Qiang Yang 杨强

Qiang Yang 杨强

Biography

My research interests lie broadly in community ecology and macroecology, in particular in biological invasions, biodiversity patterns, ecological networks, and ecosystem stability. I am especially fascinated by how biodiversity and ecological networks scale with time, space and trophic levels, and how they are regulated by environmental changes, human activities and biological invasions.

I also serve as one of the associate editors for the journal Functional Ecology.

Interests
  • Ecological Network
  • Ecosystem Stability
  • Biological Invasion
  • Global Changes
Education
  • PhD in Ecology, 2018

    Trinity College Dublin

  • MSc in Hydrobiology, CAS, 2012

    Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS

  • BSc in Marine Biological Resources and Environment, 2008

    Ocean University of China

Skills

R

90%

Statistics

90%

bash

50%

Work Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral researcher
February 2022 – December 2023 Leipzig, Germany
Synthesizing how plant-pollinator interactions change along environmental gradients
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral researcher
May 2018 – January 2022 Konstanz, Germany
Exploring the drivers and consequences of alien plants naturalization at the global scale
 
 
 
 
 
Lab assistant
October 2012 – May 2013 Dublin, Ireland

Projects

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Interaction Variation along Altitudinal Gradients (sINTERVAL)
The elevational gradient in pollination network structure globally.
Macroecology and Macroevolution of Naturalized Alien Plants
The drivers and consequences of naturalization of alien plants at the global scale.
Multidimensionality of Ecological Stability
The relationships between multiple components of ecological stability and how they are regulated by the ecological network structure and the environment.

Recent Publications

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(2023). Naturalization of introduced plants is driven by life-form-dependent cultivation biases. Diversity and Distributions:https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13788.

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(2023). The poleward naturalization of intracontinental alien plants. Science Advances eadi1897.

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(2023). Spatial phenotypic variability is higher between island populations than between mainland populations worldwide. Ecography e06787.

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(2023). Accelerated economic recovery in countries powered by renewables. Ecological Economics 212: 107916.

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(2023). Evolutionary imbalance, climate and human history jointly shape the global biogeography of alien plants. Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02172-z.

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Contact

If you would like to talk about science or explore collaborative prospects, please don’t hesitate to reach out via my email address.