Ph.D, Professor, Wuhan University

Research interests: Ecohydrology

Email: Lei.Cheng@whu.edu.cn  

Brief Introduction about main academic achievements and key publications

1.Lei Cheng, Zhen Sun, Do politically connected independent directors matter? Evidence from mandatory resignation events in China, China Economic Review, Volume 58, 2019, 101188, ISSN 1043-951X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2018.05.011.

2.Lei Cheng, Hong Cheng, Ziyin Zhuang, Political connections, corporate innovation and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES), China Economic Review, Volume 54, 2019, Pages 286-305, ISSN 1043-951X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2018.12.002.

3.Cheng, L., Zhang, L., Chiew, F. H. S., Canadell, J. G., Zhao, F., Ying‐Ping Wang, . . . Lin, K. (2017). Quantifying the impacts of vegetation changes on catchment storage‐discharge dynamics using paired‐catchment data. Water Resources Research, 53(7), 5963-5979. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017WR020600

4.Cheng, L., Xu, Z., Wang, D., & Cai, X. (2011). Assessing interannual variability of evapotranspiration at the catchment scale using satellite-based evapotranspiration data sets. Water Resources Research, 47(09) doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011WR010636

5.Qilin Wang, Lei Cheng, Lu Zhang, Pan Liu, Shujing Qin, Liu Liu, Zhaoxia Jing,, Quantifying the impacts of land-cover changes on global evapotranspiration based on the continuous remote, sensing observations during 1982–2016,, Journal of Hydrology, Volume 598, 2021, 126231, ISSN, 0022-1694, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126231.

6.Zhang, Y., Cheng, L., Zhang, L., Qin, S., Liu, L., Liu, P., Liu, Y., and Xia, J.: Drought-induced non-stationarity in the rainfall-runoff relationship invalidates the role of control catchment at the Red Hill paired-catchment experimental site, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2021-5, 2021