Introduction

ZongShan LI
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: July 22, 1977
Birthplace: Weifang City, Shandong Province, P.R. China
Married Status: Married
Mailing address:
State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shuangqing Road 18th, Haidian District, Beijing, P. R. China
Postal Code: 100085
Telephone: (86)10-62923549
Fax: (86)10-62923549
Mobile phone: 18610569142
QQ: 1141958023
Email: zsli st@rcees.ac.cn
CV(English)        CV(Chinese)

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Research Interests
 My interests mainly focus on dendroclimatology, especially for the regions of the Western Sichuan Plateau in Sichuan Province and the Hengduan Mountains in Yunnan Province of China.


Education
Postdoc candidate in forest Ecology                                             August 2009 – May 2012
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Postdoc thesis:  Reconstruction of fir forest NPP variations during past centuries for the West Sichuan Plateau of China, inferred from tree-ring data. 
Expected graduation date: Februry 2012
Advisor:
Professor Guohua LIU         Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academyof Sciences
Professor Bojie FU                 Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academyof Sciences

Ph.D Degree of Science in Plant Ecology                                 September 2004–April 2009
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing
Ph.D thesis: Reconstruction of millennial climatic dynamics of Hengduan Mountains, northwestern Yunnan of China, using dendrochronological data of coniferous species. 
Advisor:
Professor Keping MA             Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Qi-Bin ZHANG     Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences

Master Degree of Plant Ecology                                                   September 2001 – July 2004
Xishuangbanna Tropical Garden of Chinese Academy of ScienceKunming Yunnan Province
MS thesis: The floristic composition and plant diversity of tropical montane rain forestsin Xishuangbanna, southern Yunnan of China
Advisor: Associate Professor Jianwei TANG            Xishuangbanna Tropical Garden ofChinese Academy of Science

Bachelor Degree of Science in biology                                       September 1997 – July 2004
Qufu Normal UniversityQufu Shandong Province
BC thesis: The spatial distribution patterns for plant species of Polygonaceae in ShandongProvince, China
Advisor: Associate Professor Yuantong HOU     Qufu Normal University

Working experience
Assistant professor                                             Jun 2012 – Nov 2013
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 

Associate professor                                             Dec 2013 – Present
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing  
 
Foundations on research

1. The time stabiltity between the herb-shrub ecosystems and soil moisture on the Loess Plateau of China.[National Science Foundation of China (Grant No:41390462), time duration from April 2014 to April 2018] (Principal investigator)
   
2. Reconstruction of fir (Abies faxoniana) forest NPP variation during the past centuries for West Sichuan Pleteau of China, inferred from the tree-ring data [Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No:31000210), time duration from Janurary 2011 to January 2013] (Principal investigator)
   
3. Growth variation in Abies faxoniana along elevational transects in Wolong Natural Reserve,western Sichuan of China [National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists ofChina(Grant No.20100470560), time duration from August 2010 to August 2011] (Principal investigator)
   

Collaborators
Dr. JinLong Zhang ---Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing
                                      ( http://jinlongzhang.weebly.com/)
Dr. YongBo LIU ---Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing
                                                  (http://ybliu.weebly.com/)
Dr. Xiao-Tao Lü (Lv) ---- Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang
                                                    (http://lvxiaotao.weebly.com/)
Prof. Xugao Wang----- Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang                                                       
                                                   (http://research.iae.ac.cn/web/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=424)
Dr.  Zexin Fan----- Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences                                                      
                                                   (http://159.226.69.5/ppe//members/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=101)

Famous Tree-Ring  People
Prof. Henri D. Grissino-Mayer ---The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
                                                  ( http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/)
Prof. Neil Pederson---Lamont Assistant Research Professor
                                         (http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~adk/)
Prof.Ulf Büntgen--- Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape 
                                              (http://www.buentgen.com/)