Published on Oct 11, 2019
We are pleased to have one manuscript accepted by Science of the Total Environment. This manuscript, lead by Annika Vilmi and Wenqian Zhao in our group, is focusing on the stream communities in Hengduan Mountain biodiversity hotspot of the Tibetan Plateau. Before Annika is finishing her stay in China, she presents the main findings of this [...] Read more
Published on Jul 18, 2019
Understanding biodiversity patterns and the role of biotic attributes in governing these patterns remains one of the most important challenges in ecology. Here, using water depth in Lake Lugu as a typical geographical gradient, we examined the community compositions of three taxonomic groups, bacteria, diatoms and chironomids, using molecular and [...] Read more
Published on Nov 18, 2018
Taxonomic scaling, such as taxonomic coverage and taxonomic resolution, could affect the biodiversity patterns and their environmental determinants. A paper, lead by Chih-Fu Yeh, an undergraduate student when he started the project, was just online on this topic titled “Elevational patterns and hierarchical determinants of biodiversity across [...] Read more
Published on Jun 6, 2018
Iberian Peninsula is a kind of mountainous region and a very impressive place to study biodiversity and climate change. Supported by the Miguel(s)' team, I went around the peninsula twice from April to June, and easily caught the shining sun, rain, snow and hailstone. We finally managed to perform the field microcosm experiments similar to our [...] Read more
Published on Feb 3, 2018
In the past 2-3 weeks, we were busy in moving our offices and laboratories to Xianlin, Nanjing. We started to work in Xianlin this week, and are now having brand new working environments. Felix from Spain joined our group in Feb. Welcome.
Published on Jun 28, 2017
Range size, the ‘fundamental unit’ of macroecology, is generally geographically limited, and few species are ubiquitously distributed, even for microorganisms (e.g., bacteria and diatoms). The systematic variation in range size along geographical gradients (i.e., elevation or latitude) represents an important underlying driver of species richness [...] Read more
Published on Mar 3, 2017
Our Ecography paper on an elevational biodiversity study was just published, and it came out with a cover image as below. Cover Figure: http://www.ecography.org/content/march-2017 Reference: Wang J, Meier S, Soininen J, Casamayor E, Tang X, Yang X, Zhang Y, Wu Q, Zhou j, Shen J. Regional and global elevational patterns of microbial species richness [...] Read more
Published on Dec 23, 2016
We just got a biodiversity-related paper published in Nature Communications. We manipulate nutrient enrichment in aquatic microcosms in subtropical and subarctic mountain regions (China and Norway, respectively) in 2013, and show the interactive effects of temperature and nutrients on microbial diversity along mountain elevation gradients. This [...] Read more