Ying is a visiting 4th year PhD student from the Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is visiting the Drylands Research Group for 6 months funded by a Chinese Council Scholarship (CSC).

For her PhD she is exploring the impact of climate change on ecosystems, including ecosystem functions (ecosystem resilience, ecosystem water use efficiency, etc.) and ecosystem processes (phenology).

During her stay in Bristol, she is working on analysing the impact of climate on vegetation dynamics in drylands.

Publications:

1. Hu, Y., Wei, F., Fu, B., Wang, S., Wang, L., & Chen, Y. (2022). Multifaceted characteristics of aridity changes and causal mechanisms in Chinese drylands. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 0(0), 189–199. (JCR: Q1 IF:3.9)
2. Hu Y., Wei F, Fu B, Wang S, Zhang W, & Zhang Y. (2023). Changes and influencing factors of ecosystem resilience in China. Environmental Research Letters, 18(9), 094012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acec89. (Q1, IF: 6.7)
3. Hu, Y., Wei, F., Fu, B. et al. Ecosystems in China have become more sensitive to changes in water demand since 2001. Commun Earth Environ 4, 444 (2023). ( Q1, IF: 7.9)
4. Hu, Y., Wei, F., Wang, S., Zhang, W., Fensholt, R., Xiao, X., Fu, B., Critical thresholds for nonlinear responses of ecosystem water use efficiency to drought, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 918, 2024, 170713, ISSN 0048-9697 (Q1, IF: 9.8)
5. Hu Y., Wei F, Fu B, et al. (2024) Divergent patterns of rainfall regimes in dry and humid areas of China. Journal of Hydrology: 131243. (Q1, IF: 6.4)
6. Zhuangzhuang Wang, Bojie Fu, Xutong Wu, Shuai Wang, Yingjie Li, Yuhao Feng, Liwei Zhang, Ying Hu, Linhai Cheng, Binbin Li. (2024) Distinguishing Trajectories and Drivers of Vegetated Ecosystems in China’s Loess Plateau. Earth’s Future 12: e2023EF003769. (Q1, IF: 8.9)