主要研究方向为受损水生态系统修复原理与应用。已在环境与生态学领域发表SCI论文30余篇，其中以第一作者身份/通讯作者在Water Research、Journal of Ecology、Environment International等期刊上发表SCI论文16篇。近年来，主持过国家自然科学基金青年项目和博后基金面上项目，作为技术骨干参与多项国家科技基础工作专项和科技重大专项。
[1] Siyu Zhang, Hao Wang, Miaomiao Liu, Hongwei Yu*, Jianfeng Peng, Xiaofeng Cao, Chunrong Wang, Ruiping Liu, Mohammadreza Kamali, Jiuhui Qu, Press perturbations of microplastics and antibiotics on freshwater micro-ecosystem: Case study for the ecological restoration of submerged plants, Water Research, 2022, 119248.
[2] Hongwei Yu, Miaomiao Liu, Diga Gang, Jianfeng Peng, Chengzhi Hu*, Jiuhui Qu. Polyethylene microplastics interfere with the nutrient cycle in water-plant-sediment systems. Water research, 2022, 118191.
[3] Jichun Mu, Jing Qi, Hongwei Yu*, Chengzhi Hu, Yujing Mu, Jiuhui Qu, Dynamic chamber as a more reliable technique for measuring methane emissions from aquatic ecosystems, Science of The Total Environment, 2022, 158147.
[4] Hongwei Yu, Weixiao Qi, Xiaofeng Cao, Jingwen Hu, Yang Li, Jianfeng Peng*, Chengzhi Hu, Jiuhui Qu. Microplastic residues in wetland ecosystems: Do they truly threaten the plant-microbe-soil system? Environment International, 2021,156:106708.
[5] Hongwei Yu, Weixiao Qi, Xiaofeng Cao, Yajun Wang, Yang Li, Yan Xu, Xiaoliang Zhang, Jianfeng Peng*, Jiuhui Qu. Impact of microplastics on the foraging, photosynthesis and digestive systems of submerged carnivorous macrophytes under low and high nutrient concentrations. Environmental Pollution, 2022, 292(1):118220.
[6] Hongwei Yu, Jianfeng Peng, Xiaofeng Cao, Yajun Wang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Yan Xu, Weixiao Qi*. Effects of microplastics and glyphosate on growth rate, morphological plasticity, photosynthesis, and oxidative stress in the aquatic species Salvinia cucullate. Environmental Pollution, 2021(15), 279:116900.
[7] Hongwei Yu, Xiaoliang Zhang, Jingwen Hu, Jianfeng Peng*, Jiuhui Qu. Ecotoxicity of polystyrene microplastics to submerged carnivorous Utricularia vulgaris plants in freshwater ecosystems. Environmental Pollution, 2020, 114830.
[8] Jingwen Hu#, Hongwei Yu#（共一）, Yang Li, Junnan Wang, Tian Lv, Chunhua Liu*, Dan Yu. Variation in resource allocation strategies and environmental driving factors for different life forms of aquatic plants in cold temperate zones. Journal of Ecology, 2021, 109:3046-3059.
[9] Junnan Wang, Qiuyue Wang, Jingwen Hu, Hongwei Yu*, Chunhua Liu, Dan Yu. The influence of small-scale resource heterogeneity caused by human activities on the growth phenotype of invasive aquatic plants. Ecological Indicators, 2021, 125, 107504.
[10] Hongwei Yu, LigongWang, ChunhuaLiu*, Dan Yu, Jiuhui Qu. Effects of a spatially heterogeneous nutrient distribution on the growth of clonal wetland plants. BMC ecology, 2020, 20, 59.
[11] Nan Shen, Chunhua Liu, Hongwei Yu*, Jiuhui Qu. Effects of resource heterogeneity and environmental disturbance on the growth performance and interspecific competition of wetland clonal plants. Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020, 22:e00914.
[12] Hongwei Yu, Nan Shen, Dan Yu, Chunhua Liu*. Clonal integration increases growth performance and expansion of Eichhornia crassipes in littoral zones: A simulation study. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2019, 159, 13-22.
[13] Hongwei Yu, Nan Shen, Xin Guan, Siqi Yu, Dan Yu, Chunhua Liu*. Influence of Soil Nutrient Heterogeneity and Competition on Sprouting and Ramets Growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides. CLEAN–Soil, Air, Water, 2019, 47(2), 1800182.
[14] Hongwei Yu, Weixiao Qi, Chunhua Liu, Lei, Yang, Ligong, Wang, Tian Lv, Jianfeng Peng*. Different Stages of Aquatic Vegetation Succession Driven by Environmental Disturbance in the Last 38 Years. Water, 2019, 11(7), 1412.
[15] Hongwei Yu, Nan Shen, Dan Yu, Chunhua Liu*. Effects of temporal heterogeneity of water supply and spatial heterogeneity of soils nutrients on the growth and intraspecific competition of Bolboschoenus yagara depend on plant density. Frontiers in plant science, 2018, 9, 1987.
[16] Hongwei Yu, Nan Shen, Siqi Yu, Dan Yu, Chunhua Liu*. Responses of the native species Sparganium angustifolium and the invasive species Egeria densa to warming and interspecific competition. Plos One. 2018, 13(6), e0199478.
[17] Nan Shen, Hongwei Yu, Siqi Yu, Dan Yu, Chunhua Liu*. Does soil nutrient heterogeneity improve the growth performance and intraspecific competition of the invasive plant Myriophyllum aquaticum? Frontiers in plant science, 2019, 10:723.
[18] Yajun Wang, Jianfeng Peng*, Xiaofeng Cao, Yan Xu, Hongwei Yu, Gaoqi Duan, Jiuhui Qu. Isotopic and chemical evidence for nitrate sources and transformation processes in a plateau lake basin in Southwest China. Science of The Total Environment, 2020, 711, 134856.
[19] Yajun Wang, Yu Tang, Yan Xu, Hongwei Yu, Xiaofeng Cao, Gaoqi Duan, Lijiao Bi, Jianfeng Peng. Isotopic dynamics of precipitation and its regional and local drivers in a plateau inland lake basin, Southwest China, Science of The Total Environment, 2021, 143043.
[20] Xiaofeng Cao, Xiaoyan Xu, Rui Bian, Yajun Wang, Hongwei Yu, Yan Xu, Gaoqi Duan, Lijiao Bi, Pengfei Chen, Shaopeng Gao, Jie Wang, Jianfeng Peng*, Jiuhui Qu. Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding delineates the contrastingly temporal change of lake cyanobacterial communities. Water Research, 2020, 183, 116077.
[21] Yang Li, Ligong Wang, Zhiwei Yan, Chuanxin Chao, Hongwei Yu, Dan Yu, Chunhua Liu. Effectiveness of dredging on internal phosphorus loading in a typical aquacultural lake. Science of The Total Environment, 2020, 744, 140883.
[22] Xiaoliang Zhang, Dianyun Ma, Mikaela Marques Pulzatto, Hongwei Yu, Chunhua Liu, Dan Yu. Moderate hydrological disturbance and high nutrient substrate enhance the performance of Myriophyllum aquaticum. Hydrobiologia, 2020, 1-13.
[23] Xiaoliang Zhang, Hongwei Yu, Haihao Yu, Chunhua Liu, Shufeng Fan, Dan Yu. Highly competitive native aquatic species could suppress the growth of invasive aquatic species with similar traits. Biological invasions, 2020, 23, 267-280.
[24] Yan Xu, Jianfeng Peng, Xiaoyan Xu, Yajun Wang, Hongtao Xu, Yang Li, Hongwei Yu, Xiaofeng Cao, Yanpeng Cai, Xin Sun, Jiuhui Qu. Survey-based approach to establish macrobenthic biological network in lakes. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2020, 105061.
[25] Yang Li, Ligong Wang, Chuanxin Chao, Hongwei Yu, Dan Yu, Chunhua Liu. Submerged macrophytes successfully restored a subtropical aquacultural lake by controlling its internal phosphorus loading. Environmental Pollution, 2021, 115949.
[26] Xiaowen Ma, Yang Li, Hongwei Yu, Chunhua Liu. Support from mother ramets declines with increasing independence of daughter ramets in submerged clonal Vallisneria natans. Aquatic Ecology, 2021, 55:299-308.
[27] Fei Ma, Lei Yang, Chang Zhang, Min Tao, Hongwei Yu, Chunhua Liu, Dan Yu. Functional evenness and community‐weighted mean traits have strong correlation with macrophyte community productivity. 2022, Aquatic Sciences, 84:2.
[28] Yang Li, Lei Yang, Fei Ma, Hongwei Yu, Chunhua Liu, Dan Yu. Differential responses of dominant and rare epiphytic bacteria from a submerged macrophyte to elevated CO2. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022, 63005–63016.