Climate Change: Characterizing contemporary climate change and its spatiotemporal variations to identify the drivers and mechanisms leading to the changes in the climate system; Climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation.

Global Change Ecology: Investigating the impacts of climate change on ecosystem processes and functions and understanding the physiological/ecological mechanisms for plants and animals to acclimate/adapt to future climate change.

Ecosystem Modeling: Developing process-based ecological and hydrological models to predict the impacts of climate change and human activities, such as land use change and nitrogen deposition, on ecosystem functions and dynamics; Using ecosystem models to quantify and predict ecosystem services for sustainable ecosystem management under changing climate and human practices; Application of big-data/data-model fusion techniques to ecosystem/Earth system modeling.  

Ph.D. 2000, Ecology, University of California at Berkeley

M. S. 1990, Biometeorology/Ecology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

B. S. 1987, Forest Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

   

Published more than 140 papers in the top English and Chinese jouurnals (>100 published in SCI journals). Publications have been cited about 6000 times in Google Scholar database (H-index: 37) and about 3000 times in SCI database (H-index: 30)

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