PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Xibao Xu

Position:  Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Postal Address: 73 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China

Telephone:  +86-25-86882271 (office)

Fax:  +86-25-57714759

E-mail: xbxu@niglas.ac.cn

Education

Ph.D., Lanzhou University, School of Resources and Environment, China, 2002-2007

B.S., Nanjing University, Department of Urban and Resources, China, 1996-2000

Employment

Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010 to present

Visiting Professor, Purdue University, September 2015 - March 2016

Postdoc, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, March 2008 - March 2010 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

-  Land use change

-  Carbon neutrality

-  Ecosystem services

-  Ecological protection and restoration

Selected Research Grants

1. Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Structure, Process and Ecosystem Services of the Earth Critical Zone around Bohai Sea, 2023-2027. 

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Spatio-temporal Evolution and Regulation of the Matches between Ecosystem Service Supply and Demand in the Taihu Lake Basin, 2022-2025. 

3. Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Coordinated Management and Comprehensive Treatment in the Yangtze River Delta, 2019-2023. 

4. National Key Research and Development Program of China: Changes and Ecological Effects of the Lakes in Northern China since 1950s, 2019-2024. 

5. Carbon Peak Carbon Neutral Science and Technology Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province: Synergistic Effect and Optimization of Pollution Reduction and Sink for the Watershed Water Environment Governance and Ecological Restoration, 2022-2024. 

6. Carbon Peak Carbon Neutral Science and Technology Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province: Research on Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment and Climate Change Adaptation Technology, 2022-2024. 

7. Science and Technology Planning Project of NIGLAS: Integrated Assessment and Collaborative Control Technology for Green Development of the Typical Lake Basins in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, 2022-2024. 

8. Science and Technology Planning Project of NIGLAS: Process and driving mechanism of carbon sequestration and sink in the Lake Basin, 2022-2024. 

9. Jiangsu Marine Science and Technology Innovation Project: Study of on Ecological Protection Compensation and Ecological Environment Damage Compensation System for Jiangsu Marine, 2022-2024. 

10. Three Gorges Group Co., LTD: Long-term Evolution and Effects of Ecological Pattern and Key Processes in the Yangtze River, 2019-2022. 

11. Ministry of Ecology and Environment: Ecological and Environmental Protection Plan of the Yangtze River Delta (2020-2035), 2019-2020. 

12. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Tradeoff-Synergy Mechanism and Optimization among Ecosystem Services of the Agroecosystems in the Taihu Lake Basin of China, 2018-2021. 

13. Key Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Changes and Improvement of Ecosystem Services in the Naturally Connected Lakes with the Yangtze River in the Middle Reaches, 2018-2020. 

14. STS Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Investigation and Assessment of Coastline Resources in Yangtze River Economic Belt, 2017-2019. 

15. Key project of National High-level think-tank of China: Cooperative Development Strategy of Yangtze River Economic Belt, 2016. 

16. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Impact of Typical Cropland Use Change on Greenhouse Gas Emission in the Lake Taihu Basin, 2014-2017. 

 17. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Impact Mechanism of Land Use Changes on Ecosystem Services and Assessment in the Lake Taihu Basin, China, 2011-2014. 

18. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Impact of Cropland Use Pattern Change on Carbon Cycle in the Lake Taihu Basin: A Case Study of Wuxi City, 2012-2014. 

19. Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Environmental Effects of Urban Growth Patterns, Assessment and Adaptive Strategies: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta, 2011-2013. 

20. Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Ecological and Environmental Impacts Tracking Assessment on the Impoundment of the Three Gorges Project, 2007-2011.  

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Minkun Chen, Xibao Xu*, Xinghua Wu, et al. Centennial-scale study on the spatial-temporal evolution of riparian_wetlands in the Yangtze River of China. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2022, 113: 102874. 

2. Shaojie Mu, Guishan Yang, Xibao Xu, et al. Assessing the inundation dynamics and its impacts on habitat suitability in Poyang Lake based on integrating Landsat and MODIS observations. Science of the Total Environment, 2022, 834: 154936. 

3. Xibao Xu, Jingping Liu, Yan Tan, et al. Quantifying and optimizing agroecosystems services in the Taihu Lake Basin, China. Journal of Environmental Management, 2021, 277 (111440): 1-16. 

 4. Xibao Xu, Bo Jiang, Minkun Chen, et al. Strengthening the effectiveness of nature reserves in representing ecosystem services: The Yangtze River Economic Belt in China. Land Use Policy, 2020, 96 (104717): 1-8. 

5. Xibao Xu, Guishan Yang, Yan Tan, et al. Unravelling the effects of large-scale ecological programs on ecological rehabilitation of China’s Three Gorges Dam. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020, 256 (120446): 1-13. 

6. Xibao Xu, Minkun Chen, Guishan Yang, et al. Wetland ecosystem services research: a critical review. Global Ecology and Conservation 2020, 22, e01027: 1-10. 

7. Bo Jiang, Xibao Xu⁎. China needs to incorporate ecosystem services into wetland conservation policies. Ecosystem Services, 2019, 37: 100941. 

8. Xibao Xu, Huizhi Hu, Yan Tan, et al. Quantifying the impacts of climate variability and human interventions on crop production and food security in the Yangtze River Basin, China, 1990-2015. Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 665: 379-389. 

9. Xibao Xu, Guishan Yang, Yan Tan. Identifying ecological red lines in China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt: A regional approach. Ecological Indicators, 2019, 96: 635-646. 

10. Bo Jiang, Yang Bai, Christina P. Wong, Xibao Xu⁎, et al. China’s ecological civilization program–Implementing ecological redline policy. Land Use Policy, 2019, 81: 111-114. 

11. Junyu Chen, Bo Jiang, Yang Bai, Xibao Xu, et al. Quantifying ecosystem services supply and demand shortfalls and mismatches for management optimization. Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 650: 1426-1439. 

12. Xibao Xu, Yan Tan, Guishan Yang, Jon Barnett. China’s Ambitious Ecological Red Lines. Land Use Policy, 2018, 79: 447-451. 

13. Xibao Xu, Bo Jiang, Yan Tan, et al. Lake-wetland ecosystem services modeling and valuation: Progress, gaps and future directions. Ecosystem Services, 2018, 33:19-28. 

14. Xibao Xu, Guishan Yang, Yan Tan, et al. Ecosystem services trade-offs and determinants in China's Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2000 to 2015. Science of the Total Environment, 2018, 634:1601-1614. 

15. Xibao Xu, Guishan Yang, Yan Tan, et al. Impacts of land use changes on net ecosystem production in the Taihu Lake Basin of China from 1985 to 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2017, 122: 690-707. 

16. Xibao Xu, Guishan Yang, Yan Tan, et al. Factors Influencing Industrial Carbon Emissions and Strategies for Carbon Mitigation in the Yangtze River Delta of China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017, 142: 3607-3616. 

17. Xibao Xu, Guishan Yang, Yan Tan, et al. Ecological Risk Assessment of Ecosystem Services in the Taihu Lake Basin of China from 1985 to 2020. Science of the Total Environment, 2016, 554-555:7-16. 

18. Xibao Xu, Yan Tan, Shuang Chen, et al. Changing patterns and determinants of natural capital in the Yangtze River Delta of China 2000-2010. Science of the Total Environment, 2014, 466-467: 326-337. 

19. Xibao Xu, Yan Tan, Guishan Yang. Environmental impact assessments of the Three Gorges Project in China: Issues and interventions. Earth-Science Reviews, 2013, 124:115-125. 

20. Xibao Xu, Yan Tan, Guishan Yang, et al. Impacts of China’s Three Gorges Dam Project on net primary productivity in the reservoir area. Science of the Total Environment, 2011, 409: 4656-4662.