Kay

Ying Ki Law

Academic Qualifications

PhD in Biological Science, The University of Hong Kong

Research areas

Forest ecology; forest recovery; disturbance ecology; remote sensing; carbon estimation; ecosystem function

Research interests

Kay is interested in utilizing remote sensing techniques to study ecosystem functions over tropical forest ecology. She is also interested in forest restoration, disturbance ecology and fruit and seed dispersal.

Biography

Kay is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions at NUS. She is exploring aboveground carbon estimation over Southeast Asia using optical satellites and structural attributes . She was trained as a field ecologist and remote sensing scientist. During her PhD, she was involved in building flora inventories and remote sensing datasets in Hong Kong.

Selected publications

  1. Law, Y.K., Lee, C.K., Chan, A.H.Y., Mak, N.P.L., Hau, B.C.H. & Wu, J. (2024). Unveiling the role of forests in landslide occurrence, recurrence and recovery. Journal of Applied Ecology 61(9), 2033-2046.

  2. Law, Y.K., Lee, C.K., Pang, C.C., Hau, B.C.H., & Wu, J. (2023). Vegetation regeneration on natural terrain landslides in Hong Kong: Direct seeding of native species as a restoration tool. Land Degradation & Development, 34(3), 751-762.

  3. Chan, A. H., Jackson, T. D., Law, Y. K., Rau, E. P., & Coomes, D. A. (2025). Forest dynamics where typhoon winds blow. New Phytologist, 245(6), 2496-2511.

  4. Zhang, H., Lee, C. K., Law, Y. K., Chan, A. H., Zhang, J., Gale, S. W., Hughes, A., Ledger, M.J., Wong, M.S., Tai, A.P.K., Hau, B.C.H. & Wu, J. (2024). Integrating both restoration and regeneration potentials into real-world forest restoration planning: A case study of Hong Kong. Journal of Environmental Management, 369, 122306.

Feature and publications in popular media:

Ying Ki Law: The role of forests in landslide occurrence, recurrence and recovery – The Applied Ecologist

Conference and presentations

  1. Law, Y.K., Lee, C.K., Chan, A.H.Y., Mak, N.P.L., Hau, B.C.H. & Wu, J. (2023). Assessing post-landslide vegetation recovery patterns, drivers and implications in a tropical landscape of Hong Kong. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (Oral presentation)

  2. Law, Y.K., Lee, C.K., Pang, C.C., Hau, B.C.H., & Wu, J. (2022). Vegetation regeneration on natural terrain landslides in Hong Kong BES Annual Meeting 2022. (Oral presentation)