Research interests

(1) Ecohydrology and Vadose Zone Hydrology


(2) Climate Change and Human Activity Impacts


(3) Soil Threats Assessment (soil erosion; compaction, sealing, carbon loss)


(4) Ecosystem Functions and Service


(5) GIS and Remote Sensing

Scientific topics

(1) Framework of Climate-Vegetation-Soil-Topography-Geology-Water

 

(2) Plant and Water Interactions in a Changing World

(3) Human Activity and Climate Change Impacts on Ecohyrologic processes

(4) Multi-Scale (slope, watershed, to regions and global scale) Measurements and Modeling of

 

      Ecohydrologic Processes

Projects

(1)  NEFC-RCUK-NERC(international cooperation):Study of the mechanism of ecological water

 

consumption and Ecohydrological model in Karst critical zone.

 

"地球关键带"中英重大合作研究计划课题“喀斯特关键带生态耗水机理及生态水文模型研究” 

 

(2) "100 talents program" of Chinese Academy of Science: Research on landscape structure and

 

ecohydrological progress in subtropical region.

 

百人计划项目“亚热带典型生态区景观结构与生态水文过程研究”

 

(3) The National Natural Science Fund: Effects of the "grain for green"program on soil hydrological fuction

 

and the underlying mechanisms  in Karst landscape of SW China.

 

国家自然科学基金青年基金“基于微波遥感的喀斯特小流域土壤水分时空变异研究”

 

(4) The National Natural Science Fund:Evapotranspiration and its influencing factors under typical types on

 

Karst hill slopes in Southwestern China.

 

国家自然科学基金青年基金“喀斯特坡地典型用地类型植被蒸散规律及其影响机制”

 

(5) Optimization of land use for preventing nonpoint pollution and improving water environment in Yiwu City.

 

地方委托“城市景观优化及其面污染防控”

 

(6) West Light Foundation of The Chinese Academy of Sciences:Responses of Karst ecosystem to climate

 

extreme events in SW China.

 

中科院“西部之光”博士项目“西南喀斯特地区生态系统对极端天气气候的响应研究”

Karst landform in SW China

Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, CAS

About us

       Research interests:

  • Ecohydrology and Vadose Zone Hydrology;
  • Climate Change and Human Activity Impacts;
  • Soil Threats Assessment;
  • Ecosystem Functions and Service;
  • GIS and Remote Sensing

 

      

       Scientific topics:

  • Framework of Climate-Vegetation-Soil-Topography-Geology-Water
  • Plant and Water Interactions in a Changing World; 
  • Human Activity and Climate Change Impacts on Ecohyrologic processes; 
  • Multi-Scale Measurements and Modeling of Ecohydrologic Processes.

 PI: Dr. Xianli Xu, Professor