Detailed introduction：

Introduction

Junxiang Li currently is a Professor of Ecology in the School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has been in the School of Life Science and the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University as a visiting scholar in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He is one of the founding and the executive committee members of the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE). He is the founder of and one of the vice Presidents and Secretary General of SURE China Chapter. He is also the member of International Association for Landscape Ecology, China Chapter (IALE-China), and Ecological Society of China (ESC). He has been the principal investigator (PI) or Co-PI for more than 20 research grants funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology of people’s republic of China (MOST), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Sino-German Science Center, the Erasmus+ Project of European Union, the Federal Natural Protection Bureau of Germany (BfN), and  the Ministry of Education (MOE), China. He authored one book and more than 50 journal articles and book chapters. His current research areas: Urban Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Remote Sensing of Environmant and Ecology, his current research interests focus on urban land use/cover change, ecological and environmental consequences of urbanization and its monitoring using remote sensing, urban sustainability science, landscape ecosystem responses to climate change, landscape adaptation planning, Health effects of climate change and green and blue landscape.

Awards & Prizes

1. Real Estate Resource Innovation Award in Shanghai, Shanghai Housing and Land Resources Administration, Comprehensive Survey of Land Resources in Shanghai using Remote Sensing, 2008

2. Second prize for scientific progress, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, Vegetation Restoration and Ecological Construction in Shanghai and Its Surrounding Areas, 2003

3. Second prize for science and technology, Ministry of Education, Ecology of Evergreen Broadleaf Forest in Subtropical Region of Eastern China, 2003

Monographs

[1] Towards Green Cities: Urban biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in China and Germany. Springer. 2017

[2] Book Chapter ‘Ecological Characterization of Vegetation Using Multisensor Remote Sensing in the Solar Reflective Spectrum’. In Remote Sensing Handbook II: Land Resources Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping with Remote Sensing. 2015

[3] Book Chapter ‘Landscape Corridors in Shanghai and Their Importance in Urban Forest Planning. In Ecology, Planning and Management of Urban Forests: International Perspectives. Springer. 2008

[4] Book Chapter: Monitoring and Evaluation of Segmentation of Evergreen Broadleaf Forest in Eastern China. In Ecosystem degradation mechanism and ecological restoration of evergreen broad-leaved forest in eastern China. Science Press. 2007

[5] Book Chapter: Ecological threshold of ecosystem damage in evergreen broad-leaved forest. In Ecosystem degradation mechanism and ecological restoration of evergreen broad-leaved forest in eastern China. Science Press. 2007

[6] A Preliminary Study on Urban Forest Construction in Shanghai, Research Progress on Urban Forest Ecology. China Forestry Press. 2002

       Journal Articles

[1]  Meng Wang, Junxiang Li(*), Shengjian Kuang, Yujuan He, Guojian Chen Yue Huang, Conghe Song, Pippin Anderson and Damian Łowicki. 2020. Plant Diversity Along the Urban–Rural Gradient and Its Relationship with Urbanization Degree in Shanghai, China. Forests: 11, 171; doi:10.3390/f11020171

[2] Caiyan Wu, Junxiang Li(*), Chunfang Wang(*), Conghe Song, Yu Chen, Maroš Finka Daniele La Rosa. 2019. Understanding the relationship between urban blue infrastructure and land surface temperature. Science of the Total Environment: 694, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133742

[3] Cheng Li, Junxiang Li(*), Jianguo Wu. 2018. What drives urban growth in China? A multi-scale comparative analysis. Applied Geography, 98: 43-51

[4] Cheng Li and Junxiang Li(*). 2017. Assessing Urban Sustainability Using a Multi-Scale, Theme-Based Indicator Framework: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China. Sustainability, 9: 2072

[5] Tong Qiu (*), Conghe Song (*), Junxiang Li (*). 2017. Impacts of Urbanization on Vegetation Phenology over the Past Three Decades in Shanghai, China. Remote Sensing, 9:970

[6] Yulong Zhang, Conghe Song, Lawrence E. Band, Ge Sun, Junxiang Li. 2017. Reanalysis of global terrestrial vegetation trends from MODIS products: Browning or greening? Remote Sensing of Environment, 191 (): 145-155

[7] Xiaoyun Cheng, Bensheng Wei, Guojian Chen, Junxiang Li(*) and Conghe Song. 2015. Influence of park size and its surrounding urban landscape patterns on the park cooling effect. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 141(3): A4014002.

[8] Jürgen Breuste, Salman Qureshi, Junxiang Li. 2013. Applied urban ecology for sustainable urban environment. Urban Ecosystems, 16(4):675–680

[9] Cheng Li, Junxiang Li(*), Jianguo Wu. 2013. Quantifying the speed, growth modes, and landscape pattern changes of urbanization: a hierarchical patch dynamics approach. Landscape Ecology, 28(10):1875-1888

[10] Junxiang Li(*), Cheng Li, Feige Zhu, Conghe Song, Jianguo Wu. 2013. Spatiotemporal pattern of urbanization in Shanghai, China between 1989 and 2005. Landscape Ecology, 28(8):1545–1565

[11] Jürgen Breuste, Salman Qureshi, Junxiang Li. 2013. Scaling down the ecosystem services at local level for urban parks of three megacities. Hercynia-Ökologie und Umwelt in Mitteleuropa 46(1): 1–20

[12] Junxiang Li(*), Conghe Song, Lu Cao, Feige Zhu, Xianlei Meng, Jianguo Wu. 2011. Impacts of landscape structure on surface urban heat islands: A case study of Shanghai, China. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115(12):3249-326