Jian Sun
Editors, Plant Diversity
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Biogeography and global changes
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Biogeography and global changes
Title: Prof.
Email: sunjian@itpcas.ac.cn
Web-link of Research Group: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jian-Sun-11
Selected publications:
Jian Sun, Liang Eryuan, Isabel C. Barrio, Chen Ji, Wang Jinniu, Fu Bojie, Fences undermine biodiversity targets. Science, 2021, 374(6565): 269. IF=56.9
Jian Sun, Yi Wang, Shilong Piao, Miao Liu, Guodong Han, Junran Li, Eryuan Liang, Tien Ming Lee, Guohua Liu, Andreas Wilkes, Shiliang Liu, Wenwu Zhao, Huakun Zhou, Mesenbet Yibeltal, Mulatu Liyew Berihun, Dawn Browning, Ayele Almaw Fenta, Atsushi Tsunekawa, Joel Brown, Walter Willms, Mitsuru Tsubo. Toward a sustainable grassland ecosystem worldwide. The Innovation. 2022 May 30,3(4):100265. IF =32.1
Jian Sun, Fu Bojie, Zhao Wenwu, Liu Shiliang, Liu Guohua, Zhou Huakun, Shao Xinqing, Cheng Youchao, Zhang Yu, Deng Yanfang, Optimizing grazing exclusion practices to achieve Goal 15 of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2021.03.01. IF =21.1
Jian Sun, Liu Miao, Fu Bojie, Kemp David, Zhao Wenwu, Liu Guohua, Han Guodong, Wilkes Andreas, Lu Xuyang, Chen Youchao, Cheng Genwei, Zhou Tiancai, Hou Ge, Zhan Tianyu, Peng Fei, Shang Hua, Xu Ming, Shi Peili, He Yongtao, Li Meng, Wang Jinniu, Tsunekawa Atsushi, Zhou Huakun, Liu Yu, Li Yurui, Liu Shiliang, Reconsidering the efficiency of grazing exclusion using fences on the Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin, 2020, 65(16): 1405-1414. IF =21.1
Yingxin Wang, Jian Sun*, Junhe Chen, Wencheng Li, Jianghang Wu, Shilong Piao. Renewable energy relieves the negative effects of fences on animal feces utilization in Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin, 2023, 68: 2907-2909. IF =21.1
Tiancai Zhou, Jian Sun*, Chongchong Ye, Xin Jing, Eryuan Liang, Xuyang Lu, Akira S. Mori, Michael E. Meadows, Josep Peñuelas. Changing climate reduces global belowground ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Communications, 2025, Accepted in principle. IF = 17.2
Yingxin Wang, Jian Sun*, Michael E Meadows, Tien Ming Lee. Incorporating Indigenous perspectives: an impact assessment of renewable energy development on wildlife conservation. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2025, 116:108143. IF = 11.2
Jian Sun, Yingxin Wang, Tien Ming Lee, Xiaowei Nie, Tao Wang, Eryuan Liang, Yafeng Wang, Lin Zhang, Jun Wang, Shilong Piao, Fahu Chen, Bojie Fu. Nature-based Solutions can help restore degraded grasslands and increase carbon sequestration in the Tibetan Plateau. Communications Earth & Environment, 2024, 5(1), 154. IF = 9.5
Jian Sun, Tiancai Zhou, Miao Liu,Youchao Cheng, Hua Shang, Liping Zhu, Arshad, A.S., Huan Yu, Genwei Cheng, Guohua Liu, Ming Xu, Wei Deng, Jihui Fan, Xuyang Lu, Yukun Sha. Linkages of the dynamics of glaciers and lakes with the climate elements over the Tibetan Plateau. Earth-Science Reviews, 2018, 185:308–324. IF =10
Jian Sun, Tiancai Zhou, Miao Liu, Youchao Cheng, Guohua Liu, Ming Xu, Peili Shi, Fei Peng, Atsushi Tsunekawa. Yu Liu, Xiaodan Wang, Shikui Dong, Yangjian Zhang, Yingnian Li. Water and heat availability are drivers of the aboveground plant carbon accumulation rate in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2019.