Tengfei Yuan
CPPR Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Biography
Tengfei Yuan is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Public Policy Research and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. His research focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of pollutants (especially mercury, Hg) and nutrients under the influence of global change. By integrating Earth system and land surface models with observational data and measurements, Dr. Yuan employs an interdisciplinary approach that spans ecology, atmospheric science, biology, and environmental science to track how these elements move through the Earth system. His recent research includes a study led by Yanxu Zhang published in One Earth providing a more precise assessment of how wildfires impact global mercury emissions. Prior to joining Tulane, Dr. Yuan received his PhD from Nanjing University (2024), his MS from East China Normal University (2020), and his BS from Hunan Agricultural University (2016).
Publications
- Yuan, T., Huang, S., Zhang, P., Song, Z., Ge, J., Miao, X., Wang, Y., Pang, Q., Peng, D., Wu, P., Shao, J., Zhang, P., Wang, Y., Guo, H., Guo, W., & Zhang, Y. (2024). Potential decoupling of CO2 and Hg uptake process by global vegetation in the 21st century. Nature Communications, 15, 4490.
- Yuan, T., Zhang, P., Song, Z., Huang, S., Wang, X., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Buffering effect of global vegetation on the air-land exchange of mercury: Insights from a novel terrestrial mercury model based on CESM2-CLM5. Environment International, 174, 107904.
- Yuan, T., et al. (2024). Fungi and bacteria trade-off mediates drought-induced reduction in wood decomposition. Catena, 243, 108169.
- Huang, S., Yuan, T., Song, Z., Peng, D., Zhang, P., Chang, R., Wu, P., Zhou, G., Yue, F., Xie, Z., Wang, F., & Zhang, Y. (in press). Oceanic evasion fuels Arctic summertime rebound of atmospheric mercury and drives transport to Arctic terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Communications.
- Shao, J., Yuan, T., Li, Z., Li, N., Liu, H., Bai, S. H., Xia, J., Lu, M., & Zhou, X. (2019). Plant evolutionary history mainly explains the variance in biomass responses to climate warming at a global scale. New Phytologist, 222(3), 1338–1351.
Education & Affiliations
- PhD, Nanjing University
- MS, East China Normal University
- BS, Hunan Agricultural University
