Haiyang Li

I am a PhD student majoring in ecological remote sensing and landscape ecology. My research primarily focuses on enhancing the capacity of forest restoration to combat climate change in China, with particular attention to spatial prioritization, multicriteria integration, and landscape-pattern optimization. I am deeply interested in restoration efficiency, which aims to achieve maximum restoration benefits with minimum costs, especially in the context of escalating land-use conflicts, limited restoration efforts, and spatial constraints.

My current work goes beyond predicting the potential of area-based forest restoration targets to emphasize that area alone is an ineffective metric for ensuring expected climate mitigation benefits, given the spatial variability in restoration benefits. Furthermore, applying a multicriteria approach that integrates climate and habitat benefits would allow forest restoration to be accomplished several years earlier than uniform restoration, while over-realizing benefits across individual criteria. This underscores the synergies driven by multicriteria optimization, rather than pursuing climate mitigation benefits in isolation.