Boyan Li, PhD

Associate Professor

Bing Associate Research Fellow of GIScience at the School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University. His PhD was in GIScience from the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University; Visiting Ph.D. student  in Environmental Science at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University (09/2018-10/2019); and PostDr in Geography from the School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University.  He has over 20 articles on GIS and eco-hydrological processess published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, Land Degradation & Development, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Hydrology, Ecological Indicators, Ecological Engineering, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, and Journal of Arid Environments, etc.

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Land use, eco-hydrological processess, ecosystem services, SDGs

Publications

1.  Li, B., Wang, Y., 2024. Impact of Grain-for-Green Programme and climate change on the soil erosion decline in the Yangtze River, China. J. Geogr Sci. 34(3):527–542

2. Li, B., Feng Q., Wang, Y., 2024. Historical and future runoff changes and their impacts on stormflow characteristics in the upper Yangtze River basin, China. Catena 235,107684. 

3. Li, B., Wang, C., Wang, Y., Wang, W., Lin, A.  2023. Impact assessment of China's inter-provincialtrade on trade-related Sustainable Development Goals. J. Clean Prod.,135983. 

4. Li, B., Wang, Y., 2023. Dynamics of sediment transport in the Yangtze River and their key drivers. Sci. Total Environ. 862, 160688. 

5.  Wang, Y., Li, B.*, 2022. Dynamics arising from the impact of large-scale afforestation on ecosystem services. L. Degrad. Dev. 33(16), 3186–3198. 

6. Wang, Y., Li, B.*, Xu, L., 2022. Monitoring Land-Use Efficiency in China's Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2000 to 2018. Land 11, 1009. 

7. Li, B., Wang, Y., Wang, W., Wang, C., Lin, A., 2021. Satellite remote sensing analysis to monitor revegetation in the Yangtze River basin, China. L. Degrad. Dev. 33(1), 68–78. 

8.  Li, B., Chen, N., Wang, W., Wang, C., Schmitt, R.J.P., Lin, A., Daily, G.C., 2021. Eco-environmental impacts of dams in the Yangtze River Basin, China. Sci. Total Environ. 774, 145743.

9. Li, B., Wang, W., Wang, Y., 2020. Identifying the relationships among multiple ecosystem services. J. Arid Environ. 183(4), 104265. 

10. Li, B., Chen, N., Wang, Y., Wang, W., 2018. Spatio-temporal quantification of the trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services based on grid-cells: A case study of Guanzhong Basin, NW China. Ecol. Indic. 94, 246–253. 

11. Li, B., Wang, W., 2018. Trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services for the Yinchuan Basin in China. Ecol. Indic. 84, 837–846.

12.  Li, B., Wang, W., Bai, L., Chen, N., Wang, W., 2018. Estimation of aboveground vegetation biomass based on Landsat-8 OLI satellite images in the Guanzhong Basin, China. Int. J. Remote Sens. 20, 3927–3947.