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Discipline:Ecology

Education Background

  • 2014 Ph.D. Environmental Geography, Peking University, China
  • 2011-2012 Joint Ph.D. program College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), USA
  • 2009 B.S. Environmental Science, Peking University, China
  • 2009 B.A. (dual degree) Economics, Peking University, China
  • Work Experience

  • 2024.8- Tenured Associate Prof., Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University
  • 2019.6-2024.7 Associate Prof., Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University
  • 2014-2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, France
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    32、Zhou, J.; Li, W.*; Ciais, P.; Gasser, T.; Wang, J.; Li, Z.; Zhu, L.; Han, M.; He, J.; Sun, M.; Liu, L.; Huang, X. Contributions of countries without a carbon neutrality target to limit global warming. Nature Communications 2025, 16, 468.

    31、Zhu, L.; Li, W.*; Ciais, P.; He, J.; Cescatti, A.; Santoro, M.; Tanaka, K.; Cartus, O.; Zhao, Z.; Xu, Y.; Sun, M.; Wang, J. Comparable biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks on warming from tropical moist forest degradation. Nature Geoscience 2023, doi: 10.1038/s41561-023-01137-y.

    30、Li, Z.; Ciais, P.; Wright, J.S.; Wang, Y.; Liu, S.; Wang, J.; Li, L. Z. X.; Lu, H.; Huang, X.; Zhu, L.; Goll, D.S.; Li, W.* Increased precipitation over land due to climate feedback of large-scale bioenergy cultivation. Nature Communications 2023, 14:4096, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39803-9

    29、Song, S.; Ding, Y.*; Li, W.*; Meng, Y.; Zhou, J.; Gou, R.; Zhang, C.; Ye, S.; Saintilan, N.; Krauss, K.; Crooks, S.; Lv, S.; Lin, G.*, Mangrove reforestation provides greater blue carbon benefit than afforestation for mitigating global climate change. Nature Communications 2023, 14, (1), 756.

    28、Xu, Y.; Yu, L.*; Ciais, P.; Li, W.*; Santoro, M.; Yang, H.; Gong, P. Recent expansion of oil palm plantations into carbon-rich forests. Nature Sustainability 2022, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00872-1

    27、Zhao, Z.; Li, W.*; Ciais, P.; Santoro, M.; Cartus, O.; Peng, S. S.; Yin, Y.; Yue, C.; Yang, H.; Yu, L.; Zhu, L.; Wang, J. M., Fire enhances forest degradation within forest edge zones in Africa. Nature Geoscience 2021, 14, (7), 479-+.

    26、Wang, J.; Li, W.*; Ciais, P.; Li, L. Z. X.; Chang, J.; Goll, D.; Gasser, T.; Huang, X.; Devaraju, N.; Boucher, O., Global cooling induced by biophysical effects of bioenergy crop cultivation. Nature Communications 2021, 12, (1), 7255.

    25、Li, W.*; Ciais, P.; Wang, Y.; Peng, S.; Broquet, G.; Ballantyne, A. P.; Canadell, J. G.; Cooper, L.; Friedlingstein, P.; Le Quere, C.; Myneni, R. B.; Peters, G. P.; Piao, S.; Pongratz, J., Reducing uncertainties in decadal variability of the global carbon budget with multiple datasets. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016, 113, (46), 13104-13108.

    24、Leng, Y.; Li, W.*; Ciais, P.; Sun, M.; Zhu, L.; Yue, C.; Chang, J.; Yao, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Zhou, J.; Li, Z.; Wang, X.; Xi, Y.; Peng, S., Forest aging limits future carbon sink in China. One Earth 2024, 7, 822-834, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.04.011

    23、Zhao, Z.; Ciais, P.; Wigneron, J.; Santoro, M.; Brandt, M.; Kleinschroth, F.; Lewis, S. L.; Chave, J.; Fensholt, R.; Laporte, N.; Sonwa, D. J.; Saatchi, S. S.; Fan, L.; Yang, H.; Li, X.; Wang, M.; Zhu, L.; Xu, Y.; He, J.; Li, W.*, Central African biomass carbon losses and gains during 2010-2019. One Earth 2024, 7, 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.01.021

    22、Han, M.; Zhao, Q.; Wang, X.; Wang, Y-P.; Ciais, P.; Zhang, H.; Goll, D. S.; Zhu, L.; Zhao, Z.; Guo, Z.; Wang, C.; Zhuang, W.; Wu, F.; Li, W.*, Modeling biochar effects on SOC on croplands in a microbial decomposition model (MIMICS-BC_v1.0). Geoscientific Model Development 2024, 17, 4871-4890.

    21、He, J.; Li, W.*; Zhao, Z.; Zhu, L.; Du, X.; Xu, Y.; Sun, M.; Zhou, J.; Ciais, P.; Wigneron, J-P.; Liu, R.; Lin, G.; Fan, L., Recent advances and challenges in monitoring and modeling of disturbances in tropical moist forests. Frontiers in Remote Sensing 2024, doi: 10.3389/frsen.2024.1332728.

    20、Wang, J.; Ciais, P.; Gasser, T.; Chang, J.; Tian, H.; Zhao, Z.; Zhu, L.; Li, Z.; Li, W.*, Temperature Changes Induced by Biogeochemical and Biophysical Effects of Bioenergy Crop Cultivation. Environmental Science & Technology 2023, 57 (6), 2474-2483, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c05253

    19、Li, W.*; Ciais, P.; Han, M.; Zhao, Q.; Chang, J.; Goll, D. S.; Zhu, L.; Wang, J., Bioenergy Crops for Low Warming Targets Require Half of the Present Agricultural Fertilizer Use. Environmental Science & Technology 2021, 55, (15), 10654-10661.

    18、Xu, Y. D.; Ciais, P.; Yu, L.*; Li, W.*; Chen, X. Z.; Zhang, H. C.; Yue, C.; Kanniah, K.; Cracknell, A. P.; Gong, P., Oil palm modelling in the global land surface model ORCHIDEE-MICT. Geoscientific Model Development 2021, 14, (7), 4573-4592.

    17、Han, M.; Zhao, Q.; Li, W.*; Ciais, P.; Wang, Y. P.; Goll, D. S.; Zhu, L.; Zhao, Z.; Wang, J.; Wei, Y., Global soil organic carbon changes and economic revenues with biochar application. GCB Bioenergy 2022, 14, 364-377.

    16、Zhu, L.; Ciais, P.; Bastos, A.; Ballantyne, A. P.; Chevallier, F.; Gasser, T.; Kondo, M.; Pongratz, J.; Rodenbeck, C.; Li, W.*,, Decadal variability in land carbon sink efficiency. Carbon Balance Manag 2021, 16, (1), 15.

    15、Wang, J.; Li, W.*; Ciais, P.; Ballantyne, A.; Goll, D.; Huang, X.; Zhao, Z.; Zhu, L., Changes in Biomass Turnover Times in Tropical Forests and Their Environmental Drivers from 2001 to 2012. Earth's Future 2020, e2020EF001655.

    14、Li, W.*; Ciais, P.; Stehfest, E.; van Vuuren, D.; Popp, A.; Arneth, A.; Di Fulvio, F.; Doelman, J.; Humpenoder, F.; Harper, A. B.; Park, T.; Makowski, D.; Havlik, P.; Obersteiner, M.; Wang, J. M.; Krause, A.; Liu, W. F., Mapping the yields of lignocellulosic bioenergy crops from observations at the global scale. Earth System Science Data 2020, 12, (1), 789-804.

    2019年 清华大学—浪潮集团计算地球科学青年人才奖

    2019年 国家海外高层次青年人才计划