Jianguo WuJianguo (Jingle) Wu is Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Science at Arizona State University. His research interests include landscape ecology, urban ecology, and sustainability science, focusing on hierarchical patch dynamics, patten-process-scale relationships, spatial scaling, land use change and its effects on ecosystem processes, and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. He has published more than 120 scientific papers which involved mostly dryland ecosystems in North America and China. His professional service includes Program Chair of the 2001 Annual Symposium of the US Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), Councillor-at-Large of US-IALE (2001–2003), Chair of Asian Ecology Section of Ecological Society of America (1999–2000), and Task Leader of GCTE of International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (1997–2002). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Landscape Ecology. Read More Read Less