Research Associate
Contact Information:
| WangWenJ@missouri.edu | |
| Address | 203 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building |
Experience:
07/2015 – present, Research Associate, University of Missouri-Columbia
08/2012 – present, Postdoctoral Fellow, USGS Northeast Climate Science Center
08/2012 – 06/2015, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia
01/2009 – 07/2012, Research Assistant, University of Missouri-Columbia
07/2006 – 12/2008, Research Assistant, Chinese Academy of Sciences
USGS Northeast Climate Science Center Postdoctoral Fellow
Education:
Ph.D. 2012 School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
M.S. 2008 Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
B.S. 2006 Shandong Normal University, China
Graduate Geographic Information Systems Certificate, University of Missouri-Columbia
Research Interests:
My primary research focuses on the roles of biological processes (e.g., demography, competition), disturbance (e.g., harvest, fire, insect, and disease), climate change, and land use change on the forest carbon dynamics and tree species distribution using process-based ecosystem and landscape models (LANDIS PRO, LINKAGES), GIS, remote sensing, and geospatial statistics.
Subject Areas:
Forest ecology, landscape ecology, global change ecology, ecosystem modeling, GIS, remote sensing, and spatial statistics.
Publications:
Fraser, J.S., Wang, W.J., He, H.S., and Thompson, F. 2019. Modeling Post-Fire Tree Mortality Using a Logistic Regression Method within a Forest Landscape Model. Forests 10(1): 25. doi:10.3390/f10010025
Wang, W.J., Thompson, F.R., He, H.S., Fraser, J.S., Dijak, W.D., and Jones‐Farrand, T. 2019. Climate change and tree harvest interact to affect future tree species distribution changes. J. Ecol. 107(4): 1901–1917. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13144
Zhao, D., He, H., Wang, W.J., Liu, J., Du, H., Wu, M., and Tan, X. 2018. Distribution and Driving Factors of Forest Swamp Conversions in a Cold Temperate Region. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 15(10): 2103. doi:10.3390/ijerph15102103
Zhao, D., He, H.S., Wang, W.J., Wang, L., Du, H., Liu, K., and Zong, S. 2018. Predicting Wetland Distribution Changes under Climate Change and Human Activities in a Mid- and High-Latitude Region. Sustainability 10(3): 863. doi:10.3390/su10030863
Wang, W.J., Thompson, F.R., He, H.S., Fraser, J.S., Dijak, W.D., and Spetich, M.A. 2018. Population dynamics has greater effects than climate change on tree species distribution in a temperate forest region. J. Biogeogr. (November 2017): 2766–2778. doi:10.1111/jbi.13467
Liu, K., Liang, Y., He, H.S., Wang, W.J., Huang, C., and Zong, S. 2018. Long-Term Impacts of China’s New Commercial Harvest Exclusion Policy on Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in the Temperate Forests of Northeast China. Sustainability 10(4): 1071. doi:10.3390/su10041071
Jin, W., He, H.S., Shifley, S.R., Wang, W.J., Kabrick, J.M., and Davidson, B.K. 2018. How can prescribed burning and harvesting restore shortleaf pine-oak woodland at the landscape scale in central United States? Modeling joint effects of harvest and fire regimes. For. Ecol. Manage. 410: 201–210. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2017.07.040
Wang, W.J., He, H.S., Thompson, F.R., Spetich, M.A., and Fraser, J.S. 2018. Effects of species biological traits and environmental heterogeneity on simulated tree species distribution shifts under climate change. Sci. Total Environ. 634: 1214–1221. Elsevier B.V. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.353
Dijak, W.D., Hanberry, B.B., Fraser, J.S., He, H.S., Wang, W.J., and Thompson, F.R. 2017. Revision and application of the LINKAGES model to simulate forest growth in central hardwood landscapes in response to climate change. Landsc. Ecol.: 1–20. doi:10.1007/s10980-016-0473-8
Shifley, S.R., He, H.S., Lischke, H., Wang, W.J., Jin, W., Gustafson, E.J., Thompson, J.R., Thompson, F.R., Dijak, W.D., and Yang, J. 2017. The past and future of modeling forest dynamics: from growth and yield curves to forest landscape models. Landsc. Ecol. Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/s10980-017-0540-9
Jin, W., He, H.S., Thompson, F.R., Wang, W.J., Fraser, J.S., Shifley, S.R., Hanberry, B.B., and Dijak, W.D. 2017. Future forest aboveground carbon dynamics in the central United States: the importance of forest demographic processes. Sci. Rep. 7(August 2016): 41821. Nature Publishing Group. doi:10.1038/srep41821
Xiao, J., Liang, Y., He, H.S., Thompson, J.R., Wang, W.J., Fraser, J.S., and Wu, Z. 2016. The formulations of site-scale processes affect landscape-scale forest change predictions: a comparison between LANDIS PRO and LANDIS-II forest landscape models. Landsc. Ecol. Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/s10980-016-0442-2
Iverson, L.R., Thompson, F.R., Matthews, S., Peters, M., Prasad, A., Dijak, W.D., Fraser, J., Wang, W.J., Hanberry, B., He, H., Janowiak, M., Butler, P., Brandt, L., and Swanston, C. 2016. Multi-model comparison on the effects of climate change on tree species in the eastern U.S.: results from an enhanced niche model and process-based ecosystem and landscape models. Landsc. Ecol. Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/s10980-016-0404-8
Wang, W.J., He, H.S., Thompson III, F.R., Fraser, J.S., and Dijak, W.D. 2016. Changes in forest biomass and tree species distribution under climate change in the northeastern United States. Landsc. Ecol. Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/s10980-016-0429-z
Liang, Y., He, H.S., Wang, W.J., Fraser, J.S., Wu, Z., and Xu, J. 2015. The site-scale processes affect species distribution predictions of forest landscape models. Ecol. Modell. 300: 89–101. Elsevier B.V. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.01.007
Wang, W.J., He, H.S., Thompson III, F.R., Fraser, J.S., Hanberry, B.B., and Dijak, W.D. 2015. The importance of succession, harvest, and climate change in determining future forest composition changes of the U.S. Central Hardwood Forests. Ecosphere 6(12): art277. doi:10.1890/ES15-00238.1
Wang, W.J., He, H.S., Thompson, F.R., Fraser, J.S., and Dijak, W.D. 2015. Landscape- and regional-scale shifts in forest composition under climate change in the Central Hardwood Region of the United States. Landsc. Ecol. Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/s10980-015-0294-1
Luo, X., He, H.S., Liang, Y., Wang, W.J., Wu, Z., and Fraser, J.S. 2014. Spatial simulation of the effect of fire and harvest on aboveground tree biomass in boreal forests of Northeast China. Landsc. Ecol.: 1–14. Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/s10980-014-0051-x
Wang, W.J., and He, H.S. 2014. A. Srinivasan, F. H. Ling and H. Mori (eds): Climate smart development in Asia: transition to low carbon and climate resilient economies. Landsc. Ecol. 29(3): 559–561. doi:10.1007/s10980-014-9999-9
Wang, W.J., He, H.S., Spetich, M.A., Shifley, S.R., Thompson, F.R., Dijak, W.D., and Wang, Q. 2014. A framework for evaluating forest landscape model predictions using empirical data and knowledge. Environ. Model. Softw. 62: 230–239. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.09.003
Wang, W.J., He, H.S., Fraser, J.S., Thompson, F.R., Shifley, S.R., and Spetich, M.A. 2014. LANDIS PRO: a landscape model that predicts forest composition and structure changes at regional scales. Ecography (Cop.). 37(3): 225–229. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00495.x
Fraser, J.S., He, H.S., Shifley, S.R., Wang, W.J., and Thompson, F.R. 2013. Simulating stand-level harvest prescriptions across landscapes: LANDIS PRO harvest module design. Can. J. For. Res. 43(10): 972–978. NRC Research Press. doi:10.1139/cjfr-2013-0190
Wang, W.J., He, H.S., Spetich, M.A., Shifley, S.R., Thompson III, F.R., Larsen, D.R., Fraser, J.S., and Yang, J. 2013. A large-scale forest landscape model incorporating multi-scale processes and utilizing forest inventory data. Ecosphere 4(9): 1–22. doi:10.1890/ES13-00040.1
Wang, W.J., He, H.S., Spetich, M.A., Shifley, S.R., Thompson III, F.R., and Fraser, J.S. 2013. Modeling the effects of harvest alternatives on mitigating oak decline in a Central Hardwood Forest landscape. PLoS One 8(6)(6): e66713. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066713