Volume 26, Issue 2 Oct 2013 Edited by Chao Song www.sino-eco.org

Cover Photo: View of Mississippi River from downtown Minneapolis (Chi Yuan) The 7th International Symposium on Modern Ecology and the 4th International Young Ecologist Forum in Guangzhou (Jim Tang) Sino-Eco annual gathering in Minneapolis (Chi Yuan) Alpine grasslands in Tibet (Xubin Pan)

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Letter From the President Sino-Eco

Newsletter

Adam Wei

Executive Committee

President Adam Wei

Vice President Yushun Chen

Conference and Event Coordinator Rui Zhang

Treasurer and Membership Administrator

Wei Ren

Website Administrator Weimin Xi

Peicong Zhou

Email List Administrator Xubin Pan

Newsletter Editor Mingfang Zhang Jianguo Huang

Chi Yuan Chao Song

China Liaison Officer Lingli Liu Hong Liu

Adviser and Former Sino-Eco President Jianwu Tang

Advisory Committee

Jiquan Chen Yushun Chen

Ben Gu Charlie Huang

Yiqi Luo Shili Miao

Changhui Peng Ge Sun

Jianwu Tang Adam Wei

Jianguo Wu

and wet tropical forests (on the Caribbean side). This was my first time I have visited this country and seen various tropical forests. If you want to see tropical forests, Costa Rica may be one of the best places for your consideration. I attached two pictures for your interest.

Since the beginning of 2013, our Sino-Eco has been working hard on organizing several key activities including the 7th international Symposium on Modern Ecology (led by Dr. Jianguo Wu and Dr. Shenglei Fu) and the 4th International Young Ecologist Forum in Guangzhou (led by Dr. Jim Tang), completion of the 2012 Sino-Eco Best Student Paper Award (led by Dr. Yushun Chen), Urban Ecology Forum in Xiamen (led by Dr. Adam Wei and Dr. Yongguan Zhu), and our annual gathering in August in Minneapolis, USA (led by Dr. Yushun Chen and Dr. Rui Zhang). I strongly believe that those activities greatly promote academic exchange among our members as well as between Sino-Eco and Chinese students and professionals.

I am also happy to see that our members continue to make successful stories. Several members have landed faculty positions. Our senior member Dr. Shuijin Hu is now elected as ESA Asian Ecology Section Chair. A high-impact research paper on tree mortality has been published on Nature Communications by Yong Luo and others. More details are provided in this issue. Thank everyone for contribution, and specially, thank Chao Song for his leading role in editing this newsletter.

I trust that every Sino-Eco member had a great summer. The most unforgettable trip I had this summer was my visit to San Jose, Costa Rica where I attended the International Union of Forest Research Organization (IUFRO) conference during June 12-19. Following the meeting, I had several study tours to visit dry tropical forests (on the Pacific side of Costa Rica)  

Dry tropical forests near San Jose, Costa Rica.

Adam Wei is canopying into wet tropical forests near Limon, Costa Rica.

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Sino-Eco Gathering at Minneapolis By Yushun Chen & Chi Yuan Photo by Chi Yuan

View of Mississippi River from downtown Minneapolis. Group photo of the 2013 Sino-Eco gathering.

On August 7, 2013, about 35 Sino-Eco members and friends attended the 2013 gathering in Minneapolis, MN during ESA annual conference. Sino-Eco Event Coordinator Dr. Rui Zhang and Vice President Dr. Yushun Chen organized the gathering. At the beginning, Dr. Chen presented regards from Sino-Eco President Dr. Adam (Xiaohua) Wei. Following a brief introduction, Dr. Chen introduced and congratulated two 2012 Sino-Eco Best Student Paper Award Winners, Lei Dai From MIT and Haijun Yang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, although Haijun was not present at the ESA meeting this year. Dr. Chen explained that this year’s application process was quite competitive, and Lei and Haijun were selected because of their excellent research. As the award continues, more applications are encouraged for future competitions.

At the meeting, we learned that two of our members attended the gathering have been promoted to faculty positions in the past year. Dr. Lei Cheng now works at Zhejiang University, while Dr. Weimin Xi is at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. They each took time to share their stories with us, and their suggestions are especially helpful for students and post-doctoral fellows in the gathering. The editor-in-chief of Journal of Plant Ecology, Dr. Bernhard Schmid, together with Dr. Lingli Liu, Dr. Lin Jiang and many others on the editorial board, joined the gathering later to send their greetings to all of us. At the end, Sino-Eco Treasurer Dr. Wei Ren collected membership fees. We are glad that 10 new members joined our organization this year during the gathering. Welcome on board!

The event went well, and all participants had a pleasant time talking to each other.

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Urban Ecology Forum Jointly Organized by Sino-Eco and Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences By Adam Wei

On August 13, 2013, Sino-Eco and Institute of Urban Environment (IUE) successfully organized the Urban Ecology Forum in Xiamen, China. With rapid urbanization in China, the impacts of urbanization on environment have been receiving a growing attention. As the Director, Dr. Yongguan Zhu mentioned in his opening speech that Urban Ecology has been and will continue to be a critical issue in China, and understanding and managing how human and urban environment interact will have crucial significance on our ecosystem integrity and human well-being. About 200 graduate students and young researchers from Xiamen and elsewhere in China participated the Forum. The Forum is part of the Summer School organized by IUE every year.

Four Sino-Eco members were invited to deliver lectures. They include Dr. Jianguo Wu, Dr. Charlie Huang, Dr. Yadong Qi and Dr. Adam Wei. Following our lectures, our members were further invited to have face-to-face discussions on future collaborations.

Dr. Jianguo Wu talks to the audience at the Forum

Meeting between Sino-Eco Members and the Director of IUE, Dr. Yongguan Zhu. In the photo (left to right): Drs. Charlie Huang, Yadong Qi, Yongguan Zhu and Adam Wei.

International Symposium on Global Change Research 2013: Coupled Natural & Human Systems in Nanjing The International Symposium on Global Change Research 2013: Coupled Natural & Human Systems was held by the International Center for Ecology, Meterology and Environment at Nanjing University of Science and Technology on June 18-20, 2013. The Symposium brought international leading scientists to discuss challenges and issues about global change and other environmental issues. Drs. Lawrence Band from University of

North Carolina, Bojie Fu, Huadong Guo, Guoxiong Wu from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Thomas Spies from Oregon State University and USDA Forest Service were invited as keynote speakers. Sino-Eco members Drs. Jianwu Tang and Jingfeng Xiao served as the co-chairs of the scientific committee of the symposium.

Conference information from: http://web2.nuist.edu.cn:8080/isgcr/homepage.htm

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The 7th International Symposium on Modern Ecology and the 4th International Young Ecologist Forum in Guangzhou By Jim Tang

The 7th International Symposium on Modern Ecology (ISOMES-7) and the 4th International Young Ecologist Forum (IYEF-4) were successfully held in Guangzhou, China during June 9-15, 2013. The two conferences were hosted by Dr. Shenglei Fu from the South China Botanic Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Sino-Eco co-organized these meetings. Sino-Eco members Dr. Jianguo Wu chaired the ISOMES-7 and Dr. Jianwu Tang chaired the IYEF-4.

Sino-Eco members Drs. Hua Chen, Jiquan Chen, Yushun Chen (Vice President), Weixin Cheng, Shuijin Hu, Yiqi Luo, Ge Sun, Jianwu Tang, Xiaohua Wei (President), Jianguo Wu, Weixing Zhu gave keynote speeches.

Thirty-six graduate students and young ecologists presented their research on the IYEF, covering broad topics of ecology. As best presenters, Hui Li, Bing Song, Baihui Ren, and Qun Ma were awarded the “Yang Hanxi Rising Ecologist Award”.

The 5th International Young Ecologist Forum (IYEF-5) is planned to be held in Henan in 2014. The IYEF-3 was held in Kaifeng in 2012, the IYEF-2 was in Nanjing in 2011 with ISOMES-6, and the IYEF-1 was in Lanzhou in 2009 with ISOMES-5.

Plenary presentation at the 7th ISOMES. Photo from South China Botanical Garden website unless otherwise noted.

Dr. Shenglei Fu during opening ceremony of ISOMES.

Group photo of conference attendees. Photo by Jim Tang.

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Climate Change and Chinggis Khan’s Mongol Empire

Dr. Hanqin Tian, together with a team of scientists from West Virginia University, Columbia University, Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies and National University of Mongolia, conducts field studies in the Orkhon Valley, the seat of the Mongol empire, to investigate the role of energy and water in the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in the history of the world. This project combines archaeological and historical data from the Mongol Empire with tree-ring records of past climate, modeled estimates of grassland productivity and livestock abundance, and lake sediment records of water quality to illuminate the role of energy and water in the history of the Mongol Empire.

This project is supported by the NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program and the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering. This

Dr. Hanqin Tian and colleagues in the Orkhon Valley, Mongolia.

Tree Mortality: Climate Change or Developmental Processes?

interdisciplinary research project will enhance our basic understanding on multiple topics, including the role of water and energy in human and natural systems, the change in climate from the warm Medieval Climate Anomaly to the cold Little Ice Age, the application of lake sediment data for understanding impacts of livestock on water quality, and the relationship between climate variation and ecosystem health.

Understanding climate change associated tree mortality is central to linking climate change impacts on forest structure and function. However, whether temporal increases in tree mortality are attributed to climate change or stand developmental processes remains uncertain. Yong Luo and Han H.Y. Chen recently published a paper in Nature Communications investigating the effects of climate change and stand developmental processes on tree mortality. They found that both climate change and forest development processes influence temporal mortality increases. Climate change associated increases are significantly higher in young than old forests, and higher increases in younger forests are a result of their higher sensitivity to regional warming and drought. The reference information for the paper is: Yong Luo & Han Y.H. Chen (2013) Observations from old forest underestimate climate change effects on tree mortality. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2681

Yong Luo, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Natural Resources Management, Lakehead University.

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Dr. Shirong Liu is professor and the chief research scientist in Forest Ecology and Hydrology and the vice president of Chinese Academy of Forestry. He graduated in 1990 with PhD majoring in forest ecology from the Northeast Forestry University, China. From Jan 1994 to Jan 1995, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, the University of Edinburgh, UK, working on impacts of climate change on forests and trees. From Oct 1995 to Apr 1996, he was a visiting scholar at the College of Forest Resource, North Carolina State University, USA, working on protected areas management and biodiversity conservation.

Dr. Liu is a board member of International Union of Forest Research Organization (IUFRO) (2010-2014) and the coordinator for Task Force of Forest and Water Interaction of IUFRO, the Director-general of Ecological Society of China (ESC), and Chairman of the Association of Forest Ecology, Forestry Society of China. His research fields include ecosystem nitrogen and carbon processes, eco-hydrology, forest restoration and management, and climate change in relation to forests. The current ongoing studies his research team is taking on include:

��Temporal and spatial variations of ecosystem N and C ��processes, and its responses to manipulated soil warming ��and experimental drought in warm-temperate natural forests ��and subtropical planted forests in China; ��Long term vegetation changes (activity, phenology and ��water use efficiency) in response to climate change along ��the north–south transect of eastern China; ��Eco-hydrological processes under a changing environment ��in Minjiang River, a large watershed at the upper reaches of ��Yangtze River; ��Multiple-functional management for ecosystem services in ��subtropical and tropical forests.

Sino-Eco and ESC have been closely working together on various important activities, and such partnership will be further strengthened under the leadership of Professor Liu as the president of ESC.

Shirong Liu, Professor and Chief Research Scientist of Forest Ecology and Hydrology, Vice President of Chinese Academy of Forestry.

Address: Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, the Chinese Academy of Forestry, Wanshoushan, Haidian District, Beijing, 100091, China. Tel.: 86-10-62889311 Fax: 86-10-62884229 E-mail: liusr@caf.ac.cn

Dr. Shirong Liu at Baotianman carbon flux observation site.

刘世荣博⼠士

研究员，博⼠士⽣生导师 中国⽣生态学学会理事⻓长 中国林业科学研究院副院⻓长 国家级跨世纪学术技术带头⼈人

国家杰出⻘青年基⾦金获得者

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The 2012 “Sino-Eco Best Student Paper Award” goes to Lei Dai from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Haijun Yang from Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2012 Sino-Eco Best Student Paper Award By Yushun Chen

Award Committee chair Dr. Yushun Chen (right) presents the award to one of the winners, Lei Dai (left).

The award winning papers are: Lei Dai et al (2012) Generic Indicators for Loss of Resilience Before a Tipping Point Leading to Population Collapse. Science, 336:1175–1177 and Haijun Yang et al (2012) Diversity-dependent Stability under Mowing and Nutrient Addition: Evidence from a 7-year Grassland Experiment. Ecology Letters, 15: 619–626.

The award is given annually at the Sino-Eco gathering. Two winners are selected each year. Each winner receives $300 cash prize and formal recognition by Sino-Eco. The funding support comes from Sino-Eco annual budget and the Sino-Eco Yang Hanxi Ecological Fund.

The 2012 Sino-Eco Best Student Paper Award committee is chaired by Dr. Yushun Chen. Committee members include Drs. Jiquan Chen, Yushun Chen, Jianguo Huang, Lingli Liu, Ge Sun and Rui Zhang.

Dr. Yushun Chen (right) and his graduate student (left) conducting fish and water sampling in the field.

Dr. Yushun Chen Elected as President-Elect of American Fisheries Society Water Quality Section

Sino-Eco Vice President and Ecological Society of America (ESA) Asian Ecology Section (AES) Member, Dr. Yushun Chen, Assistant Professor in Water Quality/Aquatic Ecology and Resources at Aquaculture and Fisheries Center within University of Arkansas (Pine Bluff, Arkansas) was recently elected as President-Elect of American Fisheries Society (AFS) Water Quality Section (WQS), a section focusing on protecting water quality, habitat, and biological communities in aquatic ecosystems and watersheds. Dr. Chen took the President-Elect office during this year’s AFS annual meeting in September 2013.

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Dr. Shuijin Hu Elected as ESA Asian Ecology Section Chair Dr. Shuijin Hu from the Department of Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University has been elected as ESA Asian Ecology Section chair, 2013-2015.

Dr. Shuijin Hu is a professor of ecology at North Carolina State University. He received his BS in Agronomy from Hefei Institute of Science and Technology (1983), MS in genetics from Nanjing Agricultural University (1987), and PhD in ecology from the University of Georgia (1994). Prior to joining the NCSU faculty, he was a Research Associate at UC Davis and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. Dr. Hu’s research interests center on plant-microbe interactions and their responses to both natural and anthropogenic perturbations. He has authored and co-authored over 60 publications in peer-refereed journals, including Nature, Science, and Ecology Letters.

Shuijin Hu, Professor of Ecology, Department of Plant

Pathology, North Carolina State University.

Kai Zhu, PhD Candidate, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University

Chaoqun Lu, Research Fellow, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University

Lei Cheng, Professor, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University

Jiaqi Tan, PhD Candidate, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology

Kai Zhu from Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University recently received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for his research on the general trends of tree responses to climate change in the eastern United States.

Dr. Chaoqun Lu received 2013 ESA Asian Ecology Section Early Career Ecologist Award. Dr. Lu is a research fellow in the International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, and the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University.

Dr. Lei Cheng received 2013 ESA Asian Ecology Section Early Career Ecologist Award. Dr. Cheng is currently a professor in the College of Life Sciences at Zhejiang University.

Jiaqi Tan received the 2013 ESA Asian Ecology Section Outstanding Graduate Student Award. He is currently a PhD Candidate in the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Sino-Eco Members Receive Multiple Grants and Rewards

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Forests play a vital role in sustaining water resources and aquatic ecosystems. Forest disturbance, both natural (e.g., wildfire, insects, disease windstorms, drought) and human caused (e.g., timber harvesting, land conversion), can have a profound effect on hydrologic, geomorphic and ecologic processes. With climate change, natural disturbances are becoming more frequent and catastrophic. This, together with growing human disturbance, will undoubtedly affect water resources and consequently have significant implications for land managers and policy makers. Our understanding of hydrologic and ecologic response to accelerated environmental and land use changes is key to the development of adaptive and mitigating strategies ensuring the continued security of water supplies and ecological values.

Building on the success of past international Forests and Water conferences (Beijing in 2006, Raleigh, NC in 2009, and Fukuoka in 2012), the fourth conference will focus on forest disturbance and hydrological processes in a changing environment. The goal of this conference is to provide a forum for experts specializing in forest hydrology, ecohydrology, geomorphology, watershed management and climate change in forested environments around the world to share research progresses, exchange ideas, and develop international research collaborations.

Proposed Themes ��Natural and human disturbance, and hydrological processes (water quantity and water quality) in ��forested watershed at different spatial scales ��Climate variability, forest changes and hydrologic responses ��Ecohydrology at the urban-rural interfaces ��Reforestation and hydrological processes ��Forest carbon and water coupling across different spatial scales ��Applications of new methods, models and technologies ��Integrated watershed assessment and management ��Emerging topics: surface water and groundwater interaction; application of landscape ecology on ��watershed hydrology; and others

The Conference Organization Chairs Dr. Adam Wei, University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus), BC, Canada; adam.wei@ubc.ca Dr. Rita Winkler, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, BC, Canada; rita.winkler@gov.bc.ca

The 4th International Conference on Forest and Water in a Changing Environment Kelowma, BC, Canada | JULY 6-9, 2015

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Evapotranspiration (ET) is a major component of the hydrologic cycle with direct impacts on water quantity, water quality, and net ecosystem and agro-ecosystem primary productivity. Increasing human population and climate change are putting pressure on global water resources, both in direct demand and in ecosystem services. Land use change is necessary to supply more food, fiber, forest products, and bioenergy, but water resources must be able to sustain drinking water supplies, provide hydro-power and dilute industrial and municipal waste while maintaining aquatic ecosystem integrity. Expansion of urban areas will locally reduce ET and increase runoff, but intensification of agriculture, biofuel crops, and silvicultural practices may increase ET and reduce runoff. These alterations in ET, runoff and water supply will be even more complicated by climate change and sea level rise, requiring iterative and complex modeling and integrative management efforts to meet increasing demands for water- related ecosystem services.

Our ability to measure, calculate, and model ET is not only resource intensive, but also technically and practically challenging. ET is influenced by parameters that vary across multiple scales – from site-specific variables such as soil, vegetation type, and localized weather conditions, across the spatial heterogeneity of land use management at the landscape scales, to regional scales influenced by broad climatic conditions.

This symposium will bring together scientists, engineers, students, and technical experts exploring state-of-the-art knowledge and technology to monitor and model ET at multiple temporal and spatial scales with those studying and interested in the environmental effects of changes in land use and management, vegetation, and climate.

Suggested Topic Area

��ET Processes, biophysical controls and feedback mechanisms ��Measurement and estimation techniques: in-situ and remote sensing ��Estimates and mathematical modeling of ET ��Advances in thermal remote sensing based ET mapping ��Database availability and use ��Practical applications of ET in emerging research environmental issues ��Climate Change and its impacts on ET and water resources Paper proposal submission deadline: Oct 15, 2013

Contact information

Dr. Devendra Amatya, conference co-chair, USDA Forest Service, damatya@fs.fed.us Dr. Jami Nettles, conference co-chair, Weyerhaeuser Company, jami.nettles@weyerhaeuser.com Sharon Mcknight, ASABE meeting manager, mcknight@asabe.org

2014 Symposium on Evapotranspiration: Challenges in Measurement and Modeling from Leaf to the Landscape Scale And Beyond Raleigh, NC, USA | April 7-11, 2014

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Jianguo Huang

Huang J.G., Stadt K., Dawson A. and Comeau P. (In press) Modeling growth-competition relationships in trembling aspen and white spruce mixed boreal forests of western Canada. PLOS ONE.

Huang J.G., Bergeron Y., Berninger F., Zhai L.H., Tardif J., and Denneler B. (2013) Impact of future climate on radial growth of four major boreal tree species in the eastern Canadian boreal forest. PLOS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056758 IF2011=4.092

Jianwei Li

Li J, S.E. Ziegler, C.S. Lane and S.A. Billings (2013) Legacies of native climate regime govern the responses of boreal soil microbes to litter stoichiometry and temperature. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 66(0): 204-213.

D.J. Li, C. Schädel, M.L. Haddix, E.A. Paul, R. Conant, J. Li, J.Z. Zhou and Y.Q. Luo (2013) Differential responses of soil organic carbon fractions to warming: results from an analysis with data assimilation, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.07.008.

Ziegler, S. E., S. A. Billings, C.S. Lane, J. Li, M.L. Fogel. (2013) Warming alters routing of labile and slower-turnover carbon through distinct microbial groups in boreal forest organic soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 60(0): 23-32.

Yong Luo Y. Luo and H.Y.H. Chen (2013) Observations from old forests underestimate climate change effects on tree mortality. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2681. Ge Sun

Noormets, A., S. McNulty, J-C Domec, M. Gavazzi, G. Sun and J.S. King (2012) The role of harvest residue in rotation cycle carbon balance in loblolly pine plantations: Respiration partitioning approach. Global Change Biology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02776.x

Boggs, J.L., G. Sun, D. Jones, and S.G. McNulty (2013) Effect of soils on water quantity and quality in piedmont forested headwater watersheds of North Carolina. Journal of American Water Resources Association, 49(1):132-150.

Chen, J., R. John, G. Qiao, O. Batkhishig, W. Yuan, Y. Zhang, C. Shao, Z. Ouyang, L. Li, K. Guo, and G. Sun. 2013. Chapter 1: State and Change of Dryland East Asia (DEA). In Chen, J., S. Wan, J. Qi, G. Henerbry, G. Sun, M Kappas (eds): Dryland East Asia: Land Dynamics amid Social and Climate Change. HEP & DeGruyter, 3-20.

Chen, J., R. John, G. Sun, S. McNulty, A. Noormets, J. Xiao, M. Turner, and J.F. Franklin. 2013. Carbon Fluxes and Storages in Forests and Landscapes. In: Azevedo, J. and A. Perera (eds). Forest Landscapes and Global Change. Springer, New York. (In press)

Recent Publications from Sino-Eco Members

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Chen, J., R. John, G. Sun, S. McNulty, A. Noormets, J. Xiao, M. Turner, and J.F. Franklin. 2013. Carbon Fluxes and Storages in Forests and Landscapes. In: Azevedo, J. and A. Perera (eds). Forest Landscapes and Global Change. Springer, New York. (In press)

Dai, Z., C.C. Trettin, C. Li, G. Sun, D.M. Amatya, and H. Li (2013) Modeling the impacts of climate variability and hurricane on carbon sequestration in a coastal forested wetland in South Carolina. Natural Science, 5:375-388.

Li, X., Liang, S., Yuan, W., Yu, G., Cheng, X., Chen, Y., Zhao, T., Feng, J., Ma, Z., Ma, M., Liu, S., Chen, J., Shao, C., Li, S., Zhang, X., Zhang, Z., Sun, G., Chen, S., Ohta, T., Varlagin, A., Miyata, A., Takagi, K., Saiqusa, N. and Kato, T. (2012), Estimation of evapotranspiration over the terrestrial ecosystems in China. Ecohydrology, doi: 10.1002/eco.1341.

Liu, N., P.S. Sun, S. Liu, and G. Sun (2013) Determination of the response unit size of the WaSSI-C eco-hydrological model: a case study on the upper Zagunao River watershed. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology, 37(2):132-141.

Lu, N., G. Sun, X. Feng, and B. Fu (2012) Water yield responses to climate change and variability across the North-South Transect of Eastern China (NSTEC). Journal of Hydrology, 481:96–105.

Mátyás, C., G. Sun, and Y. Zhang (2013) Chapter 11: Afforestation and forests at the dryland edges: Lessons learned and future outlooks. In Chen, J., S. Wan, J. Qi, G. Henerbry, G. Sun, M Kappas (eds): Dryland East Asia: Land Dynamics amid Social and Climate Change. HEP & DeGruyter, 245-259.

Sun, G., X. Feng, J. Xiao, A. Shiklomanov, S. Wang, Z. Zhang, N. Lu, S. Wang, L. Chen, B. Fu, Y. Chen, and J. Chen. 2013. Chapter 8: Water Resources in the Drylands of East Asia. In Chen, J., S. Wan, J. Qi, G. Henerbry, G. Sun, M Kappas (eds): Dryland East Asia: Land Dynamics amid Social and Climate Change. HEP & DeGruyter. Page 155-177.

Sun G. and Y. Liu (2013) Chapter 15: Forest Influences on Climate and Water Resources at the Landscape to Regional scale. In: Fu, B. and Bruce, K. J. (Eds). Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture, Springer, 309-334.

Sun G. (2013) Chapter 10: Interactions among climate, forests, water resources. 2013. In: Wu J., S An, and X. Len (eds.). Global Climate Change and Ecological Patterns and Processes. China Higher Education Press, 25-46.

Sun G. and C. Segura. (2013) Interactions of Forests, Climate, Water Resources, and Humans in a Changing Environment: Research Needs. British Journal of Environment and Climate Change, 3(2):119–126

Tavernia B.G., M.D. Nelson, P. Caldwell, and G. Sun (2013) Water Stress Projections for the Northeastern and Midwestern United States in 2060: Anthropogenic and Ecological Consequences. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12075.

Zhou J., Z. Zhang, G. Sun, X. Fang, T. Zha, S.G. McNulty, J. Chen, Y. Jin, and A. Noormets (2013) Response of ecosystem carbon fluxes to drought events in a poplar plantation in Northern China. Forest Ecology and Management, 300:33-42.

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Chen J., S. Wan, J. Qi, G. Henerbry, G. Sun and M Kappas (eds). 2013. Dryland East Asia: Land Dynamics amid Social and Climate Change. HEP & DeGruyter, 467.

Sun G., P. Caldwell, S.G. McNulty, E. Ward, J-C. Domec, and A. Noormets (2013) Regional Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change: It’s All about Water. In 2nd Annual PINEMAP Report, 24-25.

Johnsen K.H., T.L. Keyser, J. R. Butnor, C.A. Gonzalez-Benecke, D.J. Kaczmarek, C.A. Maier, H.R. McCarthy, and G. Sun (In press) Chapter 8: Forest productivity and carbon sequestration of forests in the southern United States. In J.M. Vose (ed.). Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options.

Liu Y., J. Prestemon, S. Goodrick, T. Holmes, J. Stanturf, J. Vose and G. Sun (In press) Chapter 5: Future Wildfire Trends, Impacts, and Mitigation Options in the Southern United States. In Vose, J. (ed.) Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Gaither, C.J., G. Sun et al., Climate Change, Human Populations, and Social Vulnerability in the South: An Ecosystem-level Examination of Freshwater Access, 2010-2040. In Vose, J. (ed.) Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (In Press).

Marion, D. A., G. Sun, P.V. Caldwell, C.R. Ford, Y. Ouyang, D.M. Amatya, B.D. Clinton, P.A. Conrads, S. Gull-Laird, and Z. Dai, J.A. Clingenpeel, Y. Liu, E.A. Roehl, J.A. Moore Meyers, and C. Trettin. 2013. Managing forest water quantity and quality under climate change in the Southern US, in: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options (CCAMMO), edited by: Vose, J., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Segura C., G. Sun, S. McNulty and Y. Zhang (In press) Climate change induced impacts on soil erosion vulnerability across the conterminous US. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

Sun G., Caldwell P.V., Georgakakos A.P., Arumugam S., Cruise J., McNider R.T., Terando A., Conrads P.A., Feldt J., Misra V., Romolo L., Rasmussen T.C., McNulty S.G., and Marion D.A. (2013) Chapter 10: Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Water Resources in the Southeastern US. In Ingram, K.T., K. Dow, and L. Carter (eds.). Southeastern Regional Technical Report to the National Climate Assessment, Water Resources, Island Press, 210-236.

Mitchell K.L., K. M. Adelberg, M. Brown, R. Brown, D. Burk, J.S. Gaffney, G.P. Garrett, D. Garver, S.A. Smith, and G. Sun, 2013. Chapter 12. Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases in the Southeast USA. In: K.T. Ingram, K. Dow, L. Carter (Eds) Southeast: Southeast Region Technical Report to the National Climate Assessment; Island Press, 271-294.

McNulty, S.G., G. Sun, J. Mohan, P. Caldwell, J. Prestemon, T.W. Doyle, K. Johnsen, and Y. Liu (2013) Chapter 8. Forests and Climate Change in the Southeast. In: K.T. Ingram, K. Dow, L. Carter (Eds). Southeast: Southeast Region Technical Report to the National Climate Assessment; Island Press, 165-189.

Vose J.M., C. Miniat, G. Sun, and P. Caldwell (In press) Implications for Expansion of GE Freeze-Tolerant Eucalyptus Plantations on Water Resources in the Continental U.S. Final Report to APHIS, 37

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Xiao, J., G. Sun, J. Chen, H. Chen; S. Chen, G. Dong, S. Gao, H. Guo, J. Guo, S. Han, T. Kato; Y. Li, G. Lin, W. Lu; M. Ma, S.G. McNulty, C. Shao, X. Wang, X. Xie, X. Zhang, Z. Zhang, B. Zhao, G. Zhou, J. Zhou. 2013. Carbon fluxes, evapotranspiration, and water use efficiency of terrestrial ecosystems in China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Chapman L.A., S. G. McNulty, G. Sun, and Y. Zhang (In press) Net Nitrogen Mineralization in Natural Ecosystems across the Conterminous U.S. International Journal of Geosciences.

Xie J., G. Sun, H. Chu, J. Liu, S. G. McNulty, A. Noormets, R. John, Z. Ouyang, T. Zha, H. Li, W. Guan, and J. Chen (In press) Long-term variability in water budget and its controls in an oak-dominated temperate forest. Hydrological Processes.

Averyt K., J. Meldrum, P. V. Caldwell, G. Sun, S.G. McNulty, A. Huber-Lee and N. Madden (2013) Sectoral Vulnerabilities to Changing Water Resources in the Conterminous U.S. Environmental Research Letter, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035046.

Adam Wei

Liu S., J. Innes and X. Wei. (2013) Shaping forest management to climate change: An overview. Forest Ecology and Management, 300: 1–3.

Coe H., X. Wei and P. Kiffney. (2013) Linking forest harvest and landscape factors to benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the interior of British Columbia. Hydrobiologia, DOI 10.1007/s10750-013-1573-y. X. Wei, W. Liu and P. Zhou (2013) Quantifying the relative contributions of forest change and climatic variability to hydrology in large watersheds: a critical review of research methods. Water, 5: 728-746.

Gong X., Y. Liu, Q. Li, X. Wei, X. Guo, D. Niu and L. Zhang. (2013) Sub-tropic degraded red soil restoration: Is soil organic carbon build-up limited by nutrients supply. Forest Ecology and Management, 300: 77-87. Zhang M., and X. Wei. (2013) Alteration of flow regimes caused by large-scale forest disturbance: A case study from a large watershed in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. Ecohydrology, DOI: 10.1002/eco.1374.

Yin R., X. Wei, D. Wang, Y. Yang, Y. Xiong and L. Hua. (2013) Linking landscape patterns with ecological functions: a case study examining the effects of landscape fragmentation on the carbon stock of urban forests in Xiamen, China. Forest Ecology and Management, 293: 122–131

Wei X., Q. Li, Y. Liu, S. Liu, X. Guo, L. Zhang and D. Niu. (2013) Restoring ecosystem carbon sequestration through afforestation: a sub-tropic restoration case study. Forest Ecology and Management, 300: 60–67

Kai Zhu

Clark J.S., Bell D.M, Kwit M.C. and Zhu K. (In press) Forest competition-interaction landscapes for the joint response to climate change. Global Change Biology. (co-authors ordered alphabetically)

Zhu K., Woodall C.W., Ghosh S., Gelfand A.E. and Clark J.S. (In press) Dual impacts of climate change: forest migration and turnover through life history. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12382

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Clark J.S., Bell D.M., Kwit M.C., Powell A. and Zhu K. (In press) Dynamic inverse prediction and sensitivity analysis with high-dimensional responses: application to climate-change vulnerability of biodiversity. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, DOI: 10.1007/s13253-013-0139-9 (co-authors ordered alphabetically)

Woodall C.W., Westfall J.A., Zhu K. and Johnson, D.J. (2013). Assessing the effect of snow/water obstructions on the measurement of tree seedlings in a large-scale temperate forest inventory. Forestry, 86, 421-427.

Woodall C.W., Zhu K., Westfall J.A., Oswalt C.M., D’Amato A.W., Walters B.F. and Lintz H.E. (2013). Assessing the stability of tree ranges and influence of disturbance in eastern U.S. forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 291, 172-180.

Terborgh J., Zhu K., Alvarez-Loayza P. and Cornejo F. (In press). How many seeds does it take to make a sapling? Ecology.

Call for contributions to the next issue of Sino-Eco Newsletter By Jianguo Huang

On behalf of the Sino-Eco Newsletter editors, we are pleased to announce that the next issue of Sino-Eco Newsletter is scheduled in spring, 2014. We call for your contributions to the next issue. We welcome contributions to the newsletter written in either English or Chinese. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

��Announcements of upcoming conferences, symposiums or workshops; ��Career development, promotion, recent awards and achievements; ��Job opportunities; ��Highlights of recent research findings or publications; ��Introduction to your research group; ��Self introduction from new members; ��Essays on environmental or ecology issues; ��Photos from your research or travel; ��List of publications since October 2013;

Please send your news to Jianguo Huang (jianguo.huang@ualberta.ca). We look forward to hearing and sharing your excitements.