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Wang Lab

PH.D. Students


Yaoqi Li (2014 - 2019)

Ph.D.

Email: yaoqi_li17@163.com

Research Interest: Functional traits; Functional Biogeography; Biodiversity and climate change

Tel: +86 10 62745157

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

  • 2014/08-2019/07, PhD candidate of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University (PKU); Supervisor, Prof. Zhiheng Wang;
  • 2017/09-2018/09, Visiting scholar in Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona; Supervisor: Prof. Brian Enquist;
  • 2010/08-2014/06, Bachelor (Ecology & English) in College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University; Supervisor: Prof. Wenxuan Han & Yanbin Guo.

WORKING EXPERIENCE

  • 2019/10-2021/09, PKU-IIASA associated Post Doc.; Supervisor, Prof. Shilong Piao & Dr. Zhiheng Wang; Dr. Oskar Franklin & Dr. Florian Hofhansl. 
RESEARCH INTEREST
  • Biodiversity, mainly focus on the relative influence of modern climate and Quaternary climate change on its pattern;
  • Functional Traits/Morphology of woody plants, especially the leaf morphological and economic traits, plant maximum height and some indicators of Phenology.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
  • 2018/05 – 2019/05, Geographic patterns in leaf economics traits of seed plants and their ecological determinants, Supervisor: Zhiheng Wang (PKU).
  • 2017/11 – 2018/03, Differing geographical patterns and determinants of woody plant height across life-forms and their applications, Supervisor: Zhiheng Wang (PKU) & Brian Enquist (UA) 
  • 2016/09 – 2018/09, Leaf size of woody dicots, geographic patterns, determinants and its ecosystem functioning, Supervisor: Zhiheng Wang (PKU) & Brian Enquist (UA)
  • 2014/01 – 2016/08, Leaf margin analysis of Chinese woody plants and the constraints on its application to palaeoclimatic reconstruction, Supervisor: Zhiheng Wang (PKU) 
  • 2013/07 – 2013/12, The relative influence of modern climate and Quarternary climatic change on tree diversity in East China, Supervisor: Zhiheng Wang (PKU) 
  • 2012/08-2013/04, Bioinformatics analysis of Rahnella auatilis HX2 on genes related to plant growth, Supervisor: Yanbin Guo.
RESEARCH SERVICE
As a reviewer for Ecology Letters, Oikos, Ecology and Evolution, and Journal of Plant Ecology.

FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE
  • 2018/07 – 2018/07, Plant trait on-site and from-space investigation in Arctic islands, Supervisor: Vigdis Vandvik (University of Bergen) & Brian Enquist (UofA)
  • 2018/05 – 2018/05, Forest plot survey in Yun-Meng Mountain, Supervisor: Brian Enquist (UofA)
  • 2017/07 – 2017/08, Forest-community survey in Chang-Bai Mountain, Supervisor: Zhiheng Wang (PKU)
  • 2017/07 – 2017/08, Forest-community survey in Chang-Bai Mountain, Supervisor: Zhiheng Wang (PKU)
  • 2014/07 – 2016/09, Transplanting experiment related to Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning on a Changing Plateau, Supervisor: Zhiheng Wang (PKU) & Bernhard Schmid (University of Zurich). 
  • 2015/07 – 2015/08, Natural and cultural investigation around Gong-Ga Mountain with members from Mountaineering Association of PKU, Supervisor: Junkai Qian (PKU). 
  • 2013/07 – 2013/08, Comprehensive forest-community surveys of North China in plant functional traits, Supervisor: Wenxuan Han (CAU). 
AWARDS & MEMBERSHIP 
  • 2017 – 2018, Chancellor's Scholarship, PKU 
  • 2017 – 2018, State Scholarship of study abroad, Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) 
  • 2016 – 2017, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education 
  • 2016 – 2017, Outstanding Student, PKU 
  • 2015 – 2016, Outstanding Civilized Backpacker, National Tourism Administration & China Youth Daily 
  • 2014/08, Scholarship for the Outstanding Youngers on Nature Protection, China Biodiversity Committee 
  • 2013 – 2014, Excellent Graduates & Excellent 100 Bachelor Thesis, CAU 
  • 2012 – 2013, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education 
  • 2011 – 2013, Ecology Scholarship, CAU (2 consecutive years) 
  • 2010 – 2013, Outstanding Student, CAU (3 consecutive years) 
  • 2010 – 2012, National Motivational Scholarship, CAU (2 consecutive years) 

ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

  • 2019/12, Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Moscone Center, San Francisco, USA; Presentation Title: “Leaf size of woody dicots predict ecosystem primary productivity”.
  • 2018/08, 2018 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center New Orleans, USA; Presentation Title: “Geographical patterns in leaf size of woody dicots and its implication”.
  • 2017/04, General Assembly 2017 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Austria Center Vienna, Austria; Poster Title: “Geographic patterns in height of woody plants in eastern Asia and their ecological and evolutionary determinants”. 
  • 2017/04, 10th Annual Meeting of the Macroecology Working Group for the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria & Switzerland (GfO), University of Vienna, Austria; Poster Title: “Patterns in leaf morphological traits of Chinese woody plants and the application for paleoclimate reconstruction”. 
  • 2016/05, The Biogeography of Ecology – IBS Special Meeting (IBS), China National Convention Center, China; Poster Title: “Leaf margin analysis of Chinese woody plants and the constraints on its application for paleoclimatic reconstruction”. 


Publications:

1. Li Y., Reich B.P., Schmid B., Shrestha N., Feng X., Lyu T., Maitner B.S., Xu X., Li Y., Zou D., Tan Z., Su X., Tang Z., Guo Q., Feng X., Enquist B.J., Wang Z.* (2020) Leaf size of woody dicots predicts ecosystem primary productivity [J]. Ecology Letters, 23: 1003-1013; doi: 10.1111/ele.13503. (IF5yr =10.562, cites=3; Related to the third chapter of my doctoral thesis)

2. Li Y., Wang Z.*, Xu X., Han W., Wang Q., Zou D. (2016) Leaf margin analysis of Chinese woody plants and the constraints on its application to palaeoclimatic reconstruction [J]. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25: 1401-1415; doi: 10.1111/geb.12498. (IF5yr =7.647, cites=10; Related to the forth chapter of my doctoral thesis)

3. Li Y. #, Zou D. #, Shrestha N., Xu X., Wang Q., Jia W. & Wang Z.* (2020). Spatiotemporal variation in leaf size and shape in response to climate [J]. Journal of Plant Ecology, 13: 87–96; doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtz053. (IF = 1.833)

4. Wang Z.#,*, Li Y.#, Su X., Tao S., Feng X., Wang Q., Xu X., Liu Y., Michaletz S., Shrestha N., Enquist B. (2019) Patterns and ecological determinants of woody plant height in eastern Eurasia: applications in predicting ecosystem primary productivity [J]. Journal of Plant Ecology, 12: 791–803; doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtz053. (#, contributed equally; Related to the sixth chapter of my doctoral thesis)

5. Wang Y., Lyu T., Shrestha N., Lyu L., Li Y., Schmid B., Freckleton R.P., Dimitrov D., Hao Z., Wang Z.* (2020) Drivers of large-scale geographical variation in sexual systems of woody plants [J]. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29: 546–557; doi: 10.1111/geb.13052.

6. Lyu T., Wang Y., Luo A., Li Y., Peng S., Cai H., Zeng H., Wang Z.* (2021) Effects of Climate, Plant Height, and Evolutionary Age on Geographical Patterns of Fruit Type [J]. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12: 604272; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.604272.

7. Wang Y., Lyu T., Luo A., Li Y., Liu Y., Freckleton R.P., Liu S., Wang Z.* (2020) Spatial Patterns and Drivers of Angiosperm Sexual Systems in China Differ Between Woody and Herbaceous Species [J]. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11: Article 1222; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01222.

8. Liu Y., Su X., Shrestha N., Xu X., Wang S., Li Y., Wang Q., Sandanov D. & Wang Z. 2018. Effects of contemporary environment and Quaternary climate change on drylands plant diversity differ between growth forms [J]. Ecography, 42: 334–345; doi: 10.1111/ecog.03698.

9. Wang Q., Punchi-Manage R., Lu Z., Franklin S., Wang Z., Li Y., Chi X., Bao D., Guo Y., Lu J., et al. 2016. Effects of topography on structuring species assemblages in a subtropical forest [J]. Journal of Plant Ecology, 10: 440-449; doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtw1047.

10. Xiong X., Cai H., Li Y., Ma W., Niu K., Liu N., Su X., Jing H., Feng X., Zeng H., Wang Z.* (2021) Seasonal dynamics of leaf C, N and P stoichiometry in plants of typical steppe in Inner Mongolia, China [J]. Chineae Journal of Plant Ecology, 2020, 44; doi: 10.17521/cjpe.2020.0105. (In Chinese)

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Zhiheng Wang, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing 100871, China;

Email: Zhiheng.wang@pku.edu.cn     Last updated 2023/08/28