User profiles for Jianguo Wu

Jianguo "Jingle" Wu (邬建国)

Dean's Distinguished Professor of Landscape Ecology & Sustainability Science, Arizona …
Verified email at asu.edu
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Global change and the ecology of cities

…, SH Faeth, NE Golubiewski, CL Redman, J Wu… - science, 2008 - science.org
Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material
demands of production and human consumption alter land use and cover, biodiversity, and …

A spatially explicit hierarchical approach to modeling complex ecological systems: theory and applications

J Wu, JL David - Ecological modelling, 2002 - Elsevier
Ecological systems are generally considered among the most complex because they are
characterized by a large number of diverse components, nonlinear interactions, scale …

From balance of nature to hierarchical patch dynamics: a paradigm shift in ecology

J Wu, OL Loucks - The Quarterly review of biology, 1995 - journals.uchicago.edu
A common assumption historically in ecology is evident in the term "balance of nature." The
phrase usually implies that undisturbed nature is ordered and harmonius, and that …

Landscape sustainability science: ecosystem services and human well-being in changing landscapes

J Wu - Landscape ecology, 2013 - Springer
The future of humanity depends on whether or not we have a vision to guide our transition
toward sustainability, on scales ranging from local landscapes to the planet as a whole. …

Effects of changing scale on landscape pattern analysis: scaling relations

J Wu - Landscape ecology, 2004 - Springer
Landscape pattern is spatially correlated and scale-dependent. Thus, understanding landscape
structure and functioning requires multiscale information, and scaling functions are the …

Coronavirus infections and immune responses

…, W Wang, D Hu, X Liu, Q Zhang, J Wu - Journal of medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are by far the largest group of known positive‐sense RNA viruses
having an extensive range of natural hosts. In the past few decades, newly evolved …

[HTML][HTML] Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions

C He, Z Liu, J Wu, X Pan, Z Fang, J Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Urbanization and climate change are together exacerbating water scarcity—where water
demand exceeds availability—for the world’s cities. We quantify global urban water scarcity in …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study

…, B Rongwen, T Xiuzhen, L Dong, C Di, W Jianguo… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background The relationship between macronutrients and cardiovascular disease and
mortality is controversial. Most available data are from European and North American …

Ecosystem stability and compensatory effects in the Inner Mongolia grassland

Y Bai, X Han, J Wu, Z Chen, L Li - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Numerous studies have suggested that biodiversity reduces variability in ecosystem
productivity through compensatory effects 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ; that is, a species increases in its …

Composition and divergence of coronavirus spike proteins and host ACE2 receptors predict potential intermediate hosts of SARS‐CoV‐2

…, J Yang, H Tan, J Zhu, Q Zhang, J Wu… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
From the beginning of 2002 and 2012, severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS‐CoV)
and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS‐CoV) crossed the species …