Delong Li, an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, currently serves as a Member and Deputy Secretary-General of the Climate Resources Committee under the Chinese Society of Natural Resources. His primary research interests focus on ecosystem services and land use optimization, as well as climate change and water resource scarcity assessment. He has taken the lead in several research initiatives, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Fund Project), sub-topics of the National Key R&D Program, and research topics under the CAS Scientific and Technological Cooperation Special Fund. To date, he has published 25 SCI academic papers, with nine as first/corresponding author (including co-authorship), appearing in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Global Change Biology (2 papers), Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Ecosystem Services, Journal of Environmental Management, and Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. His first-author papers have garnered over 500 citations in total, with one first-author/corresponding-author paper recognized as an ESI Highly Cited Paper. He has been honored with the Wiley China Open Science High Contribution Author Award.