Dehua Mao

7.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
137 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Dehua Mao is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Dehua Mao has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Ecology, 89 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 20 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Dehua Mao's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (68 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (50 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (28 papers). Dehua Mao is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (68 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (50 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (28 papers). Dehua Mao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Dehua Mao's co-authors include Zongming Wang, Mingming Jia, Chunying Ren, Ling Luo, Kaishan Song, Yuanzhi Zhang, Yuan Zeng, Zongming Wang, Lin Li and Yeqiao Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Dehua Mao

132 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

National wetland mapping in China: A new product resulting from object-based and hierarchical classification of Landsat 8 OLI images

2020 315 citations Dehua Mao, Zongming Wang et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →
China's wetlands loss to urban expansion

2018 305 citations Dehua Mao, Zongming Wang et al. Land Degradation and Development profile →
Diverse policies leading to contrasting impacts on land cover and ecosystem services in Northeast China

2019 236 citations Dehua Mao, Zongming Wang et al. profile →
Rapid, robust, and automated mapping of tidal flats in China using time series Sentinel-2 images and Google Earth Engine

2021 217 citations Mingming Jia, Zongming Wang et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Rapid expansion of coastal aquaculture ponds in China from Landsat observations during 1984–2016

2019 198 citations Ren Chunying, Zongming Wang et al. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation profile →
Mapping global distribution of mangrove forests at 10-m resolution

2023 173 citations Mingming Jia, Zongming Wang et al. Science Bulletin profile →
Enhanced mangrove vegetation index based on hyperspectral images for mapping mangrove

2022 123 citations Dehua Mao et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Dehua Mao

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dehua Mao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dehua Mao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dehua Mao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dehua Mao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Dehua Mao. Dehua Mao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Unexpected canopy gain in Earth’s mangrove forests linked to natural expansion and regrowth 2025 ·California Digital Library ·Zhen Zhang, Nicholas Murray, Xiao‐Peng Song, Peter Bunting, Thomas A. Worthington, Temilola Fatoyinbo, Dehua Mao, Mingming Jia, Virni Budi Arifanti, Toe Aung, (unknown), Daniel A. Friess	0
2	National mapping of wetland vegetation leaf area index in China using hybrid model with Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 data 2025 ·ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Jianing Zhen, Dehua Mao, Yeqiao Wang, Junjie Wang, Chenwei Nie, (unknown), Hengxing Xiang, Yongxing Ren, Ling Luo, Zongming Wang	0
3	Temperature related to the spatial heterogeneity of wetland soil total nitrogen content in a frozen zone 2024 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·(unknown), Mingchang Wang, Dehua Mao, Xiaoyan Li, Zongming Wang	4
4	Spartina alterniflora invasion benefits blue carbon sequestration in China 2024 ·Science Bulletin ·Jingfan Zhang, Dehua Mao, Jihua Liu, (unknown), Matthew L. Kirwan, Christian J. Sanders, Jinge Zhou, Zhe Lü, Guoming Qin, Xingyun Huang, Hui Li, (unknown), Nianzhi Jiao, Jilan Su, Faming Wang	15
5	Identify and map coastal aquaculture ponds and their drainage and impoundment dynamics 2024 ·International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ·(unknown), Dehua Mao, Ming Wang, Xiangming Xiao, Chi‐Yeung Choi, Chunlin Huang, Zongming Wang	6
6	Interannual changes of urban wetlands in China’s major cities from 1985 to 2022 2024 ·ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Ming Wang, Dehua Mao, Yeqiao Wang, Huiying Li, Jianing Zhen, Hengxing Xiang, Yongxing Ren, Mingming Jia, Kaishan Song, Zongming Wang	21
7	Nighttime light in China's coastal zone: The type classification approach using SDGSAT-1 Glimmer Imager 2024 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Mingming Jia, (unknown), Zuoqi Chen, Zongming Wang, Chunying Ren, Dehua Mao, Chuanpeng Zhao, Rong Zhang, Yeqiao Wang	26
8	Optimizing ecological security patterns considering zonal vegetation distribution for regional sustainability 2023 ·Ecological Engineering ·Hengxing Xiang, Jian Zhang, Dehua Mao, Ming Wang, Fudong Yu, Zongming Wang, Huiying Li	25
9	Mapping global distribution of mangrove forests at 10-m resolution breakdown → 2023 ·Science Bulletin ·Mingming Jia, Zongming Wang, Dehua Mao, Ren Chunying, Kaishan Song, Chuanpeng Zhao, Chao Wang, Xiangming Xiao, Yeqiao Wang	173
10	Extraction of eutrophic and green ponds from segmentation of high-resolution imagery based on the EAF-Unet algorithm 2023 ·Environmental Pollution ·Yating Hu, (unknown), (unknown), Yu Wang, Ge Liu, Kaishan Song, Dehua Mao, Shihong Wu, Liqiao Tian	4
11	Monitoring the light pollution changes of China’s mangrove forests from 1992-2020 using nighttime light data 2023 ·Frontiers in Marine Science ·(unknown), Mingming Jia, Rong Zhang, Zongming Wang, Dehua Mao, Chunying Ren, Chuanpeng Zhao	10
12	Heterogeneous responses of wetland vegetation to climate change in the Amur River basin characterized by normalized difference vegetation index from 1982 to 2020 2023 ·Frontiers in Plant Science ·(unknown), Xiaoyan Li, Dehua Mao, (unknown), Zongming Wang	3
13	Wetland mapping in East Asia by two-stage object-based Random Forest and hierarchical decision tree algorithms on Sentinel-1/2 images 2023 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Ming Wang, Dehua Mao, Yeqiao Wang, Xiangming Xiao, Hengxing Xiang, (unknown), Ling Luo, Mingming Jia, Kaishan Song, Zongming Wang	70
14	Spatiotemporal variations of soil salinization in China's West Songnen Plain 2023 ·Land Degradation and Development ·(unknown), Zongming Wang, Dehua Mao, Mingming Jia, (unknown), Xiaoyan Li	24
15	Annual Wetland Mapping in Metropolis by Temporal Sample Migration and Random Forest Classification with Time Series Landsat Data and Google Earth Engine 2022 ·Remote Sensing ·Ming Wang, Dehua Mao, Yeqiao Wang, Kaishan Song, (unknown), Mingming Jia, Zongming Wang	26
16	Using Multisource Geospatial Data to Identify Potential Wetland Rehabilitation Areas: A Pilot Study in China’s Sanjiang Plain 2020 ·Water ·Zhiqiang Qiu, Ling Luo, Dehua Mao, Baojia Du, (unknown), Mingming Jia, Zongming Wang	5
17	Remote Observation in Habitat Suitability Changes for Waterbirds in the West Songnen Plain, China 2019 ·Sustainability ·Yanlin Tian, Zongming Wang, Dehua Mao, Lin Li, Mingyue Liu, Mingming Jia, Weidong Man, Chunyan Lu	16
18	A New Vegetation Index to Detect Periodically Submerged Mangrove Forest Using Single-Tide Sentinel-2 Imagery 2019 ·Remote Sensing ·Mingming Jia, Zongming Wang, Chao Wang, Dehua Mao, Yuanzhi Zhang	129
19	Spatial Expansion and Soil Organic Carbon Storage Changes of Croplands in the Sanjiang Plain, China 2017 ·Sustainability ·Weidong Man, (unknown), Lin Li, Mingyue Liu, Dehua Mao, Chunying Ren, Zongming Wang, Mingming Jia, (unknown), Chunyan Lu, Huiying Li	26
20	Evaluating the Effectiveness of Conservation on Mangroves: A Remote Sensing-Based Comparison for Two Adjacent Protected Areas in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, China 2016 ·Remote Sensing ·Mingming Jia, Mingyue Liu, Zongming Wang, Dehua Mao, Ren Chunying, (unknown)	56

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