Kyle Tomlinson
(Professor & PI)
Research focus:
Open ecosystem ecology and conservation, functional trait diversity and evolution
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Email: kylewtomlinson@gmail.com / kyle.tomlinson@xtbg.org.cn
STAFF
Zhao Yiran
(Assistant Engineer & Group Manager)
Responsibilities:
staff & student support, lab management
Email: zhaoyiran@xtbg.ac.cn
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 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
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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
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Email: lty.loke@gmail.com / lokethianyew@xtbg.ac.cn
Evgenii Baiakhmetov
(Special Research Assistant)
Research focus:
Hybridization and speciation, phylogenetic reconstruction, high-throughput omics data analyses
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Email: evgenii.baiakhmetov@xtbg.ac.cn
HONORARY ASSOCIATES
Mareike Roeder
(Assistant Professor)
Research focus: liana diversity, community food webs, seedling strategies
Email: mareike@xtbg.org.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
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
PREVIOUS LAB MEMBERS
Waraporn Phoncharoen
(PhD graduate)
Research focus:
How to forage in habitats adapted to extirpated mammals: insights from domestic grazer and browser ungulates in Yunnan’s savannas
Email: phoncharoen_wildlife37@hotmail.com
Amar Kunwar
(PhD graduate)
Research focus:
how resources and disturbances shape vegetation structure, vertebrate mammal distributions and nutrient fluxes in forest-grassland mosaic landscapes
Email: amar.kwr@gmail.com
Present affiliation: Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
Adek Adi Putra
(MSc graduate)
Research focus:
Plant species composition and functional diversity in Indonesian savannas
Email: adekadiputra033@gmail.com
Huang Xin
(Group Assistant)
Responsibilities:
administration, finances, staff & student support
Email: 15894349026@163.com
Present affiliation: Happy mother of two children, China.
Bonifacio O. Pasion
(PhD, Post Doctoral Fellow)
Research focus:
Impact of forest fragmentation and climate on plant diversity in seasonal tropical forest
Email: bonifacio.pasion@gmail.com
Present affiliation: Bisnis Don of the Philippines! (Consultancy)
Fan Huan
(Post-doctoral Fellow)
Research focus:
bioinformatics, next-generation sequencing, host-associated microbiome
Email: heatherfan627@gmail.com
Present affiliation: National University of Singapore, Singapore
Wang Xiaomao
(Research Assistant)
Research focus:
climate change, functional traits, plant physiology
Email: wangxiaomao0209@gmail.com
Present affiliation: University of British Columbia, Canada (PhD)
Théodore Lefebvre
(PhD graduate)
Research focus: Spinescence against herbivorous mammals: morphological strategies and tree trunk spines functions.
Email: You may message him on his ResearchGate.
Present affiliation: Aarhus University, Denmark
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
Present affiliation: XTBG, China
Ralph Sedricke Lapuz
(PhD graduate)
Research focus: Changes and conservation of savannas in Asia.
Email: sedricke15@gmail.com
Present affiliation: University of the Philippines Diliman, The Philippines.
Chu Yingying
(PhD graduate)
Research focus: Phylogeography of some common species in recognised and unrecognised savannas in Yunnan, China.
Email: chuyingying1026@163.com
Present affiliation: Forensic scientist, China.
Artémis Anest
(PhD graduate)
Research focus: Shade, herbivory and fire as drivers of the evolution of the plant architectures
Email: artemis.anest@gmail.com
Present affiliation: University of Montpellier, France.
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
Present affiliation: Aarhus University, Denmark
Lucie Bauret
(Post-doctoral Fellow)
Research focus: systematics, ecology, and evolution of ferns in community systems
Email: lu.baurent@gmail.com
Present affiliation: NGO, France
Mohammed Armani
(PhD graduate)
Research focus: Plant-herbivore interactions, functional ecology, vegetation dynamics across forest-savanna transitions
Email: moarmani@outlook.com
Present affiliation: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
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
Present affiliation: Mother, Myanmar.
Yu Fei
(Assistant Professor & Group Manager)
Research focus: distribution of spiny plants across environmental gradients in Yunnan Province, China.
Email: 303551936@qq.com
Present affiliation: Guizhou Normal University, China
Tristan Charles-Dominique
(Post-doctoral Fellow)
Research focus: plant architectural diversity across gradients of resources and disturbance
Email: tristancd1@gmail.com
Present affiliation: AMAP, CNRS, France
Zhang Mengqi
(MSc graduate)
Research focus: herb diversity in savanna systems
Email: zhangmengqi@xtbg.ac.cn
Xi Nianxun
(Assistant Professor)
Research focus: community ecology, theoretical ecology, plant-soil interactions, grassland communities
Email: nianxunxi@yahoo.com
Present affiliation: Hainan University, China
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
Present location: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Germany.
Huang Guohualing
(MSc graduate)
Research focus: distribution of seed and fruit sizes within forest fragments, diversity of rubber plantations.
Email: huang.guohualing@gmail.com
Present affiliation: TERN, Australia
Sreekar Rachakonda
(Research Assistant)
Research focus: hunting pressure on vertebrates; diversity of rubber plantations
Email: rachakonda.sreekar@outlook.com
Present affiliation: University of Queensland, Australia
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
Present affiliation: Happily married mother, USA.
Shi Lingling
(Research Assistant & PhD graduate)
Research focus: fungal diversity
Email: shill@xtbg.ac.cn
Present affiliation: University of Tübingen, Germany
Liu JiaJia
(PhD graduate)
Research focus: everything conservation!
Email: liujiajia.ecology@gmail.com
Present affiliation: Fudan University, China