Hongbo Yang was born in 1987 in Wuning County, Jiangxi Province. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in the United States in 2018. After that, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and Boston University in the United States. Hongbo currently serves as a Research Scientist and Ph.D. Supervisor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Communist Party of China and was selected as a fellow of the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also serves as a committee member of the Ecosystem Health and Human Ecology Professional Committee of the Ecological Society of China, an editorial board member of the journal of National Parks, and a guest editor for the journal Remote Sensing. His research primarily focuses on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. He has published over 40 SCI papers in international journals such as Science, Nature Ecology and Evolution, and Science Advances.

Biodiversity and Sustainability

H. Yang, B. Simmons, R. Ray, C. Nolte, S. Gopal, Y. Ma, X. Ma, K. Gallagher (2021), “Risks to global biodiversity and indigenous lands from China’s overseas development finance”, Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5: 1520-1529. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01541-w H. Yang, W. Yang, J. Zhang and J. Liu (2018), “Revealing pathways from payments for ecosystem services to socioeconomic outcomes”, Science Advances, 4: eaao6652. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao6652 H. Yang, A. Vi？a, J. Winkler, M. Chung, Q. Huang, Y. Dou, J. Zhang, W. McSeha, M. Songer, J. Liu (2021), “A global assessment of the impact of individual protected areas on preventing forest loss”, Science of the Total Environment, 777: 145995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145995 H. Yang, Q. Huang, M. Songer, J. Zhang, J. Liu (2021), “Range-wide assessment of the impact of China’s nature reserves on giant panda habitat quality”, Science of the Total Environment, 769: 145081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145081 H. Yang, F. Lupi, J. Zhang, J. Liu (2020), “Hidden cost of conservation: A demonstration using losses from human-wildlife conflicts under a payment for ecosystem services program”, Ecological Economics, 169: 106462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106462 H. Yang, F. Lupi, J. Zhang, and J. Liu (2018), “Changes in human well-being and rural livelihoods under natural disasters”, Ecological Economics, 151: 184-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.05.008 H. Yang, A. Vi？a, J. Winkler, G. Min, Y. Dou, F. Wang, J. Zhang, Y. Tang, T. Connor, Z. Zhao, J. Liu (2019), “Effectiveness of China’s protected areas in reducing deforestation”, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 26: 18651-18661. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-05232-9 H. Yang, F. Lupi, J. Zhang, and J. Liu (2018), “Feedback of telecoupling: The case of a payment for ecosystem services program”, Ecology and Society, 23: 45. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10140-230245 H. Yang, A. Vi？a, Y. Tang, J. Zhang, F. Wang, Z. Zhao, J. Liu (2017), “Range-wide evaluation of wildlife habitat change: A demonstration using Giant Pandas”, Biological Conservation, 213: 203-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.07.010 H. Yang, A. Arika Ligmann-Zielinska, M. Chung, J. Zhang, J. Liu (2022), “Complex effects of telecouplings on forest dynamics: an agent-based modeling approach”, Earth Interactions: 1-41. https://doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-20-0029.1

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund； ’Hundred Talents Program‘ of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award The William W. and Evelyn M. Taylor Endowed Fellowship