Yiyi Zhang

I am broadly interested in agroecosystem multifunctionality and management implications and have explored the complexity of human-nature interactions in multiple social-ecological systems. I currently collaborate with researchers in the Faculty of Forestry and the Faculty of Land and Food Systems to develop methods and data for spatially targeting restoration and quantifying benefits for the PERCS project. As a spatial ecologist and part of the PERCS focused on the benefits of field margins and riparian buffer in agricultual landscapes, I am assisting in developing landscape sampling approaches and exploring two questions: 1) what social ecological types are present in the PERCS working landscape and 2) how these typical social-ecological conditions are associated with restoration and benefit potentials. I use spatial, statistical and interdiscplinary approaches to eventually develop landscape characterization that guides restoration decisions at the landscape and farm level.