Bo Liu received his Ph.D. in Ecology from the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, in 2018. From September 2015 to September 2016, he was a visiting scholar at Lakehead University, Canada. He has been an associate researcher at the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences since November 2022. In recent years, he has devoted himself to studying the diversity pattern and maintenance mechanism of forest plants in the Liaodong Mountain area, Changbai Mountain, Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains in Northeast China, the relationship between diversity and ecosystem functions (such as productivity and carbon storage), and the forest recovery process after disturbance. By using multi-source data (sample plot surveys, observations, remote sensing images, etc.), he explored the biogeographic pattern of trees, shrubs, and herbs in Northeast China and their influencing factors, analyzed the impact of species richness, functional traits, and their diversity on produ
Jian Yang received his B.Sc. in geography from Shaanxi Normal University in 1997, his M.Sc. in ecology from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science in 2000, and his Ph.D. in forestry from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2005. Currently, he is an associate professor of forest landscape ecology at the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Kentucky, USA. His research mainly involves broad-scale environmental and ecological questions that are closely related to forest landscape ecology, ecosystem modeling, wildland fire science, and climate change. He is particularly interested in understanding the role of disturbance and spatial structure on the flow of nutrients and energy and the movement of species within and among diverse ecosystems on a landscape. Ultimately, his research focus is to seek the fundamental relationships among forest, climate, and disturbance across different scales.
