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Wei Ren

University of Connecticut · US
Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Soil Science
Research interest
Research interests include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.
h-index
51
citations
8,232
works
180
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

A shift from human-directed to undirected wild land disturbances in the USA
Nature Geoscience 2025cited by 11position: middledoi
Assessing ozone pollution and climate change impacts on winter wheat: flux modeling vs. dose-response modeling
Journal of Environmental Management 2025cited by 3position: lastdoi
Adaptive Strategies for Reducing Yield‐Scaled Nitrate Leaching in the US Midwest
Earth s Future 2025cited by 1position: lastdoi
Incorporating dynamic crop growth processes and management practices into a terrestrial biosphere model for simulating crop production in the United States: Toward a unified modeling framework
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2022cited by 42position: middledoi
Season-specific evapotranspiration partitioning using dual water isotopes in a Pinus yunnanensis ecosystem, southwest China
Journal of Hydrology 2022cited by 33position: middledoi
Conservation tillage increases corn and soybean water productivity across the Ohio River Basin
Agricultural Water Management 2021cited by 45position: lastdoi
Global pattern and change of cropland soil organic carbon during 1901-2010: Roles of climate, atmospheric chemistry, land use and management
Geography and sustainability 2020cited by 113position: firstdoi
Long‐Term Trajectory of Nitrogen Loading and Delivery From Mississippi River Basin to the Gulf of Mexico
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2020cited by 81position: middledoi
Integration of remote sensing, county-level census, and machine learning for century-long regional cropland distribution data reconstruction
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2020cited by 30position: middledoi
ISIMIP2a Simulation Data from Biomes Sector (V. 1.1)
Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) 2019cited by 2position: middledoi
Enhancing soil drought induced by climate change and agricultural practices: Observational and experimental evidence from the semiarid area of northern China
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2017cited by 40position: middledoi
Integrating Herbivore Population Dynamics Into a Global Land Biosphere Model: Plugging Animals Into the Earth System
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 2017cited by 30position: middledoi
Responses of global terrestrial water use efficiency to climate change and rising atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>concentration in the twenty-first century
International Journal of Digital Earth 2017cited by 27position: middledoi
ISIMIP2a Simulation Data from Biomes Sector
Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) 2017cited by 1position: middledoi
Methane emissions from global rice fields: Magnitude, spatiotemporal patterns, and environmental controls
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2016cited by 177position: middledoi
Climate extremes and ozone pollution: a growing threat to china’s food security
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 2016cited by 72position: middledoi
Century‐long increasing trend and variability of dissolved organic carbon export from the Mississippi River basin driven by natural and anthropogenic forcing
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2016cited by 69position: firstdoi
Modeling <i>p</i> CO <sub>2</sub> variability in the Gulf of Mexico
Biogeosciences 2016cited by 35position: middledoi
Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from terrestrial ecosystems due to multiple environmental changes
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 2015cited by 275position: middledoi
Anthropogenic and climatic influences on carbon fluxes from eastern North America to the Atlantic Ocean: A process‐based modeling study
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 2015cited by 146position: middledoi
Spatiotemporal patterns of livestock manure nutrient production in the conterminous United States from 1930 to 2012
The Science of The Total Environment 2015cited by 80position: middledoi
Climate extremes dominating seasonal and interannual variations in carbon export from the Mississippi River Basin
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2015cited by 70position: middledoi
Responses of Crop Water Use Efficiency to Climate Change and Agronomic Measures in the Semiarid Area of Northern China
PLoS ONE 2015cited by 54position: middledoi
Large increase in dissolved inorganic carbon flux from the Mississippi River to Gulf of Mexico due to climatic and anthropogenic changes over the 21st century
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 2015cited by 49position: firstdoi
Impacts of climate variability and extremes on global net primary production in the first decade of the 21st century
Journal of Geographical Sciences 2015cited by 47position: middledoi
A growing importance of large fires in conterminous United States during 1984–2012
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 2015cited by 40position: middledoi
Terrestrial net primary productivity in India during 1901–2010: contributions from multiple environmental changes
Climatic Change 2015cited by 32position: middledoi
Century‐scale patterns and trends of global pyrogenic carbon emissions and fire influences on terrestrial carbon balance
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2015cited by 31position: middledoi
Magnitude, Spatiotemporal Patterns, and Controls for Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in India during 1901–2010
Soil Science Society of America Journal 2015cited by 23position: middledoi
Biosphere–atmosphere exchange of methane in India as influenced by multiple environmental changes during 1901–2010
Atmospheric Environment 2015cited by 12position: middledoi

Grants

CAREER: Quantifying Multi-Scale Climate-Smart-Agriculture Management for Triple Wins in Food production, Climate Mitigation, and Environmental Sustainability
NSF2327138$460,7732022–2026PIRePORTER
Distributed Time-varying Coordination of Uncertain Nonlinear Multi-agent Systems: A Unified Model Reference Scheme
NSF2129949$383,0002022–2026PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Predictive Risk Investigation SysteM (PRISM) for Multi-layer Dynamic Interconnection Analysis
NSF2326940$54,3022022–2024PIRePORTER
CAREER: Quantifying Multi-Scale Climate-Smart-Agriculture Management for Triple Wins in Food production, Climate Mitigation, and Environmental Sustainability
NSF2045235$412,5832021–2023PIRePORTER
Distributed Joint Localization and Tracking for Multi-robot Networks Under Local Sensing and Communication Constraints with Theoretical Guarantees
NSF2027139$515,8282020–2024PIRePORTER
Distributed Multi-agent Continuous-time Optimization: Unbalanced Directed Graphs and Constrained Networked Games
NSF1920798$396,0002019–2023PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Predictive Risk Investigation SysteM (PRISM) for Multi-layer Dynamic Interconnection Analysis
NSF1940696$240,0322019–2023PIRePORTER
Distributed Continuous-time Optimization for Multi-agent Dynamical Systems under Realistic Challenges
NSF1611423$376,0002016–2020PIRePORTER
Robust Distributed Average Tracking for Networked Systems
NSF1537729$238,8292015–2019PIRePORTER
Distributed Nonlinear Multi-agent Coordination in Asymmetric Switching Networks: A Sequential Comparison Framework
NSF1307678$421,0532013–2017PIRePORTER
Finite-time Containment Control for Lagrangian Networks
NSF1213295$287,2702011–2015PIRePORTER
CAREER: Distributed Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control - A Consensus Theoretical Approach
NSF1213291$274,1742011–2014PIRePORTER
CSR-EHCS(CPS), SM: Nature-inspired Control of Networked Cyber-physical Systems
NSF1221384$6,3832011–2012PIRePORTER
Finite-time Containment Control for Lagrangian Networks
NSF1002393$279,2702010–2012PIRePORTER
CAREER: Distributed Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control - A Consensus Theoretical Approach
NSF0748287$345,5032008–2012PIRePORTER
CSR-EHCS(CPS), SM: Nature-inspired Control of Networked Cyber-physical Systems
NSF0834691$271,3272008–2012PIRePORTER
Adaptive Systems for Identification, Signal Processing and Control: Solvability, Performance, Robustness and Applications
NSF9211025$120,0001992–1996PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Hanqin Tian · Environmental Earth Sciences44 papers (2012–2022)Shufen Pan · Boston College32 papers (2012–2022)Chaoqun Lü · Iowa State University25 papers (2012–2022)Jia Yang · Nanchang Hangkong University24 papers (2014–2022)Bo Tao · Yale University20 papers (2012–2020)Guangsheng Chen · Northeast Forestry University13 papers (2012–2017)Kamaljit Banger · University of Guelph12 papers (2013–2020)Xiaofeng Xu · San Diego State University10 papers (2012–2015)Bowen Zhang · Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council9 papers (2014–2016)Mingliang Liu · Jinan University9 papers (2012–2015)Qichun Yang · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology9 papers (2014–2015)Chi Zhang · Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology8 papers (2012–2015)Shree R. S. Dangal · Woodwell Climate Research Center7 papers (2014–2017) · 6 papers (2014–2020)Wei‐Jun Cai · University of Georgia6 papers (2014–2020)Ruoying He · North Carolina State University5 papers (2014–2016)Bo Tao · Chiba University5 papers (2012–2015)C. Hopkinson · University of Georgia5 papers (2015–2020)Yawen Huang · University of Kentucky5 papers (2020–2025)Xia Li · Nanyang Technological University4 papers (2014–2015)