Xiyu Li

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University. Before that, I obtained a Bachelor's degree from the College of Environment and Resource at Zhejiang University. My research focused on agricultural land-use change, environmental impact, and driving factors. More specifically, I used multi-source data (e.g. remote sensing, statistics) to map crop types at multi-scale and multi-regions in time series and try to quantify the environmental impact including on deforestation and driving factors’ contributions.

From my perspective, wood production, as a provisioning service of ecosystems, is essential for human life and causes significant environmental impacts, similar to food production. To ensure wood security, I am now using remote-sensing techniques to estimate the spatial extent and locations of selectively logged forests through time. This will provide a database for better understanding the historic drivers of selective logging, predicting areas of future expansion and intensification, and quantifying the impacts on biodiversity.