Prof. Dr. Ping Li is an Associate Professor (Senior Appointment) at the School of Ecology, Hainan University. She received a PhD from Hainan University, majoring in ecology in 2018. The research projects she participated in include the impact of plastic waste and its leachate on key processes of nitrogen cycling in mangrove sediments, the contribution of organic pollution from plastic waste in mangrove sediments and its impact on microbial community structure and function, and the investigation of mangrove biological resources and the construction of an important species DNA barcode library—Hainan Mangrove Biological Resources Investigation. Her research mainly focuses on the protection of coastal wetlands (mangroves) and offshore marine ecosystems, as well as the ecotoxicology and risk assessment of environmental factors (such as pollutants, and climate change) on mangrove  ecosystems.