Principle investigator Sep. 2016- Present
Advisor: Dr. Wenjun Bu and Dr. Zhen Ye, College of Life Sciences, NKU
This project has the following aims:
The first phase of this project has finished recently, which has greatly helped me to expand my knowledge of the field and the methodology used in biodiversity and biogeography research. My main accomplishments for this project were to:
This study provides the most complete overview of species richness pattern and endemism of Heteroptera in China on the basis of several major families; which contributes to the fundamental knowledge of insect biodiversity and conservation. Now, this work is pursued using the database of biodiversity informatics of Chinese true bugs to allow a deeper understanding of their distribution patterns and related mechanisms, with a particular emphasis on the localization of potential threatened areas and measure to protect them.
This project has the following aims:
- Establish The Chinese Heteroptera Biodiversity Informatics (CHBI) Database
- Visualize species distribution pattern of Heteroptera in China
- Define zoogeographic regions on the basis of Chinese Heteroptera
- Investigate the drivers of diversity patterns and zoogeographical regions
The first phase of this project has finished recently, which has greatly helped me to expand my knowledge of the field and the methodology used in biodiversity and biogeography research. My main accomplishments for this project were to:
- Digitize the distribution data and built a database of more than 21,000 records for about 2,700 species (7 families) of Heteroptera distributed in China with the help of my collaborators.
- Visualize the pattern of species richness and endemism and use multiple statistical models (e.g. Generalized Linear Model and Random Forest) to analysis the influence of environmental factors on observed the biodiversity pattern in this insect group.
This study provides the most complete overview of species richness pattern and endemism of Heteroptera in China on the basis of several major families; which contributes to the fundamental knowledge of insect biodiversity and conservation. Now, this work is pursued using the database of biodiversity informatics of Chinese true bugs to allow a deeper understanding of their distribution patterns and related mechanisms, with a particular emphasis on the localization of potential threatened areas and measure to protect them.
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