Research Areas
Carbon cycling in wetland ecosystems
Global change and terrestrial ecosystems
Education
Ph.D.(2007): Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
M.S.(2004): Physical Geography, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
B.S.(2001): Geography Science, Yantai Normal University, China
Academic appointments
2011.7-, Vice director of the Yellow River Delta Ecology Research Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2009.7-, Associate Research Professor, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2007.7-2009.6, Assistant Research Professor, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Funding
1. PI for a the National Natural Science Foundation of China: “Ecosystem CO2 exchange under tidal action and its driving mechanisms in a salt marsh in the Yellow River Estuary”, 2014.01-2016.12.
2. PI for a Foundation of Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China: “Ecosystem degradation process in a coastal wetland in the Yellow River Delta, China”, 2009.01-2012.12.
3. PI for a Foundationof of Project of National Science & Technology Pillar Program in “12th Five Year” period, China: “Wetland degradation and its driving mechanism in the Yellow River Delta, China”, 2011.01-2013.12.
Papers published
Han GX, Chu XJ, Xing QH, Li DJ, Yu JB, Luo YQ, Wang GM, Mao PL, Rafique R.2015. Effects of episodic flooding on the net ecosystem CO2 exchangeof a supratidal wetland in the Yellow River Delta. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 120, 1506–1520.
Han GX, Luo YQ, Li DJ, Xia JY, Xing QH, Yu JB. 2014.Ecosystem photosynthesis regulates soil respiration on a diurnal scale with ashort-term time lag in a coastal wetland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 68, 85–94.
Han GX, Xing QH, Luo YQ, Rafique R, Yu JB, Mikle N. 2014.Vegetation types alter soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity at the field scale in an estuary wetland. PLoS ONE, 9(3): e91182. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0091182
Han GX, Xing QH, Yu JB, Luo YQ, Li DJ, Yang LQ, Wang GM, MaoPL, Xie BH, Mikle N. 2014. Agricultural reclamation effects on ecosystem CO2exchange of a coastal wetland in the Yellow River Delta. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 196, 187–198.
HanGX, Yang LQ, Yu JB, Wang GM, Mao PL, Gao YJ. 2013. Environmental controls on net ecosystem CO2exchange over a reed (Phragmitesaustralis) wetland in the Yellow River Delta, China. Estuaries and Coasts, 36: 401–413.
HanGX, Yu JB, Li HB, Yang LQ, Wang GM, Mao PL, Gao YJ. 2012. Winter soil respiration from different vegetation patches in the Yellow River Delta, China. Environmental Management, 50(1): 39–49.
