Zhiyun Ouyang is a professor of ecology, and the director of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the president of the Ecological Society of China, and the vice-president of the Ecological Economic Society of China. His research focuses on ecosystem assessment, ecosystem services, ecosystem restoration and biodiversity conservation. Professor Ouyang is a well established national leader in the area of ecosystem assessment and restoration, and biodiversity conservation, and has played an active role in conservation policy innovation in China since 2000. His research is notable for its profound influence on, and broad applications to policy making for ecosystem conservation, restoration and land management from local to national scales in China. Examples at the national scale include China’s national ecosystem survey and assessment, mainstreaming ecosystem services in national key ecological functional area identification, national park network planning, giant panda protection, and the national financial mechanisms for natural conservation. At the local scale, His research has been used to inform decision making in cities such as Beijing and Shenzhen for better biodiversity protection and ecosystem restoration through urban ecological planning and management. He has published 11 books and more than 170 peer-reviewed international journal articles (including 13 papers published on Science, PNAS and Nature series), and more than 370 peer-reviewed papers in Chinese Journals.

EDUCATION
1993        Ph.D., Systems Ecology
                Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences
1990        M.S., Systems Ecology
                Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences
1983        B.S., Plant Protection
                Hunan Agricultural University

ACEDEMIC APPOINTMENTS
12/2017--present: Director, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
5/2004—12/2017: Deputy Director, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
12/2006—5/2016: Director, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology.
3/2004—6/2004, Visiting scholars, Michigan State University, USA.
6/1999—12/2006: Director, Professor, Key Lab of Systems Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
5/1997—5/1998, Visiting scholars, Michigan State University, USA.
1/1994—4/1997: Deputy director, associate professor, Key Lab of Systems Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
8/1993—12/1993, Tufts University, USA, UNEP international training course
1983--1987: Assistant Researcher, Hunan Horticultural Research Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha, Hunan Province.

SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
1.  Zhang, J., Xu, W.*, Kong, L., Hull, V., Xiao, Y., Xiao, Y., Ouyang, Z. 2018. Strengthening protected areas for giant panda habitat and ecosystem services. Biological Conservation, 227:1-8.
2.  Xu, W., Vi?a, A., Kong, L., Pimm, S., Zhang, J., Yang, W., Xiao, Y., Zhang, L., Chen, X., Liu, J., Ouyang, Z.* 2017. Reassessing the conservation status of the giant panda using remote sensing, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1(11):1635-1638.
3.  Xu, W., Xiao, Y., Zhang, J., Yang, W., Daily*, G., Ouyang, Z.* 2017. Need for a new protected area category for ecosystem services, PNAS, 114(22): 4319-4320.doi/10.1073/pnas.1703083114.
4.  Xu, W., Xiao, Y., Zhang, J., Yang, W., Daily*, G., Ouyang, Z.* 2017. Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China, PNAS, 114(7): 1601-1606.
5.  Kong, L., Xu, W., Zhang, L., Gong, M., Xiao, Y., Ouyang, Z.* 2017. Habitat conservation redlines for the giant pandas in China, Biological Conservation, 210: 83-88. doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.03.028.
6.  Ouyang, Z.* , Zheng, H., Xiao, Y., Polasky, S., Liu, J., Xu, W., Wang, Q., Zhang, L., Xiao, Y., Rao, E., Jiang, L., Lu, F., Wang, X., Yang, G., Gong, S., Wu, B., Zeng, Y., Yang, W., Daily, G.* 2016. Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital, Science, 352 (6292): 1455-1459.
7.  Xu, W., Li, X., Pimm, S., Hull, V., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Xiao, Y., Zheng, H., Ouyang, Z.* 2016. The effectiveness of the zoning of China's protected areas. Biological Conservation, 204: 231-236.
8.  Zheng, H., Li, Y., Robinson, B., Liu, G., Ma, D., Wang, F., Lu, F., Ouyang, Z. and Daily, G. 2016. Using ecosystem service trade-offs to inform water conservation policies and management practices. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(10): 527-532.
9.  Li, C., Zheng, H., Li, S., Chen, X., Li, J. Zeng, W., Liang, Y., Polaskyg, S., Feldman, M., Ruckelshaus, M., Ouyang, Z.* and Daily*, G. 2015. Impacts of conservation and human development policy across stakeholders and scales, PNAS, 112(24): 7396-7401.
10. Wong, C., Jiang, B., Kinzig, A., Lee K. and Ouyang, Z.* 2015. Linking ecosystem characteristics to final ecosystem services for public policy, Ecology Letters, 18:108-118.
11. Zheng, H., Robinson, B., Liang, Y., Polasky, S., Ma, D., Wang, F., Ruckelshaus, M., Ouyang, Z.*, Daily*, G. 2013. Benefit, costs, and livelihood implications of a regional payment for ecosystem service program, PNAS, 110(41): 16681-16686.
12. Hong, G., Ouyang, Z.*, Chen, S. 2013. Role of culturally protected forests in biodiversity conservation in Southeast China, Biodiversity and conservation, 22(2):531-544.
13. Song, Z., Ouyang, Z.*, Xu, W. 2012. The role of fairness norms the household-based natural forest conservation: The case of Wolong, China, Ecological Economics, 84: 164-171.
14. Quan, J., Ouyang, Z.*, Xu, W., Miao, H. 2011. Assessment of the effectiveness of nature reserve management in China, Biodiversity and Conservation, 20(4):779-792.
15. Xu, W., Wang, X., Ouyang, Z.*, Zhang, J., Li, Z., Xiao, Y., Zheng, H. 2009. Conservation of giant panda habitat in South Minshan, China, after the May 2008 earthquake, Frontiers in ecology and the environment, 7(7): 353-358.
16. Liu, J., Li, S., Ouyang, Z., Tam, C., Chen, X. 2008. Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services, PNAS, 105(28): 9477-9482.
17. Liu, J., Ouyang, Z., Pimms, S., Raven, P., Wang, X., Miao, H., Han, N. 2003. Protecting China’s Biodiversity, Science, 300: 1240-1241
18. Liu, J., Linderman, M., Ouyang, Z., Zhang, H. 2001. Ecological degradation in protected areas: the case of Wolong nature reserve for giant pandas, Science, 292: 98-101
19. Ouyang, Z., Zhu, C., Yang, G., Xu W., Zheng, H., Zhang, Y., Yi, Xiao. 2013. Gross ecosystem product (GEP): concept, accounting framework and case study [J]. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 33(21): 6747-6761. (in Chinese).
20. Ouyang, Z., Miao, H., Wang, X. 1999. A primary study on Chinese terrestrial ecosystem services and their ecological-economic values [J]. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 19(5): 607-613. (in Chinese).

SELECTED BOOKS (In Chinese language)
1.  Ouyang Zhiyun, Xu Weihua, Du Ao, Lei Guanchun, Zhu CHunquan, Chen Shang, 2018, Research on overall spatial planning of China’s national park system, China Environmental Press Group.
2.  Ouyang Zhiyun, Xu Weihua, Xiao Yi, Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) Accounting for Ecological Compensation, 2017, Science Press, Beijing.
3.  Ouyang Zhiyun, Xu Weihua, Xiao Yi, Ecosystem pattern, quality, services and their changes in China, 2017, Science Press, Beijing.
4.  Ouyang Zhiyun, Zheng Hua, 2013, Ecological security Strategy, Xuexi Press, Beijing.
5.  Ouyang Zhiyun, Zhun Chunquan, 2011, Atlas of Biodiversity Pattern and conservation of Yangtze River Basin, Science Press, Beijing.
6.  Ouyang Zhiyun, Zhenghua, Huang Baorong, 2009, Regional ecosystem assessment and ecosystem service zoning, China Environmental Science Press, Beijing.
7.  Ouyang Zhiyun, 2007, Ecological construction and sustainable development, Science Press, Beijing.

(1)  2017-2018, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ecosystem survey and assessment for 2010-2015, PI.
(2)   2016-2020, Ministry of Science and technology, Accounting methods and pilot study on ecological asset and ecological compensation, PI.
(3)   2016-2020, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Key Project, Coupled mechanism of nature and human and their regulating methods in urban ecosystem, PI.
(4)   2016-2017, National Development and Reform Committee, National parking system planning of China, PI.
(5)   2014-2016, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Accounting methods of gross ecosystem product (GEP) and application, PI.
(6)   2011-2014, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ecosystem survey and assessment for 2000-2010, PI.
(7)   2007-2010, Ministry of Science and technology, Integrated ecosystem management in ecological fragile regions of China, PI.
(8)   2003-2006, State Environmental Protection Administration, Ecosystem service assessment and ecological zoning of China, PI.
(9)   2002-2004, Ministry of Science and Technology, Eco-zoning of western China, sub-project of Ecosystem assessment of western China, PI.
(10)  2000-2003, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ecosystem services and their valuation in regional scale, PI.

FUNDED GRANTS FOR CONSERVATION POLICY STUDY
(1)   2016-2017, National Reform and Development Committee, Paulsen Institute, National park system planning of China, PI.
(2)   2016-2017, National Reform and Development Committee, Asian Development Bank, Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation, PI.
(3)   2015-2016, National Reform and Development Committee, Evaluation methods and mechanism of effectiveness ecological protection of key ecological function zones. PI.
(4)   2014-2017, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Methods and guideline for ecological asset and GEP valuation and application in China, PI.
(5)   2014, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, Institutional Innovation of ecological protection redlining in China, PI.
(6)   2011-2012, Ministry of Land Resource management, National basin ecological land planning, PI.
(7)   2009-2010, State Forestry Administration, Protection engineering planning for giant panda of China.
(8)   2009-2010, National Reform and Development Committee, National strategy for ecological civilization development, PI.
(9)   2009-2010, Hainan government and GEF, Ecological compensation policy of Hainan province, PI.
(10)  2007-2008, National Reform and Development Committee, Constrain development zone planning and management policy, sun-project of nation key functional zone planning, PI.
(11)  2001-2005, State Environmental Protection Administration, Ecological service zonation of China, PI.
(12)  2003-2005, State Environmental Protection Administration, Biodiversity spatial pattern assessment and national nature reserve framework planning, PI.