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Tiantong National Forest Observation and Research Advancing Station is established to investigate forest biodiversity ecology for a and ecosystem functioning. sustainable future Monitoring natural ecosystem health, and the impact of urbanization, this university in contributes to NEW STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. ECNU researchers study the marshes across the mouth of the River surrounding , Shanghai.

Under rapid anthropogenic conservation have contributed to change, ’s diverse natural practical conservation strategies. landscape has supported the In 1983, SEES established one research growth of the School of the first long-term research of Ecological and Environmental stations near Tiantong in Sciences (SEES) at East China Ningbo City. As one of the first Normal University (ECNU). members of the Chinese National Since the launch of its ecology Ecosystem Observation and programme in 1951, and building Research Network, set up in on its geographical edge in 2005, they have led studies of ECNU is strategically located in Shanghai to advance urban ecology and sustainability science. the megacity of Shanghai, permanent forest plots, including and within the Yangtze Delta, National Nature Reserves of SEES’s surveys have explored a Fengyangshan-Baishanzu, spectrum of unique ecosystems Tianma, Tianmushan and tradeoffs between biodiversity Chongming government. URBAN ECOLOGY AND to ruderal species, having gene editing to Earth system as well as multidisciplinary across natural and urban Guanshan. They also supported and ecosystem functioning. SEES ecologists have revealed SUSTAINABILITY identified those with high modelling to better define expertise across biology, social environments.“We are all geared the recovery of an endangered strategies to restore degraded ECNU has been committed to drought tolerance, fast growth and understand ecological science, mathematics, and towards engineering nature- tree species endemic to PROMOTING WETLAND land and prevent further solving emerging ecological rates, and high seed yields, uncertainties. computer science. inspired solutions, and nurturing province, Ostrya rehderiana, and RESTORATION damage, and demonstrated and environmental problems in despite intensive human At their Tiantong National “We are rolling out an young ecologists to address reintroduced Chinese water deer There is a sense of urgency in the resilience of salt marshes the face of rapid urbanization. disturbance. Forest Ecosystem Observation ambitious long-term plan for global challenges, including (Hydropotes inermis) to a Shanghai ECNU’s research into coastal for global conservation. For Shanghai Key Laboratory for They have also been actively and Research Station, they international collaboration to climate change and biodiversity wildlife sanctuary in 2006. wetland ecology, with coastal example, the theory of self- Urban Ecological Processes and involved in eco-city planning and have performed experiments promote ecological research and loss,” says the dean of SEES, As urban development wetlands fast disappearing organization has been applied Eco-Restoration, co-established the processes of urban green and to explore how subtropical innovation,” says Chen. “Our Xiaoyong Chen. increasingly causes wildlife across Asia. ECNU is one of to restore the degraded salt by ECNU and the Science and blue infrastructure. Highlighting evergreen broad-leaved forests ECNU faculty is dedicated to habitat loss and degradation, the first institutions in China marshes on Chongming Island. Technology Commission of their role as an ecological think respond and adapt to extreme preparing our new generation of FOCUS ON BIODIVERSITY SEES ecologists have developed to conduct such research, and An ecosystem warming Shanghai Municipality, has tank in sustainable development drought events, atmospheric ecologists for global challenges, Subtropical forests, of which an innovative approach to published the first monograph experiment in the three research areas: ecological are their diverse efforts, ranging nitrogen and phosphorus integrating theory and practice China has a significant integrate island ecosystems as on wetlands in 1990. Over the Delta provided new evidence processes and functions from China’s first assessment deposition, and different in natural ecosystems and urban proportion of the world’s total, a natural laboratory of ecology. past three decades, ECNU has on the reduced magnitude and (system ecology), planning framework for eco-cities, to management practices. sustainability.” provide rich biodiversity and Their observations include built a large number of long- the shifted seasonality of CO2 and management (sustainable environmental enhancement Global Change and Ecological significant carbon sink capacity. Zhoushan archipelago (one of term experiments in wetlands exchange in coastal wetlands due ecology), as well as restorative strategies for mega cities, such Forecasting (GCEF), a research Renowned for its research into the largest in China separated across the Yangtze River Delta to climate warming, underscoring engineering (restoration as water quality improvement for centre launched by ECNU in subtropical evergreen broad- from the mainland about 9,000 and the Yellow River Delta. the vulnerability of wetland CO2 ecology). the Creek Rehabilitation 2016, considers the interactions leaved forests, SEES has been years ago) and Thousand Island Apart from the State Key sinks in coastal regions. As well as urban ecosystems, Project in Shanghai. between natural ecosystems and leading studies into biodiversity Lake (created in 1959 when Laboratory of Estuarine and In the coastal wetlands they have monitored the anthropogenic global changes. maintenance, plant-animal a river was dammed). Their Coastal Research, ECNU set up of northern Bay, ecological processes of urban TACKLING GLOBAL Specializing in both fundamental interaction and coevolution, as research weighed the ecological the Institute of Eco-Chongming restoration engineering forests, water networks, and ENVIRONMENTAL and applied ecological studies, well as ecosystem function. and evolutionary consequences in 2017, in collaboration with effectively enhanced CO2 cropland in China’s most CHALLENGES it is well supported by the Their insights into forest of habitat fragmentation, , Shanghai uptake and reduced methane populated cities. Their urban ECNU ecologists have been resources and infrastructure of [email protected] +86-21-54341286 management and biodiversity environmental changes, and the Jiaotong University and the emissions. vegetation studies also extend embracing the latest tools from ECNU’s Supercomputing Center, http://www.sees.ecnu.edu.cn

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