Wenwu Zhao

Biographic Data

ID	3600094
NAME	Wenwu Zhao
GIVEN NAMES	Wenwu
FAMILY NAME	Zhao
SIGNATURE	ZHAO W
AFFILIATIONS	Beijing Normal University
ORCID	0000-0001-5342-354X
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	32
TOTAL CITATIONS	31
WORKS AS AUTHOR	32
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	4

Multiple trajectories of urban–rural ecosystem services disparities
Open AccessYiman Zhang, Ting Hua et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2026
Prioritizing climate action maximizes synergies among global environmental SDGs
Open AccessYizhong Huan, Fei Wu et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2026
Photovoltaic Panels Can Promote Ecological Function in Semiarid Areas
Open AccessYanzhen Hou, Jingyi Ding et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2026
Ecosystems are facing multiple pressures from limited natural resources, population growth, and climate change, which challenges the achievement of sustainable development goals. The combination of agriculture and photovoltaic power generation can mitigate multiple societal challenges. However, it is still poorly understood whether photovoltaic benefits multiple ecosystem functions and the impact of different types of photovoltaic panels on ecolo…
Evaluating the Impacts of Human Activity and Climate on Vegetation Dynamics Using an Integrated Human Activity Index
Open AccessShuo Chen, Wenwu Zhao et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2026
In recent decades, human activities have gradually influenced climate variability, consequently changing vegetation dynamics. We examined China's Loess Plateau (LP), a semi‐arid, erosion‐prone region undergoing large‐scale ecological restoration and rapid socioeconomic change, providing a natural setting to contrast climatic and anthropogenic influences. However, annual, temporally continuous quantification of multidimensional human activity—need…
Mechanisms Linking Grazing, Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing of Typical Pastures in Xinjiang, China
Open AccessWen‐Jun Tu, Wenzhu Tu et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2026
Clarifying the mechanisms linking grazing, the supply of ecosystem services (ESs), and human wellbeing (HWB) provides a theoretical basis for sustainable grassland use. Current research often depends on unverified secondary data or subjective perceptions for assessments, which may undermine the accuracy of the results and limit our understanding of interactions within pastoral socioecological systems. In this study, we used field survey data to e…
The dual impact of trade on the water–energy–food nexus globally
Open AccessCaichun Yin, Wenwu Zhao et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2026References: 6
Integrating land degradation states and trends to identify priority areas for ecological restoration in China's drylands
Open AccessYi Han, Wenwu Zhao et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Impact Assessment…2026References: 62
Ecosystem restoration along the “pattern-process-service-sustainability” path for achieving land degradation neutrality
Open AccessCaichun Yin, Wenwu Zhao et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2025
Resilience reemerged in sustainable development goals
Open AccessZizhao Ni, Wenwu Zhao et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2025
In the post-pandemic era, sustainable development goals (SDGs) have evolved into resilient and adaptive systems, responding dynamically to the impacts of the pandemic and its associated restrictions. This study assessed SDG performance in China using a framework based on 13 pandemic-related goals and 47 indicators. Data were collected from 1027 participants across 220 cities and 30 provinces during three stages, defined by key policy changes. Res…
Vegetation restoration contributes to a reduction in wind and water erosion in China's drylands
Open AccessSiyuan Feng, Wenwu Zhao et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2025
Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of sustainable development goals on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau
Open AccessYanjie Yang, Wenwu Zhao et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2025
Beware of the reversal of land degradation neutrality in China's drylands
Open AccessSiyuan Feng, Wenwu Zhao et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2025Cited by: 1References: 30
Grazing mediates the biodiversity effects on multifunctionality in grasslands
Open AccessYue Yan, Jingyi Ding et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2024
Biodiversity loss by grazing pressure has threatened multiple ecosystem functions simultaneously (ecosystem multifunctionality, EMF) in grasslands. Therefore, detecting the relation between EMF and biodiversity under human intervention would provide guidance on the optimization of sustainable grassland management. However, little is known about how grazing effects grassland EMF by mediating biodiversity under different grazing intensities. Here, …
Dynamics of land cover changes and driving forces in China’s drylands since the 1970 s
Open AccessBingfang Wu, Zhijun Fu et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2024Cited by: 2References: 74
Plant biomass allocation is mediated by precipitation use efficiency in arid and semiarid ecosystems
Open AccessSiyuan Feng, Jingyi Ding et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2023
The arid and semiarid grassland ecosystems are characterized by limited water resources and are generally vulnerable to climate change. Understanding how plants in arid and semiarid ecosystems respond to global climatic variation is crucial for ecological restoration under a changing climate. Although the effects of climate on aboveground biomass (AGB) and belowground biomass (BGB) have been widely explored, how AGB and BGB respond to climatic va…
Impacts of urbanisation on vegetation dynamics in Chinese cities
Open AccessZhijie Zhang, Wenwu Zhao et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Impact Assessment…2023Cited by: 4References: 102
Unraveling the research trend of ecological civilization and sustainable development
Open AccessWenwu Zhao, Ao Zhou et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2023Cited by: 3References: 33
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the post-pandemic era
Open AccessWenwu Zhao, Caichun Yin et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2022
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose substantial challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Exploring systematic SDG strategies is urgently needed to aid recovery from the pandemic and reinvigorate global SDG actions. Based on available data and comprehensive analysis of the literature, this paper highlights ongoing challenges facing the SDGs, identifies the effects of COVID-19 on SDG progress, and proposes a systematic …
Finding pathways to synergistic development of Sustainable Development Goals in China
Open AccessJunze Zhang, Shuai Wang et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2022
While the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) index is a widely employed method of measuring progress in the United Nations (UN) SDGs, as it allows comparisons across countries and regions, it does not usually offer any indication as to how to move the SDGs forward. To address this deficit, we analyzed the impact of the offsetting effects of changes in individual SDG scores on the SDG index from 2015 to 2018 at the provincial level in China. Futur…
Effectiveness of protected areas edges on vegetation greenness, cover and productivity on the Tibetan Plateau, China
Open AccessTing Hua, Wenwu Zhao et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2022
Effects of Vegetation Restoration on Soil Erosion on the Loess Plateau
Open AccessHui Wei, Wenwu Zhao et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021
Large-scale vegetation restoration greatly changed the soil erosion environment in the Loess Plateau since the implementation of the "Grain for Green Project" (GGP) in 1999. Evaluating the effects of vegetation restoration on soil erosion is significant to local soil and water conservation and vegetation construction. Taking the Ansai Watershed as the case area, this study calculated the soil erosion modulus from 2000 to 2015 under the initial an…
Estimating Economic Losses Caused by Covid-19 under Multiple Control Measure Scenarios with a Coupled Infectious Disease—Economic Model
Open AccessXingtian Chen, Wei Gong et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021
The simulation results demonstrate that implementing strict control measures as early as possible can stop the spread of COVID-19 with a minimal economic impact. The quantitative assessment method in this study can be applied in other COVID-19 pandemic areas or countries
Spatiotemporal Distribution of Zika Virus and Its Spatially Heterogeneous Relationship with the Environment
Open AccessJie Li, Kun Jia et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021
Infectious diseases have caused some of the most feared plagues and greatly harmed human health. However, despite the qualitative understanding that the occurrence and diffusion of infectious disease is related to the environment, the quantitative relations are unknown for many diseases. Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne virus that poses a fatal threat and has spread explosively throughout the world, impacting human health. From a geographica…
Recent global land cover dynamics and implications for soil erosion and carbon losses from deforestation
Open AccessXiangping Hu, Jan Sandstad Næ et al.ARTICLEAnthropocene2021Cited by: 4References: 93
Changes in land cover are increasingly affecting land surface properties and provision of ecosystem services. Understanding recent historical land cover changes and their interlinkages with key environmental processes is instrumental to better support strategies for land-use management. The recently released products from the European Space Agency and Copernicus Climate Change Service contain high-resolution (300 m) time series of global land cov…
Socioeconomic impacts of a protected area in China
Open AccessJunze Zhang, Nan Yin et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2020Cited by: 2References: 27