Research Interest :

· Urban water-heat-carbon coupling, global changes and eco-hydrological responses, remote-sensing-based big data mining and modeling, flood and drought disaster assessment

Featured Publications :

· Qiu L, He J, Yue C, Ciais P, Zheng C. 2024. Substantial terrestrial carbon emissions from global expansion of impervious surface area. Nature Communications, 15, 6564. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50840-w

· Qiu L, Fan L, Sun L, Zeng Z, Feng L, Yue C, and Zheng C. 2023. Higher burn severity stimulates post-wildfire vegetation and carbon recovery in California. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109750

· Qiu L, Chen J, Fan L, Sun L, and Zheng C. 2022. High-resolution mapping of wildfire drivers in California based on machine learning. Science of The Total Environment, 833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155155

· Qiu L, Peng D, and Chen J. 2017. Diagnosis of evapotranspiration controlling factors in the Heihe River basin, northwest China. Hydrology Research. 49, 1292-1303. https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2017.156

· Qiu L, Peng D, Xu Z, and Liu W. 2016. Identification of the impacts of climate changes and human activities on runoff in the upper and middle reaches of the Heihe River basin, China. Journal of Water and Climate Change. 7(1), 251-262. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/4631831

· Qiu L, You J, Qiao F, and Peng D. 2014. Simulation of snowmelt runoff in the ungauged basin based on MODIS: A case study in Lhasa River basin. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 28(6), 1577-1585. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-013-0837-4

· Liu B, Qiu L, Tang X, Zhu Z, Zhang P, Wang L, He J, Yue C. 2025. Non-linear drought responses of transpiration and water use efficiency in black locust plantations in semi-arid northwestern China. Journal of Hydrology 664, 134348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134348