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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
124
Citations
60401
World Ranking
104
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2012 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Bojie Fu is a researcher affiliated with Peking University in China, specializing in environmental science with a focus on global and planetary change. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields including ecology, water science and technology, soil science, and atmospheric science. The primary concentration of their research involves understanding land use and ecosystem services, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, hydrology and watershed management, as well as conservation, biodiversity, and resource management.

Their publication record includes papers in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Science Bulletin
  • Geography and Sustainability
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Among recent papers associated with their research are:

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks, 2020, Nature
  • Drivers and impacts of changes in China's drylands, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Plant phenology changes and drivers on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Permafrost thawing puts the frozen carbon at risk over the Tibetan Plateau, 2020, Science Advances

Bojie Fu frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Shuai Wang
  • Xiaoming Feng
  • Yanxu Liu
  • Yihe Lü
  • Guangyao Gao

Their research topics cover a broad range of environmental and ecological issues:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Climate variability and models

Research fields Bojie Fu is involved in include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Soil Science
  • Atmospheric Science

Bojie Fu has been recognized by several esteemed scientific organizations. Honors received include:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2015
  • Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences, 2012

Best Publications

  • The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

    Sandra Díaz;Sebsebe Demissew;Julia Carabias;Carlos Joly

  • Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits

    Xiaoming Feng;Bojie Fu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Shuai Wang

  • A measure of spatial stratified heterogeneity

    Jin-Feng Wang;Tong-Lin Zhang;Bo-Jie Fu

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

    Hanquin Tian;Rongting Xu;Josep G. Canadell;Rona L. Thompson

  • Reduced sediment transport in the Yellow River due to anthropogenic changes

    Shuai Wang;Bojie Fu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Yihe Lü

  • Hydrogeomorphic Ecosystem Responses to Natural and Anthropogenic Changes in the Loess Plateau of China

    Bojie Fu;Shuai Wang;Yu Liu;Jianbo Liu

  • Assessing the soil erosion control service of ecosystems change in the Loess Plateau of China

    Bojie Fu;Yu Liu;Yihe Lü;Chansheng He

  • A policy-driven large scale ecological restoration: quantifying ecosystem services changes in the Loess Plateau of China.

    Yihe Lü;Bojie Fu;Xiaoming Feng;Yuan Zeng

  • The relationships between land use and soil conditions in the hilly area of the loess plateau in northern Shaanxi, China

    Bojie Fu;Liding Chen;Keming Ma;Huafeng Zhou

  • Drivers and impacts of changes in China’s drylands

    Changjia Li;Bojie Fu;Shuai Wang;Lindsay C. Stringer

  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Chris Huntingford

  • The effect of land uses and rainfall regimes on runoff and soil erosion in the semi-arid loess hilly area, China

    Wei Wei;Liding Chen;Bojie Fu;Zhilin Huang

  • Soil and water conservation on the Loess Plateau in China: review and perspective:

    Liding Chen;Wei Wei;Bojie Fu;Yihe Lü

  • Soil moisture variation in relation to topography and land use in a hillslope catchment of the Loess Plateau, China

    Yang Qiu;Bojie Fu;Jun Wang;Liding Chen

  • How ecological restoration alters ecosystem services: an analysis of carbon sequestration in China's Loess Plateau

    Xiaoming Feng;Bojie Fu;Nan Lu;Yuan Zeng

  • Quantifying the impacts of climate change and ecological restoration on streamflow changes based on a Budyko hydrological model in China's Loess Plateau

    Wei Liang;Dan Bai;Feiyu Wang;Bojie Fu

  • Increasing global vegetation browning hidden in overall vegetation greening: Insights from time-varying trends

    Naiqing Pan;Naiqing Pan;Xiaoming Feng;Bojie Fu;Shuai Wang

  • Assessment of soil erosion at large watershed scale using RUSLE and GIS: a case study in the Loess Plateau of China

    BJ Fu;WW Zhao;LD Chen;QJ Zhang

  • The effect of land cover/vegetation on soil water dynamic in the hilly area of the loess plateau, China

    Liding Chen;Zhilin Huang;Jie Gong;Jie Gong;Bojie Fu

  • The tradeoff and synergy between ecosystem services in the Grain-for-Green areas in Northern Shaanxi, China

    Xiaoqing Jia;Bojie Fu;Xiaoming Feng;Guohua Hou

  • The wheat yields and water-use efficiency in the Loess Plateau: straw mulch and irrigation effects

    Yilong Huang;Liding Chen;Bojie Fu;Zhilin Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yihe Lü
Yihe Lü Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liding Chen
Liding Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guangyao Gao
Guangyao Gao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wenwu Zhao
Wenwu Zhao Beijing Normal University
Yanxu Liu
Yanxu Liu Beijing Normal University
Xiaoming Feng
Xiaoming Feng Sichuan University
Alexis J. Comber
Alexis J. Comber University of Leeds
Shiliang Liu
Shiliang Liu Beijing Normal University
Lu Zhang
Lu Zhang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jun Wang
Jun Wang Zhejiang University

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