Prof. Wang Yanhui graduated from Beijing Forestry University with a Bachelor in 1982 and Master in 1985 in soil and water conservation, and got his PhD in forest nutrition and soil science at the University of Goettingen of Germany in 1996. He has be working at the Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF) since 1985, and now as a leading professor on forest ecohydrology.
Prof. Wang Yanhui has over 40 years of research and teaching experiences in soil erosion control, soil acidification and forest health, forest eco-hydrology, multifunctional forestry and forest management, in south, north and particularly the northwest dryland region of China. He has published 348 papers and 25 monographs until the end of 2023.
Prof. Wang Yanhui and his research group established a long term research station of forest ecohydrology in the loess Plateau of Northwest China, where they studied the interaction between water and forest/vegetation, and the practical approach for integrating the management of water and forest services into the traditional forest management, in multiple spatial scales, from stand, slope, small watershed, watershed to a region, with an objective of increasing the overall contribution of forestry to regional sustainable development.
Prof. Wang Yanhui's current researches mainly focus on the effects of site and stand conditions on forest growth and related hydrological and other ecosystem services, the forest-water coordinated and multifunctional management of forests, and the development of payment for multiple forest ecosystem services, with aims of improving forest management for balanced supply of multiple forest ecosystem service.
Prof. Wang Yanhui is the Coordinator of Division 8.01.04 "Water supply and quality" of IUFRO since 2015, the vice chairman of the Association of Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management of the Chinese Society of Forestry since 2012.
Chaired the key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China "The Formation and Compensation Mechanisms of Hydrological Functions of Forest/Vegetation in the Jinghe Watershed of the Loess Plateau" (2021-2024);
Chaired the key project of the Chinese Academy of Forestry Fund "Vegetation Dynamics and the Optimization of Multiple Eco-hydrological functions in Jinghe River Basin" (2021-2024);
Chaired the sub-project "Structure Improvement and function Enhancement Technology and Demonstration of Artificial Forest in water source area of Loess soil and Rock Mountain Area" of the National Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2017-2020);
Chaired the key research and development project of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region "Multi-functional Forest Management and Management Technology in rocky Liupan Mountains Area" (2016-2020);
Chaired the sub-project "Upper Mountain Forest Vegetation System Structure, Ecohydrological process and Ecological Parameterization Research" of the National Natural Science Foundation of Heihe Major Research Program Integration Project "Heihe Basin Ecosystem Structure Characteristics and Process Integration and Ecological Scenario Research" project (2015-2018);
Chaired the basic research project of the Ministry of Science and Technology "China Forest Soil Survey, Standard Specifications and Database Construction" (2014-2018);
Participated in the major project of National Natural Science Foundation of China "Mechanism and Scale Effect of Water Conservation in Forest Ecosystem of Loess Plateau" (2014-2018);
Chaired the Key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China "Spatial Scale Effects of Land Use on Runoff in the Loess Plateau under the Background of Climate Change" (2013-2017);
Participated in the German Research Association (DFG) Sino-German collaborative research project "Water yield response to changes in land-use and climate in the semi-humid region of Jinghe River, Northwest China" (2011-2014);
Chaired the sub-project of "Regulation and Control of Typical Forest Vegetation on Water resource formation Process in the rocky mountainous areas of Northwest China" of the key research project of Forestry industry "Regulation and Control of Typical Forest Vegetation on Water Resource Formation Process" (2011-2013);
Chaired the special fund project of forestry public welfare industry Research "Research on Forest Vegetation Carrying Capacity based on Water Management in Typical Areas of Northwest China" (2009-2013);
Chaired the key project of National Natural Science Foundation of China "Impact of Land Cover Change on Regional Water Consumption in drought-Deficient Areas" (2008-2011);
Chaired the social welfare special project of the Ministry of Science and Technology "Vegetation construction and water resources regulation Decision support System" (2005-2007);
Chaired the key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China "Interaction of Forest and Water Resources in Arid and semi-arid Areas and Rational regulation Mechanism" (2003-2006);
Chaired the sub-project of "Regulation Mechanism of Forest Vegetation on slope hydrology Process and Water Conversion" of the National Key Basic Research and Development Planning project of "Regulation Mechanism of Forest Vegetation on Agro-ecological Environment in Typical Regions of Western China" (2003-2008).
Tian, A., Wang, Y., Webb, A. A., Yu, P., Wang, X., & Liu, Z. 2023. Modelling the response of larch growth to age, density, and elevation and the implications for multifunctional management in northwest China. Journal of Forestry Research, 34(5), 1423-1436.
Wang Yanhui, Yu Pengtao, Tian Ao, Han Xinsheng, Hao Jia, Liu Zebin, Wang Xiao, 2023, Forest-Water Coordinated and Multifunctional Management of Forests in the Liupan Mountainous Area and Loess Plateau Region of China. Scientia Silvae Sinicae, 59(4): 1-17. (in Chinese)
Asbjornsen H.*, Wang Y*, Ellison D., Ashcraft C. M., Atallah S. S., Jones K., Mayer A., Altamirano M., Yu P. 2022, Multi-Targeted payments for the balanced management of hydrological and other forest ecosystem services. Forest Ecology and Management, 522 (2022), 120482.
Bilal Ahmad, Yanhui Wang*, Jia Hao, Yanhui Liu, Eve Bohnett, Kebin Zhang, 2021, Variation of carbon density components with overstory structure of larch plantations in northwest China and its implication for optimal forest management. Forest Ecology and Management, 496 (2021): 119399.
Ziyou Zhang, Jianbin Guo, Yanhui Wang, Pengtao Yu, Xiao Wang, 2021, Variation of soil organic carbon density with plantation age and initial vegetation types in the Liupan Mountains areas of northwest China. Forests, 12(12), 1811.
Ao Tian, Yanhui Wang*, Ashley A. Webb, Zebin Liu, Jing Ma, Pengtao Yu, Xiao Wang, 2020, Water yield variation with elevation, tree age and density of larch plantation in the Liupan Mountains of the Loess Plateau and its forest management implications. Science of the Total Environment, 752 (2021) 141752.
Yipeng Yu, Pengtao Yu*, Yanhui Wang, Xinwu Tu, Xiaoping Zhang, Shulan Zhang, Lihong Xu, Xiao Wang, Zebin Liu, Bin Wang, 2020, Dependence of annual runoff coefficients on basin size and other properties in a climate transition zone from semi-humid to arid and semi-arid on the Loess Plateau, China. Journal of Hydrology, 591, 125727.
Bilal Ahmad, Yanhui Wang*, Jia Hao, Yanhui Liu, Eve Bohnett, Kebin Zhang, 2019, Optimizing stand structure for tradeoffs between overstory and understory vegetation biomass in a larch plantation of Liupan Mountains, Northwest China. Forest Ecology and Management, 443(2019): 43-50.
Ao Tian, Yanhui Wang*, Ashley A. Webb, Zebin Liu, PengtaoYu, Wei Xiong, Xiao Wang, 2019, Partitioning the causes of spatiotemporal variation in the sunny day sap flux density of a larch plantation on a hillslope in northwest China. Journal of Hydrology, 571:503-515.
Yang Wenjuan, Yanhui Wang*, Ashley A.Webb, Zengyuan Li, Xin Tian, Zongtao Han, Shunli Wang, Pengtao Yu, 2018. Influence of climatic and geographic factors on the spatial distribution of Qinghai spruce forests in the dryland Qilian Mountains of Northwest China. Science of the Total Environment. 612: 1007–1017.
Zebin Liu, Yanhui Wang*, Ao Tian, Ashley A. Webb, Pengtao Yu, Wei Xiong1, Lihong Xu, Yarui Wang, 2018, Modeling the Response of Daily Evapotranspiration and its Components of a Larch Plantation to the Variation of Weather, Soil Moisture, and Canopy Leaf Area Index. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(14): 7354-7374.
Bilal Ahmad, Yanhui Wang*, Jia Hao, Yanhui Liu, Eve Bohnett, Kebin Zhang*, 2018, Optimizing stand structure for trade-offs between overstory timber production and understory plant diversity: A case-study of a larch plantation in northwest China. Land Degradation and Development, 29:2998–3008.
Liu Zebin, Yanhui Wang*, Ao Tian, Pengtao Yu, Wei Xiong, Lihong Xu, Yarui Wang, 2017, Intra-Annual Variation of Stem Radius of Larix principis-rupprechtii and Its Response to Environmental Factors in Liupan Mountains of Northwest China. Forests, 8(10): 382.
Wei Xiong, Ram Oren, Yanhui Wang, Pengtao Yu, Hailong Liu, Gongxiang Cao, Lihong Xu, Yunni Wang, Haijun Zuo, 2015, Heterogeneity of competition at decameter scale: patches of high canopy leaf area in a shade-intolerant larch stand transpire less yet are more sensitive to drought. Tree Physiology, 35(5):470-484.
Wang, Yanhui*, Wei Xiong, Stephan Gampe, Neil Andrew Coles, Pengtao Yu, Lihong Xu, Haijun Zuo, Yunni Wang, 2015. A Water Yield-Oriented Practical Approach for Multifunctional Forest Management and Its Application in Dryland Regions of China. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 51(3): 689-703.
Yanhui Wang*, Pengtao Yu, Karl-Heinz Feger, Xiaohua Wei, Ge Sun, Mike Bonell, Wei Xiong, Shulan Zhang, Lihong Xu, 2011, Annual Runoff and Evapotranspiration of Forestlands and Non-forestlands in Selected Basins of the Loess Plateau of China. Ecohydrology, 4(2):277–287.
Yanhui Wang, Pengtao Yu, Wei Xiong, Zhenxi Shen, Mingchun Guo, Zhongjie Shi, Apeng Du, and Liangmin Wang, 2008, Water Yield Reduction after Afforestation and Related Processes in the Semiarid Liupan Mountains, Northwest China. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 44(5): 1086-1097.
