男，研究员。1962年10月生于吉林省。现任中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所研究员。

1984年和1987年于北京师范大学生物学系获理学学士学位和理学硕士学位。

1987-1999年在中国科学院地理研究所从事科研工作，

1999年被聘为研究员。

任自然地理与全球变化研究部副主任、土地覆被变化与土地资源研究室主任。兼：中国科学院研究生院教授；中国地理学会理事、自然地理专业委员会主任委员；中国青藏高原研究会常务理事、副秘书长；国际山地中心中国委员会（CNICIMOD）委员、副秘书长； 中国自然资源学会山地资源专业委员会副主任委员；IGBP中国全国委员会与IHDP中国国家委员会土地变化科学工作组秘书长；北京植物学会理事。《山地学报》、《地理研究》和《地理科学进展》编委等。

从事植物地理学、生物地理学和自然地理综合研究。研究全球变化背景下的陆表生态与环境变化格局、过程及区域适应对策，重点开展青藏高原土地利用和土地覆被变化(LUCC)及其生态效应与区域适应研究。1999年以来，承担国家自然科学基金重点项目、973项目课题、国家科技支撑计划课题、中科院国际合作重点项目及国际合作项目等研究任务10余项，在植物地理学、LUCC及其效应与区域适应等方面的研究取得了重要学术进展。成果获国家与省部级奖励2次，发表论文80余篇，参加编撰专著4部、编辑论文集5册，获得软件著作权1个。

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[2] Basanta PAUDEL, ZHANG Yili (ca), LI Shicheng, et al. Review of studies on land use and land cover change in Nepal. Journal of Mountain Science

[3] Yan Jianzhong, Zhang Yili (ca), Hua Xiaobo, et al. An explanation of labor migration and grain output growth: Findings of a case study in eastern Tibetan Plateau. J Geogr Sci

[4] 祁威, 摆万奇, 张镱锂(ca), 等. 生态工程实施对羌塘和三江源国家级自然保护区植被净初级生产力的影响. 生物多样性

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[6] Ding Mingjun, Li Lanhui, Zhang Yili (ca), et al. Start of vegetation growing season on the Tibetan Plateau inferred from multiple methods based on GIMMS and SPOT NDVI data. J Geogr Sci

[7] Mingjun Ding, Qian Chen, Lanhui Li, Yili Zhang(ca), et al. Temperature dependence of variations in the end of the growing season from 1982 to 2012 on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. GIScience & Remote Sensing

[8] Haibin Yu, Yili Zhang (ca), Linshan Liu, et al. Combining the least cost path method with population genetic data and species distribution models to identify landscape connectivity during the late Quaternary in Himalayan hemlock. Ecology and Evolution

[9] Hua Zhang, Zhaofeng Wang, Yili Zhang (ca), et al. Identification of traffic-related metals and the effects of different environments on their enrichment in roadside soils along the Qinghai–Tibet highway. Science of Total Environment

[10] Zhang Yili, Qi Wei, Zhou Caiping, et al. Spatial and temporal variability in the net primary production of alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau since 1982. J Geogr Sci

[11] Jungang Gao, Yili Zhang (ca), Linshan Liu, et al. Climate change as the major driver of alpine grasslands expansion and contraction: a case study in the Mt. Qomolangma (Everest) National Nature Preserve, the southern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary International

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[19] Yang Xuchao, Zhang Yili (ca), Liu Linshan, et al. Sensitivity of surface air temperature change to land use/cover types in China. Science in China (D)

[20] Zhang Liping, Zhang Yili (ca), Yan Jianzhong, et al. Livelihood diversification and cropland use pattern in agro-pastoral mountainous region of eastern Tibetan Plateau

[21] Yili Zhang, Zhaofeng Wang (ca), Kunli Luo, et al. The spatial distribution of trace elements in topsoil from the northern slope of Qomolangma (Everest) in China. Environmental Geology

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[23] Ding Mingjun, Zhang Yili, Shen Zhenxi, et al. Land cover change along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway and Railway from 1981 to 2001

[24] Yan Jianzhong, Zhang Yili (ca), et al. Land Cover Changes Based on Plant Successions: Deforestation, Rehabilitation and Degeneration of Forest in the Upper Dadu River Watershed. Science in China (D)

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[27] 谢高地, 张镱锂, 鲁春霞, 等. 中国自然草地生态系统服务价值. 自然资源学报

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