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Selected Publications: Yu, Z.C., D.W. Beilman and M.C. Jones. 2009. Sensitivity of northern
peatlands to Holocene climate change. In AGU Geophysical Monograph vol. 184
“Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands”, Baird A, Belyea
L, Comas X, Reeve A, and Slater L (eds). Pp. 55-69.
PDF Zhao,
C., Yu, Z.C., Y. Zhao and E. Ito.
2009. Possible orographic and solar controls of
late Holocene centennial-scale moisture oscillations in the northeastern
Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research
Letters 36,
L21705, doi:10.1029/2009GL040951. PDF Zhao, Y., Z.C. Yu,
X.J. Liu, C. Zhao, F.H. Chen, and K. Zhang. 2009. Late Holocene Vegetation and
Climate Oscillations in the Qaidam Basin of the
Northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary
Research Li, L., Yu, Z.C, Moeller, R. E., Bebout, G. E., 2008, Complex trajectories of aquatic and terrestrial shifts caused by multiple human-induced environmental stress. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72: 4338-4351. PDF Chen, F.H., Z.C. Yu, M.L. Yang, E. Ito, S.M. Wang, D.B. Madsen, X.Z. Huang, Y. Zhao, T. Sato, H.J.B. Birks, I. Boomer, J.H. Chen, C.B. An, and B. Wunnemann. 2008. Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 351-364. PDF Zhao, Y., Z.C. Yu, F.H. Chen, X.J. Liu, and E. Ito. 2008. Sensitive response of desert vegetation to moisture change based on a near-annual resolution pollen record from Gahai Lake in the Qaidam Basin, northwest China. Global and Planetary Change 62: 107-114. PDF Yu, Z.C., K.N. Walker, E.B. Evenson, and I. Hajdas. 2008. Lateglacial and early Holocene climate oscillations in
the Matanuska Valley, south-central Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 148-161. PDF Yu, Z.C. 2007. Rapid response of forested vegetation to multiple climatic oscillations during the last deglaciation in the northeastern United States. Quaternary Research 67: 297-303. PDF Li, Y.-X., Z.C. Yu, and K.P. Kodama, 2007. Sensitive moisture response to Holocene millennial-scale climate variations in the Mid-Atlantic region, USA. The Holocene 17: 3-8. PDF Yu, Z.C. 2006. Modeling ecosystem processes and peat accumulation in boreal
peatlands. In Wieder RK, Vitt
DH, editors. Boreal Peatland Ecosystems. Ecological
Studies Series, Volume 188. New York: Springer. p. 313-329. Yu, Z.C. 2006. Holocene carbon accumulation of fen peatlands in boreal
western Qian, W.H., Z.C. Yu.,
and Y.F. Zhu. 2006. Spatial and temporal variability of precipitation in Yu,
Z.C. 2006. Power laws
governing hydrology and carbon cycle dynamics in northern peatlands. Global and Planetary Change 53: 169-175. PDF Li, Y.X.*, Z.C. Yu, K.P. Kodama, and R.E. Moeller. 2006. A 14,000-year
environmental change history revealed by mineral magnetic data from Yu, Z.C., I.D.
Campbell, C. Campbell, D.H. Vitt, G.C. Bond and
M.J. Apps. 2003. Carbon sequestration in western Canadian peat highly
sensitive to Holocene wet–dry climate cycles at millennial time scales. The Holocene 13:
801-803. PDF
(Proofs). Yu, Z.C., D.H.
Vitt, I.D. Campbell, and M.J. Apps. 2003.
Understanding Holocene peat accumulation pattern of continental fens in
western Yu, Z.C. 2003. Late Quaternary dynamics of tundra and forest
vegetation of the southern Niagara Escarpment, Yu, Z.C., M.J. Apps and J.S. Bhatti 2002. Implications of floristic and environmental
variation for carbon cycle dynamics in boreal forest ecosystems of central Yu, Z.C.,
E. Ito, D.R. Engstrom and S.C. Fritz. 2002. A
2100-year trace-element and stable-isotope record at decadal resolution from Yu, Z.C.,
E. Ito and D.R. Engstrom. 2002. Water Isotopic and Hydrochemical Evolution of a Yu, Z.C.
and U. Eicher. 2001. Three Amphi-Atlantic
century-scale cold events during the Bølling –Allerød Warm Period. Géographie physique et
Quaternaire 55:175-183. PDF Yu, Z.C., I.D. Campbell, D.H. Vitt, and M.J. Apps. 2001. Modelling long-term peatland dynamics. I. Concepts, review,
and proposed design. Ecological Modelling, 145:
197-210. PDF Yu, Z.C., M.R.
Turetsky, I.D. Campbell and D.H. Vitt. 2001. Modelling long-term
peatland dynamics. II. Processes and rates as inferred from litter and
peat-core data. Ecological Modelling, 145:
159-173. PDF Yu, Z.C.
and H.E. Wright, Jr. 2001. Response of interior North America to abrupt
climate oscillations in the Yu, Z.C.
2000. Ecosystem responses to late-glacial and early-Holocene climate
oscillations in the Great Lakes region of Yu, Z.C.
and E. Ito. 1999. Possible solar forcing of century-scale drought frequency
in the northern Yu, Z.C.
and U. Eicher. 1998. Abrupt climate oscillations
during the last deglaciation in central Yu, Z.C.,
J. McAndrews, and U. Eicher.
1997. Middle Holocene dry climate caused by change in atmospheric circulation
patterns: Evidence from lake levels and stable isotopes. Geology, 25:
251-254. PDF Yu, Z.C.
1997. Late Quaternary paleoecology of Thuja and Juniperus
(Cupressaceae) at Yu, Z.C.,
J.H. McAndrews, and D. Siddiqi.
1996. Influences of Holocene climate and water levels on vegetation dynamics
of a lakeside wetland. Canadian Journal of Botany, 74:
1602-1615. Yu, Z.C.
and J.H. McAndrews. 1994. Holocene water levels at |
