I consider myself to. be, broadly speaking, a Physical Geographer. More specific research interests include Quaternary palaeoenvironments (using proxies including pollen, diatoms, organic geochemistry, stable isotopes and sedDNA); land use and land cover change, land degradation (tools include remote sensing imagery and associated statistical analysis); soil erosion and soil conservation, human impact, the Anthropocene, sustainability, socio-ecological systems, geographical education.
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RESEARCH GATE //www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Meadows-3
GOOGLE SCHOLAR: //scholar.google.com/citations?user=EufqPQMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
Publications (since 2020)
Journal articles:
2020 Yang X, Chen R, Meadows ME Ji G and Xu J Modelling water yield
with the InVEST model in a data scarce region of northwest China. Water
Supply 20 (3): 1035 //doi.org/10.2166/ws.2020.026
2020 Banerjee A, Chen R, Meadows ME, Singh RB, Mal S and Sengupta D
An analysis of long-term rainfall trends and variability in the Uttarakhand
Himalaya using Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing 12: 709.
2020 Kirsten, K, Kasper T, Cawthra H, Strobel P, Quick LJ, Meadows ME and
Haberzettl T Holocene variability in climate and oceanic conditions in the
winter rainfall zone of South Africa - inferred from a high resolution diatom
record from Verlorenvlei. Journal of Quaternary Science 35(4): 572–581.
2020 Meadows ME Geography education for sustainability. Geography and
Sustainability 1(1): 88-92. //doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2020.02.001
2020 Zhao W, Zhang J, Meadows ME, Liu Y, Hua T, Fu, B A systematic
approach is needed to contain COVID-19 globally: China’s experiences for
the world. Science Bulletin 65: 876-878.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2020.03.024
2020 Sengupta D, Chen R, Meadows ME, Banerjee, A. Gaining or losing
ground? Tracking Asia's hunger for 'new' coastal land in the era of sea
level rise. Science of the Total Environment 732: 13920.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139290
2020 Meadows ME Perspektywy internacjonalizacji badań i współpracy w
naukach geograficznych.Przegląd Geograficzny (Polish Geographical
Review 2020: 85-94 (in Polish).
//rcin.org.pl/igipz/Content/122792/WA51_151385_r2019_Przeg-Geogr- Specjaln.pdf#page=86
2020 Hoang TV, Chou, TY, Nguyen NT, Fang YM, Nguyen QH, Canh PX, Bao
Tuan DN, Nguyen XL and Meadows ME. Mapping forest fire risk and
development of early warning system for NW Vietnam using AHP and
MCA/GIS methods. Applied Sciences 10, 4348.
2020 Zhao L, Lu H, Wang H, Meadows ME, Lei F, Tang L and Ma C
Vegetation dynamics in response to evolution of the Asian Monsoon
in a warm world: pollen evidence from the Weihe Basin, central
China. Global and Planetary Change 193: 103269.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103269
2020 Rahaman S, Kumar, P, Chen R, Meadows ME and Singh RB Remote
sensing assessment of the impact of land use and land cover change on
the environment of Barddhaman District, West Bengal, India. Frontiers in
Environmental Science: Land Use Dynamics 8: 137.
//doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2020.00127
2020 du Plessis N, Chase BM, Quick LJ, Haberzettl T and Meadows ME
Climate and vegetation change during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and
the Little Ice Age on the southern Cape coast of South Africa. The
Holocene 30 (12): 1716-1727.
//doi.org/10.1177%2F0959683620950444
2020 Xiang X and Meadows ME Understanding environmental changes:
Preparing adolescents for the uncertain future: concepts, tools and
strategies for investigating anthropogenic environmental change
Sustainability 12: 6832. //dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12176832
2020 Guo F, Meadows ME, Duan Y, Gao C Geography pre-service teacher
perspectives on multimedia teaching and environmental education.
Sustainability 12: 6903. //dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12176903
2021 Wei F, Wang S, Brandt M, Fu B, Meadows ME, Wang L, Wang L, Tong
X and Fensholt R Responses and feedbacks of African dryland
ecosystems to environmental changes. Current Opinion in Environmental
Sustainability 48: 29-35. //doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.09.004
2021 Liu M, Hou L, Yang Y, Zhou L and Meadows ME The case for a Critical
Zone Science approach to research on estuarine and coastal wetlands in
the Anthropocene. Estuaries and Coasts
//doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00851-9
2021 Meadows ME Perspectives on internationalism in Geography.
Geographia Polonica 93(4): 493-504. //doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0189
2021 Liu, X, Liu M, Zhou L, Hou L, Yang Y Wu D, Meadows ME, Li Z, Tong, C
and Gu J Occurrence and distribution of PAHs in nearshore sediments of
the Knysna Estuary, South Africa. EnvironmentalPollution270: 116083.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116083
2021 Bao K, Zhang, Y, Zaccone C and Meadows ME Human impact
on long-term nutrient accumulation of NE China lake sediments.
Environmental Pollution 271: 116345
//doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116345
2021 Huang J, Li Y, Ding F, Zheng T, Meadows ME and Wang Z. Sedimentary
records of mid-Holocene coastal flooding at a Neolithic site in southeast
plain of Hangzhou Bay, east China. Marine Geology 436: 106380
//doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106380
2021 Xie X, Pu L, Zhu M, Meadows ME, Sun L, Wu T, Bu X and Xu Y
Differential effects of various reclamation treatments on soil
characteristics: an experimental study of newly reclaimed tidal mudflats on
the east China coast. Science of the Total Environment 768: 144996.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.144996
2021 Guo X, Chen R, Li Q and Meadows ME. Achieving win-win solutions in
telecoupled land systems. Land 10(3): 272.
//doi.org/10.3390/land10030272
2021 Wu, Z., Chen R, Meadows ME, Liu XApplication of the Ocean Health
Index to assess ecosystem health for the coastal areas of Shanghai,
China. Ecological Indicators 126: 107650.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107650
2021 Bamutaze Y, Mwanjalolo M, Meadows ME and Musinguzi P Magnitude
and patterns of surface soil physicochemical properties in a highland
catchment of the Lake Victoria Basin. Catena 203: 105343.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105343
2021 Li M, Li Ti, Zhu, L Meadows ME, Zhu W and Zhang S
Land use change and gully erosion in the black soil region of
northeast China over the past 50 years: a case study of the Kedong
County. Frontiers of Environmental Science 9: 652933.
//doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.652933
2021 Wu T, Zhou L, Jiang G, Meadows ME, Zhang J, Wu C and Xie X
Modelling spatial heterogeneity in the effects of natural, socioeconomic
and land use factors and their interactions on atmospheric PM2.5
concentrations in China from 2000-2015. Remote Sensing 13: 2152.
2021 Jia J, Zhang X, Zhou R, Meadows ME, Sengupta D and Zhu L Sediment
sources of tidal flats in the Zhejiang coastal area of southeast China.
Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 39(4): 1245-1255.
//doi.org/10.1007/s00343-020-0179-2
2021 Bui, QT, Chou TY, Hoang TV, Fang YM, Mu CY, Huang PH, Pham VD,
Nguyen QH, Do Tn-H, Pham VM, Meadows ME Gradient boosting
machine and object-based CNN for land cover classification. Remote
Sensing 13, 2709. //doi.org/10.3390/rs13142709
2021 Li X, Wu C, Zhang Z, Lin X, L E, Hu Y, Meadows ME Factors underlying
spatiotemporal variations in PM2.5 concentrations in Zhejiang Province,
China. Remote Sensing 13, 3011. //doi.org/10.3390/rs13153011
2021 Banerjee B, Chen R, Meadows ME, Sengupta D, Pathak S, Zilong X and
Mal S. Tracking 21st century climate dynamics of the Third Pole: An
analysis of topo-climate impacts on snow cover in the central Himalaya
using Google Earth Engine. International Journal of Applied Earth
Observations and Geoinformation 103:102490.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102490
2021 Su F, Fu D, Yan F, Xiao H, Pan T, Xiao Y, Kang L, Zhou C, Meadows ME,
Lyne V, Wilson J, Zhao N, Yang X and Liu G. Rapid greening response of
China's 2020 spring vegetation to COVID-19 restrictions: Implications for
climate change. Science Advances 7(35): eabe8044.
//doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe8044
2021 Wu W, Ma M, Meadows ME, Banzhai E, Huang TY, Liu Y-F, Zhao B
Spatio-temporal changes in urban green space in 107 Chinese cities (1990
- 2019): the role of economic drivers and policy. International Journal of
Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation 103: 102525.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102525
2021 Zhao W, Hua T, Meadows ME, Pereira P Degradation debts accounting:
A holistic perspective towards land degradation neutrality. Global Change
Biology 27: 5411-5413. //doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15855
2021 Yuan Y, Yang Q, Meadows ME, Luo X, Wang Z. Grain size and organic
geochemistry of recent sediments in the Lingding Bay, Pearl River Delta,
China: Implications for sediment dispersal and depositional processes
perturbed by human activities. Anthropocene Coasts 4: 147–167
//dx.doi.org/10.1139/anc-2021-0001
2021 Lyu Y, Tong C, Saito Y, Meadows ME, Wang Z. Early to mid-Holocene
sedimentary evolution on the southeastern coast of Hangzhou Bay, East
China, in response to sea-level change. Marine Geology 42: 10655.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106655
2021 Chen L, Meadows ME, Liu Y, and Lin Y. Examining pathways linking
rural labour outflows to the abandonment of arable land in China.
Population, Space and Place 28: e2519.//doi.org/10.1002/psp.2519
2021 Fan Y, Jia J, Xia D, Wang Z, Meadows ME Seasonality of response to
millennium-scale climate events of the Last Glacial: evidence from loess
records over mid-latitude Asia. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
22: e2021GC009903. //doi.org/10.1029/2021GC009903
2021 Machiwa H, Tian B, Sengupta B, Qian C, Meadows ME and Zhou Y
Monitoring Tanzanian coastal vegetation dynamics in response to socio-
climatic factors using remote sensing data. Frontiers in Earth Science 15:
595–605. //doi.org/10.1007/s11707-021-0916-7
2022 Finch, JM, Hill, TR, Meadows ME, Lodder J and Bodmann L Fire and
montane vegetation dynamics through successive phases of human
occupation in the northern Drakensberg, South Africa. Quaternary
International 611-612: 70-80. //doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.01.026
2022 du Plessis N, Chase BM, Quick L and Meadows ME A late Holocene
pollen and microcharcoal record from Eilandvlei, southern Cape coast,
South Africa. Palaeoecology of Africa 35: 301-308.
2022 du Plessis N, Chase BM, Quick L, Strobel P, Haberzettl and Meadows ME
Revisiting Vankervelsvlei: A ~650 year pollen and microcharcoal record
from an endorheic wetland, southern Cape coast, South Africa.
Palaeoecology of Africa 35: 293-300.
2022 Kinyanjui RN, Meadows ME, Gillson L, Bamford M, Behrensmeyer AK and
Potts R Reconstructing vegetation history of the Olorgesailie Basin during
the Middle- to Late Pleistocene using phytolith data. Palaeoecology of
Africa 35: 85-105.
2022 Wang S, Ge J, Meadows ME, Wang Z Reconstructing a late Neolithic
extreme storm event on the southern Yangtze coast, East China, based on
sedimentary records and numerical modelling. Marine Geology 443:
106687. //doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106687
2022 Jia J, Wang Z; Wang S, Meadows ME, Wang L, Fang Y Chen J
Weakened dust activity in southern Central Asia during Heinrich events.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 587: 110805.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110805
2022 Fu B, Meadows ME, Zhao W Geography in the Anthropocene:
transforming our world for sustainable development. Geography and
Sustainability 3: 1-6. //doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2021.12.004
2022 Carr AS, Chase BM, Boom A, Meadows ME, Sanchez JM. Variability in
soil and foliar stable carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions in the
winter rainfall biomes of South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 200:
104726. //doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104726
2022 Chen Q, Liu X, Zhao G Jia J, Ye W, Lu B, Guan J, Meadows ME 0.2 Ma
or 1.2 Ma? Timing of the linking of the middle and lower reaches of the
Yellow River inferred from loess-palaeosol sequences. Geophysical
Research Letterse2021GL097510. //doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097510
2022 Lv N, Lu H, Pan W, Meadows ME Factors controlling spatio-temporal
dynamics of sandy deserts during the past 110 years in Xinjiang, NW
China. Journal of Arid Environments 201: 104749.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104749
2022 Quick L, Chase BM, Carr AS, Chevalier M, Grobler BA, Meadows ME A
25,000-year record of climate and vegetation change from the
southwestern Cape coast, South Africa: the influence of AMOC on
regional environmental change. Quaternary Research 102: 1-18.
2022 Strobel P, Biedtner M, Carr AS, Struck J, du Plessis N, Glaser B,
Meadows ME, Quick LJ, Zech M, Zech R, Haberzettl T. Reconstructing
late Quaternary precipitation and its source on the southern Cape coast of
South Africa: a multi-proxy paleoenvironmental record from
Vankervelsvlei. Quaternary Science Reviews 284: 107467.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107467
2022 Lin D, Shi P, Meadows ME, Yang H, Wang J, Zhang G and Hu Z.
Measuring compound soil erosion by wind and water in the eastern agro-
pastoral ecotone of northern China. Sustainability 14: 6272.
//doi.org/10.3390/su14106272
2022 Zhang J, Wang S, Zhao W, Meadows ME, Fu Bojie. Finding pathways to
synergistic development of Sustainable Development Goals in China.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9: 1-10.
//doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01036-4
2022 Niu W, Nian X, Zhao L, Zhai Y, Meadows ME, Zhang W, Wang Z,
Luminescence characteristics of muddy sediments in the turbidity
maximum zone of the Yangtze River mouth and implications for the
depositional mechanisms. Frontiers in Earth Science 10:972642.
//doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.972642
2022 Zhang W, Zheng T, Wang Z, Meadows ME Reconstruction of coastal
flooding processes and human response at the end of the Liangzhu
Culture, East China. Quaternary Science Reviews 293: 107705
//doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107705
2022 Zhao W, Hua T, Meadows ME, Fu B, Li Y, Liu Y, Cherubini F Achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals in the post-pandemic era.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 9: 1-7.
//doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01283-5
2022 Wu Y, Huang X, Zheng X, Meadows ME, Wang Z. Sedimentary records
of mid-Holocene extreme storm events on the north bank of Hangzhou
Bay, East China. Marine Geology 451: 106851.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106891
2022 Miao S, Meadows ME, Duan Y. How does the Geography Curriculum in
China contribute to Education for Sustainable Development?
Sustainability 14: 10637. //doi.org/10.3390/su141710637
2022 Neupane B, Bao K, Chen M, Thapa P, Meadows ME The timing and
magnitude of anthropogenic mercury pollution: a 200-year record from
multi-lake sediment cores in northeast China. Chemosphere 309: 136803.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.136803
2022 Lyu Y, Xu H, Meadows ME,Wang ZEarly to mid-Holocene sedimentary
environmental evolution in the palaeo-Ningbo Bay, East , and
its implications for Neolithic settlement. Frontiers in Marine Science
9:1059746//doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1059746
2023 Zhao W, Yin C, Fu B, Meadows ME, Perreira P Key axes of global
progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of
Cleaner Production 135: 135767.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135767
2023 Wang Z, Zheng T, Lei S, Li W, Mei S, Wang J, Meadows ME Prehistoric
sea-salt manufacture as an adaptation strategy to coastal flooding in East
China. Quaternary Science Reviews 302: 107966
//doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107966
2023 Sengupta D, Choi YR, Tian B, Brown S, Li Y, Meadows ME, Hackney CR,
Banerjee A, Chen R, Zhou Y. Global patterns of coastal land reclamation
in the 21st century. Earth’s Future 11(2): e2022EF002927
//doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002927
2023 Zhou L, Wu T, Pu L, Meadows ME, Jiang G, Zhang J, Xie X Spatially
heterogeneous relationships of PM2.5 concentrations with natural and
land use factors in the Niger River Watershed, West Africa. Journal of
Cleaner Production 394: 136406.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136406
2023 Hu Y, Wu C, Meadows ME, Feng M, Lin X, Zhang Z, Zhang Z, Zhou L,
Loi Z. Pixel level spatial variability modeling using SHAP reveals the
relative importance of factors influencing LST. Environmental Monitoring
and Assessment 195: 407. //doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-10950-2
2023 Wu W, Ma J, Bunzhat E, Meadows ME Yu Z, Guo F, Sengupta D, Cai X,
Zhao B. Accurate building height estimates in China with all-weather earth
observations and machine learning. Remote Sensing of Environment 291:
113578. //doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113578
2023 Fu B, Liu Y, Meadows ME Ecological restoration for sustainable
development in China. National Science Review 10: nwad033
2023 Su F, Fan R, Yan F, Meadows ME, Lyne V, Hu P, Song X, Zhang T, Liu Z,
Zhou C, Pei T, Yang X, Du Y, Wei Z, Wang F, Qi Y, Chai F. Widespread
global disparities between modelled and observed mid-depth ocean
currents. NatureCommunications 14: 2089
//doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37841-x
2023 Huang J, Kong F, Yin, H, Middel A, Liu Hongqing, Meadows ME
Green roof effects on urban building surface processes and energy
budgets. Energy Conversion and Management 287: 117100.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117100
2023 Guo X, Chen R, Meadows ME, Li Q, Xia Z, Pan Z Factors influencing four
decades of forest change in Guizhou Province, China. Land 12: 1004
//doi.org/10.3390/land12051004
2023 Kirsten KL, Pretorius L, Meadows ME, Weij R, Aquino-Lopez M,
Antonopoulos H, Dubazana Y, Qadeer A, Finch J, Bao K. The
depositional history of the Knysna Estuary in the context of sea level and
human impacts. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1120460
//doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1120460
2023 Banerjee A, Kang S, Meadows ME, Xia Z, Sengupta D, Kumar V.
Quantifying climate variability and regional anthropogenic influence on
vegetation dynamics in northwest India. Environmental Research 234:
116541 //doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116541
2023 Chase BM, Boom A, Carr A, Meadows ME, Lim S. A 39,000 year record of
vegetation and climate change from the margin of the Namib Sand Sea.
Quaternary Research 114: 1-11 //doi:10.1017/qua.2023.29
2023 Cao M, Chen M, Zhang J, Pradhan P, Guo H, Fu B, Li Y, Bai Y, Chang L,
Chen Y, Sun Z, Meadows ME, Xu Z, Zhu R, Wu K, Lü G. Spatio-temporal
changes in the causal interactions among sustainable development goals
in China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10: 450.
//doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01952-z
2023 Su J, Yin H, Kong F, Meadows ME, Zhou K, Li Z, Cui H. Past, present
and future climate connectivity informs conservation strategies in the
Yangtze River delta urban agglomeration, China. Landscape and Urban
Planning 240: 109894. //doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104894
2023 Zhou B, Wang Z, Xu Xiangchun, Pang Y, Bird MI, Wang B, Meadows ME,
Taylor D. Hominin response to oscillations in climate and local
environments during the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in northern
China. Geophysical Research Letters 50 (21): e2023GL104931.
//doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104931
2023 Ma C, Chen S, Zhu C, Meadows ME, Zhang J, Lu H. Climate remained a
major driving factor of vegetation dynamics over the past 600 years in
Huangshan Mountain, southeast China. Quaternary Science Reviews 321:
108389. //doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108389
2023 Wang X, Zhang J, Wang S, Ge Y, Duan Z, Su L, Meadows ME. Luo Y, Fu
B, Chen Y, Huang Y, Ma X, Abuduwalli J. Reviving the Aral Sea: a hydro-
eco-social perspective. Earth’s Future 11, e2023EF003657.
//doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003657
2023 Huang Z, Ma C, Feng S, Zhao Y, Zheng Z, Xiao X, Meadows ME
Zhu C. Vegetation, hydrology and quantitative monsoon precipitation since
The Last Glacial Maximum in Central China. Global and Planetary
Change 231: 104298. //doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104298
2024 Li Z, Kong F, Yin H, Yang X, Meadows ME, Zhou K, Su J. Considering
the dynamics of water surface boundaries to measure the evolution of
hydrological connectivity in the Yangtze River Delta, China. Progress in
Physical Geography 48(1): 96-112.//doi.org/10.1177/03091333231213536
2024 Feng S, Huang Z, Ma C, Zhu C, Meadows ME, Lu H. Significant
anthropogenic impact on the mountain vegetation of southeast China
commenced ~1 kyr BP, lagging behind similar changes in the lower
Yangtze River basin and coastal plains by 2000–4000 years.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology112074.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112074
2024 Banerjee A, Kang S, Meadows ME, Said W, Bahadur A, Ul Mozzam, Xia X,
Mango J Das B, Kirsten K Evaluating the relative influence of climate and
human activities on recent vegetation dynamics in West Bengal, India.
Environmental Research 250: 118450.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118450
2024 Banerjee A, Kang S, Guo W, Meadows ME, Wang W, Sengupta D,
Zhang T Glacier retreat and lake outburst floods in the central Himalayan
region from 2000 to 2022. Natural Hazards 120: 5485–5508.
//doi.org/10.1007/s11069-024-06415-5
2024 Chen B, Kong F, Meadows ME, Pan H, Zhu A-X, Chen L, Yin H, Yang L
The evolution of social-ecological system interactions and their
impact on the urban thermal environment. npj Urban Sustainability 4: 3
//doi.org/10.1038/s42949-024-00141-4
2024 Xu H, Miyahara H, Matsuzaki H, Zhao X, Gan H, Luo W, Meadows ME,
Zheng X, Zhou L Annual 10Be record for 1510-1701 CE obtained from
endogenic travertine at Baishuitai, China: a new proxy record of annual
solar activity. Geophysical Research Letters 51: e2023GL107434.
//doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107434
2024 Lin Q, Zhang K, Giguet-Covex C, Arnaud F, McGowan S, Cap E, Huang S,
Ficetola GF, Shen J, Dearing JA, Meadows ME. Transient social-ecological
dynamics reveal signals of decoupling in a highly disturbed Anthropocene
landscape. PNAS 121(17): e2321303121
//doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321303121
2024 Zhou K, Kong F, Chen B, Meadows ME Urban flood risk management
needs nature-based solutions: a coupled social-ecological system
perspective. npj Urban Sustainability 4: 25
//doi.org/10.1038/s42949-024-00162-z
2024 Meadows ME A new horizon for rural planning: modeling rural settlements
through the integration of geospatial data. Science Bulletin 69: 1592-1594.
https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2024.04.028
2024 Lu H, Wu H, Meadows ME Asian monsoon variations over the past 21 ka:
An introduction. Global and Planetary Change 237: 104452.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104452
2024 Luo L, Zhang J, Wang H, Chen M, Jiang Q, Yang W, Zhang J, Swain RB,
Meadows ME, Pradhan P, Xiao H, Cao M, Lin J, Zhao Y, Zheng Y, Chen F,
Zhao W, Hunag L, Zend J, Jappesen E, Vizquez-Jimenez R, Zheng H,
Jia M, Zhang L, Yan D, Chen Y, Liang D, Liu J, Chen Z, Letu H,
Lasaponara R, Wang X, Xu Z, Liu J, Fu B, Huo H Innovations in science,
technology, engineering, and policy (iSTEP) for addressing environmental
issues towards sustainable development. The InnovationGeoscience 2(3):
100087.//doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2024.100087
2024 Banerjee A, Kang S, Farhan Ul Moazzam M, Meadows ME Climate
dynamics and the effect of topography on snow cover variation in the Indus-
Ganges-Brahmaputra river basins. Atmospheric Research 309: 107571.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107571
2024 Gao T, Zhang Y, Meadows ME Emerging glacier forelands alter carbon
dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Mountain Science 21(9):
2871-2875. //doi.org/10.1007/s11629-024-9008-y
2024 Zhao X, Lu X, Meadows ME, Dupont L, Mao L, Xu Y, Ge H, Zabel M Biome
variability in southernmost Africa since the last deglaciation recorded in
marine sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews 343: 108292.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108912
2024 Chen M, Qian Z, Boers N, Creutzig F, Camps-Valls G, Hubacek K,
Claramunt, Wilson J, Nativi S, Jakeman A, Muller D, Batty M, Zhou, C,
Chen F, Wang Q, Zhang F, Barton CM, Strobl J, , Meadows ME, Ratti C,
Hess P, Xu Q, Zhang Z, Gu Q, Zhu A, Lin H, Yuan L, Lü G Collaboration
between artificial intelligence and Earth science communities for mutual
benefit. Nature Geoscience 17: 949-952.
//doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01550-x
2024 Li Z, Ma, C, Ni Y, Wang B, Hu Z, Sun G, Wang Y, Meadows ME, Zheng H
Early mid-Holocene vegetation and diversity evolution on the Ningshao
Plain, eastern China. Catena 246: 108446.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2024.108446
2024 Zhang J, Skene KR, Wang S, Ji Q, Zheng H, Zhou C, Pradhan P,
Meadows ME, Fu B Beyond borders: Assessing global sustainability
through interconnected systems. Sustainable Development 1-12.
2024 Wang H, Zhong Y, Xiao C, Shi S, Meadows ME, Shi J Seasonal relative
humidity recorded in tree-ring earlywood and latewood δ18O in the West
Tianmu Mountains, southeastern China. Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 655: 112551.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112551
2024 Li N, Y, Liu X, Shi A, Li M, Meadows ME Effects of China’s carbon
budget on global radiative forcing. Acta Geographica Sinica 79(11): 1-16.
(in Chinese).
2024 Zhang X, Zhou B, Huang J, Meadows ME Lin L Burnt Cervidae
bones and sedimentary environments at Luotuodun, Jiangsu
Province, China: new insights for Neolithic human behavior. Quaternary International 713: 109574.//doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.10.006
2024 Li Z, Kong F, Meadows ME, Yin H, He HS, Su J, Zhou K. Identifying priority
conservation areas for threatened amphibian habitats in the Yangtze River
Delta. Journal of Environmental Management 373: 123766
//doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123766
2025 Guo M, Yang L, Zhang L, Shen F, Meadows ME, Zhou C Spatial patterns
of top- and subsoil organic carbon stock in coastal wetlands of mainland
China and their diverse environmental controls. Environmental Science
and Ecotechnology 23: 100582 .//doi.org/10.1016/j.ese.2024.100482
2025 Su J, Kong F, Yin H, Meadows ME, Chen L, He HS, Sun H, Li Z, Zhou K,
Chen B. Essential contribution of habitats in non-protected areas to
climate-driven species migration in China. Geography and Sustainability
6: 100203.//doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2024.05.006
2025 Wu Z, Xue L, Meadows ME, Chen R. Land use changes and their effects
on poverty in Inner Mongolia, northern China. Geography and Sustainability
6: 100269. //doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2025.100269
2025 Zhang J, Fu B, Meadows ME Geography’s hotspots and frontiers: diverse,
systematic, and intelligent trends. Geography and Sustainability 6: 100285.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2025.100285
2025 Huang, Y., Meadows ME Challenges to the sustainability of urban
cultural heritage in the Anthropocene: the case of Suzhou, Yangtze River
Delta, China. Land 14: 778. //doi.org/10.3390/land14040778
2025 Nan Q, Chen S, Liu X, Ma S, Sum Y, Huang L, Chen J, Luterbacher J,
Meadows ME, Chen F. The 4.2ka event in the northern hemisphere: spatial
heterogeneity and driving mechanisms of hydroclimatic change. Earth-
Science Reviews 265: 105128.
//doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105128
2025 Xu Z, Shao Q, Pu L, Meadows ME, Jia Z, Shi X, Zhang Z, Wu T, Xu F
Differential response of soil physicochemical and extracellular enzyme
characteristics to altitude gradient in a subtropical forest ecosystem, eastern
China. Catena 296: 109132. //doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.109132
Books and chapters in books:
2022 Chen R, Zhu A, Li P, Li P and Ye C, Meadows ME Interactions of Geography with other natural and social sciences and the humanities. In: Kolosov V, Garcia-Alvarez J, Heffernan M, Schelhaas B (Eds.) A Geographical Century: Essays for the Centenary of the International Geographical Union. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 181-198.
2022 Yin C, Meadows ME, Han Y, Zhao W. The COVID-19 pandemic and the International Geographical Union. In: Brunn SD and Gilbreath D (Eds.). COVID-19 and a World of ad hoc Geographies. Cham, Switzerland: Springer-Nature, 2677-2704. ISBN: 978-3-030-94349-3
2023 Where is the Anthropocene? In: Gönençgil l B and Meadows ME (eds.) Geography and the Anthropocene. Istanbul University Press. (in press).
2023 Banski J and Meadows ME (eds.) Research Directions: Challenges and Achievements of Modern Geography. Cham, Switzerland: Springer-Nature. ISSN: 2198-3542
2024 Gönençgil B and Meadows ME (eds.)Geography and the Anthropocene. Istanbul University Press. eISBN: 978-605-07-1582-8
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