People

Kyle Tomlinson
(Professor & PI)

Research focus: 
landscape conservation, forest ecology, savanna ecology, functional trait diversity
(for more information about Kyle, click here)

Email: kylewtomlinson@gmail.com / kyle.tomlinson@xtbg.org.cn



STAFF and ASSISTANTS



Zhao Yiran
(Assistant Engineer & Group Manager)

Responsibilities: 
staff & student support, lab management

Email: zhaoyiran@xtbg.ac.cn

 



Huang Xin  
(Group Assistant)

Responsibilities:
administration, finances, staff & student support

Email:
15894349026@163.com

 

 



Lu Yun
(Research Assistant)

Responsibilities:
maintenance and monitoring of fragmentation plots

 

 



Yang Zongze
(Laboratory Assistant)

Responsibilities:
maintenance and monitoring of laboratory

 

 



Ravi Chaturvedi
(Assistant Professor)

Research focus:
Plant Functional Traits, Community Ecology, Ecosystem Conservation
(for more information about Ravi, click here)

Email:
ravikantchaturvedi10@gmail.com / ravi@xtbg.ac.cn

 



Ma. Niña Regina M. Quibod
(Special Research Assistant)

Research focus:
Morphological diversification of mammalian herbivores skull in response to dietary and climatic constraints
(for more information about Ninya, click here)

Email: mquibod@gmail.com / manina@xtbg.ac.cn

 



Loke Thian Yew
(Postdoctoral Fellow)

Research focus:
The impact of forest fragmentation of seedling long-term survival and landscape genetic integrity between fragments
(for more information about Loke, click here)


Email:
lty.loke@gmail.com / lokethianyew@xtbg.ac.cn





CURRENT STUDENTS



Supparat Tongkok
(PhD candidate)

Research focus:
Dispersal networks and genetic structure of large-mammal and small-bird dispersed plants in a fragmented and defaunated landscape in Xishuangbanna, China

Email:
supparat@xtbg.ac.cn / puckkhom7578@gmail.com

 



Waraporn Phoncharoen
(PhD candidate)

Research focus:
How to forage in habitats adapted to extirpated mammals: insights from domestic grazer and browser ungulates across vegetation types and seasons

Email: wildlife37@hotmail.com /
waraporn@xtbg.ac.cn

 



Xianhui Shen
(PhD candidate)

Research focus:
Ants foraging strategies and morphological adaptations across different biomes in Yunnan
(Co-supervised by Antoine Wystrach)

Email: shenxianhui2013@163.com

 



Amar Kunwar
(PhD candidate)

Research focus: 
Plants animal (mammals) interaction in Nepal

Email: amar@xtbg.ac.cn / amar.kwr@gmail.com

 

 



Adek Adi Putra
(MsC candidate)

Research focus:
explore and evaluate the plant species composition and functional diversity within pine communities in Sumatra, Indonesia

Email: adekadiputra033@gmail.com

 



PREVIOUS LAB MEMBERS

 



Bonifacio O. Pasion
(Post Doctoral Fellow)

Research focus:
impact of forest fragmentation on microclimate and herbaceous plants in Menglun, Yunnan, China
(for more information about Boni, click here)

Email: 
bonifacio.pasion@gmail.com / bonifacio.pasion@xtbg.ac.cn

 



Fan Huan
(Post-doctoral Fellow)

Research focus: 
bioinformatics, next-generation sequencing, host-associated microbiome (more information about Huan, click  here)

Email:
fh@xtbg.org.cn

 



Wang Xiaomao
(Research Assistant)

Research focus:
climate change, functional traits, plant physiology

Email: wangxiaomao0209@gmail.com

 

 



Théodore Lefebvre
(PhD graduate)

Research focus: Spinescence against herbivorous mammals: morphological strategies and tree trunk spines functions. 

Email: theodore_lefebvre@hotmail.com

 



Jan Sher
(PhD graduate)

Research focus: Plants recognize their kin and non-kin neighbors and respond to growing with relatives with changes in functional traits

Email: jansherbj357@gmail.com

 

 



Ralph Sedricke Lapuz
(PhD graduate)

Research focus: Changes and conservation of savannas in Yunnan.

Email: sedricke15@gmail.com

 

 



Chu Yingying
(PhD graduate)

Research focus: Phylogeography of some common species in recognised and unrecognised savannas in Yunnan, China.

Email: chuyingying1026@163.com

 

 




Artémis Anest
(PhD graduate)

Research focus: Shade, herbivory and fire as drivers of the evolution of the plant architecture in Combretaceae.

Email: artemis.anest@gmail.com

 

 



Uriel Gelin
(Post-doctoral Fellow)

Research focus: evolution and distribution of spiny plants, architectural efficiency of spiny plants to animal architectures

Email: gelinuriel@gmail.com

 



Lucie Bauret
(Post-doctoral Fellow)

Research focus: systematics, ecology, and evolution of ferns in community systems

Email: lu.baurent@gmail.com

 



Mohammed Armani
(PhD graduate)

Research focus: Plant-herbivore interactions, functional ecology, vegetation dynamics across forest-savanna transitions (for more information about Armani, click  here).

Email: moarmani@outlook.com

 



Thiri Toe Khaing
(MSc graduate) 

Research focus: Impact of fire on the taxonomic and functional diversity of herb communities in Myanmar Dipterocarp Forests.

Email: thiritoekhaing87@gmail.com

 

 



Mareike Roeder
(Assistant Professor)

Research focus: liana diversity, community food webs, seedling strategies

Email: mareike@xtbg.org.cn

 

 



Tristan Charles-Dominique
(Post-doctoral Fellow)

Research focus: plant architectural diversity across gradients of resources and disturbance

Email: tristancd1@gmail.com

 

 



Zhang Mengqi
(MSc graduate)

Research focus: herb diversity in savanna systems

Email: zhangmengqi@xtbg.ac.cn

 

 



Wang Yejin
(MSc graduate) 

Research focus: Architectural responses of spinescent and non-spinescent saplings to simulated herbivory

Email: pzhwjg@126.com

 




Xi  Nianxun
(Assistant Professor)

Research focus: community ecology, theoretical ecology, plant-soil interactions, grassland communities

Email: nianxunxi@yahoo.com

 



Kingsly Beng
(PhD graduate)

Research focus:
impacts of fragmentation and rubber plantations on litterfauna using a metabarcoding approach in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China.

Email: bengkingsly2000@yahoo.com

 

 



Shi Lingling
(Research Assistant & PhD graduate)

Research focus: fungal diversity

Email: shill@xtbg.ac.cn

 

 



Liu JiaJia
(PhD graduate)

Research focus: forest fragmentation impacts on tree species in Menglun, Yunnan, China (for more information about JiaJia, click here)

Email: liujiajia.ecology@gmail.com

 

 



Carla Monoy
(MSc graduate)

Research focus: impact of typhoons on species functional and compositional patterns in a 16-ha forest plot in Palanan, Philippines.

Email: carla.monoy@gmail.com

 

 



Huang Guohualing
(MSc graduate)

Research focus: distribution of seed and fruit sizes within forest fragments, diversity of rubber plantations.

Email: huang.guohualing@gmail.com

 

 



Sreekar Rachakonda
(MSc graduate)

Research focus: hunting pressure on vertebrates; diversity of rubber plantations

 Email: rachakonda.sreekar@outlook.com

 

 

 



Yu Fei
(Assistant Professor & Group Manager)

Research focus: distribution of spiny plants across environmental gradients in Yunnan Province, China.

Email: yufei@xtbg.org.cn

 

 


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