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Discipline:Ecology

Education Background

  • 2005-2010 Ph.D., School of Earth Science, Zhejiang
  • 2001-2005 B.Sc., School of Earth Science, Zhejiang
  • Work Experience

  • 2017.01-Now Associate Professor, Department for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University
  • 2015.04-2016.12 Associate Professor, Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University
  • 2010.11-2015.03 Postdoc, Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University
  • 2010.04-2010.10 Research Assistant, Department of Geography and Resource Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • 2008.10-2009.09 Research Assistant, School of Earth and Environment Science, the University of Western Australia
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    [264] Zhao, J., Yu, L.*, Zhao, L.*, Fu, H., Gong, P. 2025. Significant contribution of urban morphological diversity to urban surface thermal heterogeneity. Urban Climate. 61: 102383.

    [263] Feng, Y., Cao, Y.*, Chan, M. Y., Ye, Z., Zhao, Z., Yu, L., Liang, Y., Carver, S., Yang, R. 2025. Assessing ecosystem integrity in protected areas: A systematic review of methods and applications. Biological Conservation. 305: 111057.

    [262] Zhang, H., Cui, Y.*, Yu, L.*, Andino, R. E. C., Zhang, S., Cui, K., Zhao, T., Liang, H. 2025. Single oil palm tree detection and its potential expansion in Honduras. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63: 4408613.

    [261] Qu, W., Hua, H., Yang, T., Zohner, C. M., Peñuelas, J., Wei, J., Yu, L.*, Wu*, C. 2025. Delayed leaf green-up is associated with fine particulate air pollution in China. Nature Communications. 16(1): 3406.

    [260] Wyckhuys, K. A.*, Giron, E., Hyman, G., Barona, E., Castro-Llanos, F. A., Sheil, D., Yu, L., ... Zhang, W. 2025. Biological control protects carbon sequestration capacity of plantation forests. Entomologia Generalis. 45: 106521.

    [259] Zhao, J., Yu, L.*, Zhao, L., Fu, H., Gong, P. 2025. Asymmetric influence of urban morphology changes on land surface temperature between daytime and nighttime. Sustainable Cities and Society. 124: 106307.

    [258] Liu, S., Wang, Y.*, Gong, P.*, Zhang, G. J., Li, X., Zhao, Y., Wang, P., Zhou, J., Zhou, X., Yu, L. 2025. Regional warming from urbanization is disproportionate to urban expansion rate. One Earth. 8(3): 101234.

    [257] Hu, J., Peng, D.*, Chen, J. M., Huete, A. R., Yu, L., Lou, Z., ... Zhang*, B. 2025. High-precision inversion of vegetation parameters in the AI era: Integrating hyperspectral remote sensing and deep learning. The Innovation. 6(6): 100868.

    [256] Wu, H., Yu, L.*, Shen, X., Hua, F., Zhao, Z., Li, Y., Ma, K. 2025. A systematic review of assessing climate change risks on species and ecosystems: bibliometric overview, concepts, approaches, and trends. Global Sustainability. 8: 1-34.

    [255] Zhang, C., Yang, Y.*, Yu, L.* 2025. Assessing urban surface thermal environment and heat health risk in Chinese cities: A twenty-year study. Urban Climate. 59: 102304.

    [254] Yu, H., Zhang, C.*, Yu, L.* 2025. Exploration of improvement schemes for simulating LST in Beijing, China over multiple years based on LCZ. Urban Climate. 59: 102275.

    [253] Yu, L.*, Du, Z., Li, X., Zheng, J., Zhao, Q., Wu, H., ... Huang, X. 2024. Enhancing global agricultural monitoring system for climate-smart agriculture. Climate Smart Agriculture. 2(1): 100037.

    [252] Yu, H., Yang, Y., Zhao, J., Cai, M., Wang, R., Chen, G., Zhang, C.*, Yu, L.* 2025. Dynamic urban morphology mapping in Chinese cities based on local climate zone approach. Scientific Data. 12(1): 181.

    [251] Wang, R., Cai, W.*, Cui, R. Y., Huang, L., Ma, W., Qi, B., ...Yu, L., Zhang, N., Wang, C. 2025. Reducing transition costs towards carbon neutrality of China’s coal power plants. Nature Communications. 16(1): 241.

    [250] Liu, T., Yu, L.*, Liu, X., Peng, D., Chen, X., Du, Z., Tu, Y., Wu, H., Zhao, Q. 2025. A Global Review of Monitoring Cropland Abandonment using Remote Sensing methodology: Tempo-spatial Patterns, Causes, Ecological Effects, and Future Prospects. Journal of Remote Sensing. 0584.

    [249] Zhao, Q., Yu, L.* 2025. Advancing Sustainable Development Goals through Earth Observation Satellite Data: Current Insights and Future Directions. Journal of Remote Sensing. 5: 0403.

    [248] Yu, H., Zhang, C.*, Yu, L. 2024. Do different urban morphologies have consistent patterns on urban heat islands in different cities and scales? A local climate zone exploration. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18: 2429 – 2443.

    [247] Zou, Y., Chen, W.*, Li, S., Wang, T., Yu, L., Zhang, X., Xu, M., Jiang, B., Wu, C., Singh, RP., Huete, A., Liu, CQ. 2025. Assessing vegetation dynamics and human impacts in natural and urban areas of China: Insights from remote sensing data. Journal of Environmental Management. 373: 123632.

    [246] Zhao, J., Chen, W.*, Liu, Z., Liu, W., Li, K., Zhang, B., Zhang, Y. Yu, L., Sakai, T. 2024. Urban expansion, economic development, and carbon emissions: Trends, patterns, and decoupling in mainland China’s provincial capitals (1985–2020). Ecological Indicators. 169: 112777.

    [245] Cai, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, S., Bai, Y., Callaghan, M., Chang, N., Yu, L., ... Gong, P.* 2024. The 2024 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: launching a new low-carbon, healthy journey. The Lancet Public Health. 9(12): e1070-e1088.

    [244] Huang, L., Chen, Y., Pan, Y., Lou, Z., Zheng, S., Zhang, X., Yu, L., Liu, S., Peng, D. 2024. Identification of soybean in Argentina using Sentinel-2 composite images. International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. 17(5): 266-274.

    [243] Liu, T., Yu, L.*, Liu, J., Xu, Z., Chen, X., Hu, H., Zheng, S., Zhao, Q., Gong, P. 2024. Unveiling interprovincial geographic patterns of 5A-level tourism cultural ecosystem service flows and tourist preferences in China’s meta-coupled systems. Applied Geography. 172: 103432.

    [242] Ni, H., Yu, L., Gong, P.* 2024. Weakly supervised mapping of old and renewed urban areas in China during the recent two decades. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 134: 104125.

    [241] Liu, T., Yu, L.*, Chen, X., Chen, Y., Li, X., Liu, X., Cao, Y., Zhang, F., Zhang, C., Gong, P. 2024. Identifying Potential Urban Greenways by Considering Green Space Exposure Levels and Maximizing Recreational Flows: A Case Study in Beijing’s Built-Up Areas. Land. 13(11): 1793.

    [240] Yang, Y., Cai, W.*, Huang, Q., Yu, L., Zu, J., Wang, J., Yang, J.* 2024. Monitoring spatiotemporal expansion dynamics of short-rotation eucalyptus plantations over large scales using Landsat time series data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17: 18915 – 18925.

    [239] Hou, S., Yang, R.*, Zhao, Z., Cao, Y., Tseng, T., Wang, F., Wang, H., Wang, P., Wang, X., Yu, L. 2024. A cost-effective approach to identify conservation priority for 30× 30 biodiversity target on the premise of food security. Science of The Total Environment. 941: 172870.

    [238] Tian, T., Yu, L., Tu, Y., Chen, B., Gong, P.* 2024. Mapping Time-series Essential Urban Land Use Categories in China: A Multi-Source Data Integration Approach. Remote Sensing. 16(17): 3125.

    [237] Zhao J., Yu, L.*, Newbold, T., Chen, X. 2024. Trends in habitat quality and habitat degradation in terrestrial protected areas. Conservation Biology. 2024: e14348.

    [236] Chen, X., Yu, L.*, Li, Y., Liu, T., Peng, D., Zhang, X., Fang, C., Gong, P. 2024. China’s coupling rural-urban transformation is reducing its urban and rural well-being inequities. Communications Earth and Environment. 5(1): 416.

    [235] Zheng, S., Peng, D.*, Zhang, B., Yu, L.*, Pan, Y., Wang, Y., Feng, X., Dou, C. 2024. Temporal variation characteristics in the association between climate and vegetation in Northwest China. Scientific Reports. 14(1): 17905.

    [234] Du, Z., Yu, L.*, Arvor, D., Li, X., Ma, X., Wang, H., Liu, X., Zhang, M., Xu, B., Chen, J., Gong, P. 2024. Dual data-and knowledge-driven land cover mapping framework for monitoring annual and near-real-time changes. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62: 4411314.

    [233] Yu, L.*, Du, Z., Li, X., Zhao, Q., Wu, H., Weise, Duoji., Yuan, X., Yang, Y., Cai, W., Song, W., Wang, P., Zhao, Z., Long, Y., Zhang, Y., Peng, J., Xin, X., Xu, F., Shen, M., Wang, H., Jiao, Y., Li, T., Sun, Z., Zhao, Y., Fang, M., Peng, D., Wu, C., Li, S., Shen, X., Ma, K., Lin G., Luo, Y. 2024. Near surface camera informed agricultural land monitoring for climate smart agriculture. Climate Smart Agriculture. 1(1): 100008.

    [232] Parsons, L., Bickerstaff, K., Darvill, C., Yu, L. 2024. Geography and environment: New conversations, new communities. Geo: Geography and Environment. 11(1): e00147.

    [231] Liu, X., Zhu, P., Liu, S., Yu, L.*, Wang, Y., Du, Z., Peng, D., Aksoy, E., Lu, H., Gong, P. 2024. Global Cropland Expansion Enhances Cropping Potential and Reduce its Inequality among Countries. Earth System Dynamics. 2024: 1-16.

    [230] Yuan, X., Yu, L.* 2024. Integrating sustainable development goals in China's education curriculum: Analysis and future directions. Geo: Geography and Environment. 11(1): e00145.

    [229] Yuan, X., Yu, L.*, Li, X., Wu, H., Luo, J., She, H., Yang, J., Lin, Z., Zhao, J., Zhao, F., Meng, R., Zhang, Y., Qin, J., Zhao, Y. 2024. Promoting education for sustainable development through the green school program to achieve SDGs: Insights from a case study of Beijing’s primary and secondary schools. International Journal of Chinese Education. 13(2): 2212585X241259192.

    [228] Yuan, X., Li, X., Yu, L.*, Liu, T., Cao, Y. 2024. Assessing quantity and spatial patterns of greenspaces in Chinese universities for enhancing sustainable development. Higher Education Quarterly. 2024: e12550.

    [227] Hou, S., Yang, R.*, Zhao, Z., Cao, Y., Tseng, T-H., Wang, F., Wang, H., Wang, P., Wang, X., Yu, L. 2024. A cost-effective approach to identify conservation priority for 30 × 30 biodiversity target on the premise of food security. Science of The Total Environment. 941: 172870.

    [226] Zhao, Q., Yu, L.*, Chen, X. 2024. Land system science and its contributions to sustainable development goals: A systematic review. Land Use Policy. 143: 107221.

    [225] Zhang, H., Luo, Z., Peng, D.*, Zhang, B., Luo, W., Huang, J., Zhang, X., Yu, L. Wang, F., Huang, L., Liu, G., Gao, S., Hu, J., Yang, S., Cheng, E. 2024. Mapping Annual 10-m Soybean Cropland with Spatiotemporal Sample Migration. Scientific Data. 11(1): 439.

    [224] Tu, Y., Wu, S., Chen, B., Weng, Q., Gong, P., Bai, Y., Yang, J., Yu, L., Xu, B.* 2024. A 30 m annual cropland dataset of China from 1986 to 2021. Earth System Science Data. 16(5): 2297-2316.

    [223] Slater, L.*, Coxon, G., Brunner, M., Mcmillan, H., Yu, L., Zheng, Y., Khouakhi, A., Moulds, S. 2023. Climate change and urbanization intensify floods most in groundwater-dominated reivers. Earth’s Future. 2023: H22H-05.

    [222] Zhao, Q., Yu, L.*, Du, Z., Kanniah, K. 2024. Towards an annually updated oil palm age database (OPAD) with multimodal remote sensing features: design and preliminary result. Journal of Advanced Geospatial Science & Technology. 4(1): 16-42.

    [221] Liu, T., Yu, L.*, Chen, X. 2024. Utilizing nighttime light datasets to uncover the spatial patterns of county-level relative poverty-returning risk in China and its alleviating factors. Journal of Cleaner Production. 448: 141682.

    [220] Zhao, J., Yu, L.*, Newbold, T., Shen, X., Liu, X., Hua, F., Kanniah, K., Ma, K. 2024. Biodiversity responses to agricultural practices in cropland and natural habitats. Science of the Total Environment. 922: 171296.

    [219] Zhao, Q., Yu, L.*, Li, X., Xu, Y., Du, Z., Kanniah, K., Li, C., Cai, W., Lin, H., Peng, D., Zhang, Y., Gong, P. 2024. The expansion and remaining suitable areas of global oil palm plantations. Global Sustainability. 7: e9.

    [218] Wang, B., Zhao, H., Wang, X.*, Lyu, G., Chen, K., Xu, J., Cui, G., Zhong, L., Yu, L., Huang, H., Sheng, Q. 2024. Bamboo classification based on GEDI, time-series Sentinel-2 images and whale-optimized, dual-channel DenseNet: A case study in Zhejiang province, China. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 209: 312-323.

    [217] Chen, X., Yu, L.*, Hou, S., Liu, T., Li, X., Li, Y., Du, Z., Li, C., Wu, H., Gao, G., Wang, Y., Peng, D. 2024. Unraveling carbon stock dynamics and their determinants in China's Loess Plateau over the past 40 years. Ecological Indicators. 159: 111760.

    [216] Kang, X., Chen, W.*, Li, S., Wang, T., Yu, L., Singh, R. 2024. Spatiotemporal distribution of Sudden Oak Death in the US and Europe. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 346: 109891.

    [215] Cui, Y., Liu, R., Li, Z., Zhang, C., Song, X., Yang, J., Yu, L., Chen, M., Dong, J. 2024. Decoding the inconsistency of six cropland maps in China. The Crop Journal. 12(1): 281-294.

    [214] Hua, F., Wang, W., Nakagawa, S., Liu, S., Miao, X., Yu, L., Du, Z., Abrahamczyk, S., Aras-Sosa, L., Buda, K., Budka, M., Carriere, S., Chandler, R., Chiatante, G., Chiawo, D., Cresswell, W., Ccheverri, A., Goodale, E., Huang, G., Hulme, M., Hutto, R., Imboma, T., Jarrett, C., Jiang, Z., Kati, V., King, D., Kmecl, P., Li, N., Lovei, G., Macchi, L., MacGregor-Fors, I., Martin, E., Mira, A., Morelli, F., Ortega-Alvarez, R., Quan, R., Salgueiro, P., Santos, S., Shahabuddin, G., Socolar, J., Soh, M., Sreekar, R., Srinivasan, U., Wilcove, D., Yamaura, Y., Zhou, L., Elsen, P. 2024. Ecological filtering shapes the impacts of agricultural deforestation on biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(2): 251-266.

    [213] Du, Z., Yu, L.*, Chen, X., Gao, B., Yang, J., Fu, H., Gong, P. 2024. Land use/cover and land degradation across the Eurasian steppe: Dynamics, patterns and driving factors. Science of the Total Environment. 909: 168593.

    [212] Yin, J.*, Slater, L., Khouakhi, A., Yu, L., Liu, P., Li, F., Pokhrel, Y., Gentine. GTWS-MLrec: Global terrestrial water storage reconstruction by machine learning from 1940 to present. Earth System Science Data. 15(12): 5579–5615.

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    [210] Du, Z., Yu, L., Li, X., Zhao, J., Chen, X., Xu, Y., Yang, P., Yang, J., Peng, D., Xue, Y., Gong. 2023. Integrating remote sensing temporal trajectory and survey statistics to update land use/land cover maps. International Journal of Digital Earth. 16(2): 4428–4445.

    [209] Zhang, K., Morovati, K., Tian, F., Yu, L., Bo, L., Olivares, A. 2023. Regional contributions of climate change and human activities to altered flow of the Lancang-Mekong River. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 50: 101535.

    [208] Lou, Z., Wang, F., Peng, D.*, Zhang, X., Xu, J., Zhu, X., Wang, Y., Shi, Z., Yu, L., Liu, G., Xie, Q., Dou, C. 2023. Combining Shape and Crop Models to Detect Soybean Growth Stages. Remote Sensing of Environment. 298: 113827.

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    入选国家级高层次青年人才计划

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    《中国科学: 地球科学》年度最佳论文

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    北京市基础教育科学研究研究论文一等奖

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