Behavioral & Community Ecology, Conservation Biology Group
College of Forestry, Guangxi University

New in the Lab:  July 2018

Several members represented our group at the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) conference that occurred in Kuching, Malaysia on the first week of July.

There were posters by our MSc students who just finished:

ZHOU Wenjing: “The relationship between the diversity of herbaceous plants and the extent and heterogeneity of croplands in non-crop vegetation in an agricultural landscape of South China”

HE Ruchuan: “The effect of mimicry frequency on natural predation in a Batesian mimicry system”

Two of our Ph.D. candidates presented their results from previous projects:

JIANG Demeng: “How information about predation in mixed-species flocks changes through the breeding cycle in a subtropical, limestone forest”

Salindra DAYANANDA: “The conservation value of small forest fragments within monoculture rubber plantations in Xishuangbanna, China”

A PhD student from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, ZHOU Liping, externally advised by Eben Goodale, also spoke on “Mixed-species bird flocks of south and southwest China”.

Previous postdoctoral fellow in the lab, Ari Martínez (not in picture), presented “Mixed-species flocking propensity and intraspecific sociality influence the colonization and extinction rates of bird species on islands”.

Eben GOODALE presented: “Multinational collaborations in ecology and environmental science within Asia: Current status and pathways forward.” More >>

会议通知：2018年七月

七月一日六日，我们研究组的一些成员在马来西亚古晋参加了热带生物学与保护协会（ATBC）举办的全球会议。

一、两名硕士研究生将自己的研究成果进行了学术板报汇报：

１、周文婧：中国南方地区农业景观草本植物多样性与非作物植被农田异质性的关系。

２、贺如川：探究自然条件下的贝氏拟态系统中拟态频率对捕食率的影响。

二、两名博士研究生汇报了他们之前完成的研究成果：

１、蒋德梦：亚热带石灰岩森林鸟类混合群捕食的繁殖周期性变化。

２、Salindra：中国西双版纳橡胶人工林中小森林片段的保护价值。

３、Eben教授指导的一名来自西双版纳热带植物园的博士研究生周丽萍汇报了她的研究：中国南方和西南方的鸟类混合群。

此外，曾经在我们研究组上工作过的博士后Ari进行了他的汇报：群集倾向和种内社会性对岛屿鸟类种群消长和消亡率的影响。Eben教授汇报了：亚洲生态与环境科学的跨国合作现状与展望。更多>>

Opportunities

The Behavioral and Community Ecology, Conservation Biology Group is excited to offer opportunities for three-year MSc or PhD projects. This year we are particularly interested in recruiting students who are interested in conservation biology and would like to work on one of the projects offered by Associate Prof. Christos Mammides. 

Dr. Mammides is interested in studying the mechanisms by which anthropogenic activities affect biodiversity, and in exploring the socio-economic factors that drive those activities. Dr. Mammides is also interested in quantifying the effectiveness of the various types of protected areas, and in assessing the effects of those areas on local peoples’ livelihoods.

Applicants should contact Dr. Mammides (cmammides@outlook.com), before January the 15^th, 2018, attaching a CV, a short project proposal (<750 words), and the e-mail addresses of three references. Review of the applications will begin immediately.