Ms. Wenjie Wu is a scholar in Agricultural Water–Soil Engineering whose work focuses on ecohydrology, vegetation water-use strategies, afforestation impacts, and soil–plant interactions in semi-arid landscapes, particularly the Loess Plateau of China. She serves as a Lecturer at the North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, following her earlier academic position at the Central South University of Forestry and Technology, and has also undertaken international doctoral research training at Aarhus University in Denmark. Her academic foundation includes advanced research training at Northwest A&F University and undergraduate studies at the Hebei University of Engineering, through which she built strong expertise in hydrological processes, soil restoration, and sustainable agricultural systems. As a principal investigator, she leads competitive research projects funded by provincial science foundations, where she examines water consumption patterns, tree-species adaptability, deep-soil hydrological dynamics, and the ecological benefits of vegetation restoration. Her research output includes collaborative publications in high-impact journals such as Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Catena, the European Journal of Forest Research, Forests, Journal of Hydrology, Agricultural Water Management, and Land Degradation & Development, covering themes like transpiration partitioning, root water-uptake responses, phenological controls on water use, and soil-property enhancement under restoration. Across her publication record, she has authored 14 documents, achieving an h-index of 10 with 395 citations cited by 364 documents, reflecting the visibility and influence of her contributions within the fields of hydrology, forestry, environmental science, and sustainable land management. Her collaborative work with national and international researchers highlights her commitment to advancing scientific understanding of water–soil–vegetation interactions, improving ecological restoration strategies, and supporting climate-resilient agricultural development in water-limited regions.
Featured Publications
Wu, W. J., Li, H. J., Feng, H., Si, B. C., Chen, G. J., Meng, T. F., Li, Y., & Siddique, K. H. M. (2021). Precipitation dominates the transpiration of both the economic forest (Malus pumila) and ecological forest (Robinia pseudoacacia) on the Loess Plateau after about 15 years of water depletion in deep soil. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 297, 108244.
Wu, W. J., Tao, Z., Chen, G. J., Meng, T. F., Li, Y., Feng, H., Si, B. C., Manevski, K., Andersen, M. N., & Siddique, K. H. M. (2022). Phenology determines water use strategies of three economic tree species in the semi-arid Loess Plateau of China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 312, 108716.
Wang, D. L., Li, Y. B., Zhang, B. B., Jiang, T. C., Wu, S. Y., Wu, W. J., Li, Y., He, J. Q., Liu, D. L., Dong, Q. G., & Feng, H. (2025). Explore the evolution of winter wheat production and its response to climate change under varying precipitation years in the Loess Plateau of China. Agricultural Water Management, 309(2), 109335.