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Zhixin Wen
Zoology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing
Language: Chinese, English
Mammalian Diversity
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Hengduan Mountains
Nature Reserve Systems
Community Assembly
Small Mammals
Climate Change
Biodiversity
Ecology
Conservation
Areas of Focus
- Geographical distribution patterns and driving factors of mammalian diversity in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Hengduan Mountains
- Key factors in the construction of nature reserve systems focusing on mammals
- Community assembly mechanisms of small mountain mammals and their response to global climate change
Work Experience
- 2016-2022 - Assistant Researcher at Key Laboratory of Animal Evolution and Systematics, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2022-Current - Associate Researcher at Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2014 - PhD in Zoology: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publications
- Altitudinal dispersal process drives community assembly of montane small mammals, Wen, Z.X., Feijó, A., Ke, J.Z., He, X.C., Cheng, J.L., Ge, D.Y., Tian, T., Xia, L., Wu, Y.J., Ran, J.H., Yang, Q.S., 2022
- Environmental drivers of sympatric mammalian species compositional turnover in giant panda nature reserves: Implications for conservation, Wen, Z.X., Cai, T.L., Wu, Y.J., Feijó, A., Xia, L., Cheng, J.L., Peng, X.W., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Z.J., Ran, J.H., Ge, D.Y., Yang, Q.S., 2022
- Varying support for abundance-centre and congeneric-competition hypotheses along elevational transects of mammals, Wen, Z.X., Ge, D.Y., Feijó, A., Du, Y.B., Cheng, J.L., Sun, J., Wang, Y.Q., Xia, L., Yang, Q.S., 2021
- Explaining mammalian abundance and elevational range size with body mass and niche characteristics, Wen, Z.X., Feijó, A., Cheng, J.L., Du, Y.B., Ge, D.Y., Xia, L., Yang, Q.S., 2021
- Using completeness and defaunation indices to understand nature reserve’s key attributes in preserving medium- and large-bodied mammals, Wen, Z.X., Cai, T.L., Feijó, A., Xia, L., Cheng, J.L., Ge, D.Y., Yang, Q.S., 2020
- Abundance of small mammals correlates with their elevational range sizes and elevational distributions in the subtropics, Wen, Z.X., Wu, Y.J., Cheng, J.L., Cai, T.L., Du, Y.B., Ge, D.Y., Xia, L., Yang, Q.S., 2018
- Abundance of small mammals correlates with their elevational range sizes and elevational distributions in the subtropics, Wen, Z.X., Cheng, J.L., Ge, D.Y., Xia, L., Lv, X., Yang, Q.S., 2018
- Heterogeneous distributional responses to climate warming: Evidence from rodents along a subtropical elevational gradient, Wen, Z.X., Wu, Y.J., Ge, D.Y., Cheng, J.L., Chang, Y.B., Yang, Z.S., Xia, L., Yang, Q.S., 2017
- Multiscale partitioning of small mammal b-diversity provides novel insights into the Quaternary faunal history of Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and Hengduan Mountains, Wen, Z.X., Yang, Q.S., Quan, Q., Xia, L., Ge, D.Y., Lv, X., 2016
- Global freshwater assessment of establishment risk of invasive Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) and risks to freshwater ecosystems in China, Xie, W.D., Wen, Z.X., Song, K., Guo, B.C., Fang, Y., Sun, Y.H., 2023
- Mammalian diversification bursts and biotic turnovers are synchronous with Cenozoic geoclimatic events in Asia, Feijó, A., Ge, D.Y., Wen, Z.X., Cheng, J.L., Xia, L., Patterson, B.D., Yang, Q.S., 2022
- Ecological traits affect the seasonal migration patterns of breeding birds along a subtropical altitudinal gradient, Cheng, Y.W, Wen, Z.X., He, X.C., Dong, Z.H., Zhangshang, M.Y., Li, D.H., Wang, Y., Jiang, Y., Wu, Y.J., 2022
Awards
- 2017: National Outstanding Young Ecologist
