Quan-Xing Liu (刘权兴)'s Lab

Drains & Sprinklers

As a conscious home owner, it's important to think about water use. Our team will ensure you’ve got the most environmentally sustainable and effective way for watering.

• French Drains
• Sprinkler Installation
• Irrigation Systems
• Grading & leveling

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Selected publications in the most recent years from my lab and myself.

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

• Quan-Xing Liu,  et al  Self-organized patterned ground in periglacial environments , 2024. 

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• Cheng Li, Man-Ting Guo, Xiaoqing He, Quan-Xing Liu, Zhi Qi, Biomolecular condensates bridge experiment and theory of mass-conserving reaction-diffusion systems in phase separation, 2024, Under review. BioRxiv [Code@GitHub and Data@figshare] 

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• Wensi Hu, Lijuan Cui, ..., Bo Wang, Nuo Xu, Quan-Xing Liu, Chi Xu, Disordered hyperuniformity signals functioning and resilience of self-organized vegetation patterns. Manuscript, 2024,  arXiv:2311.07624 [q-bio.PE].

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• Zheng Zhu, Bernard Hallet, Andras Sipos, Gabor Domokos, Quan-Xing Liu*, Hyperuniformity on Mars: Pebbles scattered on sand. Manuscript, 2024,  arXiv:2312.13818 [physics.geo-ph].

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• Loreta Cornacchia, Roeland C. van de Vijsel, Daphne van der Wal, Tom Ysebaert, Jianwei Sun, Bram van Prooijen, Paul Lodewijk Maria de Vet, Quan-Xing Liu, Johan van de Koppel, Vegetation traits and biogeomorphic complexity shape the resilience of salt marshes to sea-level rise, Communications Earth & Environment, 2024 (5):658

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• Renfei Chen, Suping Xiao, Chuancong Dong, Shubin Xie, Liang Zhang, Fan Wu, Chengyi Tu, Quan-Xing Liu, Shaopeng Wang, Ülo Niinemets, Alan Hastings, Karl J Niklas, Jianming Deng, Ontogenetic shifts in leaf biomass allocation in crop plants, National Science Review,  2024 (11), nwae349. 

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• Renfei Chen, P. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza, Suping Xiao, Pu Jia, Quan-Xing Liu*, and André M. de Roos, Marine reserves promote cycles in fish populations on ecological and evolutionary time scales, PNAS, 2023 (120): e2307529120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.230752912 [Code at Github] and [Code at figshare].

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• Jiayan Nie , Yifei Cui*, Kostas Senetakis, Dan Guo, Yu Wang, Guodong Wang, Peng Feng, Huaiyu He, Xuhang Zhang, Xiaoping Zhang, Cunhui Li, Hu Zheng, Wei Hu, Fujun Niu, Quan-Xing Liu, and Anyuan Li, Predicting residual friction angle of lunar regolith based on Chang’E-5 lunar samples, Science Bulletin, 2023 (68): 730-739. DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2023.03.019 

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•  Kang Zhang^$, Jiaguo Yan^$, Qiang He, Chi Xu*, Johan van de Koppel, Bo Wang, Baoshan Cui*, and Quan-Xing Liu, Self-organized mud cracking amplifies the resilience of an iconic ‘Red Beach’ salt marsh, Science Advances,  2023 (9): eabq352. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq3520. [Code at GitHub] and [Data]

       In the news: Science Podcast; ECNU news; 

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  Koen Siteur, Quan-Xing Liu*, Vivi Rotschäfer, Tjisse van der Heide, Max Rietkerk, Arjen Doelman, Christoffer Bostrom, and Johan van de Koppel*, Phase-separation physics underlies new theory for the resilience of patchy ecosystems, PNAS, 2023 (120), e2202683120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.220268312. [Code at GitHub] [SI Appendix, typos corrected version]

       科普介绍: 相分离理论: 连接物理学与宏观生命世界; Commentary by Pierre Couteron [PDF]; 集智俱乐部

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1. Bo Wang^$, Kang Zhang^$, Quan-Xing Liu*, Qiang He, Johan van de Koppel, Shuqing N. Teng, Xinyu Miao, Maosong Liu, Mark Bertness, Chi Xu*, Long-distance facilitation of coastal ecosystem structure and resilience, 
   PNAS, 2022 (119), e2123274119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2123274119. [Code at GitHub] 

       In the news: ScienceNet.cn; Research Highlight by Nature Ecology & Evolution; 

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  Zhenpeng Ge and Quan-Xing Liu*, Foraging behaviors lead to spatiotemporal self-similar dynamics in grazing ecosystems,  Ecology Letters, 2022, 25(2):378-390. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13928
  In the news:  ScienceNet.cn; 澎湃新闻; ECNU news;   

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• Hao Huang, Chi Xu, and Quan-Xing Liu* ,

• 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. [Code GitHub]
  In the news: ScienceNet; 中国科学报; ChinaNews; 文汇新闻; Technology Networks; 
  Scientific American, Environmental News Network; Technology Times; Newswise; 
  Science Daily; ScienMag; Phys.org; Mirage News; Daily Mail; Focus.pl; Technology Times;
  Science Alert; True Viral News; MSN; LiveScience; ScienceNews; YouTube for video; 

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• 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.
  In the news: Intellasia.net; 

• 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.

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1. 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):10471-10479. [PDF]. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01753. 
   In the news: oceanbites;                              

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• 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].

• 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. [Code at GitHub] 
  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. 

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• Quan-Xing Liu*, Max Rietkerk, Peter M.J. Herman, Theunis Piersma, John M. Fryxell, 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. 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 (Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

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• 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.  DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6234.
• In the news:

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• 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. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222339110. [Code at Github]
  Commentaries by Prof. Frederic Guichard, [PDF].
• In the News: NIOZ news (EN), Omroep Zeeland (NL),
  UvA news(EN), Volkskrant (NL), LeidenUniversity News (EN)