Xu Jianchu
Professor
Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology
Kunming Institute of Botany
China
Biography
XU Jianchu, Professor of ethnoecology. Major research interests are the ethnoecology and human dimensions of global environmental change, including community-based conservation, land use/cover change, climate change impacts, and forest transitions and their implications for environmental service provision in mountain regions. His team's research focus mainly on Observations of coupled human-environmental systems, Impacts and cascading effects of climate change on alpine rangeland, Consequences of global change for transboundary rivers, Hydrological response to global change, Societal and policy responses to global change.
Research Interest
Observations of coupled human-environmental systems, Impacts and cascading effects of climate change on alpine rangeland, Consequences of global change for transboundary rivers, Hydrological response to global change, Societal and policy responses to global change.
Publications
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Yu H, Luedeling E, Xu J. Winter and spring warming result in delayed spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2010 Dec 21;107(51):22151-6.
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He J, Zhou Z, Yang H, Xu J. Integrative management of commercialized wild mushroom: a case study of Thelephora ganbajun in Yunnan, Southwest China. Environmental management. 2011 Jul 1;48(1):98-108.
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Xu J. China's new forests aren't as green as they seem: impressive reports of increased forest cover mask a focus on non-native tree crops that could damage the ecosystem. Nature. 2011 Sep 22;477(7365):371-2.
