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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
111
Citations
61380
World Ranking
160
National Ranking
63

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
  • 2019 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jianguo Wu is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and focuses primarily on Environmental Science. Their research output includes 149 publications in this field, with significant contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, and Plant Science.

Their work addresses several main topics including Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Urban Green Space and Health, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Urban Transport and Accessibility, and Urban Heat Island Mitigation.

Frequently publishing in a range of academic venues, Jianguo Wu has contributed notably to Landscape Ecology with 12 publications. Additional publication venues include Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature (12 publications), SSRN Electronic Journal (8 publications), Resources Conservation and Recycling (4 publications), and The Science of The Total Environment (4 publications).

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Jianguo Wu are:

  • Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Grassland ecosystem services: a systematic review of research advances and future directions, 2020, Landscape Ecology
  • Landscape sustainability science (II): core questions and key approaches, 2021, Landscape Ecology
  • How do different types and landscape attributes of urban parks affect visitors' positive emotions?, 2022, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Building green infrastructure to enhance urban resilience to climate change and pandemics, 2021, Landscape Ecology

Jianguo Wu has collaborated extensively with several frequent coauthors, including Zhifeng Liu, Lumeng Liu, Chunyang He, Qun Ma, and Xuening Fang.

Among recognition received, Jianguo Wu was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007 and Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

    Nancy B. Grimm;Stanley H. Faeth;Nancy E. Golubiewski;Charles L. Redman

  • From balance of nature to hierarchical patch dynamics: A paradigm shift in ecology

    Jianguo Wu;Orie L. Loucks

  • Landscape sustainability science: ecosystem services and human well-being in changing landscapes

    Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu

  • Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions.

    Chunyang He;Zhifeng Liu;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Xinhao Pan

  • Ecosystem stability and compensatory effects in the Inner Mongolia grassland

    Yongfei Bai;Xingguo Han;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Zuozhong Chen

  • EFFECTS OF CHANGING SCALE ON LANDSCAPE PATTERN ANALYSIS: SCALING RELATIONS

    Jianguo Wu

  • China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency

    Brett A Bryan;Brett A Bryan;Lei Gao;Yangqiong Ye;Yangqiong Ye;Xiufeng Sun;Xiufeng Sun

  • A gradient analysis of urban landscape pattern: a case study from the Phoenix metropolitan region, Arizona, USA

    Matthew Luck;Jianguo Wu

  • Impacts of landscape structure on surface urban heat islands: A case study of Shanghai, China

    Junxiang Li;Conghe Song;Lu Cao;Feige Zhu

  • Use and misuse of landscape indices

    Harbin Li;Jianguo Wu

  • Urban ecology and sustainability: The state-of-the-science and future directions

    Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu

  • Key issues and research priorities in landscape ecology: An idiosyncratic synthesis

    Jianguo Wu;Richard Hobbs

  • Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands

    Yongfei Bai;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Christopher M. Clark;Shahid Naeem

  • The modifiable areal unit problem and implications for landscape ecology

    Dennis E. Jelinski;Jianguo Wu

  • Urban heat islands and landscape heterogeneity: linking spatiotemporal variations in surface temperatures to land-cover and socioeconomic patterns

    Alexander Buyantuyev;Alexander Buyantuyev;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu

  • Primary production and rain use efficiency across a precipitation gradient on the Mongolia Plateau.

    Yongfei Bai;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Qi Xing;Qingmin Pan

  • Empirical patterns of the effects of changing scale on landscape metrics

    Jianguo Wu;Weijun Shen;Weizhong Sun;Paul T. Tueller

  • A spatially explicit hierarchical approach to modeling complex ecological systems: theory and applications

    Jianguo Wu;John L David

  • Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage.

    Shiping Chen;Wantong Wang;Wenting Xu;Yang Wang

  • Hierarchy and scaling: Extrapolating information along a scaling ladder

    Jianguo Wu

  • Analysis and simulation of land-use change in the central Arizona - Phoenix region, USA

    G. Darrel Jenerette;Jianguo Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Xingguo Han
Xingguo Han Hebei University
Yongfei Bai
Yongfei Bai Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianhui Huang
Jianhui Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chunyang He
Chunyang He Beijing Normal University
G. Darrel Jenerette
G. Darrel Jenerette University of California, Riverside
Dehua Mao
Dehua Mao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nancy B. Grimm
Nancy B. Grimm Arizona State University
James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana
Zongming Wang
Zongming Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Brett A. Bryan
Brett A. Bryan Deakin University

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