Skip to main content

Binbin Li

Associate Professor of Environmental Science at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Research Interests


Dr. Li focuses on the synergy between biodiversity conservation and sustainable development under climate change. Her research covers conservation planning to promote synergetic solutions to climate change mitigation and human health, One Health framework, endangered and endemic species conservation in China such as giant pandas, sustainable infrastructure building, sustainable productive landscape and bird collisions in urban environment. 

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


Biodiversity-friendly tea plantation in Yunnan · 2024 - 2025 PI · Awarded by: China Environmental Protection Foundation
Morphological Adjustment of the Yangtze River and Corresponding Ecological Response · 2023 - 2025 Co-PI · Awarded by: WHU-DKU Joint Seeding Program
Reintroduction of Chinese Alligator and subsequent foodweb changes · 2022 - 2024 PI · Awarded by: Duke Kunshan University Foundation
China National Bird Collision Survey and Action Alliance · 2022 - 2029 PI · Awarded by: Zhilan Foundation
The effects and mechanism of stand age and landscape complexity on mammal diversity in the Larix kaempferi plantation of Qinling Mountains · 2022 - 2025 PI · Awarded by: The National Natural Science Foundation of China