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Overview

Yili Zhang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their research topics include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Coal and Its By-products
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Yili Zhang has published extensively, with key recent papers including:

  • Elemental mercury removal by I−-doped Bi2WO6 with remarkable visible-light-driven photocatalytic oxidation (2020, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental)
  • Datasets of the Boundary and Area of the Tibetan Plateau (2020, GCdataPR)

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Linshan Liu
  • Basanta Paudel
  • Xuebin Wang
  • Junying Zhang
  • Rihong Xiao

Yili Zhang frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Remote Sensing
  • Sustainability
  • Fuel
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Best Publications

  • A regional-scale assessment of Himalayan glacial lake changes using satellite observations from 1990 to 2015

    Yong Nie;Yong Nie;Yongwei Sheng;Qiao Liu;Linshan Liu

  • An inventory of historical glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalayas based on remote sensing observations and geomorphological analysis

    Yong Nie;Qiao Liu;Jida Wang;Yili Zhang

  • Increasing sensitivity of alpine grasslands to climate variability along an elevational gradient on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Lanhui Li;Yili Zhang;Yili Zhang;Jianshuang Wu;Shicheng Li

  • NDVI-based vegetation changes and their responses to climate change from 1982 to 2011: A case study in the Koshi River Basin in the middle Himalayas

    Yili Zhang;Jungang Gao;Linshan Liu;Zhaofeng Wang

  • The relationship between NDVI and precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau

    Ding Mingjun;Zhang Yili;Liu Linshan;Zhang Wei

  • Mapping human influence intensity in the Tibetan Plateau for conservation of ecological service functions

    Shicheng Li;Shicheng Li;Yili Zhang;Yili Zhang;Zhaofeng Wang;Lanhui Li

  • Spatiotemporal variation in alpine grassland phenology in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau from 1999 to 2009

    MingJun Ding;MingJun Ding;YiLi Zhang;XiaoMin Sun;LinShan Liu

  • Identification of traffic-related metals and the effects of different environments on their enrichment in roadside soils along the Qinghai-Tibet highway.

    Hua Zhang;Zhaofeng Wang;Yili Zhang;Yili Zhang;Mingjun Ding

  • Spatial and temporal variability in the net primary production of alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau since 1982

    Yili Zhang;Wei Qi;Caiping Zhou;Mingjun Ding

  • Elemental mercury removal by I−-doped Bi2WO6 with remarkable visible-light-driven photocatalytic oxidation

    Yili Zhang;Yongchun Zhao;Zhou Xiong;Tian Gao

  • Review of studies on land use and land cover change in Nepal

    Basanta Paudel;Yi-li Zhang;Yi-li Zhang;Shi-cheng Li;Lin-shan Liu

  • Evaluating the role of livelihood assets in suitable livelihood strategies: Protocol for anti-poverty policy in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau, China

    Xiaobo Hua;Xiaobo Hua;Jianzhong Yan;Yili Zhang

  • The effects of the Qinghai–Tibet railway on heavy metals enrichment in soils

    Hua Zhang;Zhaofeng Wang;Yili Zhang;Zhongjun Hu

  • Spatial and temporal characteristics of land use and cover changes in the Tibetan Plateau

    Yili Zhang;Linshan Liu;Zhaofeng Wang;Wanqi Bai

  • Spatiotemporal Patterns of Vegetation Greenness Change and Associated Climatic and Anthropogenic Drivers on the Tibetan Plateau during 2000–2015

    Lanhui Li;Yili Zhang;Linshan Liu;Jianshuang Wu

  • Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics and Assessing the Ecosystem Service Values in the Trans-Boundary Gandaki River Basin, Central Himalayas

    Raju Rai;Yili Zhang;Basanta Paudel;Bipin Kumar Acharya

  • Major advances in studies of the physical geography and living environment of China during the past 70 years and future prospects

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Bojie Fu;Bojie Fu;Jun Xia;Jun Xia;Duo Wu

  • Ecological change on the Tibetan Plateau

    XianZhou Zhang;YongPing Yang;ShiLong Piao;WeiKai Bao

  • Glacial change in the vicinity of Mt. Qomolangma (Everest), central high Himalayas since 1976

    Yong Nie;Yili Zhang;Linshan Liu;Jiping Zhang

  • Current challenges in distinguishing climatic and anthropogenic contributions to alpine grassland variation on the Tibetan Plateau.

    Lanhui Li;Yili Zhang;Yili Zhang;Linshan Liu;Jianshuang Wu

  • Livelihood diversification and cropland use pattern in agro-pastoral mountainous region of eastern Tibetan Plateau

    Liping Zhang;Yili Zhang;Jianzhong Yan;Yingying Wu

  • Characteristics of grassland degradation and driving forces in the source region of the Yellow River from 1985 to 2000

    Liu Linshan;Zhang Yili;Bai Wanqi;Yan Jianzhong

  • A Synthesis of Studies on Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics during 1930–2015 in Bangladesh

    Raju Rai;Yili Zhang;Basanta Paudel;Shicheng Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaomin Sun
Xiaomin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hua Zhang
Hua Zhang City University of Hong Kong
Yongwei Sheng
Yongwei Sheng University of California, Los Angeles
Lide Tian
Lide Tian Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shiyin Liu
Shiyin Liu Yunnan University
Jun Xia
Jun Xia Wuhan University
Fahu Chen
Fahu Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shugui Hou
Shugui Hou Nanjing University
Peng Cui
Peng Cui Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yu Liu
Yu Liu University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

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