上海市城市化生态过程与生态恢复重点实验室拟组织学术交流活动，诚邀相关研究领域老师和同学参加并交流讨论。报告人及报告内容简介如下：

报告题目：Ecosystem and hydro-ecological modeling and spatial data analysis

时间：2013年9月3日（周二）上午9:00

地点：闵行校区生命科学楼B楼208会议室

报告人：唐国平 博士

报告人简介：Dr. Guoping Tang was born in Hunan province. He had his first PhD degree from the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing in 2001. In 2008, he earned his second PhD degree from the University of Oregon and his PhD dissertation focused on dynamic vegetation modeling. During the periods of 2008-2010, Dr. Tang was a postdoctoral associate in the Plant Biology Department at the University of Vermont. Then, Dr. Tang was a research associate in the City University of New York. Since September of 2011, Dr. Tang has been an assistant research professor at the Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada. Dr. Tang’s research interests are primarily in forest ecosystem and carbon cycle modeling, hydro-ecological modeling and spatial data analysis. 

报告摘要：Process-based models (PBMs) simulate fundamental ecological, hydrological and biogeochemical processes that determine vegetation growth and the cycling of carbon, water, and nutrients in terrestrial ecosystems or land-water systems. Accurate projections of water, carbon and nutrient fluxes as well as vegetation distribution to environmental change are important for biodiversity conservation, resource sustainability, and land management. PBM-based projections, however, should account for not only the interannual variation in ecosystem carbon and water exchange associated with climate change, increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration and species dynamics, but also effects of water movement on the production, distribution, and transportation of carbon and nutrients in land-water systems, especially in topographically variable terrain. The objectives of this talk are to demonstrate (i) how to use a regional dynamic ecosystem model to project the dynamics of vegetation and carbon at regional scale in response to future potential climate change, and (ii) how to develop a hydro-ecological model to examine effects of water routing on simulated water and carbon dynamics in a forested watershed. Information conveyed via this talk is expected to (i) contribute to your understanding of use of PBMs to study carbon, water, and nutrient dynamics as well as plant species in terrestrial ecosystems, and (ii) enhance the opportunity to utilize PBMs for urban landscape/ecosystem modeling and related studies.