Weng, Ensheng

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Research Interests

• Global change and terrestrial ecosystems
• Ecological modeling and data assimilation

Education

• 8/2001－2/2005: Doctor of Philosophy, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, directed by Dr. Guangsheng Zhou and Dr. Xinshi Zhang
• 8/1998－7/2001: Master of Science, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, directed by Prof. Hong Hu
• 9/1993－7/1997: Bachelor of Science in Biology Education, Department of Biology, Shaanxi Normal University

Work Experience

• 8/1997－8/1998: Teacher, The first middle school of Taiqian County, Henan Province
• 3/2005－6/2006: Post doctor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
• 1/2006－5/2006: Short term visiting scholar, University of Oklahoma, USA
• 7/2006－8/2007: Research associate, University of Oklahoma, USA

Awards

• 2001: a second level prize of “DI’AO” of Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2002: an award from Acta Botanica Yunnanica for annual outstanding papers
• 2004: an outstanding paper honor from Chinese Meteorological Society Annual Conference 2004

Publications

• 1. Weng, Ensheng, Luo, Yiqi, 2008. Soil hydrological properties regulate grassland ecosystem responses to multifactor global change: a modeling analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, doi:10.1029/2007JG000539 (in press) [publication:30]


• 2. Weng, Ensheng, Zhou, Guangsheng. 2006. Modeling Distribution Changes of Vegetation in China under Future Climate Change. Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 11: 45~58. [publication:151]


• 3. Weng, Ensheng, Zhou, Guangsheng, 2005. Defining Plant Functional Types in China for Studies on Global Change. Acta Phytoecologica Sinica, 29: 81~97 (in Chinese with English abstract)


• 4. Weng, Ensheng, Zhou, Guangsheng, 2004. Studies on the climate–vegetation relationships and classification of plant functional types of China based on BIOME1. In: the Conference Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Meeting of Chinese Meteorological Society (I): 378~391. (in Chinese with English abstract)


• 5. Weng, Eengsheng, Hu, Hong, Li, Shuyun, Huang, Jialing, 2002. Differentiation of flower bud of Cypripedium flavum. Acta Botanica Yunnanica 24: 222~228. (in Chinese with English abstract)


• 6. Cao Mingchang, Zhou Guangsheng, Weng Ensheng, 2005. Application and comparison of Generalized Models and Classification and Regression Tree in predicting species distribution. Acta Ecologia Sinica, 25: 2031~2040.


• 7. JZ Lu, ES Weng, E Weber, XW Wu, and B Li, 2006. Potential distribution of Solidago canadensis in China. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica, 45: 670-674.


• 8. Zhou, X., E. Weng, Y. Luo, 2008. Modeling Patterns of nonlinearity in ecosystem responses to temperature, CO₂, and precipitation changes. Ecological Applications, 18, 453~466. [publication:31]


• 9. Jesse E. Bell, Ensheng Weng, Yiqi Luo, 2008. Ecohydrological Responses to Multifactor Global Change in a Tallgrass Prairie: A Modeling Analysis. Submitted to “Global change biology” (in review).


• 10. Rebecca A. Sherry, Ensheng Weng, John J. Arnone III, Dale W. Johnson, Dave S. Schimel4, Paul S. Verburg, Linda L. Wallace, and Yiqi Luo 2007. Lagged Effects of Experimental Warming and Doubled Precipitation on Annual and Seasonal Aboveground Biomass Production in a Tallgrass Prairie. Submitted to “Global change biology” (in review).


• 11. D. Gerten, Y. Luo, G. LE Maire, W.J. Parton, C Keough, E. Weng, C. Beier, P. Clais, W. Cramer, J.S. Dukes, et al., 2008. Modelled Effects of Multiple Global Change Factors on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Dynamics in Different Climatic Zones. Part I: Precipitation-only Effects. “Global change biology” (in review)


• 12. Yiqi Luo, Dieter Gerten, Guerric le Maire, William Parton, Ensheng Weng, Xuhuui Zhou, Cindy Keough, Claus Beier, Lindsey Rustad. 2008. Modelled Effects of Multiple Global Change Factors on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Dynamics in Different Climatic Zones, Part II: Interactive Effects of Precipitation, Temperature, and CO2. “Global change biology” (accepted)


• 13. Alan K. Knapp, C. Beier, D. Briske, A. T. Classen, Y. Luo, M. Reichstein, M. D. Smith, S. D. Smith, J. E. Bell, P. A. Fay, J. L. Heisler, S. W. Leavitt, R. Sherry, B. Smith, Ensheng Weng, 2008. Consequences of more extreme precipitation regimes for terrestrial ecosystems. BioScience, accepted


• 14. Jia, B., G. Zhou, F. Wang, Y. Wang, E. Weng, 2007. Effects of grazing on soil respiration of Leymus chinensis steppe. Climatic Change, 82: 211–223.

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