LIANG Yu, Female, born in July 1985, native of Rizhao, Shandong Province. Ph.D., Professor and doctoral supervisor. Deputy Director of the Research Center for Forest Ecology and Forestry Eco-engineering, and Deputy Director of the Changbai Mountain Forest Ecosystem National Field Observation and Research Station, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang. Her main research focuses on forest landscape ecology, with particular emphasis on the response and feedback of forest landscape dynamics to climate change and disturbance, systematically exploring multi-scale interactions among climate, disturbance, and forest landscapes. She was selected into the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014, and into the Liaoning Province 'Xingliao Talent Program' and 'Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project' in 2019. She has received the 15th Liaoning Outstanding Young Scientist Award, the President's Excellence Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the 7th Shenyang Branch Outstanding Young Scientist Award. She has published more than 50 SCI papers in journals such as Global Change Biology, Journal of Applied Ecology, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, including 31 SCI papers as first/corresponding author, 1 ESI hot paper, and over 1,300 total citations (Google Scholar). She serves on editorial boards of Journal of Ecology, Ecological Modelling, and PeerJ. She has led over 20 national and provincial projects. She holds one software copyright and one invention patent, and has transformed research on agricultural and forest environment dynamic big data into two products.

1. 2009.09–2012.07 Ph.D. in Landscape Ecology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China 2. 2007.09–2009.08 M.S. in Physical Geography, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China 3. 2003.09–2007.08 B.S. in Biotechnology, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

1. 2020.12–present Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China 2. 2014.12–2020.11 Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China 3. 2016.02–2017.02 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 4. 2012.07–2014.11 Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Global Change Ecology; Landscape Ecology; Ecosystem Simulation

1. 2025 15th Liaoning Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2. 2020 7th Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the Shenyang Branch, Chinese Academy of Sciences 3. 2019 Selected into the 'Xingliao Talent Program' (Young Top-notch Talent), Liaoning Province 4. 2019 Selected into the 13th batch of the 'Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project' (Ten-Thousand Level), Liaoning Province 5. 2014 Selected as a Member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences 6. 2012 President's Excellence Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1. 2024–2027: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Project, Vulnerability and Lag Effects of Tibetan Plateau Forest Landscape Change in Response to Climate Change. Project Leader. 2. 2020–2023: NSFC General Project, Dynamics of Tree Species Migration in Northeast Forest Regions Driven by Climate Change and Analysis of Influencing Factors. Project Leader. 3. 2020–2022: NSFC International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Project, Effects of Species Traits and Community Structure on Carbon Pool Dynamics in Temperate Forests. Topic Leader. 4. 2016–2019: NSFC General Project, Mechanisms of Post-Volcanic Eruption Forest Succession at Changbai Mountain. Project Leader. 5. 2021–2025: Institute of Applied Ecology CAS '1-3-5' Strategic Project, Forest Carbon Sink and Its Response to Global Change. Project Leader. 6. 2022–2027: National Key R&D Program Youth Project, Coordination and Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Root-Stem-Leaf Functional Traits of Larix olgensis. Topic Leader. 7. 2019–2023: CAS Strategic Priority Research Program (Category A) 'Beautiful China'. Topic Leader. 8. 2020–2021: Shenyang City Ecosystem Dynamic Change and Functional Comprehensive Assessment, Assessment of Major Ecological Functions of Shenyang City Ecosystem. Project Leader. 9. 2020–2022: Liaoning Province 'Xingliao Talent' Young Top-notch Talent Project, Mechanism of Northeast Forest Response to Climate Change. Project Leader. 10. 2019–2020: Major Engineering Special Project for Biodiversity Conservation of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Current Status and Assessment of Plant Diversity in Xishuangbanna Region. Project Leader. 11. 2017–2022: National Key R&D Program, High-Precision Global Land Use Change Simulation Technology for Human-Land Coupling. Topic Leader. 12. 2016–2021: National Key R&D Program, Effects of Climate Change and Wildfire on Forest Carbon Storage over the Next Century. Topic Leader. 13. 2014–2016: NSFC Youth Project, Historical Reconstruction of Changbai Mountain Forest Landscape after Volcanic Eruption. Project Leader. 14. 2014–2016: CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association Project. Project Leader.

1. Liang Yu, Gustafson Eric J., He Hong S., Serra-Diaz Josep M., Duveneck Matthew J., Thompson Jonathan R. 2023. What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change? Global Change Biology 29(4): 1160–1177. 2. Liang Yu, Duveneck Matthew J., Gustafson Eric J., Serra-Diaz Josep M., Thompson Jonathan R. 2018. How disturbance, competition, and dispersal interact to prevent tree range boundaries from keeping pace with climate change. Global Change Biology 24(1): e335–e351. 3. Huang Chao, He Hong S., Liang Yu, Hawbaker Todd J., Henne Paul D., Xu Wenru, Gong Peng, Zhu Zhiliang. 2021. The changes in species composition mediate direct effects of climate change on future fire regimes of boreal forests in northeastern China. Journal of Applied Ecology 58(6): 1336–1345. 4. Ma Tianxiao, Liang Yu, Li Zhouyuan, Liu Zhihua, Liu Bo, Wu Mia M., Lau Matthew K., Fang Yunting. 2023. Age-related patterns and climatic driving factors of drought-induced forest mortality in Northeast China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 332: 109360. 5. Ma Tianxiao, Liang Yu, Lau Matthew K., Liu Bo, Wu Mia M., He Hong S. 2021. Quantifying the relative importance of potential evapotranspiration and timescale selection in assessing extreme drought frequency in conterminous China. Atmospheric Research 263: 105797. 6. Liu Zhihua, Wang Wen J., Ballantyne Ashley, He Hong S., Wang Xugao, Liu Shuguang, Ciais Philippe, Wimberly Michael C., Piao Shilong, Yu Kailiang, Yao Qichao, Liang Yu, Wu Zhiwei, Fang Yunting, Chen Anping, Xu Wenru, Zhu Jiaojun. 2023. Forest disturbance decreased in China from 1986 to 2020 despite regional variations. Communications Earth & Environment 4: 15. 7. Liu Bo, Zhang Jin-Long, Lau Matthew K., Wang Xu-Gao, Liang Yu, Ma Tianxiao. 2023. Diversification and phylogenetic correlation of functional traits for co-occurring understory species in the Chinese boreal forest. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 61(2): 369–382. 8. Wu Mia M., Liang Yu, He Hong S., Liu Bo, Ma Tianxiao. 2022. Remnant trees location and abundance play different roles in forest landscape recovery. Forest Ecology and Management 511: 120154. 9. Huang Chao, Feng Jiayuan, Tang Fangran, He Hong S., Liang Yu, Wu Mia M., Xu Wenru, Liu Bo, Shi Fuxi, Chen Fusheng. 2022. Predicting the responses of boreal forests to climate-fire-vegetation interactions in Northeast China. Environmental Modelling & Software 153: 105410. 10. Ma Tianxiao, Liang Yu, Sunde Michael G., Lau Matthew K., Liu Bo, Wu Mia M., He Hong S. 2021. Assessing the effects of climate variable and timescale selection on uncertainties in dryness/wetness trends in conterminous China. International Journal of Climatology 41(5): 3058–3070. 11. Liu Bo, Biswas Shekhar R., Yang Jian, Liu Zhihua, He Hong S., Liang Yu, Lau Matthew K., Fang Yunting, Han Shijie. 2020. Strong influences of stand age and topography on post-fire understory recovery in a Chinese boreal forest. Forest Ecology and Management 473: 118307. 12. Cai Longyan, He Hong S., Liang Yu, Wu Zhiwei, Huang Chao. 2019. Analysis of the uncertainty of fuel model parameters in wildland fire modelling of a boreal forest in north-east China. International Journal of Wildland Fire 28(3): 205–215. 13. Liang Yu, He Hong S., Wang Wen J., Fraser Jacob S., Wu ZhiWei, Xu Jiawei. 2015. The site-scale processes affect species distribution predictions of forest landscape models. Ecological Modelling 300: 89–101. 14. Liang Yu, He Hong S., Wu ZhiWei, Yang Jian. 2014. Effects of environmental heterogeneity on predictions of tree species' abundance in response to climate warming. Environmental Modelling & Software 59: 222–231. 15. Liang Yu, He Hong S., Fraser Jacob S., Wu ZhiWei. 2013. Thematic and spatial resolutions affect model-based predictions of tree species distribution. PLoS ONE 8(7): e67889. 16. Liang Yu, He Hong S., Yang Jian, Wu Zhi Wei. 2012. Coupling ecosystem and landscape models to study the effects of plot number and location on prediction of forest landscape change. Landscape Ecology 27: 1031–1044. 17. Liang Yu, He Hong S., Bu Rencang, Hu Yuanman, Shao Guofan. 2011. Are plot data effective for landscape prediction: a simulation study of tree species response to climate warming under varying environmental heterogeneity. Annals of Forest Science 68: 899–909.

Liang Yu, Huang Chao. A High-Resolution Land Use and Forest Landscape Process Coupled Simulation System and Method. Authorization Date: April 16, 2024. Patent No. ZL 202010639670.3