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Chia Hsieh (謝嘉）
Evolutionary and ecological drivers of the pantropical vertebrate community structure
Integrating camera-trap dataset from the Tropical Ecological Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network and open occurrence datasets with large-scale environmental spatial datasets and phylogenetic trees to investigate the important evolutionary and ecological drivers of pantropical vertebrates community structure, contributing to the high species richness pattern in the tropics.
Advisor: Dr. Lydia Beaudrot
Evolutionary history and environmental variability shape phylogenetic and functional structure of tropical vertebrate communities under divergent niche evolutionary trajectories between tropical birds and mammals
Publication: Hsieh et al. (2024) Global Ecology and Evolution
Collaborators: Tropical Ecological Assessment and Monitoring Network
Previous projects
Urban area as an strong abiotic filter on shaping functional structure of birds
Investigating how the urban environments can act as strong filters on shaping the avian functional structures of ecological and reproductive traits around the world with eBird data.
Collaborators: Dr. Mao-Ning Tuanmu and Yu Tsai-Chen
Beta-diversity of breeding birds along environmental gradients in Taiwan
Teasing apart the spatial pattern of turnover and nestedness in breeding bird communities along environmental gradients in climate, elevation, and anthropogenic disturbance with Breeding Bird Survey data.
Collaborator: Dr. Mao-Ning Tuanmu
Above-belowground Interactions on Soil Ecosystem Functioning in Taipei Urban Parks
Linking above-belowground interactions among plant types, soil microbial enzyme activities, ground arthropod compositions, and derived soil ecosystem processes (C and N cycles) by soil dissolved organic matter in urban parks.
Advisor: Dr. Mei-Hui Li
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