Qinxue Wang

Dr. WANG is a Specially Appointed Researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. His research focuses on detecting environmental vulnerabilities through the establishment of early warning networks and on developing integrated models to assess the impacts of climate change and human activities on water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles in East Asia.
Since 2000, he has elucidated the spatiotemporal dynamics of water and nitrogen budgets in the Yangtze River Basin from 1980 to 2010. Using long-term monitoring networks, he also identified a significant decline in permafrost extent since the 1980s. More recently, his research group has quantified the carbon budget of Mongolian grasslands, demonstrating that grasslands in permafrost regions function as a carbon sink. He further revealed that, following the transition to a market-based economy, grazing pressure in urban and mining areas has substantially exceeded pasture carrying capacity, thereby accelerating the ecological vulnerability of Mongolian grasslands. He is currently working to evaluate these vulnerabilities and to propose adaptive strategies for sustainable land and resource management.