Tao Bao is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with extensive experience in climate and ecosystem research, including China’s 31st Antarctic expedition at Great Wall Station. Since earning his Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2018, he has held positions at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics as a postdoctoral researcher and special research assistant, before advancing to his current role in 2023. His research focuses on greenhouse gas exchange and climate feedbacks in high-latitude wetlands and permafrost, aiming to elucidate the mechanisms and patterns driving these exchanges through the analysis of plant functional groups, ecosystem types, and soil properties.

Research Keywords
Greenhouse gas emissions and climate feedback in terrestrial ecosystems; Wetlands; Permafrost; Arctic; Antarctic; Carbon cycle; Machine learning

Research Profiles
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2023–Present: Associate Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2019–2023: Special Research Assistant, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2018–2019: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2014–2015: China’s 31st Antarctic scientific expedition, Great Wall Station, Antarctica

2012–2018: M.S.-Ph.D. joint program, University of Science and Technology of China

• Bao, T., Jia, G., & Xu, X. (2023). Weakening greenhouse gas sink of pristine wetlands under warming. Nature Climate Change, 13(5), 462-469.

• Bao, T., Jia, G., & Xu, X. (2022). Warming enhances dominance of vascular plants over cryptogams across northern wetlands. Global Change Biology, 28(13), 4097-4109.

• Bao, T., Jia, G., & Xu, X. (2021). Wetland heterogeneity determines methane emissions: a pan-arctic synthesis. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(14), 10152-10163.

• Bao, T., Xu, X., Jia, G., Billesbach, D. P., & Sullivan, R. C. (2021). Much stronger tundra methane emissions during autumn freeze than spring thaw. Global Change Biology, 27(2), 376-387.

• Bao, T., Renbin, Z., Wenjuan, Y., & Hua, X. (2020). Effects of sunlight on tundra nitrous oxide and methane fluxes in maritime Antarctica. Advances in Polar Science, 31(3), 178-191.

• Bao, T., Zhu, R. B., Wang, Q., Fang, Z. Y., Li, B. K., Gao, Y. S., & Xu, H. (2020). Spatial variability in greenhouse gas fluxes of a temperate freshwater marsh in China: effects of soil moisture, animal activities and land use. Applied Ecology & Environmental Research, 18(2).

• Bao, T., Zhu, R., Li, X., Ye, W., & Cheng, X. (2018). Effects of multiple environmental variables on tundra ecosystem respiration in maritime Antarctica. Scientific reports, 8(1), 12336.

• Bao, T., Zhu, R., Wang, P., Ye, W., Ma, D., & Xu, H. (2018). Potential effects of ultraviolet radiation reduction on tundra nitrous oxide and methane fluxes in maritime Antarctica. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 3716.

• Bao, T., Renbin, Z., Bo, B., & Hua, X. (2016). Potential methane production rates and its carbon isotopic composition from ornithogenic tundra soils in coastal Antarctic. Advances in Polar Science, 27(1), 21-30.

• Zhu, R., Bao, T., Wang, Q., Xu, H., & Liu, Y. (2014). Summertime CO2 fluxes and ecosystem respiration from marine animal colony tundra in maritime Antarctica. Atmospheric Environment, 98, 190-201.

• Bao, T., Jia, G., & Xu, X. (2019, December). Synthesis of pan-Arctic wetland methane emissions and controls. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2019, pp. B13L-2483).

• Chen, N., Zhang, Y., Yuan, F., Song, C., Xu, M., Wang, Q., Hao, G., Bao, T., & Wang, X. (2023). Warming-induced vapor pressure deficit suppression of vegetation growth diminished in northern peatlands. Nature Communications, 14(1), 7885.

• Jia, G., Zhang, L., Zhu, L., Xu, R., Liang, D., Xu, X., & Bao, T. (2020). Digital earth for climate change research. Manual of digital earth, 473-494.

• Wang, Q., Zhu, R., Zheng, Y., Bao, T., & Hou, L. (2019). Effects of sea animal colonization on the coupling between dynamics and activity of soil ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in maritime Antarctica. Biogeosciences, 16(20), 4113-4128.

• Fangfang, L., Renbin, Z., Tao, B., Qing, W., & Hua, X. (2017). Summertime CO2 fluxes from tundra of Ny-Ålesund in the High Arctic. Advances in Polar Science, 28(1), 50-60.

• Li, F., Zhu, R., Bao, T., Wang, Q., & Xu, H. (2016). Sunlight stimulates methane uptake and nitrous oxide emission from the High Arctic tundra. Science of the Total Environment, 572, 1150-1160.

• Chen, Qingqing, Bao, Tao, Zhu, Renbin, & Xu, Hua. (2021). Spatial variation and influencing factors of CO2 net flux in high-latitude Arctic tundra. Chinese Journal of Polar Research, 33(4), 482. (In Chinese)

• Response of Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Warming in Arctic Wetlands, Principal Investigator, National Project, 2023-01 to 2025-12
• Meta-analysis of the Response of Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Permafrost Ecosystems to Warming, Principal Investigator, National Project, 2023-07 to 2023-12
• Remote Sensing of Vegetation Changes in the Three Poles: Coordination and Comparison, Participant, Chinese Academy of Sciences Program, 2018-01 to 2022-12
• Trends in Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Cycles in Permafrost Ecosystems and Their Climate Feedback Effects, Participant, National Project, 2022-01 to 2027-11
• FAPESP Key Project: Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Land Use on Carbon Sources and Sinks in the Amazon Forest Ecosystem, Participant, National Project, 2023-01 to 2025-12

• Software Copyright: Rapid Interpolation Software for Net Carbon Exchange in High-Latitude Tundra Based on Random Forest Algorithm, 2021SR1095021, 2021-06-01
• Software Copyright: Methane Flux Interpolation Software for High-Latitude Wetlands in the Northern Hemisphere Based on Random Forest Algorithm, 2021SR0654956, 2021-03-14

• Outstanding Youth Paper Award in Polar Research (First Prize, Ministry-Level), 2020–2021, 2021
• Outstanding Youth Paper Award in Polar Research (First Prize, Ministry-Level), 2016–2017, 2017