You-Shao Wang
Biography
Prof. Dr. You Shao WANG, as a distinguished professor and PhD supervisor, is the first batch of Core Research Talent in Specially-Appointed Positions, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the chief scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program of China, and fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) etc. He obtained his PhD in 1997 from the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Between 1998 and 2000, he served as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on agricultural biology at China Agricultural University. Additionally, from 2006 to 2009, he worked as a visiting professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, in the United States.
Research Interest
Abstract
Molecular Ecological Research & Protection for Mangrove Forests
Abstract
Mangrove wetlands possess important characteristics as one of the unique marine ecosystems, and are found in the intertidal coastal regions of the tropics and subtropics in the world, mainly between latitudes 25?N and 25?S. The total area of the global mangrove forest is about 1.43 million hectares, spanning over 118 countries and territories. Mangrove forests play an important ecological role and functioning as a tropical coastal ecosystem with a total net primary productivity as high as 2000 g C⋅m−2⋅a−1. It will be focused for ecological research & protection for mangrove forests under global climate change and anthropogenic activities as follows: (1) The first is for overview of mangrove forests in the world, mainly introducing the distribution characteristics of mangrove forests from the Indo-West Pacific to the Atlantic-Caribbean-East Pacific, as well as the international research hot topics. (2) The second is for mangrove ecological research and protection in our team, mainly introduce the research for molecular ecology of mangroves under abiotic stresses, blue carbon stock mechanism of mangrove forests, and assessment for mangrove ecosystem health under global climate change and anthropogenic activities, as well as mangrove ecological restoration technology and application demonstration from China to South Asia and Southeast Asia. It was revealed the molecular regulation mechanisms of the antioxidant enzyme system, lignin, metallothionein genes (types I, II and III), and chitinase genes (types I, II and III) on the absorption and transport of heavy metals from extracellular to intracellular in mangrove plants under anthropogenic activities. It was also found at the first time that the CBF/DREB1 and WRKY transcription factor coding genes of mangrove plants were involved in the multi-signal transduction under low temperature, high salt, drought and other stresses, and were together with functional genes (P5CS, CDPK, ADH, HSP70, etc.) to participate in the response and adaption process under global climate change (high temperature, low temperature, flooding, drought and other stresses), and it was also proposed the structural adaptation mechanism of mangrove plants to sea level rise. The conceptual ecological model of mangroves has been put forward about possessing four high characteristics (high productivity, high return rate, high decomposition rate and high resistance) for responses and adaptation to global climate changes and anthropogenic activities as one of the unique marine ecosystems in the world, and it has also been elaborated as a new view that mangroves have "four-high" characteristic ecosystem. According to the above research, it was established more than 1400 hectares about mangrove ecological restoration demonstration from China to South Asia and Southeast Asia. (3) The third is for international cooperation and exchange for our team, it will give a brief report for our cooperation research between China and South Asia & Southeast Asia. The global climate change will bring great challenges and opportunities to research, maintain and development of mangroves in the future. Keywords: Mangrove ?forests; Molecular Ecology; Protection & Sustainable Development
