Wenping Yuan is a professor and doctoral supervisor from Peking University. His research interests span both global change and ecology. Much of his work has been on improving terrestrial ecosystem models. He has developed and improved the satellite-based vegetation production model, and provided model tools for evaluating and simulating vegetation production in terrestrial ecosystems. He has investigated several key ecological processes and environmental regulations, and improvement of processes-based ecosystems. In addition, he has quantified the carbon budget using improved models, especially the impacts of climate change and human activities on the carbon cycle.
Professor Yuan is the author of over two hundred papers on ecology and remote sensing. He has also been awarded the National Outstanding Youth Fund of China. Meanwhile, Professor Yuan has served as a leading author of National Assessment Report on Climate Change in China.
Webpage: https://www.ues.pku.edu.cn/jszy/ywp
Research areas: Ecosystem model, remote sensing, global change, carbon cycle, water cycle