Qiao Lab
杜元宝 (Yuanbao Du)
杜元宝 (Yuanbao Du)

Research Interests

  • Biodiversity conservtion
  • Biological invasion
  • Species coexsitence

Contact information

duyuanbao@ioz.ac.cn

Biography

Yuanbao Du is a community ecologist at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with an emphasis on vertebrates and their interactions with biotic and abiotic environments.

He pursues three main research directions: (1) understanding patterns of biological invasions, revealing their impacts on local threatened species, and developing strategies for risk management, (2) uncovering the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity, and (3) investigating species coexistence.

Across these areas, he examines how climate change and human disturbance shape ecological dynamics by integrating long-term field surveys and monitoring with species distribution modeling and analyses of large-scale datasets.

Editorial Roles

  • Youth editor:
    • [Biodiversity Science 《生物多样性》] (2024 – Present)
    • [Integrative Zoology] (2024 - 2027)
  1. Du Y.#, Xi Y.#, Yang Z.#, Zhang Z.#, Tu W., Zeng Y., Cui R., Yan Z., Xin Y., Jin W., Zhang Y., Yang L., Guo B., Ke Z., Rohr J., & Liu X.* (2024). High risk of biological invasion from prayer animal release in China. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, e2647. doi: 10.1002/fee.2647.
  2. Du Y.#, Wang X.#, Ashraf S.#, Tu W., Xi Y., Cui R., Chen S., Yu J., Han L., Gu S., Qu Y., & Liu X.* (2024). Climate match is key to predict range expansion of the world’s worst invasive terrestrial vertebrates. Global Change Biology, 30(1), e17137. doi: 10.1111/gcb.17137.
  3. Yan Z.#, Hu S.#, Du Y.#, Liang J., Chen S., Han L., Hong Y., Lin Z., Tu W., Li Y., Wang Y., Yu J., Qi T., Li W., Zhao P., Xi Y., Zhang Q., Cui R., Gu S., & Liu X.* (2024). Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China. Current Biology, 34(2): R47-R49. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.007.
  4. Li, Y.#, Du, Y.-B.#, Chen, J.-T., Wang, M.-Q., Guo, S.-K., Schuldt, A., Luo, A., Guo, P.-F., Mi, X.-C., Liu, X.-J., Ma, K.-P., Bruelheide, H., Chesters, D., Liu, X., & Zhu, C.-D*. (2023). Tree dissimilarity determines multi-dimensional beta-diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom-up effects. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92, 442– 453. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13868.
  5. Wu Y.#, Du Y.#, Liu X., Wan X., Yin B., Hao Y., & Wang Y.* (2023). Grassland biodiversity response to livestock grazing, productivity, and climate varies across biome components and diversity measurements. Science of The Total Environment, 878, 162994. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162994.
  6. Du Y.#, Fan L.#, Xu Z., Wen Z., Cai T., Feijo A., Hu J., Lei F., Yang Q., & Qiao H. (2021). A multi-faceted comparative perspective on elevational beta-diversity: the patterns and their causes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1949), 20210343.
  7. Du Y., Wen Z., Zhang J., Lv X., Cheng J., Ge D., Xia L., & Yang Q. (2017). The roles of environment, space, and phylogeny in determining functional dispersion of rodents (Rodentia) in the Hengduan Mountains, China. Ecology and Evolution, 7(24), 10941-10951.
  8. Du Y.#, Tu W.#, Yang L., Gu D., Guo B., & Liu X. (2022). Review on the impacts of invasive alien vertebrates on biodiversity. Scientia Sinica Vitae, 53(7): 1035-1054. doi: 10.1360/SSV-2022-0033.