Articles Published in Refereed Journals and Books
(student authors underlined):
1. Wang, Y. and Zheng, S. H., 1989. Paleosol Nodules as Pleistocene Paleoclimatic indicators, Luochuan, P. R. China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 76: 39-44.
2. Cerling, T. E., Quade, J., Wang, Y. and Bowman, J. R., 1989. Carbon isotopes in soils and paleosols as ecology and paleoecology indicators. Nature, 341: 138-139.
3. 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.
4. Wang, Y., Cerling, T. E., 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, 95: 365-369.
5. 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, 21: 691-694.
6. 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, p. 241-248.
7. 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, 361: 344-345.
8. Wang, Y., Amundson, R. and Trumbore, S., 1993. Processes controlling 14CO2 in soils: model development. Chemical Geology, 107: 225-226.
9. Cerling, T. E., Quade, J., and Wang, Y., 1994. Expansion and emergence of C4 plants. Nature, 371: 112.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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, 58: 393-399.
14. 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, 125: 385-405.
15. 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, 108: 379-391.
16. Wang, Y., Amundson, R. and Trumbore, S., 1996. Radiocarbon dating of soil organic matter, Quaternary Research , vol. 45: 282-288.
17. 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, 24: 23-26.
18. 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, 66: 85-94.
19. 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.
20. Wang, Y., Jahren, H., and Amundson, R., 1997. Potential for 14C Dating of Biogenic Carbonate in Hackberry (Celtis) Endocarps. Quaternary Research, 47: 337-343.
21. 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, 132: 147-158.
22. Amundson, R., Stern, L., Baisden, T., and Wang, Y., 1998. The isotopic composition of soil and soil-respired CO2. Geoderma, 82: 83-114.
23. Stern, L. A., Baisden, W. T., Amundson, R., and Wang, Y., 1998. The Influence of Soils on the Oxygen Isotope Ratio of Atmospheric CO2. Isotope Techniques in the Study of Environmental Change. International Atomic Energy Agency, p. 27-36.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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. Biogeochemisty, 61: 269-289.
30. Wang, Y. and Hsieh, Y. P., 2002. Uncertainties and novel prospects in the investigation of the soil carbon dynamics, Chemosphere , 49: 791-804.
31. Deng, T., Dong, J. S., and Wang, Y., 2002. Variation of terrestrial ecosystem recorded by stable carbon isotopes of fossils in northern China during the Quaternary. Chinese Science Bulletin, Vol. 47, No. 1, p. 76-78.
32. Choi, Y., and Wang, Y., 2004. Dynamics of carbon sequestration in a coastal wetland using radiocarbon measurements, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 18, No. 4, GB4016.
33. Gaboardi, M., Deng, T., and Wang, Y., 2005. Middle Pleistocene climate and habitat change at Zhoukoudian, China, from the carbon and oxygen isotopic record from herbivore tooth enamel. Quaternary Research, 63: 329-338.
34. 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.
35. Wang, Y., Deng, T., and Biasatti, D., 2006. Ancient diets indicate significant uplift of southern Tibet after ca. 7 Ma. Geology, 34: 309-312.
36. 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, J. Geophys. Res., 111, G03012, doi:10.1029/2006JG000174.
37. Jiang, S., Wise, S.W., and Wang, Y, 2007. Cause of the Middle/Late Miocene Carbonate Crash: Dissolution or Low Productivity? In: Teagle, D.A.H., Wilson, D.S., Action, G.D., and Vanko, D.A. (Eds), Proc. ODP Sci. Results, 206: 1-24, doi: 10.2973/odp.proc.sr.206.013.2007.
38. 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.
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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.
40. 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.
41. 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.
42. Wang, Y., Wang, X., Xu, Y., Zhang, C. Li, Q., Tseng, Z. J., Takeuchi, G., Deng T., 2008. Stable isotopes in fossil mammals, fish and shells from Kunlun Pass Basin, Tibetan Plateau: Paleo-climatic and paleo-elevation implications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 270: 73-85.
43. Jin, Z., Zhang, L., Wang, Y., Cui, Y., and Milla, K., 2009. Using carbon, hydrogen and helium isotopes to unravel the origin of hydrocarbons in the Wujiaweizi area of the Songliao Basin, China. Episodes, 32: 167-176.
44. Zhang, C., Wang, Y., Deng, T., Wang, X., Biasatti, D., Xu, Y., Li, Q.,2009. C4 Expansion in the central Inner Mongolia during the latest Miocene and early Pliocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 287: 311-319.
45.Das, O., Wang, Y., Hsieh, Y. P., 2010. Chemical and carbon isotopic characteristics of ash and smoke derived from burning of C3 and C4 grasses, Organic Geochemistry, 41: 263-269.
46. Biasatti, D., Wang, Y., and Deng, T., 2010. Strengthening of the East Asian summer monsoon revealed by a shift in seasonal patterns in diet and climate after 2-3 Ma in northwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 297: 12-25. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.07.005.
47. Li, X., Wang, Y., Stern, J., Gu, B., 2011. Isotopic evidence for the source and fate of phosphorus in Everglades wetland ecosystems. Applied Geochemistry, 26: 688–695. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.01.027.
48. Gang Chen, Zaohe Wu, Binhe Gu, Xin Li, Yang Wang, 2011. Isotopic niche overlap of two planktivorous fish in southern China, Limnology, 12, 151-155.
49.Flynn, L., Deng, T., D., Wang, Y., Xie, G., Hou, S., Pang, L., Wang, T., Mu, Y., 2011. Observations on the Hipparion Red Clays of the Loess Plateau. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 49: 275-284.
50. Wang, X.,Xie, G., Li, Q., Qiu, Z., Tseng, Z., Takeuchi, G., Wang, B., Fortelius, M., Rosenstrom-Fortelius, A., Wahlquist, H., Downs, W., Zhang, C., Wang, Y., 2011. Early explorations of Qaidam Basin (Tibetan Plateau) by Birger Bohlin—Reconciling classic vertebrate fossil localities with modern biostratigraphy. Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 49: 1-11.
51. Tremaine, D., Froelich, P., Wang, Y., 2011. Speleothem calcite farmed in situ: Modern calibration of δ18O and δ13C paleoclimate proxies in a continuously-monitored natural cave system. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75: 4929–4950. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.06.005.
52. Deng, T., Wang, X., Fortelius, M., Li, Q., Wang, Y., Tseng, Z., Takeuchi, G., Saylor, J., Säilä, L., Xie, G., 2011. Out of Tibet: Pliocene Woolly Rhino Suggests High-Plateau Origin of Ice Age Megaherbivores, Science, 333: 1285-1288.
53. Biasatti, D., Wang, Y., Gao, F., Xu, Y., Flynn, L., 2012. Paleoecologies and Paleoclimates of Cenozoic Mammals from Southwest China: Evidence from Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Special Issue on Asian Climate and Tectonics. 44: 48-61. DOI:10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.04.013.
54. Wang, Y., Deng, T., Flynn, L., Wang, X., An, Y., Xu, Y., Parker, W., Lochner, E., Zhang, C., Biasatti, D., 2012. Late Neogene environmental changes in the central Himalaya related to tectonic uplift and orbital forcing. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Special Issue on Asian Climate and Tectonics. 44: 62-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.05.020.
55. Zhang, C., Wang, Y., Li, Q., Wang, X., Deng, T., Tseng, Z., Takeuchi, G., Xie, G., Xu, Y., 2012. Diets and environments of late Cenozoic mammals in the Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau: evidence from stable isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 333-334: 70-82.
56. Natter, M., Keevan, J., Wang, Y., Keimowitz, A., Okeke, B., Son, A., Lee, M.G., 2012. Level and Degradation of Deepwater Horizon Spilled Oil in Coastal Marsh Sediments and Pore-Water. Environmental Science & Technology, 46: 5744-5755. DOI:10.1021/es300058w.
57. Deng, T., Li, Q., Tseng, Z. J., Takeuchi, G., Wang, Y., Xie, G., Wang, S., Hou, S., Wang, X., 2012. Locomotive implication of a Pliocene three-toed horse skeleton from Tibet and its paleo-altimetry significance. PNAS, 109 (19): 7374-7378. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201052109.
58. Wang, X., Li, Q., Xie, G., Saylor, J.,Tseng, Z.,Takeuchi, G., Deng, T., Wang, Y., Hou, S., Liu, J., Zhang, C., Wang, N., Wu, F., 2013. Mio-Pleistocene Zanda Basin biostratigraphy and geochronology, pre-Ice Age fauna, and mammalian evolution in western Himalaya: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 374: 81–95. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.01.007.
59. Das, O., Wang, Y., Donoghue, J., Xu, X., Coor, J., Elsner, J., and Xu, Y., 2013. Reconstruction of paleostorms and paleoenvironment using geochemical proxies in sediment cores from two coastal lakes in northwest Florida. Quaternary Science Reviews 68: 142-153. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.014.
60. Lee, M.K., Natter, M., Keevan, J., Guerra, K., Saunders, J., Uddin, A., Humayun, M., Wang, Y., Keimowitz, A. R., 2013. Assessing Effects of Climate Change on Biogeochemical Cycling of Trace Metals in Alluvial and Coastal Watersheds. British Journal of Environment and Climate Change. 3(1): 44-66.
61. Wang, Y., Xu, Y., Khawaja, S., Passey, B., Zhang, C., Wang, X., Li, Q., Tseng, Z., Takeuchi, G., Deng, T., Xie, G., 2013. Diet and environment of a mid-Pliocene fauna from southwestern Himalaya: Paleo-elevation implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 376: 43-53. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.06.014.
62. Zhang, L., Li, M. W., Wang, Y., Yin, Q. Z., and Zhang, W. Z., 2013. A novel molecular index for secondary oil migration distance. Scientific Reports (www.nature.com/scientificreports) DOI: 10.1038/srep02487.
63. Wang, Y., Gu, B., Lee, M. K., Jiang, S. J., Xu, Y. F., 2014. Isotopic evidence for anthropogenic impacts on aquatic food web dynamics and mercury cycling in a subtropical wetland ecosystem in the US, Science of the Total Environment. 487: 557-564, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.04.060.
64. Wang, X., Wang, Y., Li, Q., Tseng, Z., Takeuchi, G., Deng, T., Xie, G., Chang, M., Wang, N., 2015. Cenozoic vertebrate evolution and paleoenvironment in Tibetan Plateau: Progress and prospects. Gondwana Research, 27: 1335–1354. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2014.10.014.
65. Wang, J., Gu, B., Ewe, S., Wang, Y., and Li, Y., 2015. Stable isotope compositions of aquatic flora as indicators of wetland eutrophication. Ecological Engineering, 83: 13-18. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.06.007.
66. Ciner, B., Wang, Y., Deng, T., Flynn, L., Hou, S., and Wu, W., 2015. Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Evidence for Late Cenozoic Environmental Change in Northern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 440: 750 - 762. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.10.009.
67. Ciner, B., Wang, Y., and Parker, W., 2016. Oxygen Isotopic Variations in Modern Cetacean Teeth and Bones: Implications for Ecological, Paleoecological and Paleoclimatic Studies, Science Bulletin 61(1): 92–104. DOI: 10.1007/s11434-015-0921-x.
68. Lei, Y. D., Jiang, S. J., Wise, S., Cui, Y., Wang, Y., 2016. Contrasting response of the calcareous nannoplankton communities after the Eocene hyperthermal events in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Marine Micropaleontology. 129: 24–31. DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2016.11.001.
69. Stacklyn, S., Wang, Y., Jin, C., Wang, Y., Sun, F., Zhang, C., Jiang, S., Deng, T., 2017. Carbon and oxygen isotopic evidence for diets, environments and niche differentiation of early Pleistocene pandas and associated mammals in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 468: 351–361. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.015.
70. Bowman, C., Wang, Y., Wang, X., Takeuchi, G., Faull, M., Whistler, D., Kish, S., 2017. Pieces of the puzzle: Lack of significant C4 in the late Miocene of southern California. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 475: 70–79. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.03.008.
71. Biasatti, D., Wang, Y., and Deng, T., 2017. Paleoecology of Cenozoic rhinos from northwest China: a stable isotope perspective. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (Available online 2017-05-19).
Articles Published in Non-refereed books and Proceedings Volumes:
1. McFadden, L. D., Brown, W. J., Enzel, Y., Amundson, R. and Wang, Y., 1994. Formation and pedogenic isotope studies of soils on beach ridges of Silver Lake Playa, Mojave Desert, California. In: Geological Investigations of an Active Margin. GSA Guidbook, p.188-195.
2. Amundson, R. and Wang, Y., 1996. Relationship between the oxygen isotopic composition of soil CO2 and water. In: Proceedings of International Symposium on Isotopes in Water Resources Management, IAEA, Vienna, Austria, vol. 1: 315-332.
3. Wang, Y., Amundson, R., and Trumbore, S., 1996. The impact of climate and land use change on C turnover in soils. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on The Geochemistry of The Earth’s Surface. IAGC, University of Leeds, England, p. 327-330.
4. Dong, J. H., Wang, Y., Amundson, R., and Deng, T., 1999. Habitat signals in carbon isotopic composition of tooth enamel phosphate from Pleistocene herbivores. In: Wang, Y. and Deng, T. (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, China Ocean Press, Beijing, p. 211-218.
5. ? ?, ???, Yang Wang, 2001. ??????????????????????????. ????, 46(14): 1213-1215.
6. Hou, S., Deng, T., Wang, Y., 2006. Stable isotope evidence of tooth enamel for the late Neogene habitats of the Hipparion fauna in China. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, China Ocean Press, p. 85-94.
7. Wang, X., Takeuchi, G., Qiu, Z., Li, Q., Wang, B., Qiu, Z.X,m Deng, T., Chang, M., Liu, J., Down, W., Xie, G., Xie, J., Tseng, Z., Wang, Y., Biasatti, D., Zhang, C., Sun, Z., and Meng, Q., 2007. Mammalian and fish biostratigraphy, geochronology, and paleoenvironment of Qaidam Basin in northern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of China University of Geosciences 18(Special issue): 566-568.
