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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

入选国家级高层次青年人才计划

入选农业部神农英才计划

《中国科学: 地球科学》年度热点论文

《Journal of Remote Sensing》优秀审稿人

第十届中国江苏人才创新创业大赛三等奖

北京市基础教育科学研究研究论文一等奖

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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., Li, X., Du, Z., Yan, Y., Peng, D., Gong, P. 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. P. 2024. Spatiotemporal distribution of sudden oak death in the US and Europe. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 346: 109891.

215 Cui, Y., Dong, J., Li, Z., Zhang, C., Song, X. P., Yang, J., Yu, L., Chen, M., Liu, R. 2024. Decoding the inconsistency of six 10-and 30-m 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., Arias-Sosa, LA., Buda, K., Budka, M., Carrière, SM., Chandler, RB., Chiatante, G., Chiawo, DO., Cresswell, W., Echeverri, A., Goodale, E., Huang, G., Hulme, MF., Hutto, RL., Imboma, TS., Jarrett, C., Jiang, Z., Kati, VI., King, DI., Kmecl, P., Li, N., Lövei, GL., Macchi, L., MacGregor-Fors, I., Martin, EA., Mira, A., Morelli, F., Ortega-Álvarez, R., Quan, R., Salgueiro, PA., Santos, SM., Shahabuddin, G., Socolar, JB., Soh, MCK., Sreekar, R., Srinivasan, U., Wilcove, DS., Yamaura, Y., Zhou, L., Elsen, PR. 2024. Ecological filtering shapes the impacts of agricultural deforestation on biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-16.

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. J., Khouakhi, A., Yu, L., Liu, P., Li, F., Pokhrel, Y., Gentine, P. 2023. GTWS-MLrec: global terrestrial water storage reconstruction by machine learning from 1940 to present. Earth System Science Data, 15(12): 5597–5615.

211 Zhang, S., Zhang, C., Cai, W., Bai, Y., Callaghan, M., Chang, N., Chen, B., Chen, H., Cheng, L., Dai, H., Dai, X., Fan, W., Fang, X., Gao, T., Geng, Y., Guan, D., Hu, Y., Hua, J., Huang, C., Huang, H., Huang, J., Huang, X., Ji, JS., Jiang, Q., Jiang, X., Kiesewetter, G., Li, T., Liang, L., Lin, B., Lin, H., Liu, H., Liu, Q., Liu, X., Liu, Zhao., Liu, Zhu., Liu, Y., Lu, B., Lu, C., Luo, Z., Ma, W., Mi, Z., Ren, C., Romanello, M., Shen, J., Su, J., Sun, Y., Sun, X., Tang, X., Walawender, M., Wang, C., Wang, Q., Wang, R., Warnecke, L., Wei, W., Wen, S., Xie, Y., Xiong, H., Xu, B., Yan, Y., Yang, X., Yao, F., Yu, L., Zhang, L., Zhang, R., Zhang, SC., Zhang, SH., Zhao, M., Zheng, D., Zhou, H., Zhou, J., Zhou, Z., Luo, Y., & Gong, P. 2023. The 2023 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: taking stock for a thriving future. The Lancet Public Health, 8(12): e978-e995.

210 Du, Z., Yu, L., Li, X., Zhao, J., Chen, X., Xu, Y., Yang, P., Yang, J., Peng, D., Xue, Y., Gong, P. 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., Yu, L., Shi, Z., Liu, G., Xie, Q., Dou, C. 2023. Combining shape and crop models to detect soybean growth stages, Remote Sensing of Environment, 298: 113827.

207 Yu, H., Liu, D., Zhang, C., Yu, L., Yang, B., Qiao, S., Wang, X. 2023. Research on Spatial–Temporal Characteristics and Driving Factors of Urban Development Intensity for Pearl River Delta Region Based on Geodetector. Land, 12(9): 1673.

206 Ni, H., Yu, L., Gong, P., Li, X., Zhao, J. 2023. Urban renewal mapping: A case study in Beijing from 2000 to 2020. Journal of Remote Sensing, 3:0072

205 Li, C., Yu, L., Oloo, F., Chimimba, E.G., Kambombe, O., Asamoah, M., Opoku, P.D., Ogweno, V.W., Fawcett, D., Hong, J., Deng, X., Gong, P., Wright, J. 2023. Slum and urban deprivation in compacted and peri-urban neighborhoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainable Cities and Society.

204 Li, X., Yu, L., Chen, X. 2023. New Insights into Urbanization Based on Global Mapping and Analysis of Human Settlements in the Rural–Urban Continuum. Land, 12(8), 1607.

203 Wu, H., Yu, L., Shen, X., Hua, F., Ma, K. 2023. Maximizing the effectiveness of protected areas for biodiversity conservation, climate refuge and carbon storage under climate change: A case study of Southwest China. Biological Conservation, 284: 110213.

202 Du, Z., Yu, L., Chen, X., Li, X., Peng, D., Zheng, S., Hao, P., Yang, J., Guo, H., Gong, P. An operational assessment framework for near real-time cropland dynamics: Toward sustainable cropland use in Mid-Spine Belt of Beautiful China. Journal of Remote Sensing, 3: 0065.

201 Hou, L., Liu, T., Wang, J., Chen, X., Du, Z., Yu, L. 2023. Land disturbance dynamics in mountains urban agglomeration and its driving forces: a case study of West Sichuan Urban Agglomeration, China. Ecological Indicators, 154:110569.

200 Xu, J., Liu, N., Polemiti, E., Mondragon, L.G., Tang, J., Liu, X., Lett, T., Yu, L., Noethen, M., Yu, C., Marquand, A., Schumann, G. 2023. Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults. Nature Medicine, 29: 1456–1467.

199 Wang, R., Cai, W., Yu, L., Li, W., Zhu, L., Cao, B., Li, J., Shen, J., Zhang, S., Nie, Y., Wang, C. 2023. A high spatial resolution dataset of China’s biomass resource potential. Scientific Data, 10: 384.

198 Li, C., Kambombe, O., Chimimba, E.G., Fawcett, D., Brown, L.A., Yu, L., Gadedjisso-Tossou, A., Dash, J. 2023. Limited environmental and yield benefits of intercropping practices: evidence from smallholder farming in Malawi. Field Crops Research, 299: 108974.

197 Bickerstaff, K., Davill, C., Parsons, L., Yu, L. 2023. Geography and environment: A time of change, Geo: Geography and Environment, 10(1): e00123.

196 Barnieh, B.A., Jia, L., Menenti, M., Yu, L., Nyantakyi, E.K., Kabo-Bah, A.T., Jiang, M., Zhou, J., Lv, Y., Zeng, Y., Bennour, A. 2023. Spatiotemporal Patterns in Land Use/Land Cover Observed by Fusion of Multi-Source Fine-Resolution Data in West Africa, Land, 12(5): 1032.

195 Xiao, Y., Zhou, J., Cheng, Q., Yang, J., Chen, B., Zhang, T., Xu, L., Xu, B., Ren, Z., Liu, Z., Shen, C., Wang, C., Liu, H., Li, X., Li, R., Yu, L., Guan, D., Zhang, W., Wang, J., Hou, L., Deng, D., Bai, Y., Xu, B., Dou, D., Gong, P. 2023. Global age-structured spatial modeling for emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19, PNAS Nexus, 2(5): 127.

194 Du, Z., Yu, L., Yang, J., Coomes, D., Kanniah, K., Fu, H., Gong, P. 2023. Mapping annual global forest gain from 1983 to 2021 with Landsat imagery, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 16: 4195-4204.

193 Tu, Y., Chen, B., Yu, L., Song, Y., Wu, S., Li, M., Wei, H., Chen, T., Liang, W., Gong, P., Xu, B. 2023. Raveling the nexus between urban expansion and cropland loss in China, Landscape Ecology, 38(7): 1869-1884.

192 Pan, Y., Peng, D., Chen, J., Myneni, R., Zhang, X., Huete, A., Fu, Y., Zheng, S., Yan, K., Yu, L., Zhu, P., Shen, M., Ju, W., Zhu, W., Xie, Q., Huang, W., Chen, Z., Huang, J., Wu, C. 2023. Climate-driven land surface phenology advance is overestimated due to ignoring land cover changes, Environmental Research Letters, 1746-9326.

191 Liu, M., Han, T., Yue, W., Cheng, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, B., Zuo, X., Zhu, W., Qiu, S., Geng, Z., Zhang, X., Cui, G., Zhang, Q., Yu, Y., Zhang, H., Gao, B., Xu, X., Yao, Z., Qin, Q., Liang, M., Liu, F., Guo, L., Xu, Q., Fu, J., Xu, J., Tang, J., Liu, N., Xue, K., Zhang, P., Li, W., Shi, D., Wang, C., Gao, J., Liu, S., Yan, Z., Chen, F., Li, J., Zhang, J., Shen, W., Miao, Y., Xian, J., Yu, L., Xu, K., Wang, M., Ye, Z., Liao, W., Wang, D., Yu, C. 2023. The impact of pre-adulthood urbanicity on hippocampal subfield volumes and neurocognitive abilities in young adults, Environment International, 174: 107905.

190 Zheng, J., Yuan, S., Wu, W., Li, W., Yu, L., Fu, H., Commes, D. 2023. Surveying coconut trees using high-resolution satellite imagery in remote atolls of the Pacific Ocean, Remote Sensing of Environment, 287: 113485.

189 Ren, F., Lu, W., Wang, B., Yang, K., Yu, L., Gan, W., Zhao, T. 2023. Assessment of SMAP and AMSR2 freeze/thaw products in Russia using in situ measurements. Remote Sensing Letters, 14(2): 176-185.

188 Yao, Z., Zhao, Y., Wang, H., Li, H., Yuan, X., Ren, T., Yu, L., Liu, Z., Zhang, X., Li, S. 2023. Comparison and Assessment of Data Sources with Different Spatial and Temporal Resolution for Efficiency Orchard Mapping: Case Studies in Five Grape-Growing Regions, Remote Sensing, 15(3): 655.

187 Feng, X., Tan, S., Dong, Y., Zhang, X., Zhong, L., Yu, L. 2023. Mapping large-scale bamboo forest based on phenology and morphology features. Remote Sensing, 15(2): 515.

186 Liu, J., Peng, L., Yu, L., Liu, X., Yao, Y., Zhang, Q. 2023. Reduced rural residential emissions in the Northern China Plain from 2015 to 2021. Science of The Total Environment, 865: 161235.

185 Wu, H., Fang, S., Yu, L., Hu, S., Chen, X., Can, Y., Du, Z., Shen, X., Liu, X., Ma, K. 2023. Limited co-benefits of protected area in Southwest China under current climate change and human modification. Journal of Environment Management, 330: 117190.

184 Zhao, J., Chen, G., Yu, L., Ren, C., Gong, P. 2023. Mapping urban morphology changes in the last two decades based on local climate zone scheme: A case study of three major urban agglomerations in China. Urban Climate, 47: 101391.

183 Liu, T., Yu, L., Chen, X., Wu, H., Lin, H., Li, C., Hou, J.2023. Environmental laws and ecological restoration projects enhancing ecosystem services in China: A meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Management, 327:116810

182 Chen, X., Yu, L., Cao, Y., Xu, Y., Zhao, Z., Zhuang, Y., Liu, X., Du, Z., Liu, T., Yang, B., He, L., Wu, H., Yang, R., Gong, P. 2023. Habitat quality dynamics in China’s first group of national parks in recent four decades: evidences from land use and land cover changes. Journal of Environmental Management, 325: 116505.

181 Huo, S., Ma, C., Li, W., He, Z., Zhang, H., Yu, L., Liu, Y., Cao, X., Wu, F. 2023. Spatiotemporal differences in riverine nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes and associated drivers across China from 1980 to 2018. Chemosphere, 310: 136827.

180 Liao, Y-A., Garcia-Mondragon, L., Konac, D., Liu, X., Ing, A., Goldblatt, R., Yu, L., Barker, E.D. 2023. Nighttime lights, urban features, house hold poverty, depression symptoms and obesity. Current Psychology, 42:15453–15464.

179 Yu, L., Cao, Y., Cheng, Y., Zhao, Q., Xu, Y., Kanniah, K., Lu, H., Yang, R., Gong, P. 2023. A study of the serious conflicts between oil palm expansion and biodiversity conservation using high-resolution remote sensing. Remote Sensing Letters, 14(6): 654-668.

178 Zhang, B., Xiong, W., Ma, M., Wang, D., Huang, X., Yu, L., Zhang, Q., Lu, H., Hong, D., Yu, F., Wang, Z., Wang, J., Li, X., Gong, P., Huang, X. 2022. Super-resolution reconstruction of a 3 arc-second DEM dataset. Science Bulletin, 67(24): 2526-2530.

177 Cheng, E., Zhang, B., Peng, D., Zhong, L., Yu, L., Li, C., Dong, T., Ye., H., Wang, H., Yu, R., Hu, J., Yang, S. Wheat yield estimation using remote sensing data based on machine learning approaches. Frontiers in Plant Science,13:1090970.

176 Li, X., Chen, G., Zhang, Y., Yu, L., Du, Z., Hu, G., Liu, X. 2022.The impacts of spatial resolutions on global urban-related change analyses and modelling. iScience, 25(12): 105660.

175 Chen, X., Yu, L., Du, Z., Liu, Z., Qi, Y., Liu, T., Gong, P. 2022. Toward sustainable lan use in China: A perspective on China’s national land surveys. Land Use Policy, 123: 106428.

174 Wang, R., Li, H., Cai, W., Cui, X., Zhang, S., Li, J., Weng, Y., Song, X., Cao, B., Zhu, L., Yu, L., Li, W., Huang, L., Qi, B., Ma, W., Bian, J., Zhang, J., Nie, Y., Fu, J., Zhang, J., Wang, C. 2022. Alternative pathway to phase down coal power and achieve negative emission in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(22): 16082–16093.

173 Cai, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, S., Bai, Y., Callaghan, M., Chang, N., Chen, B., Chen, H., Cheng, L., Cui, X., Dai, H., Danna, B., Dong, W., Fan, W., Fang, X., Gao, T., Geng, Y., Guan, D., Hu, Y., Hua, J., Huang, C., Huang, H., Huang, J., Jiang, L., Jiang, Q., Jiang, X., Jin, H., Kiesewetter, G., Liang, L., Lin, B., Lin, Hl., Liu, H., Liu, Q., Liu, T., Liu, X.B., Liu, X.Y., Liu, Z., Liu., Lou, S., Lu, C., Luo, Z., Meng, W., Miao, H., Ren, C., Romanello, M., Schöpp, W., Su, J., Tang, X., Wang, C., Wang, Q., Warnecke, L., Wen, W., Winiwarter, W., Xie, Y., Xu, B., Yan, Y., Yang, X., Yao, F., Yu, L., Yuan, J., Zeng, Y., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, R., Zhang, S., Zhang, S., Zhao, Q., Zheng, D., Zhou, H., Zhou, J., Chan Fung, M. F., Luo, Y., Gong, P. 2022. The 2022 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: leveraging climate actions for healthy ageing. The Lance Public Health, 7: e1073–90.

172 Cao, Y., Tseng, T., Wang, F., Jacobson, A., Yu, L., Zhao, J., Carver, S., Locke, H., Zhao, Z., Yang, R. 2022. Potential wilderness loss could undermine the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Biological Conservation, 272: 109753.

171 Xia, L., Zhao, F., Chen, J., Yu, L., Lu, M., Yu, Q., Liang, S., Fan, L., Sun, X., Wu, S., Wu, W., Yang, P. A full resolution deep learning network for paddy rice mapping using Landsat data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 194: 91-107.

170 Shao, Y., Li, M., Luo, J., Yu, L., Li, X. 2022. Spatiotemporally comparative analysis of three common infectious diseases in China during 2013-2015. BMC Infectious Diseases, 22: 781.

169 Zhu, P., Burney, J. Chang, J., Jin, Z., Mueller, N.D., Xin, Q., Yu, L., Makowski, D., Ciais, P. 2022. Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing cropping frequency and yields. Nature Climate Change, 12: 1016–1023.

168 Zheng, S., Pan, Y., Yu, L., Liu, S., Peng, D. 2022. Possible future movement of the Hu line based on IPCC CMIP6 scenarios. Environmental Research Communications, 4: 095008.

167 Zou, Y., Chen, W., Li, S., Wang, T., Yu, L., Xu, M., Singh, R.P., Liu, C. 2022. Spatio-Temporal Changes in Vegetation in the Last Two Decades (2001–2020) in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region. Remote Sensing, 14(16), 3958.

166 Zhang, B., Ma, M., Wang, M., Hong, D., Yu, L., Wang, J., Gong, P., Huang, X. 2022. Enhanced resolution of FY4 remote sensing visible spectrum images utilizing super-resolution and transfer learning techniques. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 15: 7391-7399.

165 Cao, Y., Wang, F., Tseng, T-H., Carver, S., Chen, X., Zhao, J., Yu, L., Li, F., Zhao, Z., Yang, R. 2022. Identifying ecosystem service value and potential loss of wilderness areas in China to support post-2020 global biodiversity conservation. Science of The Total Environment, 846:157348.

164 Yu, L., Du, Z., Dong, R., Zheng, J., Tu, Y., Chen, X., Hao, P., Zhong, B., Zhao, J., Li, X., Yang, J., Fu, H., Yang, G., Gong, P. 2022. FROM-GLC Plus: Towards near real-time and multi-resolution land cover mapping, GIScience & Remote Sensing, 59 (1): 1026-1047.

163 Liu, T., Li, Z., Yu, L., Chen, X., Cao, B., Li, X., Du, Z., Peng, D., Lan, S. 2022. Global relative ecosystem service budget mapping using the Google Earth Engine and land cover datasets. Environmental Research Communications, 4(6): 065002.

162 Pan, Y., Wang, Y., Zheng, S., Huete, A.R., Shen, M., Zhang, X., Huang, J., He, G., Yu, L., Xu, X., Xie, Q., Peng, D. 2022. Characteristics of Greening along Altitudinal Gradients on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau Based on Time-Series Landsat Images. Remote Sensing, 14(10), 2408.

161 Liu, S., Wang, Y., Wei, L., Wang, B., Yu, L. 2022. Contrasting influences of biogeophysical and biogeochemical impacts of historical land use on global economic inequality, Nature Communications, 13, 2479.

160 Xu, Y., Yu, L., Ciais, P., Li, W., Santoro, M., Yang, H., Gong, P. 2022. Recent expansion of oil palm plantations into carbon-rich forests. Nature Sustainability, 5: 574-577.

159 Zhao, Q., Yu, L., Du, Z., Peng, D., Hao, P., Zhang, Y., Gong, P. 2022. An overview of the applications of Earth observation satellite data: impacts and future trends. Remote Sensing, 14(8): 1864.

158 Lou, Z., Peng, D., Zhang, X., Yu, L., Wang, F., Pan, Y., Zheng, S., Hu, J., Yang, S., Chen, Y., Liu, S. 2022. Soybean EOS spatiotemporal characteristics and their climate drivers in global major regions. Remote Sensing, 14(8): 1867.

157 Yuan, X., Yu, L., Wu, H., She, H., Luo, J., Li, X. 2022. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Priorities of Senior High School Students and Global Public: Recommendations for Implementing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Education Research International, 2555168.

156 Shangguan, Y., Li, X., Lin, Y., Deng, J., Yu, L. 2022. Mapping spatial-temporal nationwide soybean planting area in Argentina using Google Earth Engine. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 43(5): 1724-1748.

155 Du, Z., Yu, L., Yang, J., Xu, Y., Chen, B., Peng, S., Zhang, T., Fu, H., Harris, N., Gong, P. 2022. A global map of planting years of plantations. Scientific Data, 9(141).

154 Chen, X., Yu, L., Du, Z., Xu, Y., Zhao, J., Zhao, H., Zhang, G., Peng, D., Gong, P. 2022. Distribution of ecological restoration projects associated with land use and land cover change in China and their ecological impacts. Science of The Total Environment, 153938.

153 Liu, S., Peng, D., Zhang, B., Chen, Z., Yu, L., Chen, J., Pan, Y., Zheng, S., Hu, J., Lou, Z., Yang, S. 2022. The accuracy of winter wheat identification at different growth stages using remote sensing. Remote Sensing,14, 893.

152 Zhao, J., Cao, Y., Yu, L., Liu, X., Yang, R., Gong, P. 2022. Future global conflict risk hotspots between biodiversity conservation and food security: 10 countries and 7 Biodiversity Hotspots. Global Ecology and Conservation, e02036.

151 Zhang, J., Li, X., Zhang, C., Yu, L., Wang, J., Wu, X., Hu, Z., Zhao, Z., Li, Q., Wu, G., Shi, T. 2022. Assessing spatialtemporal variations and predicting changes in ecosystem service values in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 59(1): 184-199.

150 Nie, Y., Cai, W., Li, J., Wang, C., Huang, G., Fu, J., Chang, S., Li, H., Ma, S., Yu, L., Cai, X. 2022. A fine-resolution estimation of the biomass resource potential across China from 2020 to 2100. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 176: 105944.

149 Zhang, Y., Yin, P., Li, X., Niu, Q., Wang, Y., Cao, W., Huang, J., Chen, H., Yao, X., Yu, L., Li, B. 2022. The divergent response of vegetation phenology to urbanization: A case study of Beijing city, China. Science of The Total Environment, 803: 150079.

148 Tan, S., Zhang, X., Wang, H., Yu, L., Du, Y., Yin, J., Wu, B. 2022. A CNN-based self-supervised synthetic aperture radar image denoising approach. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60:5213615.

147 Zhao, J., Cao, Y., Yu, L. 2021 Global change of land sparing and land sharing pattern over the past 30 years: evidences from remote sensing and statistics. Remote Sensing, 13(24): 5090.

146 Zheng, S., Zhang, B., Peng, D., Yu, L., Lin, B., Pan, Y., Xie, Q. 2021. The trend towards a warmer and wetter climate observed in arid and semi-arid areas of northwest China from 1959 to 2019. Environmental Research Communications, 3(11): 115011.

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