男，1968年01月生，四川广汉市人。
1989年6月毕业于西南林学院林业专业，1992年6月毕业于中南林学院森林生态专业，获硕士学位，1999年毕业于原中科院国家计委自然资源综合考察委员会生态学专业，获博士学位，曾在 University of New Brunswick in Saint John 从事苔藓生态学访问研究（2006-2007），及 University of Toledo 从事生态系统生态学访问研究（2012-2013）。
1992年7月起一直在中科院成都生物所研究所从事西南山地生态恢复与多样性保育基础理论与技术方法研究。现为中国科学院成都生物研究所研究员、博士生导师。
发表科学论文230多篇，其中SCI/EI论文近50篇；合作出版专著10部。曾获四川省科技进步一等奖1次（2007）、二等奖2次（2001/2006），三等奖1次（2012），教育部科技进步二等奖（2016）1次。荣获过青藏高原青年科技奖（2001）、中国植物学会先进工作者（2009）与中国科学院王宽诚西部学者突出贡献奖（2010）等荣誉称号。
中国植物学会苔藓专委会委员（2012至今）
植物科学学报编委（2012至今）
亚热带植物科学编委（2016至今）
教育部科技进步奖, 二等奖, 2016, 大熊猫栖息地恢复技术研究与示范.
四川省人民政府科技进步奖, 一等奖, 2013, 四川森林固碳计量体系研究及其应用.
四川省人民政府科技进步奖, 三等奖, 2012, 干旱河谷生态恢复与持续管理研究.
中国科学院王宽诚西部学者突出贡献奖, 2010.
中国植物学会先进工作者, 2009.
青藏高原青年科技奖, 2001.
近期承担任务
1. 国家重点研发计划任务：西南干旱河谷区生态综合治理及生态产业发展技术研发（2017-2020）; 高山亚高山退化灌丛恢复与调控技术研发（2017-2020）
2. 四川省重点研发计划任务：低效人工林调控(间伐、施肥与凋落物管理等)对土壤生态功能研究；
3. 国家科技支撑计划任务：横断山区森林恢复重建技术试验研究(2011-2015)
4. 中国科学院先导专项任务：四川森林生态系统固碳现状、速率、潜力与机制研究(2011-2015)
5. 中国科学院先导专项任务：云杉人工林固碳增汇技术与实验（2011-2015）
6. 国家自然科学基金面上项目:高山森林皆伐迹地生态过程与植被演替变化(2010-2012)；森林次生演替中土壤C:N:P化学计量变化与生物作用机制（2015-2018）
7. 中科院创新前缘任务:暗针叶林下苔藓植物的光合与养分利用效率及其环境适应性反应(2012-2015)
8. 科技部基础专项任务：澜沧江流域生态系统本底调查与评估(2009-2013)
9. 横向课题：国家森林公园森林风景资源调查评估（2015-2018）
专著
1. 谢高地，包维楷，张昌顺 等编著， 2015. 澜沧江流域生态本底与生态系统功能考察报告。北京：科学出版社，2015.06. 359页
2. 包维楷，李芳兰，丁建林. 2013. 横断山区干旱河谷生态恢复的理论认识与实践. 见李文华主编，中国当代生态学研究-生态恢复卷 第二章第6节，北京-科学出版社，2013年7月，pp183-194.
3. Yuancun Shen, Xianzhou Zhang, Jingsheng Wang, Peili Shi, Yongtao He, Zhenxi Shen, Xinquan Zhao, Huakun Zhou, Shixiao Xu, Liang Zhao, Buqing Yao, Ting Zhou, Shaolin Peng, Jianguo Wu, Jianhua Cao, Fen Huang, Hui Yang, Liang Li, Qiang Li, Weikai Bao, Zhenqi Hu, Peijun Wang, Jing Li, Pei Qin, Jie Fan and Pingxing Li. 2015. Ecological Restoration in the Typical Areas. In: Wenhua Li, Contemporary Ecology Research in China. Higher education press and Springer, pp 265-374.
4. 包维楷,庞学勇,李芳兰,周志琼等著.2012.干旱河谷生态恢复与持续管理的科学基础. .北京：科学出版社.710页
5. 吴宁，包维楷，吴彦等著.2012.世界自然遗产地-九寨与黄龙的生态环境与可持续发展.北京：科学出版社.
6. 包维楷，何其华，周志琼，李晓明，刘鑫，朱亚平，丁建林。 亚高山人工林生态过程变化。见 于贵瑞主编。森林生态系统变化。高等教育出版社。2018待版.
期刊文章
1. Li, F., Hu, H., McCormlack, M.L., Feng, D.F., Liu, X., Bao, WK*, 2019. Community-level economics spectrum of fine-roots driven by nutrient limitations in subalpine forests. Journal of Ecology 107 (3): 1238-1249.
2. Li FL, McCulloh KA, Sun SJ, and Bao WK*. Linking leaf hydraulic properties, photosynthetic rates, and leaf lifespan in xerophytic species: a test of global hypotheses. American Journal of Botany, 2018,105(11): 1–11.
3. Pang XY*, Huang JS, Zhao QX, Feng DF, Bao WK*, Tian GL. 2017. Ecosystem carbon stock across a chronosequence of spruce plantations established on cutovers of a high-elevation region. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 17(9), 2239-2249.
4. Feng DF, Bao WK*, Pang XY*. 2017. Consistent profile pattern and spatial variation of soil C/N/P stoichiometric ratios in the subalpine forests. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 17 (8): 2054-2065.
5. Yang B*, Pang XY, Hu B, Bao WK*, Tian, Guanglong, 2017. Does thinning‐induced gap size result in altered soil microbial community in pine plantation in eastern Tibetan Plateau? Ecology and Evolution 7, 2986-2993.
6. Wang Z., Bader MY, Liu, X, Zhu ZM, Bao WK*. 2017. Comparisons of photosynthesis-related traits of 27 abundant or subordinate bryophyte species in a subalpine old-growth fir forest. Ecology and Evolution. Ecology & Evolution. 7: 7454-7461.
7. Wang Z., Bader MY, Liu, X, Zhu ZM, Bao WK*. 2017*. The ‘plant economic spectrum’ in bryophytes, a comparative study in subalpine forest. American Journal of Botany. 104: 261-269.
8. Wang Z, Liu X, Bao WK*. 2016. Higher photosynthetic capacity and different functional trait scaling relationships in erect bryophytes compared with prostrate species. Oecologia. 180:359-369.
9. 陈文静，祁凯斌，黄俊胜，杨婷惠，包维楷，庞学勇*. 2017. 川西不同树种人工林对土壤涵水能力的影响. 生态学报，37(15):4998-5006.
10.陈文静，祁凯斌，黄俊胜，杨婷惠，包维楷，庞学勇*. 2017. 川西次生灌丛和不同类型人工林对土壤养分的影响. 应用与环境生物学报，DOI：10.3724/SP.J.1145.2017.01013.
11. Pang XY*, Hu B, Bao WK*, Vargas TO, Tian GL. 2016. Effect of thinning-induced gap size on soil CO2 efflux in a reforested spruce forest in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 220: 1-9.
12. Hu B, Yang B, Pang XY*, Bao WK*, Tian GL. 2016. Responses of soil phosphorus fractions to gap size in a reforested spruce forest. Geoderma, 279: 61-69.
13. Huang JS, Hu B, Qi KB, Chen WJ, Pang XY*, Bao WK*, Tian GL. 2016. Effects of phosphorus addition on soil microbial biomass and community composition in a subalpine spruce plantation. European Journal of Soil Biology, 72: 35-41.
14. Wang Z, Liu X, Bao WK*. 2015. Higher photosynthetic capacity and different functional trait scaling relationships in erect bryophytes compared with prostrate species. Oecologia. Doi: 10.1007/s00442-015-3484-2
15. Zhao QX, Pang XY, Bao WK*, He QH. 2015. Effects of gap-model thinning intensity on the radial growth of gap-edge trees with distinct crown classes in a spruce plantation. Trees-structure and function, DOI 10.1007/s00468-015-1267-3.
16. Li FL, Liu X, Bao WK. 2016. Leaf lifespan is positively correlated with periods of leaf production and reproduction in 49 herb and shrub species. Ecology and Evolution; 6(11): 3822–3831.
17. Li FL, Bao WK * 2015. New insights into leaf and fine-root trait relationships: implications of resource acquisition among 23 xerophytic woody species. Ecology and Evolution, doi:10.1002/ece3.1794
18. Liu X., Bao W.K.*. 2014. Understory plant assemblages present distinct short-term responses to the clear-cutting of an old-growth spruce forest near an alpine timberline. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44 (6): 562-571. DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2013-0377
19. Zhou Zhiqiong & Bao Weikai*.2014. Changes in seed dormancy of Rosa multibracteata Hemsl. & E. H. Wilson with increasing elevation in an arid valley in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Ecological Research, DOI 10.1007/s11284-014-1155-0
20. Li Fanglan & Bao Weikai*.2014. Elevational trends in leaf size of Campylotropis polyantha in the arid Minjiang River valley, SW China. Journal of Arid Environment, 108: 1-9
21. Xiaoli Yan, Weikai Bao*, Xueyong Pang. Indirect effects of hiking trails on the community structure and diversity of trunk-epiphytic bryophytes in an old-growth fir forest. Journal of Bryology, 2014; 36(1):44-55.
22. Zhe Wang, Weikai Bao*, Xiaoli Yan, Honghui Lin.2014.Responses of non-structural carbohydrate levels of Polytrichastrum formosum and the co-occurring understory fern Parathelypteris nipponica to different gap creations by thinning in a dense spruce plantation. Cryptogamie, Bryologie, 35 (2): 165-172
23. Zhe Wang, Weikai Bao*, Defeng Feng, Honghui Lin. 2014. Functional trait scaling relationships across thirteen temperate mosses growing in wintertime. Ecological Research, .DOI: 10.1007/s11284-014-1146-1.
24. Fang, Z.Q., Bao, W.K*, Yan, X.L., Liu, X. 2014. Understory structure and vascular plant diversity in naturally regenerated deciduous forests and spruce plantations on similar clear-cuts: Implications for forest regeneration strategy selection. Forests,5 (4): 715-743. DOI: 10.3390/f5040715
25. Xueyong Pang, Weikai Bao*, Biao Zhu, Weixin Cheng. Responses of soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity to thinning in a pine plantation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2013, 171–172, 57–64
26. Xiaoli Yan, Weikai Bao*, Xueyong Pang, Ningxuan Zhang, Jiquan Chen, 2013. Regeneration strategies influence ground bryophyte composition and diversity after forest clearcutting. Annals of Forest Science, 2013, 70(8): 845–861
27. Yechun Wang, Weikai Bao*, Ning Wu. 2011.Shrub effects on a high-altitude forest cutover in eastern Tibetan Plateau. Annals of Forest Science. 68:1127–1141
28. Yanjiao Li, Weikai Bao*, Ning Wu.2011. Spatial patterns of the soil seed bank and extant vegetation across the dry Minjiang River valley in southwest China. Journal of Arid Environment. 75: 1083-1089.
29. Xueyong Pang, Weikai Bao*, Ning Wu. 2011. The effect of clear-cutting of subalpine coniferous forest on soil physical and chemical properties in eastern Tibetan Plateau. Soil use and management, 27, 213-220.
30. Zhiqiong Zhou, Weikai Bao*. 2011. Levels of physiological dormancy and methods for improving seed germination of four rose species. Scientia Horticulturae, 129: 818–824.
31. Fanglan Li, Weikai Bao*, Ning Wu. 2011. Morphological, anatomical and physiological responses of Campylotropis polyantha (Franch.) Schindl seedlings to progressive water stress. Scientia Horticulturae 127: 436–443