof. Andy M. Reynolds, Dr. Jesse L. Silverberg, Prof. Sergei Petrovskii ,

Prof. Philip Maini (FRS), Prof. Tamas Vicsek.

30. Quan-Xing Liu, Peter M.J. Herman, Wolf Mooij, Jef Huisman, Marten Scheffer, Han Olff and Johan van de Koppel^$, Pattern formation at multiple spatial scales drives the resilience of mussel bed ecosystems,

Nature Communications, 2014 (5) 5234. [PDF] doi: 10.1038/ncomms6234. [Code download].

In the News: YaHoo news; World News SBS;

World Economic Forum; The Conversation; Firstpost; Scroll India

https://nature.altmetric.com/details/2809258/news

29. Quan-Xing Liu^$, Ellen Weerman, Rohit Gupta, Peter M.J. Herman, Han Olff and Johan van de Koppel,

Biogenic gradients in algal density affect the emergent properties of spatially self-organized mussel beds,

J. R. Soc. Interface, 2014 (11) 20140089. [PDF] DOI:

28. Quan-Xing Liu^$, Arjen Doelman, Vivi Rottschafer, Monique de Jager, Peter M.J. Herman, Max Rietkerk, Johan van de Koppel,

Phase separation explains a new class of self-organized spatial patterns in ecological systems,

PNAS, 2013 (110) 11905-11910. [PDF].

Commentaries by Prof. Frederic Guichard, [PDF].

In the News: NIOZ news (EN), Omroep Zeeland (NL),

UvA news(EN), Volkskrant (NL), LeidenUniversity News (EN)

27. Quan-Xing Liu^$, Ellen Weerman, Peter Herman, Han Olff, and Johan van de Koppel,

Alternate mechanisms alter the emergent properties of self-organization in mussel beds.

Proc. Roy. Soc. B, 2012 (279) 2744-2753. [PDF]. (Selected cover story)

Chinese Journals

1. 葛振鹏，刘权兴, 整体大于部分之和：生态自组织斑图及其涌现属性, 生物多样性. 2020, 28(11): 1431-1443. doi: 10.17520/biods.2020225. PDF

2. 徐驰, 王海军, 刘权兴, 王博, 生态系统的多稳态与突变, 生物多样性. 2020, 28(11): 1417-1430. doi:10.17520/biods.2020233. PDF

3. 葛振鹏，刘权兴，自组织理论在海岸生态系统的研究进展 (章节). 《中国近海生态系统研究与管理》2020.

Quan-Xing Liu (刘权兴)'s Lab

Selected publications in the most recent years from my lab and myself. #= Lab members, $ =Corresponding authors;