Areas of Focus
- Coastal Ecology and Conservation Restoration
Academic Background & Achievements
- Studied and worked at Beijing Normal University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Brown University, and Duke University
- Published over 80 papers, including 40 as corresponding or first author in journals like Science and Nature
- Research featured in Science and Nature
- Included in the 2023 Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress in China's Ecological Environment
Publications
- Herbivory limits success of vegetation restoration globally, He Qiang, 2023
- A drowned future for coastal ecosystems, He Qiang, 2023
- Shorebirds-driven trophic cascade helps restore coastal wetland multifunctionality, He Qiang, 2023
- A wide megafauna gap undermines China’s expanding coastal ecosystem conservation, He Qiang, 2023
- Heterogeneity within and among co-occurring foundation species increases biodiversity, He Qiang, 2022
- An invasive species erodes the performance of coastal wetland protected areas, He Qiang, 2021
- Climate change, human impacts, and coastal ecosystems in the Anthropocene, He Qiang, 2019
- Co‐restoring keystone predators and foundation species to recover a coastal wetland, He Qiang, 2024
- Unveiling the landscape predictors of resilient vegetation in coastal wetlands to inform conservation in the face of climate extremes, He Qiang, 2024
- Consumer regulation of the carbon cycle in coastal wetland ecosystems, He Qiang, 2020
- Physical stress, consumer control, and new theory in ecology, He Qiang, 2018
- Natural enemies govern ecosystem resilience in the face of extreme droughts, He Qiang, 2017
- Consumer control as a common driver of coastal vegetation worldwide, He Qiang, 2016
- Biogeographic consequences of nutrient enrichment for plant–herbivore interactions in coastal wetlands, He Qiang, 2015
- Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress, He Qiang, 2013
Awards
- 2023: Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress in China's Ecological Environment
- 2023: Major Scientific, Technological, and Engineering Progress in China
- 2023: Top 30 in China's Top Ten Scientific Advances 'Frontier Exploration • Outstanding Progress'
- 2023: Top Ten Scientific Progress at Fudan University
- 2023: Top 50 Young Innovators and Entrepreneurs in Shanghai
- 2023: 'Zhuoshi Outstanding' Talent at Fudan University
- 2022: Shanghai Basic Research Special Zone Plan
- 2019: Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Star
- 2017: National Youth Overseas High-Level Talent Introduction
- 2015: Young Ecologist Award from the Asian Section of the Ecological Society of America
- 2009: 'Ecology Rising Star Award' from the Chinese Overseas Ecologists Association