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.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-8322-3055

RESEARCH GATE https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Meadows-3

GOOGLE SCHOLAR: https://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  https://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.

https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12040709

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. 

https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3200

2020        Meadows ME Geography education for sustainability.  Geography and 

                Sustainability 1(1): 88-92. https://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. 

https://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. 
https://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). 

https://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.

https://doi.org/10.3390/app10124348

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. 

https://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.  

https://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. 

https://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. http://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. http://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. https://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 

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00851-9

2021         Meadows ME Perspectives on internationalism in Geography.  

Geographia Polonica 93(4): 493-504.  https://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.  

https://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

https://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
https://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. 

https://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.

https://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.  

https://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. 

https://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.

https://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. 

https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112152

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.

https://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. https://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. https://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. 

https://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. 

 https://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.

https://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.  https://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 

https://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. 

https://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.https://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. https://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.  https://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. https://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.  https://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. 

https://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. https://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.  https://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. https://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.  

https://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.

https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2021.31

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.
https://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. 
https://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. 

https://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.

https://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

https://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.

https://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. 

https://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. https://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.

https://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 

                9:1059746https://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.

https://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

https://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

https://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.

https://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. https://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.  https://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

https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/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 

https://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.

https://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

https://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
https://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 https://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  https://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.

https://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. https://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.   

https://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.  https://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.

https://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. https://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.https://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.

https://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. 

https://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.

https://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  

https://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.

https://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        

https://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
https://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. 
https://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.https://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.
https://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.  https://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. 

https://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. 

https://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. 

https://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.

https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.3218.

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.  

https://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.https://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 

https://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 .https://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.https://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. https://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.

https://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. https://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.  

https://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.  https://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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