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Zhang H., Li A., Wei Y., ... & Sheng Y., Yang Y. (2022) Development of a new methodology for multifaceted assessment, analysis, and characterization of soil contamination. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 438: 129542.
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Yang J., Li G., Sheng Y., Zhang F. (2022) Response and contribution of bacterial and archaeal communities to eutrophication in urban river sediments. Environmental Pollution. 119397.
Ning Z, Zhang M, Zhang N, … & Sheng Y., Chen Z. (2022). Metagenomic Characterization of a Novel Enrichment Culture Responsible for Dehalogenation of 1, 2, 3-Trichloropropane to Allyl Chloride. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2022: 108907.
Zhang M, Ning Z, Guo C, … & Sheng Y., Chen Z. (2022). Using Compound Specific Isotope Analysis to decipher the 1, 2, 3-trichloropropane-to-Allyl chloride transformation by groundwater microbial communities. Environmental Pollution, 2022: 120577.
Sheng Y., Dong H.*, Kukkadapu R.K., Ni S., Zeng Q., Hu J., Coffin E., Zhao S., Sommer A.J., McCarrick R.M., Lorigan G.A (2021). Lignin-enhanced reduction of structural Fe(III) in nontronite: Dual roles of lignin as electron shuttle and donor. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 307: 1-21.
Zhang B., Liu J.*, Sheng Y.*, Shi J., Dong H*. (2021) Disentangling microbial syntrophic mechanisms for hexavalent chromium reduction in autotrophic biosystems. Environmental Science & Technology 55, 9, 6340–6351.
Guo L., Wang G.*, Sheng Y.*, Shi Z. (2021) Hydrogeochemical constraints shape hot spring microbial community compositions: Evidence from acidic, moderate‐temperature springs and alkaline, high‐temperature springs, southwestern Yunnan geothermal areas, China. JGR-biogeosciences, 126, 3: e2020JG005868.
Sheng Y., Li G., Dong H., Liu Y., Ma L., Yang M., Liu Y., Liu J., Deng S., Zhang D* (2021). Distinct assembly processes shape bacterial communities along unsaturated, groundwater fluctuated, and saturated zones. Science of the Total Environment. 761, 143303
Sheng Y., Liu Y., Yang J., Dong H., Liu B., Zhang H., Li A., Wei Y., Li G.*, Zhang D* (2021). History of petroleum contamination triggering the depth-resolved assembly of microbial communities in the vadose zone. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 42(15): 124060.
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Guo L., Wang G.*, Sheng Y.*, Sun X., Shi Z., Xu Q., Mu W. (2020) Temperature governs the distribution of hot spring microbial community in three hydrothermal fields, Eastern Tibetan Plateau Geothermal Belt, Western China. Science of the Total Environment, 720, 137574.
Zhao S., Jin Q., Sheng Y., Agrawal A., Guo D., Dong H*. (2020) Promotion of microbial oxidation of structural Fe(II) in nontronite by oxalate and NTA. Environmental Science & Technology. 54: 13026-13035.
Guo L., Wang G., Sheng Y., Shi Z., Sun X. (2019) Groundwater microbial communities and their connection to hydrochemical environment in Golmud, Northwest China. Science of the Total Environment, 695, 133848.
Jiang W., Wang G., Sheng Y., Shi Z., Zhang H. (2019) Isotopes in groundwater (2H, 18O, 14C) revealed the climate and groundwater recharge in the Northern China. Science of the Total Environment, 666, 298-307.
Sheng Y., Zhang X., Zhai X., Zhang F., Li G*, Zhang D.* (2018) A mobile, modular and rapidly-acting treatment system for optimizing and improving the removal of non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) in groundwater. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 360. 639-650.
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Qu S., Wang G.*, Shi Z., Xu Q., Guo Y., Ma L., Sheng Y. (2018) Using stable isotopes (δD, δ18O, δ34S and 87Sr/86Sr) to identify sources of water in abandoned mines in the Fengfeng coal mining district, northern China. Hydrogeology Journal. 26(5), 1443-1453.
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Sheng Y., Wang G.*, Hao C., Xie Q., Zhang Q. (2016) Microbial community structures in petroleum contaminated soils at an oil field, Hebei, China. Clean- Soil, Air, Water. 44(7): 829-839.
Sheng Y., Tian X., Wang G.*, Hao C., Liu F. (2016) Bacterial diversity and biogeochemical processes of oil-contaminated groundwater, Baoding, North China. Geomicrobiology Journal. 33(6):537-551.
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