Introduction to the Lecture

The report will introduce the concept of phenology, the development history of phenology, the research methods of vegetation phenology, and the important role of phenology in maintaining biodiversity, reconstructing historical climate sequence, carbon cycle and water cycle of terrestrial ecosystem from different aspects. The report will also introduce a series of scientific problems such as how phenology responds to climate change and its mechanism, eco-hydrological effects of vegetation phenology change, and look into future phenology research under climate change scenarios.

Profile of the Speaker

Fu Yongshuo, Secretary and Deputy Dean of the College of Water Sciences of Beijing Normal University, Distinguished Professor of Beijing, winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, and Marie Curie Scholar of the European Union; Director of Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Base of "Watershed Water Security and Integrated Management". His main research fields are: global change ecology, plant phenology, watershed eco-hydrological process, ecological remote sensing and so on. Prof. Fu has successively presided over many research projects such as key projects of international cooperation of the National Natural Science Foundation, projects of the Outstanding Youth Fund, national high-end think tank projects and national key research and development plan projects, and published more than 120 research papers in top international journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Climate Change, PNAS, Global Change Biology and New Phytologist. Prof Fu is a member of the Carbon Neutralization Committee of China Sustainable Development Research Association, Vice-Chairman of the Eco-hydrology Committee of the Ecological Society of China, and an editorial board member of seven internationally renowned journals, such as Global Change Biology, Ecological Indicators, GIScience & Remote Sensing.