Publications | Qiao Lab

  • Mengge Duan#, Jiahua Xing#, Xiudeng Zheng, Chaodong Zhu, Huijie Qiao*. (2026) Enhancing Species Distribution Models by Considering Dispersal Ability. Ecology and Evolution, 16(4), e73425. doi:10.1002/ece3.73425

  • Shi Feng, Qinmin Yang*, Huijie Qiao*, Luis E. Escobar, Xuan Yan. (2025) Stopover hotspots for migratory birds in North and Central America. Biodiversity Informatics, 2025, 19. doi:10.17161/bi.v19i.23641

  • Huijie Qiao and Luis E. Escobar. (2025). A practical framework for a theory-driven ecological niche modeling workflow. The Innovation Life 3.4. doi:100165-1.10.59717/j.xinn-life.2025.100165

  • Huijie Qiao, A. Townsend Peterson, Corinne E. Myers, Qinmin Yang, Erin E. Saupe. (2024) Ecological niche conservatism spurs diversification in response to climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8:729–738. doi:10.1038/s41559-024-02344-5

  • Huijie Qiao, Michael C. Orr, Alice C. Hughes*. (2024) Measuring metrics: what diversity indicators are most appropriate for different forms of data bias? Ecography e07042. doi:10.1111/ecog.07042

  • Huijie Qiao, Michael C. Orr, Qinmin Yang, Xiangjiang Zhan, Fumin Lei, and Alice C. Hughes*. (2023) Global birdwatching data reveal uneven consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Biological Conservation 288 (2023): 110351. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110351

  • Michael C. Orr#, Alice C. Hughes#, Mark J. Costello, Huijie Qiao. (2022). Biodiversity data synthesis is critical for realizing a functional post-2020 framework. Biological Conservation 274: 109735. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109735

  • Alice C. Hughes, Michael C. Orr, Fumin Lei, Qinmin Yang, Huijie Qiao*. (2022). Understanding drivers of global urban bird diversity. Global Environmental Change 76: 102588. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102588

  • Quan Ran#, Mengge Duan#, Pengcheng Wang, Zhenjiang Ye, Jianfeng Mou, Xiangqin Wang, Yongjun Tian, Chi Zhang, Huijie Qiao, Jie Zhang (2022) Predicting the current habitat suitability and future habitat changes of Antarctic jonasfish Notolepis coatsorum in the Southern Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 199:105077 doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2022.105077

  • Xiao Feng* and Huijie Qiao* (2022) Accounting for dispersal using simulated data improves understanding of species abundance patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31(2):200-214. doi:10.1111/geb.13412

  • Alice C. Hughes, Michael C. Orr*, Keping Ma, Mark J. Costello, John Waller, Pieter Provoost, Qinmin Yang, Chaodong Zhu, Huijie Qiao* (2021). Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world. Ecography 44(9): 1259-1269. doi:10.1111/ecog.05926

  • Shi Feng, Qinmin Yang*, Alice C. Hughes, Jiming Chen, Huijie Qiao*. (2021). A novel method for multi-trajectory reconstruction based on LoMcT for avian migration in population level. Ecological Informatics 63:101319. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101319

  • Yuanbao Du#, Liqing Fan#, Zhenghui Xu, Zhixin Wen, Tianlong Cai, Anderson Feijo, Junhua Hu, Fumin Lei, Qisen Yang*, Huijie Qiao*. (2021). A multi-faceted comparative perspective on elevational beta-diversity: the patterns and their causes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288(1949): 20210343. doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.0343

  • Alice C. Hughes, Michael C. Orr*, Qinmin Yang, Huijie Qiao*. (2021) Effectively and accurately mapping global biodiversity patterns for different regions and taxa. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(7): 1375-1388. doi:10.1111/geb.13304

  • Erin E. Saupe#*, Huijie Qiao#, Yannick Donnadieu, Alexander Farnsworth, Alan T. Kennedy-Asser, Jean-Baptiste Ladant, Daniel J Lunt, Alexandre Pohl, Paul Valdes, Seth Finnegan#. (2020). Extinction intensity during Ordovician and Cenozoic glaciations explained by cooling and palaeogeography. Nature GeoScience 13(1): 65-70. doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0504-6

  • Erin E. Saupe*, Corinne E. Myers, A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberón, Joy Singarayer, Paul Valdes, Huijie Qiao. (2019) Spatio-temporal climate change contributes to latitudinal diversity gradients. Nature Ecology & Evolution 10(3): 1419-1429. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0962-7

  • Erin E. Saupe*, Corinne E. Myers, A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberón, Joy Singarayer, Paul Valdes, Huijie Qiao*. (2019) Non-random latitudinal gradients in range size and niche breadth predicted by spatial patterns of climate. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28(7): 928-942. doi:10.1111/geb.12904

  • Huijie Qiao, Xiao Feng*, Luis E. Escobar, A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberón, Gengping Zhu, Monica Papeş. (2019) An evaluation of transferability of ecological niche models. Ecography 42(3): 521-534. doi:10.1111/ecog.03986

  • Huijie Qiao, A. Townsend Peterson, Liqiang Ji, Junhua Hu*. (2017) Using data from related species to overcome spatial sampling bias and associated limitations in ecological niche modeling. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8(12): 1804-1812. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12832

  • Huijie Qiao, Luis E. Escobar*, Erin Saupe, Liqiang Ji and Jorge Soberon. (2017) A cautionary note on the use of hypervolume kernel density in ecological niche modeling. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26(9): 1066–1070. doi:10.1111/geb.12492

  • Huijie Qiao, Erin E. Saupe*, A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberón, Corinne Myers#. (2016) Impacts of niche breadth and dispersal ability on macroevolutionary patterns. American Naturalist 188: 149-162. doi:10.1086/687201

  • Luis E. Escobar#, Huijie Qiao#*, A. Townsend Peterson. (2016) Forecasting Chikungunya (Alphavirus) spread in the Americas via data-driven, empirical approaches. Parasites and Vectors 9: 112. doi:10.1186/s13071-016-1403-y

  • Huijie Qiao, A. Townsend Peterson, Lindsay P. Campbell, Jorge Soberón, Liqiang Ji, Luis E. Escobar*. (2016) NicheA: creating virtual species and ecological niches in multivariate environmental scenarios. Ecography 39: 805-813. doi:10.1111/ecog.01961

  • Huijie Qiao, Jorge Soberón, A. Townsend Peterson*. (2015) No silver bullets in correlative ecological niche modeling: The need for testing among many potential algorithms for niche estimation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6: 1126-1136. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12397