Weihua Xu got his PhD degree from University on of Chinese Academy of Science in 2006. His research aspects include biodiversity conservation, ecosystem planning and ecological planning. Recently he held more than 20 projects as PI, from Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Land Resources, Chinese Natural Science Foundation, Euro-China biodiversity program, WWF and others. He was also involved in some projects including National Ecosystems Survey and Assessment, National Major Function Zoning, Ecological Carrying Capacity Assessment, Spatial Planning of National Parks, Ecological Function Zoning, National Protection Engineering Planning on Giant Pandas. He published more than 100 scientific papers in international and domestic journals including PNAS, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Current Biology, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Biodiversity conservation, ecosystems assessment and ecological planning，protected areas planning and management

1. Weihua Xu, Stuart L. Pimm, Ao Du , Yang Su, Xinyue Fan, Jianguo Liu, Zhiyun Ouyang*. Transforming protected area management in China. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 2019. 34:762-766.

2. Weihua Xu, Xinyue Fan, Jungai Ma, et al. Hidden Loss of Wetlands in China. Current Biology. 2019, 29: 3065-3071.

3. Weihua Xu, Andrés Vi?a, Lingqiao Kong, Stuart L. Pimm, Jingjing Zhang, Wu Yang, Yi Xiao, Lu Zhang, Xiaodong Chen, Jianguo Liu, Zhiyun Ouyang*. Reassessing the conservation status of the giant panda using remote sensing. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2017. 1(11):1635-1638.

4. Weihua Xu, Yi Xiao, Jingjing Zhang, et al. Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, 114: 1601-1606.

5. Weihua Xu, Xiaosong Li, Stuart L. Pimm, Vanessa Hull, Jingjing Zhang, Lu Zhang, Yi Xiao, Hua Zheng, Zhiyun Ouyang. The effectiveness of the zoning of China's protected areas, Biological Conservation (2016), 204:231–236.

6. Weihua Xu, Xuezhi Wang, Zhiyun Ouyang, Jindong Zhang, Zhiqi Li, Yi Xiao, Hua Zheng, Conservation of giant panda habitat in South Minshan, China, after the May 2008 earthquake, Frontiers in ecology and the environment, 2009,7(7): 353-358.

7. Weihua Xu, Zhiyun Ouyang, et al. Designing a conservation plan for protecting the habitat for the Giant Pandas in the Qionglai Mountain Range, China. Diversity and Distributions. 2006, 12: 610-619.

8. Weihua Xu, Rencai Dong, Xuezhi Wang, Zhiyun Ouyang, Zhiqi Li, Yi Xiao. Impact of China’s May 12 earthquake on Giant Panda habitat in Wenchuan County, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 2009,3: 1-10.

9. Weihua Xu, Andrés Vina, Zengxiang Qi, Zhiyun Ouyang, Jianguo Liu, Wei Liu, Hui Wan. Evaluating conservation effectiveness of nature reserves established for surrogate species: Case of a giant panda nature reserve in Qinling Mountains, China. Chinese Geographical Science. 2014, 24(1):60-70

10. Zhiyun Ouyang*, Hua, Zheng, Yi Xiao, Stephen Polasky, Jianguo Liu, Weihua Xu, Qiao Wang, Lu Zhang, Yang Xiao, Enming Rao, Ling Jiang,Fei Lu, Xiaoke Wang, Guangbin Yang, Shihan Gong, Bingfang Wu, Yuan Zeng, Wu Yang, Gretchen Daily*, Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital, Science, 2016, 352 (6292): 1455-1459.

11. Jingjing Zhang, Weihua Xu*, Lingqiao Kong, et al. Strengthening protected areas for giant panda habitat and ecosystem services. Biological Conservation. 2018, 227: 1-8.

12. Tian Dong, Weihua Xu*, Hua Zheng, Yang Xiao, Lingqiao Kong and Zhiyun Ouyang. A Framework for Regional Ecological Risk Warning Based on Ecosystem Service Approach: A Case Study in Ganzi, China. Sustainability. 2018. 10, 2699; doi:10.3390/su10082699.

13. Zhiming Zhang, Zhiyun Ouyang, Yi Xiao, Yang Xiao, Weihua Xu*. Using principal component analysis and annual seasonal trend analysis to assess karst rocky desertification in southwestern China. Environ Monit Assess. 2017, 189: 269

14. Zhang Lu, Dong Tian, Xu Weihua*, and Ouyang, Zhiyun. Assessment of habitat fragmentation caused by traffic networks and identifying key affected areas to facilitate rare wildlife conservation in China. Wildlife Research. 2015, 42: 266–279.

15. Zhang Lu, Xu Wei-hua*, Ouyang Zhi-yun, Zhu Chun-quan. Determination of priority nature conservation areas and humandisturbances in the Yangtze River Basin, China. Journal for Nature Conservation. 2014. 22.326-336

16. YU Bowei, CHAO Xuelin, ZHANG Jindong, XU Weihua*, OUYANG Zhiyun. Effectiveness of Nature Reserves for Natural Forests Protection in Tropical Hainan: a 20 Year Analysis. Chin. Geogra. Sci. 2016, 26(2): 208-215.

17. Yang Bai, Bo Jiang, Juha M. Alatalo, Changwei Zhuang, Xiaoyuan Wang, Lijuan Cui, Weihua Xu*. Impacts of land management on ecosystem service delivery in the Baiyangdian river basin. Environ Earth Sci. 2016, 75:258

1)Spatial planning of protected areas in China. Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2019-2021. (PI)

2)Ecological problems and its dynamics in China between 2010 and 2015. Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2017-2018. (PI)

3)Mechanism of spatial difference between flagship species and ecosystem service, and optimization method for conservation planning. Natural Sciences Foundation of China. 2017-2020. (PI)

4)Ecological problems and its dynamics in China between 2000 and 2010. Ministry of Environmental protection, China. 2011-2014. (PI)

5)Effects of surrogate species nature reserves in protecting other endangered species. National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2010-2012. (PI)

6)Ecological and environmental assessment in landuse planning in China. Ministry of Land resource, China. 2010-2014. (PI)

7)Methods on measuring regional biodiversity. National Program on Key Basic Research Project. 2009-2013. (PI of a subproject)

8)Landuse Master planning in county level. Euro-China biodiversity program (ECBP). 2008-2010. (PI of a subproject)

9)Nature reserves systems planning in Hainan Provinces. Hainan environmental sciences institute. 2009-2011. (PI)

10)Priority analysis for biodiversity conservation and nature reserves planning in Qinling. World Wildlife Fund, WWF China.2008-2009. (PI)

1. Ecological function zoning, Second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2012. Rank 10th.

2. Environmental management zoning in China based on ecological and resources conditions. Second prize of Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award in 2015. Rank 4th.

3. Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016. Major Contributor.

4. Environmental function zoning and spatial management technique in China. First prize of Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award in 2018. Rank 5th.