Education：

2015-2019，Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences，Ecology，Ph.D；

2006-2009，Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences，Ecology，Master；

2002-2006，Qufu Normal University，Life Science，Bachelor.

Selected publications：

(1)Pingyuan Wang, Dezhu Li. 2019. Dendrocalamus menghanensis (Poaceae: Bambusoideae)，a new woody bamboo from Yunnan, China. Phytokeys, 130:143-150.

(2)Pingyuan Wang, Wenjie Liu, Jiaolin Zhang, Bin Yang, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Junen Wu, Xiaojin Jiang. 2019. Seasonal and spatial variations of water use among riparian vegetation in tropical monsoon region of SW China. Ecohydrology, 12:e2085.

(3)Pingyuan Wang, Yuxiao Zhang, Dezhu Li, Wenjie Liu. 2016. Dendrocalamus jinghongensis (Poaceae, Bambusoideae), another new woody bamboo from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa, 272(3): 209-214.

(4)Hongbo Ding, Bin Yang , Pingyuan Wang, Zhongli Gan, Guang Yan, Xiaoqiang Lu, Yunhong Tan. 2020. Alangium confertiflorum, a new species of Alangium sect. Alangium (Cornaceae) from China-Laos transboundary region. Taiwania, 65(4):517-520.

(5)Bin Yang，Xianjing Meng, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Pingyuan Wang , Liang Song, Sissou Zakari, Wenjie Liu. 2020. Intercrops improve surface water availability in rubber-based agroforestry systems. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 298:106937.

 (6)Junen Wu, Huanhuan Zeng , Fan Zhao, Chunfeng Chen, Xiaojin Jiang, Xiai Zhu, Pingyuan Wang, Zhixiang Wu, Wenjie Liu. 2020. The Nutrient Status of Plant Roots Reveals Competition Intensities in Rubber Agroforestry Systems. Forests, 11:1163.

(7)Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Xiaojin Jiang, Bin Yang, Junen Wu, Apurva Rai, Chunfeng Chen, Jitendra Ahirwal, Pingyuan Wang, Wenjie Liu, Nandita Singh. 2020. Biological indicators affected by land use change, soil resource availability and seasonality in dry tropics. Ecological Indicators, 115:106369.

(8)Bin Yang, Pingyuan Wang, Debao You, Wenjie Liu. 2018. Coupling evapotranspiration partitioning with root water uptake to identify the water consumption characteristics of winter wheat: A case study in the North China Plain. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 259:296-304.

(9)Xiai Zhu, Wenjie Liu, Xiaojin Jiang, Pingyuan Wang, Weixia Li. 2018. Effects of land‐use changes on runoff and sediment yield: Implications for soil conservation and forest management in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China. Land Degradation & Development, 29(9): 2962-2974.

(10) Yi Wu, Liang Song, Wenyao Liu, Wenjie Liu, Su Li, Peili Fu, Youxin Shen, Junen Wu, Pingyuan Wang, Quan Chen, Huazheng Lu. 2018. Fog water is important in maintaining the water budgets of vascular epiphytes in an Asian tropical karst forests during the dry season. Forests, 9(5): 260.

(11)Xiaojin Jiang, Wenjie Liu, Junen Wu, Pingyuan Wang, Changan Liu, Ziqiang Yuan. 2017. Land degradation controlled and mitigated by rubber-based agroforestry systems through optimizing soil physical properties and water supply mechanisms: A case study in Xishuangbanna, China. Land Degradation & Development, 28: 2277-2289.

(12) Yuxiao Zhang, Xiaying Ye, Hongmei Yang, Xianzhi Zhang, Pingyuan Wang, Dezhu Li. 2016. New distribution records of two bamboo species in Yunnan, China with description of the inflorescence for Melocalamus yunnanensis (Poaceae, Bambusoideae). Phytokeys, 62: 41-56.

(13) Wenjie Liu, Qinpu Luo, Jintao Li, Pingyuan Wang, Hongjian Lu, Wenyao Liu and Hongmei Li. 2015. The effects of conversion of tropical rainforest to rubber plantation on splash erosion in Xishuangbanna, SW China. Hydrology Research, 46(1):168-174.

(14) Wenjie Liu, Pingyuan Wang, Jintao Li, Wenyao Liu, Hongmei Li. 2014. Plasticity of source-water acquisition in epiphytic, transitional and terrestrial growth phases of Ficus tinctoria. Ecohydrology, 7(6): 1524-1533.

(15) Wenjie Liu, Jintao Li, Hongjian Lu, Pingyuan Wang, Qinpu Luo, Wenyao Liu and Hongmei Li. 2014. Vertical patterns of soil water acquisition by non-native rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) in Xishuangbanna, southwest China. Ecohydrology, 7(4):1234-1244.

(16) Bin Yang, Pingyuan Wang, Yihua Tong, Yunhong Tan. 2021. Taxonomic notes on Agapetes (Ericaceae) from Xizang, China: Agapetes leiocarpa, a new synonym of A. atrosanguinea, and an updated description of A. camelliifolia. Phytotaxa, 524(2):119-124.

(17) Bin Yang, Jidong Ya, Yihua Tong, Pingyuan Wang, Cheng Liu, Wanglin Zhao, Zhen Liu, Yunhong Tan. 2022. Agapetes huangiana (Ericaceae), a new species from Southeast Xizang, China. Taiwania, 67(2): 254‒259.

(18) Jiaqing Liu, Wenjie Liu, Wenliu Zhang, Pingyuan Wang. 2022. The detected effects of driptips and leaf wettability on the kinetic energy of throughfall in rubber-based agroforestry in Xishuangbanna. Ecohydrology, e2492.

(19) Bin YANG; Meng-kai LI; Ping-Yuan WANG ; Bing-Mou WANG; Yun-Juan ZUO; Yun-Hong TAN; 2024. Agapetes rhuichengiana (Ericaceae), a new species from Southeast Xizang, China, Taiwania, 69(1): 16-19.