Xinyuan Wei

2026
Zhang, Y., Wei, X., Tasnim, R., Alaba, O., and Zhao, J. (2026). Carbon storage and allocation in semi-natural perennial wild blueberry ecosystems under traditional management. Agronomy Journal. doi.org/10.1002/agj2.70319 
Wei, X., Hayes, D., McHale, G., Weiskittel, A., Zhao, J. & Daigneault, A. (2026). PyFIA: A Python-based solution for analyzing and visualizing forest attributes with the US Forest Inventory database. Carbon Balance and Management. 21, 18. doi.org/10.1186/s13021-025-00364-7

2025
Wei, X., Hayes, D., Schwalm, C., Fisher, J., Huntzinger, D., Ma, L., Vargas, R., & Brunsell, N. (2025). Climate constrains the enhancement of CO₂ fertilization on forest gross primary productivity. Environmental Research Letters. 20(6), 064013. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add177
Zhao, J., Daigneault, A., Wei, X., Salcido, E., & Weiskittel, A. (2025). Forest type, landowner practices, and climate shape tree species diversity in Maine, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 593, 122919. doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122919
 Poulter, B., Murray-Tortarolo, G., Hayes, D., Ciais, P., Andrew, R., Byrne, B., … Wei, X., …& Zhang Z. (2025). The North American Greenhouse Gas Budget: emissions, removals, and integration for CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O (2010-2019): Results from the Second REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes Study (RECCAP2). Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39 (4), e2024GB008310. doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008310
Wei, X., Hayes, D., Weiskittel, A., & Zhao, J. (2025). Warming-driven shifts in dominant tree species potentially reduce aboveground biomass in northeastern United States forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 580, 122536. doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122536

2024
Wei, X., Hayes, D., Butman, D., Qi, J., Ricciuto, D., & Yang, X. (2024). Modeling exports of dissolved organic carbon from landscapes: A review of challenges and opportunities. Environmental Research Letters. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3cf8
Roy, S., Wei, X., Weiskittel, A., Hayes, D., Nelson, P., & Contosta, A. (2024). Influence of climate zone shifts on forest ecosystems in northeastern United States and maritime Canada. Ecological Indicators. 160, 111921. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111921
Knox, R., Koven, C., Riley, W., Walker, A., Wright, J., Holm, J., Wei, X., Fisher, R., Zhu, Q., Tang, J., Kueppers, L., Ricciuto, D., Shuman, J., Yang, X., & Chambers, J. (2024). Nutrient Dynamics in a Coupled Terrestrial Biosphere and Land Model (ELM-FATES-CNP). Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 6 (13), e2023MS003689. doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003689
Wei, X., Hayes, D., Li, D., Butman, D., & Brewin, R. (2024). The fates of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in the Gulf of Maine. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(7), 3258-3266.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c08218

2023
Zhao, J., Daigneault, A., Weiskittel, A., & Wei, X. (2023). Climate and socioeconomic impacts on Maine’s forests under alternative future pathways. Ecological Economics. 214, 107979. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107979
Zhao, J., Wei, X., Diao, J., Chen, H., Lin, S., Zhu, Z., Jiang, X., & Zhu, H. (2023). Exploring plausible contributions of end-use harvested wood products to store atmospheric carbon in China. Biomass and Bioenergy. 177, 106934. doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2023.106934
Brewin, R., Sathyendranath, S., Kulk, G., Rio, M., Concha, A., Bell, T., … Wei, X., & Woolf, D. (2023). Ocean carbon from space: current status and priorities for the next decade. Earth-Science Reviews. 240, 104386. doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104386
Wei, X., Hayes, D., Ku, P., Yang, X., & Ricciuto, D. (2023). Diminishing marginal effect in estimating dissolved organic carbon export from the watershed. Environmental Research Communications. 5, 031003.doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acbf11
Casas-Ruiz, P., Bodmer, P., Bona, A., Couturier, M., Emilson, E., Finlay, K., Genet, H., Hayes, D., Karlsson, J., Kurz, W., Paré, D., Prairie, Y., Peng, C., Striegl, R., Wei, X., Ziegler, S., & del Giorgio. P. (2023). Integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to constrain estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange. Nature Communications. 14, 1571. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37232-2
Wei, X., Zhao, J., Hayes, D., Daigneault, A. & Zhu, H. (2023). A life cycle and product type based estimator for quantifying the carbon stored in wood products. Carbon Balance and Management. 18, 1. doi.org/10.1186/s13021-022-00220-y

2022
Zhao, J., Wei, X., & Li, L. (2022). The potential ability for storing carbon by harvested wood products. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5, 1055410. doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.1055410
Li, L., Wei, X., Zhao, J., Hayes, D., Daigneault, A., Weiskittel, A., Kizha, A., & O’Neill, S. (2022). Technological advancement expands carbon storage in harvested wood products in Maine, USA. Biomass and Bioenergy. 161, 106457. doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2022.106457
Diao, J., Liu, J., Zhu, Z., Wei, X., & Li, M. (2022). Active forest management accelerates plantation forests carbon sink and storage in Lishui, China. Forest Ecosystems. 9, 1004. doi.org/10.1016/j.fecs.2022.100004
Sun, J., Wei, X., Zhou Y., Chan, C., & Diao, J. (2022). Hurricanes substantially reduce the nutrients in tropical forested watersheds in Puerto Rico. Forests. 13(1), 71.doi.org/10.3390/f13010071

2021
Wei, X., Hayes, D., Fernandez, I., Zhao, J., Fraver, S., Chan, C., & Diao, J. (2021). Identifying key environmental factors explaining temporal patterns of DOC export from watersheds in the conterminous United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 126(5), e2020JG005813. doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005813
Wei, X., Hayes, D., Fernandez, I., Fraver, S. Zhao, J., & Weiskittel, A. (2021). Climate and atmospheric deposition drive the inter-annual variability and long-term trend of dissolved organic carbon flux in the conterminous United States. Science of the Total Environment. 771, 145448. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145448
Wei, X., Hayes, D., & Fernandez, I. (2021). Fire reduces riverine DOC concentration draining a watershed and alters post-fire DOC recovery patterns. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2), 024022.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd7ae

2019
Chen, C., Wei, X., Weiskittel, A., & Hayes, D. (2019). Above-ground carbon stock in merchantable trees not reduced between cycles of spruce budworm outbreaks due to changing species composition in spruce-fir forests of Maine, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 453, 117590. doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117590
Wei, X., & Larsen, C. (2019). Methods to detect edge effected reductions in fire frequency in simulated forest landscapes. International Journal of Geo-Information. 8(6), 277. doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8060277

2018
Wei, X., Hayes, D., Fraver, S., & Chen, G. (2018). Global pyrogenic carbon production during recent decades has created the potential for a large, long-term sink of atmospheric CO₂. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 123(12), 3682-3696. doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004490
Wei, X., & Larsen, C. (2018). Assessing the minimum number of time since last fire sample-points required to estimate the fire cycle: influences of fire rotation length and study area scale. Forests. 9(11), 708. doi.org/10.3390/f9110708