王艳芬，女，教授。现任中国科学院大学党委常务副书记、副校长；中国地理学会会士，中国生态学学会会士。

长期从事地理与生态学研究，研制了首张青藏高原1：50万草地植被群系图，构建了表征生态系统稳态转换的生态能量学模型，提出了土壤碳库系统稳定性理论，发展了“以氮促碳”和“适度利用”的草地适应性管理新模式。在Nature Geoscience、Nature Sustainability、Nature Reviews Earth & Environment、Nature Communications、National Science Review、Science Bulletin、Global Change Biology、Soil Biology and Biochemistry等期刊发表论文350余篇，获首届“全国野外科技工作先进个人”、西藏自治区科学技术奖一等奖、青海省自然科学奖一等奖等奖励。

任中国生态学学会副理事长、发展中国家妇女科学组织副主席兼中国委员会主席、国际肥料科学中心副主席、Mountain Research and Development共同主编、Advanced Science和Science Bulletin等期刊编委。主持国家基金委重大专项项目、国家重点研发计划项目、第二次青藏高原综合科学考察任务等重大科研项目。

（ 1 ） 高寒泥炭地演化及其对气候变化的响应与适应机制, 负责人, 国家任务, 2024-12--2029-11

（ 2 ） 黄河流域生态系统变化与生态屏障效应, 负责人, 国家任务, 2021-01--2024-12

（ 3 ） 气候变化对生物多样性的影响与适应策略, 负责人, 中国科学院计划, 2018-03--2023-02

（ 4 ） 合作研究项目：植物共存、多样性与超产效应的微生物生态进化反馈 驱动机制, 负责人, 国家任务, 2018-01--2022-12

（ 5 ） 典型高寒生态系统演变规律及机制, 负责人, 国家任务, 2016-07--2020-12

（ 6 ） 典型草地土壤微生物空间分布格局与形成机理, 负责人, 中国科学院计划, 2013-07--2018-12

（ 7 ） 国家科技基础资源调查, 负责人, 国家任务, 2011-01--2012-12

（1）Methane production from lignin in anoxic peatland. NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 2025, 共同通讯作者.

（2）A framework for quantifying state transitions in complex ecosystems using energy flow networks. SCIENCE BULLETIN, 2025, 通讯作者.

（3）Overlooked uneven progress across sustainable development goals at the global scale: challenges and opportunities. THE INNOVATION, 2024, 通讯作者.

（4）Global effects of progress towards sustainable development goals on subjective well-being. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY, 2024, 共同通讯作者.

（5）Vegetation structural shift tells environmental changes on the tibetan plateau over 40 years. SCIENCE BULLETIN, 2023, 第一和通讯作者.

（6）An early warning signal for grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2023, 共同通讯作者.

（7）Grassland changes and adaptive management on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT, 2022, 第一作者.

（8）Unimodal productivity-biodiversity relationship along the gradient of multidimensional resources across Chinese grasslands. NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 2022, 第一和通讯作者.

（9）Carbon and nitrogen cycling on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT, 2022, 共同通讯作者.

（10）Climatic resources mediate the shape and strength of grassland productivity-richness relationships from local to regional scales. AGRICULTURE, ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT, 2022, 通讯作者. 

（11）Evenness is important in assessing progress towards sustainable development goals. NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 2021, 通讯作者.

（12）Linkage between microbial shift and ecosystem functionality. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 2021, 第一作者.

（13）Terrestrial N2O emissions and related functional genes under climate change: A global meta-analysis. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 2020, 共同通讯作者.

（14）Climate-induced abrupt shifts in structural states trigger delayed transitions in functional states. ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS, 2020, 通讯作者.

（15）Microbial community responses reduce soil carbon loss in Tibetan alpine grasslands under short-term warming. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 2019, 共同通讯作者.

（16）Aboveground net primary productivity and carbon balance remain stable under extreme precipitation events in a semiarid steppe ecosystem. AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, 2017, 通讯作者.

（17）Soil methane uptake by grasslands and forests in China. SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY, 2014, 第一作者.

（18）Effects of grazing on N2O production potential and abundance of nitrifying and denitrifying microbial communities in meadow-steppe grassland in northern China. SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY, 2014, 通讯作者.

（19）The fluxes of CO2 from grazed and fenced temperate steppe during two drought years on the Inner Mongolia Plateau, China. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 2011, 第一作者.

（20）Seasonal and interannual variation in water vapor and energy exchange over a typical steppe in Inner Mongolia, China. AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, 2007, 通讯作者.