Gong Xuewei, Male, born in 1992, native of Zhoukou, Henan Province. Master’s Supervisor, Associate Researcher. His research focuses on tree water relations, plant stress physiology, mechanisms of plant responses to climate change, and hyperspectral remote sensing. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals such as Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Tree Physiology, Plant and Soil, Plant Methods, and Forest Ecology and Management.

2017.09 — 2020.07 Ph.D. degree in Ecology from the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. 2016.12 — 2017.05 Joint Training Master Student in Ecology at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germanry. 2014.09 — 2017.05 Master of Science in Ecology from the Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. 2010.09 — 2014.06 Bachelor of Science in Ecology from the Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China.

2023.01 — present Associate Professor of Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China 2020.08 — 2022.12 Post-doc in Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.

forest ecophysiology and management; global change; hyperspectral remote sensing; restoration ecology; xylem hydraulic architecture

1.Li-Dong Fang#, Xue-Wei Gong#, Ying Jin, Ming-Yong Li, Qiu-Rui Ning, Guang-You Hao*. 2026. Poplar species with tall columnar crowns are more prone to hydraulic limitation than congener with short oval crowns in water-limited areas. Tree Physiology, 46: tpaf149. 2.Xue-Wei Gong, Qing-Song Yu, Hong-Li Li, Zhuo-Qun Fang, Jia-Xu Guo, Zhao-Kui Li*, Heng-Fang Wang, Zhong-Yi Pang, Yan-Hui Peng, Xue-Kai Sun, Guang-You Hao*. 2026. A deep learning architecture for leaf water potential prediction in Populus euramericana 'I-214' from hyperspectral reflectance. Frontiers in Plant Science, 16: 1709473. 3.Xue-Wei Gong, Yi-Lei Ouyang, Yan-Yan Liu, Jin-En Zhang, Zhao-Kui Li, Hong-Li Li, Zhuo-Qun Fang, Yu Cao, De-Dong Wu, Qiu-Rui Ning, Guang-You Hao*. 2025. Xylem hydraulic impairment due to stronger drought stress accounts for the reduced crown vitality and growth performance of Mongolian pine trees in higher-density plantations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 372: 110722. 4.Zhao-Kui Li, Hong-Li Li, Xue-Wei Gong*, Heng-Fang Wang, Guang-You Hao*. 2024. Prediction and mapping of leaf water content in Populus alba var. pyramidalis using hyperspectral imagery. Plant Methods, 20: 184. 5.Xue-Wei Gong, Andrea Leigh, Jing-Jing Guo, Li-Dong Fang, Guang-You Hao*. 2023. Sand dune shrub species prioritize hydraulic integrity over transpirational cooling during an experimental heatwave. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 336: 109483. 6.Xue-Wei Gong, Guang-You Hao*. 2023. The synergistic effect of hydraulic and thermal impairments accounts for the severe crown damage in Fraxinus mandshurica seedlings following the combined drought-heatwave stress. Science of The Total Environment, 856: 159017. 7.Rui-Yun Han#, Xue-Wei Gong#, Ming-Yong Li, Qian-Nan Leng, Yong-Jiao Zhou, Qiu-Rui Ning, Guang-You Hao*. 2023. Combined tree-ring width and wood anatomy chronologies provide insights into the radial growth and hydraulic strategies in response to an extreme drought in plantation-grown Mongolian pine trees. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 208: 105259. 8.Zhou-Kang Li#, Xue-Wei Gong#, Jin-Long Wang, Yu-Dong Chen, Fei-Yi Liu, Han Peng Li, Guang-Hui Lü*. 2023. Foliar water uptake improves branch water potential and photosynthetic capacity in Calligonum mongolicum. Ecological Indicators, 146: 109825. 9.Xue-Wei Gong, Jing-Jing Guo, Li-Dong Fang, Sandra J. Bucci, Guillermo Goldstein, Guang-You Hao*. 2021. Hydraulic dysfunction due to root-exposure-initiated water stress is responsible for the mortality of Salix gordejevii shrubs on the windward slopes of active sand dunes. Plant and Soil, 459: 185–201. 10.Xue-Wei Gong, Jing-Jing Guo, De-Ming Jiang, Xue-Hua Li, Fabian G. Scholz, Sandra J. Bucci, Guillermo Goldstein, Guang-You Hao*. 2020. Contrasts in xylem hydraulics and water use underlie the sorting of different sand-fixing shrub species to early and late stages of dune stabilization. Forest Ecology and Management, 457: 117705. 11.Xue-Wei Gong, Guang-Hui Lü*, Xue-Min He, Binoy Sarkar, Xiao-Dong Yang*. 2019. High air humidity causes atmospheric water absorption via assimilating branches in the deep-rooted tree Haloxylon ammodendron in an arid desert region of northwest China. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10: 573. 12.Qian-Nan Leng, Xue-Wei Gong, Ming-Yong Li, Han-Shi, Guang-You Hao*. 2025. Scale- and age-dependent climate response patterns revealed in Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica and Larix principis-rupprechtii plantations in northern China. Forest Ecology and Management. 595: 122973. 13.Attaullah Khan, Xue-Wei Gong, Chi Zhang, Shen-Si Liu, Guang-You Hao*. 2025. Contrasts in hydraulics underlie the divergent performances of Populus and native tree species in water-limited sandy land environments. Physiologia Plantarum, 177: e70075. 14.Jing-Jing Guo, Xue-Wei Gong, Guang-You Hao*. 2025. Leaf transpirational cooling and thermal tolerance vary along the spectrum of iso-anisohydric stomatal regulation in sand-fixing shrubs. Plant, Cell & Environment, 48: 2053–2066. 15.Jing-Jing Guo, Xue-Wei Gong, Xue-Hua Li, Chi Zhang, Chun-Yang Duan, Madelon Lohbeck, Frank Sterck, Guang-You Hao*. 2024. Coupled hydraulics and carbon economy underlie age-related growth decline and revitalisation of sand-fixing shrubs after crown removal. Plant, Cell & Environment, 47: 2999–3014. 16.Qian-Nan Leng, Xue-Wei Gong, Ming-Yong Li, Guang-You Hao*. 2023. Tree density reduction mitigates the decline of Larix principis-rupprechtii plantations: Evidence from a combination of dendroclimatic and physiological measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 333: 109390. 17.Qiu-Rui Ning, Xue-Wei Gong, Ming-Yong Li, Guang-You Hao*. 2022. Differences in growth pattern and response to climate warming between Larix olgensis and Pinus koraiensis in Northeast China are related to their distinctions in xylem hydraulics. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 312: 108724. 18.Jing-Jing Guo, Xue-Wei Gong, De-Ming Jiang, Musa Ala, Fabian G. Scholz, Sandra J. Bucci, Guillermo Goldstein, Guang-You Hao*. 2020. Switching of dominant positions between two sand-fixing shrub species during the dune revegetation process is underlain by their contrasting xylem hydraulics and water use strategies. Land Degradation and Development, 31: 1195–1205.