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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
122
Citations
62513
World Ranking
98
National Ranking
35

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2006 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jianguo Liu is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Plant Science.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance.

Jianguo Liu has published in various academic venues, frequently contributing to The Science of The Total Environment, Sustainability, SSRN Electronic Journal, UNC Libraries, and Nature Communications.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Assessing progress towards sustainable development over space and time, 2020, Nature
  • Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability, 2020, Science
  • Impacts of international trade on global sustainable development, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability, 2020, People and Nature

Jianguo Liu frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Yingjie Li, Jindong Zhang, Zhenci Xu, Andrés Viña, and Yue Dou.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow by several organizations. They became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Complexity of coupled human and natural systems

    Jianguo Liu;Thomas Dietz;Stephen R. Carpenter;Marina Alberti

  • Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • China's environment in a globalizing world

    Jianguo Liu;Jared Diamond

  • Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital

    Zhiyun Ouyang;Hua Zheng;Yi Xiao;Stephen Polasky

  • Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services

    Jianguo Liu;Shuxin Li;Zhiyun Ouyang;Christine Tam

  • Systems integration for global sustainability

    Jianguo Liu;Harold A. Mooney;Vanessa Hull;Steven J. Davis

  • Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • Coupled Human and Natural Systems

    Jianguo Liu;Thomas Dietz;Stephen R. Carpenter;Carl Folke

  • Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

    Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;Mateus Batistella;Ruth DeFries

  • Ecological degradation in protected areas : The case of Wolong Nature Reserve for Giant Pandas

    Jianguo Liu;Marc Linderman;Zhiyun Ouyang;Li An

  • Effects of household dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity

    Jianguo Liu;Gretchen C. Daily;Paul R. Ehrlich;Gary W. Luck

  • Nexus approaches to global sustainable development

    Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;H. Charles J. Godfray;David Tilman

  • Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China

    Weihua Xu;Yi Xiao;Jingjing Zhang;Wu Yang

  • Solar hydrogen generation from seawater with a modified BiVO4 photoanode

    Wenjun Luo;Zaisan Yang;Zhaosheng Li;Jiyuan Zhang

  • LAND USE CHANGE AROUND PROTECTED AREAS: MANAGEMENT TO BALANCE HUMAN NEEDS AND ECOLOGICAL FUNCTION

    Ruth DeFries;Andrew Hansen;B. L. Turner;Robin Reid

  • Rethinking China's new great wall

    Zhijun Ma;David S. Melville;Jianguo Liu;Ying Chen

  • A looming tragedy of the sand commons

    Aurora Torres;Jodi S. Brandt;Kristen Lear;Jianguo Liu

  • Population Dynamics in Complex Landscapes: A Case Study.

    H. Ronald Pulliam;John B. Dunning;Jianguo Liu

  • Coexistence between wildlife and humans at fine spatial scales

    Neil H. Carter;Binoj K. Shrestha;Jhamak B. Karki;Narendra Man Babu Pradhan

  • Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making.

    Zhiyun Ouyang;Changsu Song;Hua Zheng;Stephen Polasky

  • Integrating Landscape Ecology into Natural Resource Management

    Jianguo Liu;William W. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhiyun Ouyang
Zhiyun Ouyang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Andrés Viña
Andrés Viña Michigan State University
Weihua Xu
Weihua Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Thomas Dietz
Thomas Dietz Michigan State University
M. Nils Peterson
M. Nils Peterson North Carolina State University
Frank Lupi
Frank Lupi Michigan State University
Hua Zheng
Hua Zheng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
William W. Taylor
William W. Taylor Michigan State University
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University

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