Publications

Selected Main Publications (First to Third Author)

  1. Liu, N., Sun, G., Yang, Y., Aguilos, M., Starr, G., O’Halloran, T. L., Amatya, D. M., Oishi, A. C., Zhang, Y., & Trettin, C. (2025). Potential for augmenting water yield by restoring longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests in the southeastern United States. Water Resources Research, 61(2), e2024WR037444.

  2. Jin, K., Liu, N., Tang, R., Sun, G., & Hao, L. (2025). Quantifying Long Term (2000-2020) water balances across Nepal by integrating remote sensing and an ecohydrological model. Remote Sensing, 17(11), 1819.

  3. Richter, B. D., Prunes, E., Liu, N., Caldwell, P., Wei, D., Davis, K. F., Sandoval-Solis, S., Herrera, G. R., Rodriguez, R. S., Ao, Y., et al. (2024). Opportunities for restoring environmental flows in the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo basin spanning the US-Mexico border. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 150(2), 04023079.

  4. Sun, M., Sun, P., Liu, N., Zhang, L., Yu, Z., Feng, Q., Smettem, K., & Liu, S. (2024). Alternating dominant effects of temperature and precipitation along elevational gradient on the alpine and subalpine vegetation activities in southwestern China. Forest Ecology and Management, 554, 121668.

  5. Aguilos, M., Sun, G., Liu, N., Zhang, Y., Starr, G., Oishi, A. C., O’Halloran, T. L., Forsythe, J., Wang, J., Zhu, M., et al. (2024). Energy availability and leaf area dominate control of ecosystem evapotranspiration in the southeastern US. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 349, 109960.

  6. Chen, D., Liu, N., Gan, G., Liu, Y., Qin, M., Zheng, Q., Sun, G., & Hao, L. (2024). Combined effects of urbanization and climate variability on water and carbon balances in a rice paddy-dominated basin in southern China. Environmental Research Letters, 19(12), 124042.

  7. Duan, K., Qu, S., Liu, N., Dobbs, G. R., Caldwell, P. V., & Sun, G. (2023). Evolving efficiency of inter-basin water transfers in regional water stress alleviation. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 191, 106878.

  8. Dobbs, G. R., Liu, N., Caldwell, P. V., Miniat, C. F., Sun, G., Duan, K., & Bolstad, P. V. (2023). Inter-basin surface water transfers database for public water supplies in conterminous United States, 1986-2015. Scientific Data, 10(1), 255.

  9. Liu, N., Sun, G., & Jian, J. (2023). Influence of catchment characteristics on the transpiration to evapotranspiration ratio across Australian hydrologic reference stations catchments. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, H11-01.

  10. Liu, N., Dobbs, G. R., Caldwell, P. V., Miniat, C. F., Sun, G., Duan, K., Nelson, S. A. C., Bolstad, P. V., & Carlson, C. P. (2022). Inter-basin transfers extend the benefits of water from forests to population centers across the conterminous US. Water Resources Research, 58(5), e2021WR031537.

  11. Worley, E., Liu, N., Sun, G., Norman, S. P., Christie, W. M., Gavazzi, M., Boggs, J., & McNulty, S. G. (2022). Impacts of Hurricane Michael on watershed hydrology: A case study in the Southeastern United States. Forests, 13(6), 904.

Earlier Publications

  1. Liu, N., Dobbs, G. R., Caldwell, P. V, Miniat, C. F., Bolstad, P. V, Nelson, S., & Sun, G. (2020). Quantifying the role of State and private forest lands in providing surface drinking water supply for the Southern United States. General Technical Report GTR-SRS-248. https://doi.org/10.2737/SRS-GTR-248

  2. Liu, N., Sun, P., Caldwell, P. V, Harper, R., Liu, S., & Sun, G. (2020). Trade-off between watershed water yield and ecosystem productivity along elevation gradients on a complex terrain in southwestern China. Journal of Hydrology, 590(April), 125449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125449

  3. Ruprecht J., Sparks T., Liu N., Dell B., and Harper R. (2019). Using reforestation to reverse salinisation in a large watershed, Journal of Hydrology, 577, 123976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.123976

  4. Liu, N., Harper, R. J., Smettem, K. R. J., Dell, B., & Liu, S. (2019). Responses of streamflow to vegetation and climate change in southwestern Australia. Journal of Hydrology, 572, 761–770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.03.005

  5. Liu, N., Shaikh, M. A., Kala, J., Harper, R. J., Dell, B., Liu, S., & Sun, G. (2018). Parallelization of a distributed ecohydrological model. Environmental Modelling & Software, 101, 51-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.11.033

  6. Liu, N.; Harper, R.J.; Handcock, R.N.; Evans, B.; Sochacki, S.J.; Dell, B.; Walden, L.L.; Liu, S. Seasonal Timing for Estimating Carbon Mitigation in Revegetation of Abandoned Agricultural Land with High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing, 2017, 9, 545. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9060545

  7. Liu, N., Harper, R. J., Dell, B., Liu, S., & Yu, Z. (2016). Vegetation dynamics and rainfall sensitivity for different vegetation types of the Australian continent in the dry period 2002 - 2010. Ecohydrology. http://doi.org/10.1002/ECO.1811

  8. Zhang, M., Liu, N., Harper, R., Li, Q., Liu, K., Wei, X., & Liu, S. (2016). A global review on hydrological responses to forest change across multiple spatial scales: importance of scale, climate, forest type and hydrological regime. Journal of Hydrology, 546, 44-59. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.12.040

  9. Sun, P., Liu, N., Liu, S., & Sun, G. (2016). Trade-offs between water yield and carbon sequestration for sub-alpine catchments in western Sichuan, China. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology, 40(10), 1037-1048. http://doi.org/10.17521/cjpe.2016.0020 (in Chinese with English Abstract)

  10. Liu, N., Sun, P., Liu, S., & Sun, G. (2013). Coupling simulation of water-carbon processes for catchment: calibration and validation of the WaSSI-C model. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology, 37(6), 492-502. http://doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1258.2013.00051 (in Chinese with English Abstract)

  11. Liu, N., Sun, P., & Liu, S. (2012). Research advances in simulating land water- carbon coupling. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 23(11), 3187-3196. (in Chinese with English Abstract)

  12. Liu, N., Sun, P., Liu, S., & Sun G. (2012). Determination of spatial scale of response unit for the WaSSI-C eco-hydrological model-a case study on the upper Zagunao River watershed of China. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology, 37(2), 132-141. http://doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1258.2013.00014 (in Chinese with English Abstract)

  13. Sun, P., Yu, Z., Liu, S., Wei, X., Wang, J., Zegre, N., & Liu, N. (2012). Climate change, growing season water deficit and vegetation activity along the north-south transect of eastern China from 1982 through 2006. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16(10), 3835-3850. http://doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-3835-2012