Current Research

The theme of our research is to understand the fate and conservation opportunities of biodiversity under anthropogenic impacts. Around this theme, current research in our lab follows two main directions:

1. Biodiversity and Biogeography

Focusing on understanding the mechanisms that shape and maintain large-scale patterns of species diversity, the internal and external factors driving speciation and extinction, and addressing global-scale issues such as conservation challenges and the impacts of species distribution changes, including biological invasions.

2. Theoretical Ecology

Delving into the stability and evolution of food web structures, the mechanisms underpinning biodiversity maintenance, and the development of evolutionary game theory and cooperative behavior models under stochastic environmental conditions.

3. Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Applying AI to explore, monitor, and protect biodiversity by developing algorithms for species identification, ecosystem data analysis, and predicting biodiversity changes to support ecological research and conservation efforts.

Examples of current research questions asked include:

• The role of climate change in shaping and maintaining species distribution patterns.
• The influence of macroenvironment and microenvironment on species distribution and dispersal.