Chengdu Institute of Biology

Ning Wu

Title:	Professor
Phone:	028-85213782
Highest Education:	Ph.D.
Email:	wuning@cib.ac.cn

Education and Appointments:

1985,graduated from Sichuan University, BSc; 1991, graduated from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, MSc; 1995, graduated from the Free University Berlin, Germany, PhD; 1999-2000, fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Postdoc; 2001， senior visiting scholar, Otago University, New Zealand; 2003, senior visiting scholar, Basel University, Switzerland; 1998-2023, the head of Ecological Research Center, the head of the key lab of Chinese Academy of Sciences, executive director and director general of Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 2011-2018, theme leader of Ecosystem Services, chief scientist, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).

Research Interest

Biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, alpine ecology, grassland and wetland ecology, restoration ecology, rural landscape and sustainable development

Public Services

member of Multidisciplinary Expert Group (MEP) of Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES); independent board member of International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD); member of scientific committee of endangered species of the People’s Republic of China; member of advisory committee of Sichuan Province, China; chief editor of the Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology.

Honors

Sichuan First Prize for Progress in Science and Technology; Sichuan Second Prize for Progress in Science and Technology; Sichuan Pioneer and Leading Scholars in Science and Technology; Sichuan Experts for Outstanding Contributions; the May 4th Youth medal; Ethnic Youth Solidarity and Progress Medal

Seleted Publication

1．Wu Ning & Yan Zhaoli (2002): Climate variability and social vuneralability on the Tibetan Plateau: Dilemma on the road of pastoral reform. Erdkunde, 2002: 56: 2-14.
2. ZHANG Yong-Mei, WU Ning*, ZHOU Guo-Yi, BAO Wei-Kai. Changes in enzyme activities of spruce (Picea balfouriana) forest soil as related to burning in eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Applied Soil Ecology. 2005，30, 215-225.
3. Yi Shaoliang, Wu Ning*, Luo Peng, Wang Qian, Shi Fusun, Sun Geng, and Ma Jianzhong (2007): Changes in Livestock Migration Patterns in a Tibetan Style Agropastoral System -- A Study in the Three-Parallel-Rivers Region of Yunnan, China. Mountain Research and Development, 27(2): 138–145.
4. Yongheng GAO, Peng LUO, Ning WU*, Shaoliang YI, Huai CHEN (2007): Biomass and nitrogen responses to grazing intensity in an alpine meadow on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Polish Journal of Ecology, 55(3): 469-479.
5. Fuzhong Wu, Weikai Bao, Fanglan Li, Ning Wu* (2008): Effects of drought stress and N supply on the growth, biomass partitioning and water-use efficiency of Sophora davidii seedlings. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 63:248-255.
6. Huai Chen, Ning Wu*, Yongheng Gao, Yanfen Wang, Peng Luo, Jianqing Tian (2009): Spatial variations on methane emissions from Zoige alpine wetlands of Southwest China. Science of the Total Environment, 407: 1097-1104.
7. Sun Geng, Luo Peng, Wu Ning*, P.F.Qiu, Y.H Gao, H. Chen, F.S Shi (2009): Stellera chamaejasme L. increases soil N availability, turnover rates and microbial biomass in an alpine meadow ecosystem on the eastern Tibetan Plateau of China. Soil Biology & Biochemistry.41:86-91.
8. Huai Chen, Ning Wu*, Xingzhong Yuan, Yongheng Gao, and Dan Zhu (2009): Aftermath of the Wenchuan earthquake. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
9. Xiang S., Wu N. & Sun S. (2009). Within-twig biomass allocation of subtropical evergreen broad-leaved woody species along an altitudinal gradient: allometric scaling analyses. Trees-structure & function. 23: 637-647.
10. Chen, H., Wu, N.*, Yao, S.P., Gao, Y.H., Zhu, D., Wang, Y.F., Xiong, W.,Yuan, X. (2009). High Methane Emissions from a Littoral Zone on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Atmospheric Environment, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.07.001.

Supported Projects

the National Science and Technology Support Program “Study and demonstration of ecological conservation and management model in an ecologically frangible World's Heritage Site” and sub-projects “Development and demonstration of regulating technology in a alpine forest-grassland ecotone”, “Dynamic monitor on ecosystem restoration and threatened plants in the degraded Roige Wetlans” and “Study on diversity of plant and animal and conservation technology of important threatened plant in Hongyuan County and Aba County”, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Knowledge Innovation Project Important Directional Program “Study on the ecological effects of Wenchuan Earthquake and vegetation restoration” and projects “Impacts of grassland utilization and management on biodiversity and sustainable development” and “Ecological functions and regulation of soil methane emission”, the National Natural Science Foundation project of China “impacts of human disturbance on alpine timberline and coupling effects of related ecological factors in the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau” and China-EU Cooperation projects “Impacts of enclosure on biodiversity in pasture region of Qinghai-Tibetan plateau”.