Prof. Dr. Junhu Dai is a researcher at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and currently the director of the Comprehensive Physical Geography Laboratory and the deputy director of the “China Phenological Observation Network”. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University in 1991 and 1996, respectively, and his doctorate from Peking University in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems, Peking University. Additionally, he was a senior visiting scholar at Princeton University (2007–2008). Furthermore, he is also a member of the Sixth Education Committee of the Chinese Ecological Society and a council member of the China Ecological Civilization Research and Promotion Association. His research topics mainly include plant geography and vegetation ecology,