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Dr. Bai-Lian Li
Mathematical
and Theoretical Ecologist Phone:
909-787-4776 Email;
bailian@faculty.ucr.edu
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I
am currently a tenured associate professor and director of
Ecological Complexity and Modeling Laboratory at University of
California, Riverside. I was an elected Fellow (1988) of the
Institute for Human Ecology (USA) (“in recognition of outstanding
contributions to human ecology”) and received Visiting Scientist
Awards from German Ecology Centre and Federal Ministry for
Education, Science and Technology, Germany in 1993, 1994 and 1996 as
well as several others. I am also a scientific advisor of Russian
Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Theoretical and Experimental
Biophysics as well as a joint graduate major professor with Dutch
and German universities. Since 1992 I have been a guest research
professor of Systems Ecology Open Laboratory, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing. I have also served on several professional
committees and review panels of federal funding agencies and
editorial advisory board.
Research Interests
My
research focuses on understanding the complexity of ecological
systems. I use mathematical, statistical and computational modeling
approaches as a way of exploring this issue. These modeling
approaches help identify general principles and basic mechanisms
governing emerging properties of ecological systems operated at
multiple temporal and spatial scales based on energetic,
thermodynamic and information considerations.
I have published more than 100 refereed scientific papers and
authored, coauthored and edited books and special issues. Most
recent publications Brown,
JH, Gupta, VK, Li, BL, Milne, BT, Restrepo, C, and West, GB, 2002.
The fractal nature of nature: power laws, ecological complexity, and
biodiversity. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, 357: 619-626. Li,
BL, 2002. A theoretical framework of ecological phase transitions
for characterizing tree-grass dynamics. Acta Biotheoretica,
53(3): 141-154. Li,
BL, 2002. Criticality, self-organized. In: A. H. El-Shaarawi and W.
W. Piegorsch (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, John
Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, pp. 447-450. Li, BL, 2002. Fractal dimensions. In: A. H. El-Shaarawi and W. W. Piegorsch (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, pp. 821-825. Medvinskii,
AB, Petrovskii, SV, Tikhonova, IA, Tikhonov, DA, Li, BL, Venturino,
E, Malchow, H, and Ivanitsky, GR, 2002. Spatio-temporal pattern
formation, fractals, and chaos in conceptual ecological models as
applied to coupled plankton-fish dynamics. Physics-Uspekhi,
45: 27-57.
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