Publications

2023

Magar, N.T., B. Thapa, and Li, Y.N.. Climate change misinformation in the United States: Diffusion network and impacts. Minerva. (under review)

Li, Y.N., P. Fu, R.R. Chen, and Y.K. Li. Quaternary glaciation in western China: A review of the chronologies established by absolute dating. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment. 0(0) (published online: Link)

2022

Li, Y.K., X.Y. Lu, R.A. Washington-Allen, and Y.N. Li. Micro-topographic controls on erosion and deposition of a rilled hillslope in eastern Tennessee, USA. Remote Sensing 14(6): 1315.

Y.N. Li, S.M. Krause, A.K. McLendon, and I.J. Jo. Teaching a geography field methods course amid the COVID-19 pandemic: reflections and lessons learned. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 1–10.

Y.N. Li. Century-long changing climate of Texas: the spatial-temporal variability and trends of temperature and precipitation. International Journal of Global Warming 27(1): 102–122.

Lai, J.M., Y.N. Li, J.L. Chen, G.Y. Niu, P.R. Lin, Q. Li, L.X. Wang, J.M. Han, Z.Q. Luo, and Y. Sun. Massive crop expansion threatens agriculture and water sustainability in northwestern China. Environmental Research Letters 17: 034003.

2020

Li, Y.N. Glacier changes and their linkage to the climate-topographic context in the Borohoro Mountains, Tian Shan 1977–2018. Water 12(5): 1502. Link

2019

Y.N. Li and P. Fu. Mapping the late-Holocene glacial geomorphology and glacier surface types in the Mt. Harajoriha, central Tian Shan. International Journal of Geosciences 10(6): 669-688. Link

Chen, R.R., S.Z. Xhou, Y.K. Li, Z.P. Lai, X.J. Ou, X.Y. Lu, and Y.N. Li. Late Quaternary climate and environmental change derived from glacial deposits in the Parlung Zangbo Valley, southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Physical Geography 1-27. Link

Li, Y.K., T. Tieche, S.P. Horn, Y.N. Li, R.R. Chen, and K.H. Orvis. Mapping glacial landforms on the Chirripó Massif, Costa Rica, based on Google Earth, a digital elevation model, and field observations. Revista Geológica de América Central 60: 109-121. Link

Zhu, H.F., X.M. Shao, H. Zhang, F. Asad, S.R. Sigdel, R. Huang, Y.N. Li, W.W. Liu, S. Muhammad, I. Hussain, J. Griebinger, and E.Y. Liang. Trees record changes of the temperate glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau: Potential and uncertainty. Global and Planetary Change 173: 15-23. Link

2018

Lu, X.Y., Y.K. Li, R. Washington-Allen, Y.N. Li. Structural and sedimentological connectivity on a rilled hillslope. Science of the Total Environment 655: 1479-1494. Link

2017

Lu, X.Y., Y.K. Li, R. Washington-Allen, Y.N. Li, H.D. Li, and Q.W. Hu. The effect of grid size on the quantification of erosion, deposition, and rill network. International Soil and Water Conservation Research 5(3): 241-251. Link

Li, Y.N., Y.K. Li, X.Y. Lu, and J. Harbor. Geomorphometric Controls on Mountain Glacier Changes since the Little Ice Age in the Eastern Tien Shan, Central Asia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107(2): 284–198. Link

2016

Li, Y.N., Y.K. Li, J. Harbor, G.N. Liu, C.L. Yi, and M. Caffee. Cosmogenic Be-10 constraints on Little Ice Age glacial advances in the eastern Tian Shan, China. Quaternary Science Reviews 138: 105–118. Link

Li, Y.N., Y.K. Li, Y.X. Chen, and X.Y. Lu. Presumed Little Ice Age glacial extent in the eastern Tian Shan, China. Journal of Maps 12: 71–78. Link

2015

Li, H.D., Y.K.Li, W.S. Shen, Y.N. Li, J. Lin, X.Y. Lu, X. Xu, and J. Jiang. Elevation-dependent vegetation greening of the Yarlung Zangbo River basin in the southern Tibetan Plateau, 1999–2013. Remote Sensing 7(12): 16672–16687. Link

2014 and earlier

Li, Y.N., and Y.K. Li. 2014. Topographic and geometric controls on glacier changes in the central Tien Shan, China, since the Little Ice Age. Annals of Glaciology 55(66): 177–186. Link

Li, Y.K., G.N. Liu, Y.X. Chen, Y.N. Li, J. Harbor, A.P. Stroeven, M.W. Caffee, M. Zhang, C.C. Li, and Z.J. Cui. 2014. Timing and extent of Quaternary glaciations in the Tianger Range, eastern Tian Shan, China, investigated using 10Be surface exposure dating. Quaternary Science Reviews 98: 7–23. Link

Wei, B.Y., Y.N. Li, X.D. Yan, X.Q. Fang, H.F. Zhu, and J.L. Li. 2008. Estimation of February–May precipitations from tree-ring in Xiaowutai Mountain region from 1895 onwards. Journal of Beijing Normal University (Natural Science) 44(1): 96–102. (in Chinese). Link