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Jingyun Fang

Jingyun Fang

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Ecology and Evolution
China
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
135
Citations
80715
World Ranking
57
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award
  • 2019 - R. H. Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award, The Ecological Society of America
  • 2008 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Jingyun Fang is affiliated with Peking University in China and has focused their research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several key subfields, including Water Science and Technology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Global and Planetary Change, and Pollution.

Fang's extensive publication record includes a significant number of papers published in prominent scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Water Research
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • ACS ES&T Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology

Their research topics cover a variety of environmental and chemical processes, including:

  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Environmental remediation with nanomaterials
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Among the recent papers authored by or including contributions from Fang are the following:

  • "Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality", 2022, published in Science China Life Sciences
  • "The enduring world forest carbon sink", 2024, published in Nature
  • "UV/Chlorine Process: An Efficient Advanced Oxidation Process with Multiple Radicals and Functions in Water Treatment", 2022, published in Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Kinetics and pathways of the degradation of PPCPs by carbonate radicals in advanced oxidation processes", 2020, published in Water Research
  • "Assessment of the UV/Chlorine Process in the Disinfection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Efficiency and Mechanism", 2021, published in Environmental Science & Technology

Fang frequently collaborates with several co-authors, indicating a network of research partnerships. The most common collaborators include:

  • Kaiheng Guo
  • Zhechao Hua
  • Zhiyao Tang
  • Zihao Wu
  • Wenlei Qin

Recognition for Jingyun Fang's contributions to ecological and environmental sciences is reflected in awards such as the R. H. Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2019 and being named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Best Publications

  • A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests

    Yude Pan;Richard A. Birdsey;Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Richard Houghton

  • The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China

    Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Yao Huang;Zehao Shen

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Changes in Forest Biomass Carbon Storage in China Between 1949 and 1998

    Jingyun Fang;Anping Chen;Changhui Peng;Shuqing Zhao

  • The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Shilong Piao;Jingyun Fang;Philippe Ciais;Philippe Peylin

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Leaf nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry across 753 terrestrial plant species in China

    Wenxuan Han;Jingyun Fang;Dali Guo;Yan Zhang

  • Influence of pH on the formation of sulfate and hydroxyl radicals in the UV/peroxymonosulfate system.

    Ying-Hong Guan;Jun Ma;Xu-Chun Li;Jing-Yun Fang

  • Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming

    Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Peylin

  • Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China

    Liming Zhou;Robert Earl Dickinson;Yuhong Tian;Jingyun Fang

  • The roles of reactive species in micropollutant degradation in the UV/free chlorine system.

    Jingyun Fang;Yun Fu;Chii Shang

  • Variations in satellite-derived phenology in China's temperate vegetation.

    Shilong Piao;Jingyun Fang;Liming Zhou;Philippe Ciais

  • Carbon pools in China's terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey

    Xuli Tang;Xia Zhao;Yongfei Bai;Zhiyao Tang

  • Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010.

    Fei Lu;Huifeng Hu;Wenjuan Sun;Jiaojun Zhu

  • Terrestrial vegetation carbon sinks in China, 1981― 2000

    JingYun Fang;ZhaoDi Guo;ShiLong Piao;AnPing Chen

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • Climate change, human impacts, and carbon sequestration in China.

    Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Guirui Yu;Lingli Liu;Shuijin Hu;Shuijin Hu

  • Storage, patterns and controls of soil organic carbon in the Tibetan grasslands

    Yuanhe Yang;Jingyun Fang;Yanhong Tang;Chengjun Ji

  • NDVI-based increase in growth of temperate grasslands and its responses to climate changes in China

    Shilong Piao;Anwar Mohammat;Jingyun Fang;Qiang Cai;Qiang Cai

  • Biogeography and variability of eleven mineral elements in plant leaves across gradients of climate, soil and plant functional type in China.

    Wenxuan Han;Jingyun Fang;Peter B Reich;Peter B Reich;F. Ian Woodward

  • Interannual variations of monthly and seasonal normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in China from 1982 to 1999

    Shilong Piao;Jingyun Fang;Liming Zhou;Qinghua Guo;Qinghua Guo

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhiyao Tang
Zhiyao Tang Peking University
Haihua Shen
Haihua Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yuanhe Yang
Yuanhe Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Zhiheng Wang
Zhiheng Wang Peking University
Wenxuan Han
Wenxuan Han China Agricultural University
Chengjun Ji
Chengjun Ji Peking University
Biao Zhu
Biao Zhu Peking University
Jin-Sheng He
Jin-Sheng He Peking University
Shuqing Zhao
Shuqing Zhao Peking University

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