Expertise:
Land cover and land use changes, assessment of hurricane impact on mangrove canopy using LiDAR data, statistical modeling to explore the legacy effects of pre-hurricane drought on forest responses to major hurricanes and process-based modeling to explore how land changes affect the flooding risks in tropical watersheds.
Publications:
- Gao, Q., and Yu, M. 2021. Elevation and distribution of freshwater and sewage canals regulate canopy structure and differentiate hurricane damages to a basin mangrove forest, Remote Sensing 13, 3387. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13173387.
- Gao. Q., Yu, M., and Xu, HM 2020. Directional climate trend, intensified intra-annual variability, and changes in land cover drive the dynamics of degetation greenness in peri‐urban China during 2001–2015. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 125(2), DOI:10.1029/2019JG005336.
- Gao, Q., Yu, M. 2017. Reforestation-induced changes of landscape composition and configuration modulate freshwater supply and flooding risk of tropical watersheds. PLOS One 12(7):e0181315. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181315.
- Wang C., Gao, Q., Yu, M. 2019. Quantifying Trends of Land Change in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during 2001–2015. Remote Sensing 11(20), 2435, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11202435.
- Wang, X. Gao, Q., Wang, C., Yu, M. 2017. Spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation phenology change and relationships with climate in the two transects of East China, Global Ecology and Conservation 10: 206-219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2017.01.010.
Contact information: qiong.gao@upr.edu