Forests

Prof. Dr. Guojie Wang

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School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Interests: climate change; water cycle; vegetation change; remote sensing; vegetation–climate interactions
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Dr. Huimin Wang

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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, A11 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: forest ecosystem management; stand dynamics; carbon sequestration; climate change; decomposition; plant-soil relationships

Prof. Dr. Lei Wang

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College of Landscape Architecture, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
Interests: urban forest; structural diversity; ecosystem function; landscape ecological remote sensing; ecological conservation
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Prof. Dr. Wenjie Wang

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State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
Interests: forest carbon sequestration; plant diversity conservation; urban forests and function evaluation; forest soil carbon and nutrient dynamics; internet street-view utilization in forest evalution; shelterbelt forests
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Prof. Dr. Xiaochun Wang

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Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management-Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
Interests: forestry; dendrology; meteorology; forest Ecology; wood Anatomy; climate variability; dendrochronology; dendroecology; climate history reconstruction; monsoon; forest hydrology; precipitation; singular spectrum analysis; El Nino-Southern Oscillation; climatology statistics

Dr. Xinzhou Wang

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College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China
Interests: bio-material; wood; bamboo; mechanical properties; interfacial properties; materials preservation and modification
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Prof. Dr. Ivar Wendling

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1. Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa Forestry), Curitiba, Brazil
2. Postgraduate Program in Forestry Engineering, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
Interests: clonal forestry; forest tree breeding; plant propagation; Araucaria spp.; Ilex spp.

Dr. Keith Woeste

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USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC, USA
Interests: improving the genetic quality of hardwood tree species; conserving fine hardwood germplasm; genetically diverse ecosystems; forest genetics and genomics; Juglans genetics; hardwood tree breeding

Dr. Jianping Wu

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Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, Guangdong Open Laboratory of Geospatial Information Technology and Application, Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Interests: forest ecosystem; soil organic carbon; remote sensing; climate change; urban forest ecosystem
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Dr. Tiehang Wu

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Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA
Interests: soil microbial ecology; mycorrhizal fungi; nitrogen cycling; soilborne disease
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Prof. Dr. Xiuchen Wu

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State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: forest growth; drought sensitivity; extreme climate; resilience; hydraulic traits; forest dynamics; carbon starvation; heatwave; recovery

Dr. Panteleimon Xofis

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Department of Natural Environment and Climatic Resilience, Democritus University of Thrace, 682 00 Orestiada, Greece
Interests: forest ecology; landscape ecology; biodiversity conservation; restoration ecology; fire ecology; urban landscapes
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Prof. Dr. Chong Xu

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Geological Hazards Research Center, National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management, Beijing, China
Interests: earthquake-triggered landslides; rainfall-triggered landslides; active faults; hazard and risk mapping; landslide inventory
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Prof. Dr. Jichen Xu

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National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
Interests: gene function; alternative splicing; stress resistance; molecular evolution
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Prof. Dr. Xibao Xu

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Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: land use change; carbon neutrality; ecosystem services; ecological protection and restoration

Prof. Dr. Xingkai Xu

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State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Interests: soil respiration; methane and nitrous oxide flux; organic matter decomposition; nitrogen transformation; nitrogen leaching; nitrogen deposition; dissolved organic matter; climate change; ¹³C of soil-respired CO₂
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Prof. Dr. Zengfu Xu

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College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning 530000, China
Interests: molecular biology and genetic engineering of woody plants; forest molecular genetics; tree biotechnology and molecular breeding

Dr. Kai Yan

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Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: vegetation parameters production; radiative transfer modeling; leaf area index (LAI); fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fPAR); vegetation dynamics
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Prof. Dr. Bao Yang

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Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000 Lanzhou, China
Interests: tree phenology; tree rings; dendrochronology; climate reconstructions; climate changes
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Prof. Dr. Fan Yang

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School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
Interests: eco-physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses of woody plants to abiotic stresses; ecological restoration and adaptable mechanisms of suitable plants in degraded ecosystems
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Prof. Dr. Liming Yang

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College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
Interests: plant physiology; biochemistry; molecular biology; stress responses; functional genomics; gene regulation
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Prof. Dr. Wanqin Yang

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School of Life Science, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
Interests: litter production; litter decomposition; soil carbon sequestion; soil biodiversity; extreme meterological events
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Prof. Dr. Yang Yang

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State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China
Interests: global change; carbon cycle; microbial ecology; loess plateau; pedology
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Prof. Dr. Yunjun Yao

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State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: remote sensing of evapotranspiration; drought monitoring by remotely sensed data; estimation of the terrestrial water budget; vegetation remote sensing; forest remote sensing
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Prof. Dr. Qiaolin Ye

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College of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
Interests: pattern recognition; machine learning; remote sensing image processing; forest management
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Dr. Daniel J. Yelle

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USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, USA
Interests: wood chemistry; lignin; organic synthesis; wood decay fungi; wood adhesives; multivariate analysis; NMR spectroscopy
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Dr. Changxun Yu

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Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Linneaus University, 392 31 Kalmar, Sweden
Interests: soil carbon storage and turnover; macronutrient cycling and distribution (e.g., P, N, Si); organo-mineral–microbe interactions in the rhizosphere; Fe–Mn redox cycling and mineralogical transformations; metal(loid) speciation and contamination; environmental changes in boreal and Arctic forest ecosystems; application of synchrotron-based techniques, e.g., XAS, μXRF+μXAS mapping and STXM

Prof. Dr. Kai Yue

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School of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China
Interests: litter decomposition; forest ecology; carbon and nutrient cycling; soil ecology; soil fauna; plant-soil interactions; biodiversity

Prof. Dr. Tianxiang Yue

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Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: spatial analysis; land cover; digital terrain modeling; ecological and environmental models; system simulation
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Dr. Paulo A. Zaini

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Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: plant-pathogen interaction; plant health; adaptation; omics; genome editing

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