Wei, Ning

Member Profile

School of Integrative Plant Science
Cornell University
110 Arboretum Rd, Ithaca, NY 14853

Education

East China Normal University (2018-2023)
PHD candidate in Global Change Ecology
Advisor: Jianyang Xia

East China Normal University (2014-2018)
Bachelor in Environmental Science

Research interests

• Model uncertainty in land carbon cycle.
• Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies.
• Nutrient limitation on the terrestrial carbon cycling.

Publications and Presentations

• Wei, N., Xia, J. (2023). Robust projections of increasing land carbon storage in boreal and temperate forests under future climate change scenarios. One Earth 7, 1-12.

• Wei, N., Xia, J., Zhou, J., Jiang, L., Cui, E., Ping, J., & Luo, Y. (2022). Evolution of Uncertainty in Terrestrial Carbon Storage in Earth System Models from CMIP5 to CMIP6. Journal of Climate, 35(17), 5483-5499.

• Wei, N., Xia, J., Wang, Y.-P., Zhang, X., Zhou, J., Bian, C., & Luo, Y. (2022). Nutrient Limitations Lead to a Reduced Magnitude of Disequilibrium in the Global Terrestrial Carbon Cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(5), e2021JG006764.

• Wei, N., Cui, E., Huang, K., Du, Z., Zhou, J., Xu, X., et al. (2019). Decadal stabilization of soil inorganic nitrogen as a benchmark for global land models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(4), 1088–1099.

• Ping, J., Cui E., Du, Y., Wei, N., Zhou, J., Wang, J., Niu, S., Luo, Y., & Xia, J. (2023). Enhanced causal effect of ecosystem photosynthesis on respiration during heatwaves. Science Advances, 9(43), eadi6395.

• Wang, J., Zhu, C., Wei, N., Liu, R., Zhang, B., Chu, C., Su, H., Xu, Y., Cheng, Z., Zhu, S., Wang, X., Yan, L., & Xia, J. (2023). Biotic and abiotic factors controlling spatial variation of mean carbon turnover time in forest soil. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128, e2023JG007438.

• Bian, C., Xia, J., Zhang, X., Huang, K., Cui, E., Zhou, J., Wei, N., et al. (2023). Uncertainty and Emergent Constraints on Enhanced Ecosystem Carbon Stock by Land Greening. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15(5), e2022MS003397.

• Zhou, J., Xia, J., Wei, N., Liu, Y., Bian, C., Bai, Y., & Luo, Y. (2021). A traceability analysis system for model evaluation on land carbon dynamics: design and applications. Ecological Processes, 10(1), 12. doi:10.1186/s13717-021-00281-w

• Wang, J., Yang, Q., Qiao, Y., Zhai, D., Jiang, L., Liang, G., Sun, X., Wei, N., Wang, X., Xia, J. (2019). Relative contributions of biotic and abiotic factors to the spatial variation of litter stock in a mature subtropical forest. Journal of Plant Ecology, rtz018.

• Kou D., Ding J., Li F., Wei N., Fang K., et al. (2018). Spatially-explicit estimate of soil nitrogen stock and its implication for land model across Tibetan alpine permafrost region. Science of The Total Environment, 650(2), 1795-1804.

• Wei, N., Xia, J., Zhou, J., Jiang, L., Cui, E., Ping, J and Luo, Y. Evolution of Uncertainty in Land Carbon Cycle from 5th to 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. Oral, 20th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS2023), SUNTEC Singapore.

• Wei, N., Xia, J., Zhou, J., Cui, E. and Luo, Y. Amplified uncertainty in the terrestrial carbon cycle from CMIP5 to CMIP6. Poster, American Geophysical Union 2019 Fall Meeting, San Francisco.

• Wei, N., Cui, E., Huang, K., Du, Z., Zhou, J., Xu, X., et al. Decadal stabilization of soil inorganic nitrogen as a benchmark for global land models. Poster, American Geophysical Union 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Teaching experience

• Mentor, 6th Training course of the New Advances in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling.
• Teaching assistant, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Course: Extreme Climate and Terrestrial Ecosystems

Technical skills

• Programming: MATLAB, R Statistical Software, ArcGIS, Fortran (basic).
• Ecosystem Modeling: CABLE, CLM5 (basic).

Awards

• National Scholarship of China (2019)
• Outstanding graduate of East China Normal University (2018)
• National Encouragement Scholarship of China (2017, 2015)
• Scholarship for Outstanding Student (2017, 2016, 2015)