PhD student
Duke - Duke University
BS, Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2014
PhD, Duke University, 2019
PhD student in Mukesh Kumar's lab involved in comparing DEM data from new and old LiDAR data sets.
2019
Reduced resilience as an early warning signal of forest mortality. Liu, Yanlan, Mukesh Kumar, Gabriel G. Katul, & Amilcare Porporato (2019): Nature Climate Change 9: 880-885
2018
Using nested discretization for a detailed yet computationally efficient simulation of local hydrology in a distributed hydrologic model. Wang, Dongdong, Yanlan Liu, and Mukesh Kumar (2018): Scientific Reports 8: Article number 5785
2017
Increasing atmospheric humidity and CO2 concentration alleviate forest mortality risk. Liu, Yanlan, Anthony J. Parolari, Mukesh Kumar, Cheng-Wei Huang, Gabriel G. Katul, and Amilcare Porporato (2017): PNAS 114 (37): 9918-9923
2016
Role of meteorological controls on interannual variations in wet‐period characteristics of wetlands. Liu, Y. and Kumar, M. (2016): Water Resources Research 52(7): 5056-5074
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
2019
Forgotten Interactions: Missing Link in the Ecohydrologic Prediction Puzzle. Kumar, Mukesh, Christopher Krapu, Yanlan Liu, Anthony Parolari, Gabriel George Katul, Amilcare M Porporato, Mark E Borsuk (2019): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2019
2019
Detecting Climate-Stress Induced Forest Mortality Before the Canonical Symptoms Appear. Kumar, Mukesh, Yanlan Liu, Gabriel George Katul, Amilcare M Porporato (2019): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2019
2019
Impacts of Climate Variation and Change on Hydrologic and Vegetation Dynamics. Liu, Yanlan (2019): PhD Dissertation, Duke University
2018
Potential impacts of climate change on tree mortality risk: Do plant hydraulic traits matter?. Kumar, M., Y. Liu, A. Parolari, C.-W. Huang, G.G. Katul, A.M. Porporato (2018): American Geophysical Union 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 10-14 Dec 2018
2018
Synergistic data analytics and physical modeling for improved understanding of vegetation dynamics under climatological stress: a key uncertainty in ecosystem management. Liu, Y., M. Kumar, G.G. Katul, A. Parolari, A.M. Porporato, C.-W. Huang, A. Konings (2018): American Geophysical Union 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 10-14 Dec 2018
2018
Reduced resilience as a potential early warning signal of forest mortality. Liu, Y., M. Kumar, G.G. Katul, and A. Porporato (2018): Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 5-10, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana
2017
Increasing atmospheric humidity and CO2 concentrations alleviate forest mortality risk. Liu, Yanlan, Anthony Parolari, Mukesh Kumar, Cheng-Wei Huang, Gabriel Katul, Amilcare Porporato (2017): Calhoun CZO 2017 Summer Science Meeting, Union, SC, 17-18 May 2017
2017
Detection of early warning signals of forest mortality in California. Liu, Yanlan, Mukesh Kumar, Gabriel George Katul, Amilcare M Porporato (2017): American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 11-15 December 2017
2016
Increasing atmospheric humidity and CO2 concentration alleviate forest hydraulic failure risk. Liu, Y.; Parolari, A.; Kumar, M.; Porporato, A. M.; Katul, G. G. (2016): American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
2015
Role of meteorological controls on the inter-annual groundwater dynamics of wetlands in a southeastern US watershed. Liu, Y; Kumar, M. (2015): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2015, San Francisco, CA