从事全球变化与城市生态研究。深耕城市生态这一前沿领域，系统梳理了城市扩张时空格局与过程、城市化多种生态后果及城市尺度推绎规律。创新性建立了评估城市化对植被生长直接和间接影响的理论体系、定量方法，并将其应用到中国和美国的主要城市，发现城市环境对植被生长的普遍促进作用。该理论和方法体系被国内外同行广泛使用和验证。首次指出城市化影响下的生物多样性梯度应该上升为如生态学中的纬度多样性梯度和海拔多样性梯度那样为人们所熟知的普遍规律，同时提出了解释城市化生物多样性梯度的热促进和胁迫平衡假说 (The heat-and-threat balance hypothesis)。在国家尺度上估算我国城市生态系统有机碳储量及动态。建立了北京城乡生态梯度研究平台 (BES-Beijing Ecosystem Study)，开展长期城市生态学研究。H-index= 48, Citations > 10k (till 04/07/2024).

作为项目负责人和主要参加者承担国家自然科学基金委和科技部等13个项目。讲授本科生课程《城市生态学》、研究生课程《全球变化与城市生态学》和《自然地理博士生高级讲座》。已指导博士生16名，硕士生18名。担任Global Change Biology、Science of the Total Environment等杂志副主编/编委。发表期刊论文百余篇，其中SCI论文80余篇，影响因子大于10论文近30篇。第一/通讯作者SCI论文60余篇，包括1篇PNAS、5篇Global Change Biology、4篇Remote Sensing of Environment、3篇Environmental Science & Technology、2篇Sustainable Cities and Society以及Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment、Global Environmental Change、Science Bulletin、Ecological Applications、Journal of Geophysical Research各1篇。

研究兴趣

· 城市生态：城市扩张格局和过程、城市尺度推绎规律、城市地表能量平衡与热岛效应、城市植被生长和物候、城市生物多样性、城市生态系统碳储量及动态、长期城市生态学研究

· 全球变化与陆地生态系统碳循环：城市环境作为全球变化及应对“先导区”和“放大镜”；陆地碳汇供给能力提升机制、尺度效应、土地利用变化影响

· 城乡共同体演变与优化：城市社会-经济-环境的协同联动规律、城乡共同体优化管理

教育经历

· 1999/09－2002/07：北京大学， 城市与环境学系，博士，导师：方精云

· 1996/09－1999/07：中国科学院沈阳应用生态研究所，硕士，导师：何兴元

· 1991/09－1995/07：内蒙古林学院（现内蒙古农业大学）， 林学系，学士

工作经历

· 2023/12－：         永利集团，生态公司，教授

· 2009/04－2023/11：北京大学，城市与环境学院，研究员、长聘副教授

· 2007/04－2009/03：美国地质调查局 (U. S. Geological Survey) 地球资源观测与科学中心   (Earth Resources Observation and Science Center), Senior Scientist

· 2006/04－2007/03：美国密歇根州立大学 (Michigan State University), 博士后

· 2005/04－2006/03：加拿大魁北克大学 (University of Quebec at Montreal), 博士后

· 2002/09－2005/03：北京大学，环境学院，博士后

学术任职

获奖

科研项目

1) 国家重点研发计划“典型脆弱生态系统保护与修复”重点专项 (2023YFF1304600)，“城市生物多样性提升技术与示范” 课题 “城市绿地空间格局优化与目标物种筛选管护”，2023-2027，子课题负责人

2) 国家重点研发计划 “全球变化及应对”重点专项 (2018YFA0606100)，“中国植被物候对全球变化的响应机制及未来趋势” 课题 “全球变化背景下植被物候变化趋势预估”，2018-2023，课题负责人

3) 国家自然科学基金面上项目 (42071120)，“城市环境对树木生长影响：基于城乡梯度方法研究”， 2021-2024，项目负责人

4) 国家自然科学基金面上项目 (41771093)，“缓减热岛和热浪效应的城市绿地景观构建”， 2018-2021，项目负责人

5) 国家重点研发计划 “典型脆弱生态修复与保护研究”重点专项 (2017YFC0503900)，“陆地生态系统碳源汇监测技术及指标体系” 课题 “陆地碳源汇监测方法与技术规范”，2017-2020，子课题负责人

6) 国家自然科学基金重大项目 (41590840)，“特大城市群地区城镇化与生态环境耦合机理及胁迫效应” 课题 “特大城市群地区城镇化与生态环境交互胁迫的病理分析与风险预估”，2016-2020，子课题负责人

7) 国家自然科学基金面上项目 (41571079)，“我国城市生态系统有机碳储量及其变化”， 2016-2019，项目负责人

8) 国家自然科学基金委创新群体研究项目 (31021001 & 31321061 & 31621091)，“中国陆地植被的时空格局与生态功能”，2011-2016 & 2017-2019，子课题负责人

9) 科技部气候变化研究国家重大科学研究计划 (2010CB50600)，“中国陆地生态系统碳源汇特征及其全球意义” 课题 “全球生态系统碳源汇格局及区域特征”，2010-2014，子课题负责人

10) 国家自然科学基金面上项目 (41071050)，“我国生态恢复示范区土地利用变化对区域生态系统碳循环的影响”，2011-2013，项目负责人

11) 北京大学加强基础研究专项，“全球变化与城市生态”，2009-2012，项目负责人

12) 国家自然科学基金面上项目 (40571150)，“长江中游湿地生态区生物多样性保护”，2006-2008，项目负责人

13) 英国石油公司赞助的全球员工生物多样性保护研究项目 (British Petroleum Conservation Programme award),  “Project Dongting Lake 2001: Changes in Habitats and Population Dynamics of Wetland Birds in Dongting Lake, Central Yangtze China”,  2001-2002, 项目负责人

代表性论著

(*为通讯作者，第一作者为指导的在读或已毕业员工)

1)Xu Z, Zhao SQ* (2024) Fine-grained urban landscape mapping reveals broad-scale homogeneity in urban environments. Science Bulletin, 10: 1016

2) Shen P, Zhao SQ* (2024) Intensifying urban imprint on land surface warming: Insights from local to global scale. iScience, 27: 109110

3)Xu Z, Zhao SQ* (2024) Fine-grained urban blue-green-gray landscape dataset for 36 Chinese cities based on deep learning network. Scientific Data, 11: 266

4) Yang C, Zhao SQ* (2024) Synergies or trade-offs between surface urban heat island and hot extreme:Distinct responses in urban environments. Sustainable Cities and Society, 101: 105093

5)Xu Z, Zhao SQ* (2023) Scale dependence of urban green space cooling efficiency: A case study in Beijing metropolitan area. Science of the Total Environment, 898: 165563

6) Yang L, Zhao SQ*, Liu S (2023) Urban environments provide new perspectives for forecasting vegetation phenology responses under climate warming. Global Change Biology, 29: 4383–4396

7) Yang C, Zhao SQ* (2023) Diverse seasonal hysteresis of surface urban heat islands across Chinese cities: Patterns and drivers. Remote Sensing of Environment, 294: 113364

8) Shen P, Zhao SQ*, Ma Y, Liu S (2023) Urbanization-induced Earth's surface energy alteration and warming: A global spatiotemporal analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment, 284: 113361

9) Yang L, Zhao SQ* (2023) A stronger advance of urban spring vegetation phenology narrows vegetation productivity difference between urban settings and natural environments. Science of the Total Environment, 868: 161649

10) Yang C, Zhao SQ* (2023) Scaling of Chinese urban CO₂ emissions and multiple dimensions of city size. Science of the Total Environment, 857: 159502,

11) Yun G, Zhao SQ* (2022) The imprint of urbanization on PM_{2. 5} concentrations in China: The urban-rural gradient study. Sustainable Cities and Society, 86: 104103

12) Shi Y, Zhao SQ* (2022) Discover the desirable landscape structure for mitigating urban heat: The urban-rural gradient approach for an ancient Chinese city. Cities, 127: 103737

13) Yang L, Zhao SQ*, Liu S (2022) A global analysis of urbanization effects on amphibian richness: patterns and drivers. Global Environmental Change, 73: 102476 

14) Yang C, Zhao SQ* (2022) A building height dataset across China in 2017 estimated by the spatially-informed approach. Scientific Data, 9: 76

15) Yang C, Zhao SQ* (2022) Urban vertical profiles of three most urbanized Chinese cities and the spatial coupling with horizontal urban expansion. Land Use Policy, 113: 105919,

16) Jia W, Zhao SQ*, Zhang X, Liu S, Henebry G, Liu L (2021) Urbanization imprint on land surface phenology: the urban-rural gradient analysis for Chinese cities. Global Change Biology, 27: 2895–2904

17) Shen P, Zhao SQ*, Ma Y (2021) Perturbation of urbanization to Earth's surface energy balance. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD033521

18) Xu C, Zhao SQ*, Liu S (2020) Spatial scaling of multiple landscape features in the conterminous United States. Landscape Ecology, 35: 223-247

19) Tao S, Fang J, Ma S, Cai Q, Xiong X, Tian D, Zhao X, Fang L, Zhang H, Zhu J, Zhao SQ (2020) Changes in China's lakes: Climate and human impacts. National Science Review, 7: 132-140

20) Fei W, Zhao SQ* (2019) Urban land expansion in China's six megacities from 1978 to 2015. Science of the Total Environment, 664: 60-71

21) Sun Y, Xie S, Zhao SQ* (2019) Valuing urban green spaces in mitigating climate change: a city-wide estimate of aboveground carbon stored in urban green spaces of China's Capital. Global Change Biology, 25: 1717-1732

22) Zhao SQ*, Liu S, Xu C, Yuan W, Yan W, Zhao M, Sun Y, Henebry G, Fang J (2018) Contemporary evolution and scaling of 32 major cities in China. Ecological Applications, 28: 1655-1668

23) Jia W, Zhao SQ*, Liu S (2018) Vegetation growth enhancement in urban environments of the Conterminous United States. Global Change Biology, 24: 4084-4094

24) Ge S, Zhao SQ* (2017) Organic carbon storage change in China’s urban landfills from 1978–2014. Environmental Research Letters, 12: 104013

25) Shen H, Tao S, Chen Y, Ciais P, Güneralp B, Ru M, Zhong Q, Yun X, Zhu X, Huang T, Tao W, Chen Y, Li B, Wang X, Liu W,  Liu J, Zhao SQ (2017) Urbanization-induced population migration has reduced ambient PM_2.5 concentrations in China. Science Advances, 3: 7

26) Zhao SQ*, Liu S, Zhou D (2016) Prevalent vegetation growth enhancement in urban environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113: 6313-6318

27) Zhao SQ*, Zhou D, Liu S (2016) Data concurrency is required for estimating urban heat island intensity. Environmental Pollution, 208: 118-124

28) Zhou D, Zhao SQ*, Zhang L, Liu S (2016) Remotely sensed assessment of urbanization effects on vegetation phenology in China's 32 major cities. Remote Sensing of Environment, 176: 272-281

29) Zhao SQ*, Zhou D, Zhu C, Sun Y, Wu W, Liu S (2015) Spatial and temporal dimensions of urban expansion in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 49: 9600-9609

30) Zhao SQ*, Zhou D, Zhu C, Qu W, Zhao J, Sun Y, Huang D, Wu W, Liu S (2015) Rates and patterns of urban expansion in China's 32 major cities over the past three decades. Landscape Ecology, 30: 1541-1559

31) Tao S, Fang J, Zhao X, Zhao SQ, Shen H, Hu H, Tang Z, Wang Z, Guo Q (2015) Rapid loss of lakes on the Mongolian Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112: 2281-2286

32) Wu W, Zhao SQ*, Zhu C, Jiang J (2015) A comparative study of urban expansion in Beijing, Tianjin and Shijiazhuang over the past three decades. Landscape and Urban Planning, 134: 93-106

33) Zhao SQ*, Liu S (2014) Scale criticality in estimating ecosystem carbon dynamics. Global Change Biology, 20: 2240-2251

34) Yuan W, Liu S, Dong W, Liang S, Zhao SQ, Chen J, Xu W, Li X, Barr A, Andrew T, Yan W, Goulden M, Kulmala L, Lindroth A, Margolis H, Matsuura Y, Moors E, van der Molen M, Ohta T, Pilegaard K, Varlagin A, Vesala T (2014) Differentiating moss from higher plants is critical in studying the carbon cycle of the boreal biome. Nature Communications, 10: 1038

35) Zhou D, Zhao SQ*, Liu S, Zhang L, Zhu C (2014) Surface urban heat island in China’s 32 major cities: spatial patterns and drivers. Remote Sensing of Environment, 152: 51-61

36) Zhao SQ*, Zhu C, Zhou, D, Huang D, Werner J (2013) Organic Carbon Storage in China’s Urban Areas. PLOS ONE, 8, e71975

37) Zhao SQ*, Liu S, Sohl T, Young C, Werner J (2013) Land use and carbon dynamics in the southeastern United States from 1992 to 2050. Environmental Research Letters, 8: 10.1088

38) Zhao SQ*, Liu S, Li Z, Sohl T (2010) Federal land management, carbon sequestration, and climate change in the Southeastern U.S.: a case study with Fort Benning. Environmental Science & Technology, 44: 992-997

39) Zhao SQ*, Liu S, Li Z, Sohl T (2010) A spatial resolution threshold of land cover in estimating regional terrestrial carbon sequestration in four counties in Georgia and Alabama, USA. Biogeosciences, 7: 71-80

40) Zhao SQ*, Liu S, Yin R, Li Z, Deng Y, Tan K, Rothstein D, Qi J (2010) Quantifying terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics in Jinsha watershed, Upper Yangtze, China from 1975 to 2000. Environmental Management, 45: 466-475

41) Zhao SQ*, Liu S, Li Z, Sohl T (2009) Ignoring Detailed Fast-Changing Dynamics of Land Use Overestimates Regional Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration. Biogeosciences, 6: 1647-1654

42) Zhao SQ, Da L, Tang Z, Fang H, Song K and Fang J (2006) Ecological consequences of rapid urban expansion: Shanghai, China. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 4: 341-346

43) Zhao SQ, Peng C, Jiang H, Tian D, Lei X and Zhou X (2006) Land use change in Asia and the ecological consequences. Ecological Research, 21: 890-896

44) Zhao SQ*, Fang J, Peng C, Tang Z, Piao S (2006) Patterns of fish species richness in China’s lakes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 15: 386-394

45) Zhao SQ*, Fang J (2006) Patterns in species richness of vascular plants in China’s nature reserves. Diversity and Distributions, 12: 364-372

46) Zhao SQ*, Fang J, Peng C, Tang Z (2006) The relationships between terrestrial vertebrate species richness in China’s nature reserves and environmental variables. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 84: 1368-1374 

47) Zhao SQ*, Fang J, Peng C, Tang Z (2006) Relationships between species richness of vascular plants and terrestrial vertebrates in China: analyses based on data of nature reserves. Diversity and Distributions, 12: 189-194

48) Zhao SQ, Fang J, Miao S, Gu B, Tao S, Peng C, Tang Z (2005) The 7-decade degradation of a large freshwater lake in Central Yangtze River, China. Environmental Science & Technology, 39: 431-436

49) Zhao SQ, Fang J (2004) Impact of impoldering and lake restoration on changes in land cover in Dongting Lake Area, Central Yangtze, between 1930s and 1998. Ambio, 33: 311-315

50) Zhao SQ, Fang J, Ji W, Tang Z (2003) Lake restoration from impoldering: impact of land conversion on riparian landscape in Honghu Lake Area, Central Yangtze. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 95: 111-118

51) Fang J, Chen A, Peng C, Zhao SQ, Ci L (2001) Changes in forest biomass carbon storage in China between 1949 and 1998. Science, 292: 2320-2322

52) Fang J, Chen A, Zhao SQ, Ci L (2001) Calculating forest biomass changes in China-Response. Science, 296: 1359

53) 赵淑清 (2021) 全球变化与城市生态：现代生态学讲座（9）：聚焦于城市化和全球变化的生态学研究。邬建国，陈小勇，李媛媛，马群编。北京：高等教育出版社,  pp. 85-102

54) 方精云, 赵淑清, 唐志尧等著 (2006) 长江中游湿地生物多样性保护的生态学基础。北京：高教出版社, 1-278