Jianguo (Jingle) Wu
Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Science, joined ASU in August 2001. Dr. Wu received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Miami University, Oxford in 1987 and 1991, and was an NSF Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cornell University and Princeton University from 1991 to 1993. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Landscape Ecology. Dr. Wu has been Chair of the Asian Ecology Section of Ecological Society of America (1999-2000), Program Chair of the US Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE; 2001), Councilor-at-Large of US-IALE (2001-2003).
My research areas include landscape ecology, urban ecology, and sustainability science.
Research activities in my lab, Landscape Ecology and Modeling Laboratory address several lines of questions:
- How does landscape heterogeneity affect population and ecosystem processes?
- How does landscape pattern (including habitat fragmentation) affect the distribution and conservation of biodiversity?
- How does biodiversity relates to ecosystem functioning on different spatial scales?
- How do socioeconomic processes drive land use and land cover change, which in turn affect ecological processes?
- How can ecological information be transferred from small to large scales, and vice versa?
Our research has involved a variety of terrestrial ecosystems from North America to China. While the geographic idiosyncrasy of ecology must be recognized, it is the research questions that drive our studies.
Selected Publications
Wu, J. and R. Hobbs (Eds). 2006. Key Topics in Landscape Ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge .
Wu, J., B. Jones, H. Li, and O. L. Loucks (Eds). 2006. Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht , The Netherlands .
Wu, J., Y. Bai, X. Han, L. Li, and Z. Chen. 2005. Ecosystem stability in Inner Mongolia. Nature 435:E6-E7 (doi:10.1038/nature03584).
Shen, W., J. Wu, P. R. Kemp, J. F. Reynolds, and N. B. Grimm. 2005. Simulating the dynamics of primary productivity of a Sonoran ecosystem: Model parameterization and validation. Ecological Modelling 189:1-24.
Bai, Y., X. Han, J. Wu*, Z. Chen, and L. Li. 2004. Ecosystem stability and compensatory effects in the Inner Mongolia Grassland. Nature 431:181-184.
Wu, J. 2004. Effects of changing scale on landscape pattern analysis: Scaling relations. Landscape Ecology 19:125-138.
Wu, J., J. Huang, X. Han, X. Gao, F. He, M. Jiang, Z. Jiang, R. B. Primack, and Z. Shen. 2004. Three Gorges Dam: An Ecological Perspective. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2(5): 241-248.
Li, H. and J. Wu. 2004. Use and misuse of landscape indices. Landscape Ecology 19: 389-399.
Musacchio, L. and J. Wu. Collaborative landscape-scale ecological research: Emerging trends in urban and regional ecology. Urban Ecosystems 7:175-178.
Berling-Wolff, S. and J. Wu. 2004. Modeling urban landscape dynamics: A case study in Phoenix, USA. Urban Ecosystems 7:215-240.
Jenerette, G. D. and J. Wu. 2004. Limitation interactions of ecosystem processes with spatial heterogeneity: The puzzle of nitrogen. Oikos 107:273-282.
Shen, W., G. D. Jenerette, J. Wu and R. H. Gardner. 2004. Evaluating empirical scaling relations of pattern metrics with simulated landscapes. Ecography 27: 459-469.
Wu, J., J. Huang, X. Han, Z. Xie, and X. Gao. 2003. Three-Gorges Dam: Experiment in Habitat Fragmentation? Science 300:1239-1240.
Wu, J., W. Shen, W. Sun, and P. T. Tueller. 2002. Empirical patterns of the effects of changing scale on landscape metrics. Landscape Ecology 17:761-782.
Wu, J. and R. Hobbs. 2002. Key issues and research priorities in landscape ecology: An idiosyncratic synthesis. Landscape Ecology 17:355-365.
Luck, M. and J. Wu. 2002. A gradient analysis of the landscape pattern of urbanization in the Phoenix metropolitan area of USA. Landscape Ecology 17:327-339.
Wu, J. and D. Marceau. 2002. Modeling complex ecological systems: An introduction. Ecological Modelling 153:1-6.
Wu, J. and J. L. David. 2002. A spatially explicit hierarchical approach to modeling complex ecological systems: Theory and applications. Ecological Modelling 153:7-26.