Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Landscape Ecology and Sustainability Science, Advisor to the President’s Office on China Projects, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.  B.S. in biology from Inner Mongolia University in 1982 and Ph.D. in ecology from Miami University in 1991.  National Science Foundation (NSF) postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University and Princeton University from 1991 to 1993.  Current research areas: landscape ecology, urban ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and sustainability science.  Authored 7 books and more than 150 journal articles and book chapters.  Editor-in-Chief of Landscape Ecology, and member of the editorial board for 10 other international journals.  Program Chair of the US Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) in 2001; Councilor-at-Large of US-IALE (2001-2003); Chair of Asian Ecology Section of Ecological Society of America (1999-2000); Ecological Research Subcommittee, Board of Scientific Counselors for US Environmental Protection Agency (2005-2006); Recipient of the 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Award for International Scientific Cooperation; Elected AAAS Fellow in 2007; Selected 2009 Leopold Leadership Fellow.  Founding Director of the Sino-US Center of Conservation, Energy and Sustainability Science (SUCCESS).





Reports & Proceedings Papers
  1. Wu, J. 2008. Changing perspectives in ecology and biodiversity conservation: Achieving landscape and regional sustainability. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Planted Forests in Southeast Asia, Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia, January 15-18, 2007.
  2. Musacchio, L. and J. Wu. 2004. Cities of resilience: integrating ecology into urban design, planning, policy, and management. Landscape Journal 23(1):80-82.
  3. Musacchio, L. and J. Wu. 2003. Pattern, Process, Scale, and Hierarchy: Advancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Creating Sustainable Urban Landscapes and Communities. Arizona State University, Tempe, 54pp.
  4. The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems: Measuring the Lands, Waters, and Living Resources of the United States. The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (Panelist of the Urban/Suburban Work Group)
  5. Wu, J. and O. L. Loucks. 1998.  Hierarchical patch dynamics as a framework for scaling. Proc. of the Workshop on Scaling and Modelling in Forestry: Applications in Remote Sensing & GIS, University of Montreal, Montreal, March 19-21, 1998. pp. 64-71.
  6. Wu, J. and J. F. Reynolds. 1998. Developing models across multiple scales based on hierarchy theory. Proc. of the Modelling Complex Systems Conference, New Orleans, July 12-17, 1998. pp.189-215.
  7. Wickham, J. D., J. Wu, and D. F. Bradford. 1995.  Stressor Data Sets for StudyingSpecies Diversity at LargeSpatial Scales. US EPA 600/R-95/018. Office ofResearchand Development,U.S. United States Environmental Protection Agency,Washington, DC.
  8. Wu, J.  1993.  Modeling the landscape as a dynamic mosaic of patches: some computational aspects.  Cornell Theory Center Technical Report Series, CTC93TR140, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 20pp.
  9. Wu, J.  1993.  A method for studying spatial patterns: the net-function interpolation. Cornell Theory Center Technical Report Series, CTC93TR116, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 20pp.
Reprinted journal articles
  1. Wu, J., J. L. Vankatand Y. Barlas. 1993.Effects of patch connectivity and arrangement on animalmetapopulationdynamics: a simulation study. Ecological Modelling 65:221-254. -- Selectedfor inclusion in "Handbook of Ecological and EnvironmentalModels," edited by S. E. Jorgensen et al., CRC Press, 1996, pp. 495-496.
  2. Wu, J. and J. L.Vankat. 1991. A SystemDynamics model of island biogeography. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology53:911-940. -- Selected for inclusion in "Environmental Science StellaStacks," edited by D. Kesler, Wm C. Brown Publishers, 1993.
  3. Wu, J. and J. L.Vankat. 1991. An area-basedmodel of species richness dynamics of forest islands.Ecological Modelling58:249-271. -- Selected for inclusion in "Handbook of Ecological andEnvironmental Models," edited by S.E. Jorgensen et al., CRC Press,1996, pp. 343-344.
  4. Wu, J. 1990.Modellingthe energy exchangeprocesses between plant communities and environment.EcologicalModelling51:233-250. -- Selected for inclusion in "Handbookof EcologicalandEnvironmental Models ," ed. by S.E. Jorgensen etal., CRC Press,1996, pp. 537-538.