Ming Feng Li

Ming Feng Li
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Contacts

514-987-3000, poste 2927

Université du Québec à Montréal
Pavillon des sciences biologiques, SB-2805
2080 St-Urbain
Montréal, Québec
H2X 3X8
Canada

Diploma(s)

Ongoing Diploma(s)

Ph.D. in Biological Science

Co-supervised by: Paul del Giorgio and Yves Prairie

Completed Diploma(s)

M.Sc. in Physical Geography

B.Sc. in Geographic Science

Biography

Carbon biogeochemistry; carbon linkage between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; riverine total carbon export; dissolved organic carbon (DOC); dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC); particulate organic carbon  (POC); particulate inorganic carbon (PIC); greenhouse gases (CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O); watershed carbon budgets; landscape controls of riverine carbon export.

The carbon linkages between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in Quebec - Li (Jan 2012)

Mingfeng's PhD project is focused on carbon linkage between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, aiming to explore the total carbon export (TCE) from landscapes to river systems and the proportional variation in DOC, DIC, POC, PIC, and dissolved CO₂ and CH₄ in TCE from different terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, the field observation is carried out mainly in temperate, boreal and taiga forest landscapes, which are respectively located in the Eastern Townships, Abitibi and Schefferville of Quebec, Canada. It is expected that a better understanding of landscape effect on riverine carbon export could be achieved through quantifying and integrating the relationships between carbon export and different landscape variables in the three terrestrial ecosystems. At the same time, the most important determinant controlling riverine carbon export in the studied regions could be preliminarily identified in a comparative way and the influence of anthropogenic activities on carbon export from landscapes also could be further understood in the context of native ecosystems.

Publications

(Of the following papers, some are in English and others in Chinese with an English abstract.)

Mingfeng Li, P. A. del Giorgio, A. H. Parkes, and Y. T. Prairie. 2015. The relative influence of topography and land cover on inorganic and organic carbon export from catchments in Southern Quebec, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, doi: 10.1002/2015JG003073

Yunshe Dong, Yuchun Qi, Jiyuan Liu, Manfred Domroes, Lixin Liu, Yuanbo Geng, Xingren Liu, Xiaohong Yang, and Mingfeng Li. 2006. Emission characteristics of carbon dioxide in the semiarid Stipa grandis steppe in Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 18 (3): 488-494.

Mingfeng Li, Yunshe Dong, Yuchun Qi and Yuanbo Geng. 2005. Effects of Land-use Change on the Contents of C & N in Grassland Soils. Chinese Journal of Grassland, 27(1)：1-6.

Yuchun Qi, Yunshe Dong, Jiyuan Liu, Yuanbo Geng, Mingfeng Li, Xiaohong Yang, and Lixin Liu. 2005. Daily variation characteristics of CO₂ emission fluxes and contributions of environmental factors in semiarid grassland of Inner Mongolia, China. Science in China Ser. D Earth Sciences, 48 (7): 1052-1064.

Mingfeng Li, Yunshe Dong, Yuchun Qi and Yuanbo Geng. 2004. Response of CO₂ Emissions to the Change of Major Environmental Factors in a Temperate Grassland Ecosystem. Agricultural Sciences in China, 3(3): 234-240.

Mingfeng Li, Yunshe Dong, Yuanbo Geng and Yuchun Qi. 2004. Analyses of the Correlation between CO₂ Fluxes and Distribution of C & N in Grassland Soils. Environmental Science, 25(2): 7-11.

Mingfeng Li, Yunshe Dong, Yuchun Qi and Yuanbo Geng.2004. Impact of Extreme Drought on the Fluxes of CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O from a Temperate Steppe Ecosystem. Resource Science, 26(3): 89-95.

Mingfeng Li, Yunshe Dong, Yuanbo Geng and Yuchun Qi. 2004. Response of CO₂ Emissions to the Change in Major Environmental Factors in a Temperate Grassland Ecosystem. Scientia Agricultura Sinica, 37(11): 1722-1727.

Mingfeng Li, Yunshe Dong, Yuchun Qi and Yuanbo Geng. 2004. Impact of Reclamation of Grassland on the Fluxes of CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O in a Temperate Grassland Ecosystem. Scientia Agricultura Sinica, 37(12): 1960-1965.

Yuchun Qi, Yunshe Dong, Yuanbo Geng, Xiaohong Yang, Lixin Liu, Mingfeng Li and Xingren Liu. 2004. The comparison of the CH₄ flux diurnal variation characteristics and diurnal uptake flux in different phenologies in Leymus chinensis grassland in Inner Mongolia, China. Geographical Research, 23(6): 785-794.

Mingfeng Li, Yunshe Dong, Yuchun Qi, Yuanbo Geng and Ye Lv. 2003. The Analysis of Diurnal Variation of CO₂ Fluxes in Leymus chinensis Grassland of Xilin River Basin.Chinese Journal of Grassland, 25(3): 9-14.