The environmental pollution processes, effects and controls of heavy metals in soil. Effects of seasonal freeze-thaw action on the migration and transformation of typical pollutants and nutrient elements in black soil.

2005-09--2010-07   Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.  Ph. D.

2001-09--2005-07   Shandong Agricultural University . B.S.

   

2014-12~2026.02, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor.

2018-10~2019-10, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Visiting scholar.

2014-12~2026.02, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Associate professor.

2010-07~2014-12, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese

Academy of Sciences. Assistant professor.

   

  1. Yue Li, Hongwen Yu, Quanying Wang, Yunjiang Liang. Impact of microplastics on black soil aggregate stability: a novel perspective from glomalin-related soil protein. Agricultural Science & Technology 2026, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.5c01158

2. Tianhao Che, Boling Deng, Naiwen Hu, Meixuan Wu ,Hongwen Yu, Jing Yue, Quanying Wang. Spatiotemporal evolution and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in agricultural black soils of Northeast China. Environmental Research 301 (2026) 124567.  

3.  Meixuan Wu, Boling Deng, Guankai Qiu, Hongwen Yu, Hongwei Shi, Bo Hu, Jing Yue, Quanying Wang. Seasonal freeze-thaw cycles drive soil aggregate turnover and nutrient redistribution in black soil, Northeast China, Soil & Tillage Research, 2026, 255, 106807.

4.  Haiyi Zhang, Tianhao Che, Hongwen Yu, Jing Yue, Quanying Wang. Phthalate ester pollution poses a potential threat to soil organisms: Insights from a global meta and machine-learning analysis, Environmental Research, 2026, 290, 123467.  

5.  Boling Deng, Meixuan Wu, Guankai Qiu, Zhenghao Sun, Zhongxu Duan, Hongwen Yu, Quanying Wang. Effects of freeze-thaw cycles on the distribution of cadmium in black soil: Perspectives from soil aggregate turnover. Pedosphere. https://doi.org./10.1016/j.pedsph.2025.09.026.    

6.  Zhenghao Sun, Tianye Wang, Guankai Qiu, Ningning Song, Xiutao Yang, Guopeng Zhu, Boling Deng, Quanying Wang, Hongwen Yu. Impacts of dibutyl phthalate on the microbial community assembly process in black soil of Northeast China, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2025, 13(4), 117238.        

7. Guankai Qiu, Meixuan Wu, Zhongxu Duan, Nannan Li, Chuanzhong Zhang, Jingying Wang, Jing Yue, Quanying Wang, Hongwen Yu. Mechanism of nanoplastics altering soil carbon turnover under freeze-thaw cycle, Journa l of Hazardous Materials, 2025, 491,137956.      

8.  Guankai Qiu, Zhongmin Han, Tianye Wang, Zhenghao Sun, Boling Deng, Meixuan Wu, Zhongxu Duan; Shaoqing Zhang, Xiutao Yang, Guopeng Zhu, Quanying Wang, Hongwen Yu, In-depth analysis of soil microbial community succession model construction under microplastics

stress. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2025, 73(6), 3363-3372.       

9.  Tianhao Che, Guankai Qiu, Hongwen Yu, Quanying Wang. Impacts of micro/nano plastics on the ecotoxicological effects of antibiotics in agricultural soil: A comprehensive study based on meta-analysis and machine learning prediction. Science of the Total Environment, 2024, 946, 177076.

10. Quanying Wang, Meixuan Wu, Naiwen Hu, Boling Deng, Tianye Wang, Xiutao Yang, Guopeng Zhu, Ningning Song, Ying Zeng, Bo Hu, Hongwen Yu. Tracing the vertical migration of exogenous cadmium in soil by seasonal freeze-thaw event using rare earth elements. Science of the Total Environment, 2024, 946, 174147.

11. Quanying Wang, Boling Deng, Meixuan Wu, Guankai Qiu, Zhenghao Sun, Tianye Wang, Shaoqing Zhang, Xiutao Yang, Ningning Song, Ying Zeng, Guopeng Zhu, Hongwen Yu. Impacts of natural field freeze-thaw process on the release kinetics of cadmium in black soil:

Soil aggregate turnover perspective. Geoderma, 2024, 447, 116932.

12. Quanying Wang, Qirong Wang, Tianye Wang, Shaoqing Zhang, Hongwen Yu. Impacts of polypropylene microplastics on the distribution of cadmium, enzyme activities, and bacterial community in black soil at the aggregate level. Science of the Total Environment, 2024, 917, 170541.

13.  Naiwen Hu, Hongwen Yu, Boling Deng, Bo Hu, Guopeng Zhu, Xiutao Yang, Tianye Wang, Ying Zeng, Quanying Wang. Levels of heavy metal in soil and vegetable and associated health risk in peri-urban areas across China. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023, 259, 115037.

14. Naiwen Hu, Hongwen Yu, Qirong Wang, Guopeng Zhu, Xiutao Yang, Tianye Wang, Yang Wang, Quanying Wang. Colloid-facilitated mobilization of cadmium: Comparison of spring freeze-thaw event and autumn freeze-thaw event. Science of the Total Environment, 2022, 852, 158467.

15. Quanying Wang, Jingyue Sun, Naiwen Hu, Tianye Wang, Jing Yue, Bo Hu, Hongwen Yu. Effects of soil aging conditions on distributions of cadmium distribution and phosphatase activity in different soil aggregates. Science of the Total Environment, 2022, 834, 155440.

16. Quanying Wang, Jingyue Sun, Hongwen Yu, Xiutao Yang, Jing Yue, Naiwen Hu. Laboratory versus field soil aging: Impacts on cadmium distribution, release, and bioavailability. Scienceof the Total Environment, 2021, 779, 146442.

17. Quanying Wang, Naiwen Hu, Hongwen Yu, Qirong Wang, Yuxin Liu, Jing Yue, Bo Hu. Do freeze-thaw cycles affect the cadmium accumulation, subcellular distribution, and chemical forms in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.)? Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2021, 228, 112952.

18. Quanying Wang, Lijie Zhang, Xujun Liang, Xiangping Yin, Yaoling Zhang, Wang Zheng, Eric M. Pierce, Baohua Gu. Rates and dynamics of isotope exchange between dissolved elemental Hg(0) and Hg(II)-bound to organic and inorganic ligands. Environmental Science & Technology, 2020, 54(23), 15535-15545.

19. Quanying Wang, Jingyue Sun, Xingjian Xu, Hongwen Yu. Distribution and availability of fungicide-derived, copper in soil aggregates. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2020, 20, 816-823.

20.  Quanying Wang, Jingyue Sun, Hongwen Yu. Impacts of different freeze-thaw treatments on the adsorption and desorption behaviors of Cd in black soil. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020, 27, 10990-10999.

21.  Quanying Wang, Jingyue Sun, Xingjian Xu, Hongwen Yu. Integration of chemical and toxicological tools to assess the bioavailability of copper derived from different copper-based fungicides in soil. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2018, 161, 662-668.(12,11)

22.  Quanying Wang, Jingshuang, Liu, Bo Hu. Integration of copper subcellular distribution and chemical forms to understand copper toxicity in apple trees. Environmental and Experimental

Botany, 2016, 123: 125-131.

23.  Quanying Wang, Bo Hu, Hongwen Yu. Adsorption behaviors of fungicide-derived copper onto various size fractions of aggregates from orchard soil. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2016, 23(24): 24983-24990.

24.  Quanying Wang, Jingshuang, Liu, Yang Wang, Hongwen Yu. Accumulations of Copper in Apple Orchard Soils: Distribution and Availability in Soil Aggregate Fractions. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2015, 15: 1075-1082.

25.  Quanying Wang, Jingshuang Liu, Qiang Liu. Contamination of Apple Orchard Soils and Fruit Trees with Copper-Based Fungicides: Sampling Aspects. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2015, 187(1): 4121-4121.

26.  Quanying Wang, Jingshuang Liu, Shuai Cheng. Heavy Metals in Apple Orchard Soils and Fruits and Their Health Risks in Liaodong Peninsula, Northeast China. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2015, 187(1): 4178-4178.

27.  Quanying Wang, Yang Wang, Qicun Wang, Jingshuang Liu. Impacts of 9 Years of a New Conservational Agricultural Management on Soil Organic Carbon Fractions, Soil and Tillage Research, 2014, 143: 1-6.

28.  Quanying Wang, Dongmei Zhou, Long Cang. Bioavailability of Soil Copper from Different Sources: Integrating Chemical Approaches with Biological Indicators. Pedosphere, 2014, 24(1): 145-152.

29.  Quanying Wang, Yang Wang, Qicun Wang, Qiang Liu, Dui-An Lv, Jiunian Guan, Jingshuang Liu. Effects of Land Use Changes on the Spectroscopic Characterization of Hot-Water Extractable Organic Matter along a Chronosequence: Correlations with Soil Enzyme Activity. European Journal of Soil Biology, 2013, 58(1): 8-12.

30.  Quanying Wang, Dongmei Zhou. Microbial Communities of Apple Orchard Soils Receiving Long-Term Copper Fungicides. International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation, Engineering (RSETE 2013), 2013, 67-70.

31.  Yang Wang, Jingshuang Liu, Jingxin Dou, Quanying Wang. Organic Carbon Accumulation and Decomposition Characteristics of Calamagrostis angustifolia Litter in Various Types of Freshwater Wetlands of Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, 2013, 22(12A): 3639-3646.

32.  Quanying Wang, Jingshuang Liu, Yang Wang, Jiunian Guan, Qiang Liu, Dui-an Lv. Land Use Effects on Soil Quality along a Native Wetland to Cropland Chronosequence. European Journal of Soil Biology, 2012, 53(1): 114-120.

33.  Quanying Wang, Dongmei Zhou, Long Cang, Tianran Sun. Application of Bioassays to Evaluate a Copper Contaminated Soil Before and After a Pilot-Scale Electrokinetic Remediation. Environmental Pollution, 2009, 157(2): 410-416.

34.  Quanying Wang, Dongmei Zhou, Long Cang. Microbial and Enzyme Properties of Apple Orchard Soil as Affected by Long-Term Application of Copper Fungicide. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 2009, 41(7): 1504-1509.

35.   Quanying Wang, Dongmei Zhou, Long Cang, Lianzhen Li, Peng Wang. Solid/Solution Cu Fractionations/Speciation of a Cu Contaminated Soil After Pilot-Scale Electrokinetic Remediation and Their Relationships with Soil Microbial and Enzyme Activities. Environmental Pollution, 2009, 157(8-9): 2203-2208.

36.   Quanying Wang, Dongmei Zhou, Long Cang, Lianzhen Li, Haowen Zhu. Indication of Soil Heavy Metal Pollution with Earthworms and Soil Microbial Biomass Carbon in the Vicinity of an Abandoned Copper Mine in Eastern Nanjing, China. European Journal of Soil Biology, 2009, 45(3): 229-234.

Studies on the migration and transformation of heavy metals in the soil-plant system.

(1)  

A new high-photosynthetic-efficiency planting pattern of crop and the research and application of matching technology. State

level, 2015.

(2)  

 Technology and mechanisms of electrokinetic remediation of contaminated soils. Ministerial level, 2015.

(3)  

President scholarships of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Ministerial level, 2010.

1. Sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China, Development of Multifunctional Biological Conditioners and Construction of Related Technologies for Improving Barren Black Soils, 2024/12–2027/12.
2. General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 42377028, Mechanism of Soil Colloid Release on Cadmium Migration Behavior during Seasonal Freeze–Thaw Process, 2024/01–2027/12.
3. General Program of the Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province, 20230101083JC, Mechanism of Black Soil Aggregate Stability in Seasonal Freeze–Thaw Zone Based on Rare Earth Oxide Tracer, 2023/01–2025/12.
4. Key R&D Project of the Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Development Plan, 20210203007SF, Development and Application of Long-Acting Stabilized Functional Materials for Remediation of Multi‑Metal Contaminated Soils in Northeastern China, 2021/07–2024/06.
5. Sub‑project of the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), XDA28020102‑4, Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Migration and Transformation, 2021/09–2026/08.
6. General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 42077152, Mechanism of Soil Aggregate Turnover on Cadmium Migration and Transformation in Black Soil under Freeze–Thaw Action, 2021/01–2024/12.
7. General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 41771356, Cadmium Migration and Transformation Behavior during Freeze–Thaw Process in Typical Suburban Vegetable Soils of Northeast China, 2018/01–2021/12.
8. General Program of the Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province, 20180101315JC, Mechanism of Freeze–Thaw Process on Cadmium Uptake by Vegetables in Suburban Vegetable Soils of Northeast China, 2018/01–2020/12.
9. Fund for Excellent Young Talents of the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS, DLSYQ14003, Fate Behavior of Copper‑Containing Fungicides at the Micro‑aggregate Interface of Orchard Soils, 2014/01–2018/12.
10. Sub‑project of the CAS Key Deployment Project “Mechanisms and Regulation of Soil Material Cycling in Northeastern Farmland under Different Tillage Modes”, KZZD‑EW‑TZ‑16, Migration and Transformation Laws and Mechanisms of Metal Nutrient Elements in the Soil–Crop System under Different Tillage Modes, 2013/06–2016/06.
11. Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province, 20130522083JH, Copper Behavior Processes and Mechanisms in Typical Apple‑Pear Orchard Soil–Tree Systems of Jilin Province, 2013/01–2015/12, Principal Investigator.
12. Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 41101305, Copper Uptake by Fruit Trees from Soil and Its Physiological Mechanisms in Typical Apple Orchards of Northeast China, 2012/01–2014/12.
13. CAS “Research Startup Fund for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation and President’s Award Winners”, Copper Uptake by Apple Trees under Soil Acidification Conditions and Its Mechanisms, 2011/05–2014/05.
14. Open Fund of the Key Laboratory of Agro‑ecology of Black Soil, CAS, Distribution Characteristics of Active Organic Carbon Migration in Black Soil Aggregates under Freeze–Thaw Conditions, 2011/05–2014/05,