Publications

List of the NPRC Publications

  • Geng, D. C., Zhang, J., Chen, M., Gaston, C., Wu, W., & Wang, G. (2026). How public health crises reshaped human-Nature interactions: implications for adaptive national park development and management. Journal of Forestry Research. (Accepted for publication)
  • Geng, D. C., Harshaw, H. W., Wu, W., & Wang, G. (2026). Recreation, resilience, and rejuvenation: managing national parks as health-responsive and vulnerability-friendly tourism destinations under public health crises (under review)
  • Xu, N., Shrestha, A., Wu, W., Marshall, P., Li, Q., Ma, J., & Wang, G. (2026). Assessing the ecological integrity of mountain national parks’ forest ecosystems under changing disturbance regimes: A systematic review. Ecological Indicators, 183, 114592.
  • Geng, D. C., Chen, M., Seely, H., Harshaw, H. W., Gaston, C., Wu, W., & Wang, G. (2025). Adapting to change: Visitor patterns in national parks across the pandemic timeline. Trees, Forests and People, 20, 100874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2025.100874
  • Geng, D. C., Harshaw, H. W., Gaston, C., Wu, W., & Wang, G. (2025). Tourism management in national parks: development, aspects, and conceptual framework. Forests, 16(6), 970; https://doi.org/10.3390/f16060970
  • Wang, W., Wang, X., Flannigan, M. D., Guindon, L., Swystun, T., Castellanos-Acuna, D., … & Wang, G. (2025). Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades. Science, 387(6729), 91-97.
  • Geng, D. C., Li, A., Zhang, J., Harshaw, H. W., Gaston, C., Wu, W., & Wang, G. (2024). Exploring impacts of COVID-19 on spatial and temporal patterns of visitors to Canadian Rocky Mountain National Parks from social media big data. Journal of Forestry Research, 35(1), 81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01720-y
  • Geng, D. C., Innes, J. L., & Wang, G. (2024). Survive, revive, and thrive: The impact of COVID-19 on global park visitation. Science of The Total Environment, 946, 174077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174077
  • Geng, D. C., Harshaw, H. W., Wu, W., & Wang, G. (2023). Impacts of COVID-19 on tourism and management response from Banff National Park, Canada. Journal of Forestry Research, 34(5), 1229-1244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-022-01580-4
  • Geng, D. C., Innes, J., Wu, W., & Wang, G. (2021). Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on urban park visitation: a global analysis. Journal of forestry research, 32(2), 553-567.
  • Geng, D. C., Innes, J. L., Wu, W., Wang, W., & Wang, G. (2021). Seasonal Variation in Visitor Satisfaction and Its Management Implications in Banff National Park. Sustainability, 13(4), 1681. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041681
  • Ferretti-Gallon, K., Griggs, E., Shrestha, A., & Wang, G. (2021). National parks best practices: Lessons from a century’s worth of national parks management. International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgeop.2021.05.004
  • Zhang, Y., Wang, G., Zhuang, H., Wang, L., Innes, J. L., & Ma, K. (2021). Integrating hotspots for endemic, threatened and rare species supports the identification of priority areas for vascular plants in SW China. Forest Ecology and Management, 484, 118952.
  • Li, J., Wang, G., Wang, Z., Wang, W., Chen, H., & He, M. (2021). Comparative study of the physiological and psychological effects of forest and urban auditory stimulus on humans. International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgeop.2021.09.001
  • Hu, F., Wang, Z., Sheng, G., Lia, X., Chen, C., Geng, D., … & Wang, G. (2021). Impacts of national park tourism sites: a perceptual analysis from residents of three spatial levels of local communities in Banff national park. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-20.
  • Li, X., Chen, C., Wang, W., Yang, J., Innes, J. L., Ferretti-Gallon, K., & Wang, G. (2021). The Contribution of National Parks to Human Health and Well-being: Visitors’ perceived benefits of Wuyishan National Park. International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks.
  • Sheng, G., Chen, H., Ferretti-Gallon, K., Innes, J. L., Wang, Z., Zhang, Y., & Wang, G. (2020). Moving toward a Greener China: Is China’s National Park Pilot Program a Solution?. Land, 9(12), 489.
  • Xv, N., Wu, W.L., Wang, G.Y*. (2020). National Park and ecosystem integrity. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Life on Land. Springer.
  • Wang, G., et al. (2019). China’s National Parks: Applying Lessons Learned to China’s Pilot National Park System. Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation. (In Progress).
  • Wang, G., Mang, S.L., Riehl, B. et al. (2019). Climate change impacts and forest adaptation in the Asia–Pacific region: from regional experts’ perspectives. For. Res. (2019) 30: 277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-018-0827-y
  • Ferretti-Gallon, K., et al. (2018). National Parks: Best Practices and Lessons Learned. Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation. (Under Review).
  • Wang, G.et al. (2018). Learning From Others: An Application of National Parks Framework to China. Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation.(In: Chinese).
  • Wang, G., & Shrestha, A. (2017). Learning From Others: An Application of National Parks Framework to China. Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation. (In: Chinese).
  • F Guo, Z Su, G Wang, L Sun, M Tigabu, X Yang, H Hu (2017). Understanding fire drivers and relative impacts in different Chinese forest ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment 605, 411-425
  • M Zhang, G Wang, Y Gao, Z Wang, F Mi (2017) Trade-offs between economic and environmental optimization of the forest biomass generation supply chain in inner Mongolia, China. Sustainability2017, 9(11),
  • Guo, F., Wang, G., Innes, J.L. et al. (2016). Comparison of six generalized linear models for occurrence of lightning-induced fires in northern Daxing’an Mountains, China, For. Res. (2016) 27: 379. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-015-0176-z
  • T Wang, G Wang, J Innes et al. (2016). Climatic niche models and their consensus projections for future climates for four major forest tree species in the Asia–Pacific region. Forest Ecology and Management. (360)357-366
  • Z Zhang, R Zang, G Wang, X Huang (2016). Classification of landscape types based on land cover, successional stages and plant functional groups in a species-rich forest in Hainan Island, China. Tropical Conservation Science. (9-1)135-1522030; https://doi.org/10.3390/su9112030
  • Wang, G., et al. (2012). National Park Development in China: Conservation or Commercialization? AMBIO, 41: 247-261.
  • National Park Management and Recreation (2019) Forestry Publishing House. 350p.