Wan Wei

Personal information

Wan Wei 

Ph.D, Associate professor, Master's Degree Program Supervisor

E-mail: wanwei@ncu.edu.cn

Room 1009, Zhihua Science and Technology Building, Nanchang University

Education and Work Experience

Educational Background:

• September 2018 – June 2022, China Agricultural University, Land Use and Information Technology, Doctoral Degree.

• September 2015 – June 2018, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Natural Geography, Master's Degree.

Work Experience:

• July 2022 – December 2024, School of Resources and Environmental Sciences / Jiangxi Institute of Ecological Civilization, Nanchang University, Lecturer.

• December 2024 – Present, School of Resources and Environmental Sciences / Jiangxi Institute of Ecological Civilization, Nanchang University, Associate Professor.

Academic part-time position

•Expert for reviewing projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

•Expert in the national review panel for undergraduate graduation theses (designs).

•Expert in the national evaluation and monitoring panel for postgraduate education.

•Young editorial board member of journals such as Carbon Neutrality, Climate Smart Agriculture, Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering, Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Desert Research, Journal of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (Natural Science Edition), Journal of Nanchang University(Engineering & Technology).

•Reviewer for journals including Sustainable Cities and Society, Geography and Sustainability, Agricultural Systems, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Cleaner Production, Catena, Ecological Indicators, Environmental Research, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, iScience, Plant and Soil, Chinese Geographical Science, Journal of Arid Land, Environmental Modelling and Software, Journal for Nature Conservation, Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, Regional Sustainability, Trees, Forests and People, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering.

•Member of the Jiangxi Remote Sensing Application Society and the Jiangxi Ecological Society.

Field of investigation

Research Focus: Remote Sensing of Natural Resources and Environment, and Geographic Information Systems.

Areas Involved: Ecological remote sensing, agricultural remote sensing, drought monitoring, ecosystem services, non-point source agricultural pollution, water resources and aquatic ecology, soil erosion assessment, and macro-scale studies on regional carbon emissions and carbon sink.

Representative achievements

[1] Wu, Z., Liang, H., Liu, Z., Du, H., He, L., Xie, Z., Zhu, J., Zheng, B.*, Wan, W.*, 2026. Nitrogen dilemma in Chinese crop-livestock systems: Assessing mitigation potential and exploring optimization pathways from the perspectives of utilization efficiency and pollution hotspots. Agricultural Systems 233, 104642.

[2] Xiao, D., Wu, S., Zhu, Z., He, L., Wu, Z., Wan, Z., Zhu, J., Zheng, B.*, Wan, W.*, 2025. Quantitative identification of drought dominant periods and driving factors in China: integrating from TVDI and pixel-wise EMD. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk 16, 2577180.

[3] He, L., Wu, S., Xie, Z., Liang, H., Wu, Z., Xiao, D., Zhu, J., Zheng, B.*, Wan, W.*, 2025. Drought diminishes ecosystem service supply and exacerbates trade-offs in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. iScience 28, 113604.

[4] Li, J., Huang, Y., Liang, H., He, L., Du, H., Zhu, J., Zheng, B.*, Wan, W.*, 2025. Refined assessment of carbon emissions from land use in China: A research framework based on “provincial accounting-efficiency assessment-spatial synergy”. Sustainable Cities and Society 132, 106831.

[5] Wu, Z., Zhou, Z., Liang, H., Wu, H., Liu, Z., Xie, Z., Zhu, J., Zheng, B.*, Wan, W.*, 2025. Application of a comprehensive framework to estimate the risk of agricultural non-point source pollution in China since 2000. Journal of Cleaner Production 509, 145581.

[6] Huang, Y., Liang, H., Wu, Z., Xie, Z., Liu, Z., Zhu, J., Zheng, B.*, Wan, W.*, 2024. Comprehensive assessment of refined greenhouse gas emissions from China's livestock sector. Science of the Total Environment 946, 174301.

[7] He, L., Xie, Z., Wu, H., Liu, Z., Zheng, B.*, Wan, W.*, 2024. Exploring the interrelations and driving factors among typical ecosystem services in the Yangtze river economic Belt, China. Journal of Environmental Management 351, 119794.

[8] Wu, Z., Liang, H., Wu, H., Xie Z., Liu, H., Zhang, J., Zhu, J., Zheng, B.*, Wan, W.*, 2024. Application of improved risk assessment methods to best management practices research for non-point source pollution: From a hilly mountainous-dominated region of Southern China. Ecological Indicators 165, 112223.

[9] Zheng, B., Wu, S., Liu, Z., Wu, H., Li, Z., Ye, R., Zhu, J., Wan, W.*, 2024. Downscaling estimation of NEP in the ecologically-oriented county based on multi-source remote sensing data. Ecological Indicators 160, 111818.

[10] Zheng, B., Wang, J., Wu, S., Wu, H., Xie, Z., Wan, W.*, 2023. Spatio-temporal patterns and driving mechanisms of rice biomass during the growth period in China since 2000. Ecological Indicators 153, 110389.

[11] Wan, W., Liu, Z.*, Li, B.*, et al., 2022. Evaluating soil erosion by introducing crop residue cover and anthropogenic disturbance intensity into cropland C-factor calculation: Novel estimations from a cropland-dominant region of Northeast China. Soil and Tillage Research 219, 105343.

[12] Wan, W., Liu, Z.*, Li, J., et al., 2022. Spatiotemporal patterns of maize drought stress and their effects on biomass in the Northeast and North China Plain from 2000 to 2019. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 315, 108821.

[13] Wan, W., Han, Y., Wu, H., et al., 2021. Application of the source–sink landscape method in the evaluation of agricultural non-point source pollution: First estimation of an orchard-dominated area in China. Agricultural Water Management 252, 106910.

[14] Wan, W., Liu, Z.*, Li, K., et al., 2021. Drought monitoring of the maize planting areas in Northeast and North China Plain. Agricultural Water Management 245, 106636.

[15] Song, X., Zhou, Z., Shen, R., Xu, L., Hu, F., Xie, Z., Zhu, J., Zheng, B., Wan, W.*, 2025. Evaluating the suitability of NPP simulation for subtropical forest ecosystems by calibrating the Biome-BGC model: An empirical study at interannual and inter-monthly scales. Ecological Modelling 509, 111275.

[16] Wen, Z., Zhou, Z., Wei, X., Xiao, D., Xu, L., Wan, W.*, 2025. Spatio-temporal simulation of the productivity of four typical subtropical forests: A case study of the Ganjiang River Basin in China. Forests 16, 603.

[17] Song, X., Zheng, B., Hu, F., Xu, L., Wu, H., Liu, Z., Wan, W.*, 2023. Divergent responses of NPP to climate factors among forest types at interannual and inter-monthly scales: An empirical study on four typical forest types in subtropical China. Forests 14, 1474.

[18] Zheng, B., Wu, S., Song, X., Huang, Y., Wu, H., Liu, Z., Zhu, J., Wan, W.*, 2023. Impacts of landscape pattern evolution on typical ecosystem services in Ganjiang River Basin, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 30, 110562-110578.