Areas of Focus
- Bird Ecology
- Habitat Ecology
- Migration Ecology
- Conservation Biology
Work Experience
- 1998-2002 - Beijing Normal University and Fudan University - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2002-present - Fudan University, School of Life Sciences - Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1998 - PhD: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Published over 80 SCI-indexed papers
- H-index: 31
- Selected for Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Star Program
Publications
- Arriving late and lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining migratory bird population, Peng HB, Ma ZJ*, et al., 2023
- Conservation interventions are required to improve bird breeding performance in artificial wetlands, Cheng CY, Ma ZJ*, 2023
- Achievements, challenges, and recommendations for waterbird conservation in China's coastal wetlands, Ma ZJ*, et al., 2023
- Effects of aquaculture on the maintenance of waterbird populations, Cheng CY, Liu JJ, Ma ZJ*, 2022
- Impacts of habitat loss on migratory shorebird populations and communities at stopover sites in the Yellow Sea, Wang XD, …, Ma ZJ*, 2022
- Effects of anthropogenic landscapes on population maintenance of waterbirds, Wang XD, …, Ma ZJ*, 2022
- Food supplementation as a conservation intervention: A framework and a case of helping threatened shorebirds at a refuelling site, Zhang SD, …, Ma ZJ*, 2021
- Changes in area and number of nature reserves in China, Ma ZJ*, et al., 2019
- Where to draw the line? Using movement data to inform protected area design and conserve mobile species, Choi CY, …, Ma ZJ*, 2019
- Individual diet differences in a molluscivore shorebird are associated with the size of body instruments for internal processing rather than for feeding, Zhang SD, Ma ZJ*, et al., 2019
- Rethinking China’s new great wall, Ma ZJ*, et al., 2014
- Effects of invasive cordgrass on presence of Marsh Grassbird in an area where it is not native, Ma ZJ*, et al., 2014
Awards
- Shanghai Natural Science Award First Prize (2019, 3rd place)
- Ministry of Education Natural Science Award Second Prize (2014, 3rd place)
- Shanghai Teaching Achievement First Prize (2009, 3rd place)
- Zheng Zuoxin Ornithological Youth Research Award (2008)
- Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Second Prize (2006, 2nd place)