Our Faculty
Wei Fang
Assistant Professor
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Biology
Location
Office Hours
Spring 2021
Office Hours
Spring 2021
Office Hours
Virtual
Spring 2021
Tue, Fri 3:00pm-5:pm(by appointment)
- Biography
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- Research & Creative Works
- Professional Contributions & Service
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
Biography
PhD, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Ecology and Evolution
MS, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, PRC
Botany
BS, Peking University, Beijing, PRC
Environmental Biology and Ecology
Publications
Fang, W. & Wang, X. (2020). A field experimental study on the impact of Acer platanoides, an urban tree invader, on forest ecosystem processes in North America. Ecological Processes. Vol 9 , pages 9.
Gao, S., Zhou, T., Yi, C., Shi, P., Fang, W., Liu, R., Liang, E. & Camarero, J. (2020). Asymmetric impacts of dryness and wetness on tree growth and forest coverage. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Vol 288 , pages 107980.
Fang, W., Li, Y., Mo, R., Wang, J., Qiu, L., Ou, C., Lin, Z., Huang, Z., Feng, H., He, X. & others, . (2020). Hospital and healthcare insurance system record--based epidemiological study of myasthenia gravis in southern and northern China. Neurological Sciences. , pages 1--13.
Xu, P., Fang, W., Zhou, T., Zhao, X., Luo, H., Hendrey, G. & Yi, C. (2019). Spatial Upscaling of Tree-Ring-Based Forest Response to Drought with Satellite Data. Remote Sensing. Vol 11 (Issue 20) , pages 2344.
Yi, C., Mu, G., Hendrey, G., Vicente-Serrano, S., Fang, W. & others, . (2018). Bifurcated response of a regional forest to drought. Expert Opin Environ Biol 7. Vol 2 , pages 2.
Gao, S., Liu, R., Zhou, T., Fang, W., Yi, C., Lu, R., Zhao, X. & Luo, H. (2018). Dynamic responses of tree-ring growth to multiple dimensions of drought. Global Change Biology. Vol 24 (Issue 11) , pages 5380--5390.
Xu, P., Zhou, T., Yi, C., Fang, W., Hendrey, G. & Zhao, X. (2018). Forest drought resistance distinguished by canopy height. Environmental Research Letters. Vol 13 (Issue 7) , pages 075003.
Xu, P., Zhou, T., Yi, C., Luo, H., Zhao, X., Fang, W., Gao, S. & Liu, X. (2018). Impacts of water stress on forest recovery and its interaction with canopy height. International journal of environmental research and public health. Vol 15 (Issue 6) , pages 1257.
Wei, S., Yi, C., Fang, W. & Hendrey, G. (2017). A global study of GPP focusing on light-use efficiency in a random forest regression model. Ecosphere. Vol 8 (Issue 5) , pages e01724.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Organismal and ecosystem resilience and responses to anthropogenic changes, including urbanization, climate warming, and biological invasions..
Grants, Sponsored Research and Contracts
Exploring the color change of male African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni, in Lake Tanganyika in response to urbanization and algal bloom
Fang, W. August 2019 - July 2022.
National Science Foundation 18-600 Program
, Federal
, $499,995.00.
Funded.
Identification of biomarkers for MG clinical subtype classification and development of treatments through precision medicine
Fang, W. January 2017 - January 2022.
National Science Foundation of China
, Other
, $342,500.00.
Funded.