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Name:
 Zhixin Wen
Subject:
 Zoogeography
Tel/Fax:
 (8610) 6480 7225  /  (8610) 6480 7099
E-mail:
 wenzx@ioz.ac.cn
Address:
 Group of Mammalogy, Institute of Zoology, CAS, Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
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Resume:

Zhixin Wen is now an associate professor working in the Group of Mammalogy, Institute of Zoology, CAS. I got my Ph.D. degree in Zoology in the same institute in 2014. Early since 2007, I have been committed to studying mammals of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Hengduan Mountains and North Xinjiang of China. As the first author, I have published a series of research papers in renowned journals, such as Ecography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal of Biogeography, Landscape Ecology, Biological Conservation, Science of the Total Environment, Zoological Research and Molecular Biology and Evolution.

More academic information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhixin-Wen

Research Interests:
  1. Mammalian diversity patterns of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Hengduan Mountains at different scales.
  2. Key factor analysis of nature reserve network in preserving wildlife diversity (mostly with mammals as protection target)
  3. Community assembly of montane mammals and their responses to global climate change

Awards and Honors:

National outstanding young ecologist of China (2017)

Professional Activities:

Research Grants:
  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program: ‘Key factors of Tibetan nature reserve network for preserving mammalian biodiversity’, 2023-2026
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth Program: ‘Elevational range shifts of small mammals in the Hengduan Mountains under climate change’, 2019-2021
  3. Science and technology basic work of science and technology: ‘Pre-survey of typical areas of the third comprehensive scientific expedition in Xinjiang—mammals’, 2020-2022
  4. Project of the Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, CAS：‘Abundance-range size relationships of small mammals in the Mountainous Region of Southwest China’, 2019-2023
  5. Research project: ‘Wildlife monitoring during the construction period of the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway’, 2016-2021
  6. Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program: ‘Impact assessment of national major projects on biodiversity’, 2019-2024
  7. Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program: ‘Establishment of nature protected area network’, 2019-2024

Selected Publications:
  1. 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. Altitudinal dispersal process drives community assembly of montane small mammals. Ecography, 2022: e06318.
  2. 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. Environmental drivers of sympatric mammalian species compositional turnover in giant panda nature reserves: Implications for conservation. Science of the Total Environment, 806: 150944.
  3. 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. Varying support for abundance-centre and congeneric-competition hypotheses along elevational transects of mammals. Journal of Biogeography, 48:616-627.
  4. Wen, Z.X., Feijó, A., Cheng, J.L., Du, Y.B., Ge, D.Y., Xia, L., Yang, Q.S*. 2021. Explaining mammalian abundance and elevational range size with body mass and niche characteristics. Journal of Mammalogy, 102:13-27. (Cover Paper)
  5. Wen, Z.X.#, Cai, T.L.#, Feijó, A., Xia, L., Cheng, J.L., Ge, D.Y., Yang, Q.S*. 2020. Using completeness and defaunation indices to understand nature reserve’s key attributes in preserving medium- and large-bodied mammals. Biological Conservation, 241: 108273.
  6. 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. Ecography, 41:1888-1898.
  7. Wen, Z.X., Cheng, J.L., Ge, D.Y., Xia, L., Lv, X., Yang, Q.S*. 2018. Abundance of small mammals correlates with their elevational range sizes and elevational distributions in the subtropics. Landscape Ecology, 33:1711-1724.
  8. Wen, Z.X. #, Wu, Y.J. #, Ge, D.Y., Cheng, J.L., Chang, Y.B., Yang, Z.S., Xia, L., Yang, Q.S*. 2017. Heterogeneous distributional responses to climate warming: Evidence from rodents along a subtropical elevational gradient. BMC Ecology, 17:17.
  9. Wen, Z.X., Yang, Q.S*., Quan, Q., Xia, L., Ge, D.Y., Lv, X. 2016. Multiscale partitioning of small mammal b-diversity provides novel insights into the Quaternary faunal history of Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and Hengduan Mountains. Journal of Biogeography, 43:1412-1424.
  10. Xie, W.D. #, Wen, Z.X. #, Song, K., Guo, B.C. *, Fang, Y., Sun, Y.H*. 2023. Global freshwater assessment of establishment risk of invasive Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) and risks to freshwater ecosystems in China. Zoological Research, 44:90-93.
  11. Feijó, A. #, Ge, D.Y. #, Wen, Z.X. #, Cheng, J.L., Xia, L., Patterson, B.D., Yang, Q.S*. 2022. Mammalian diversification bursts and biotic turnovers are synchronous with Cenozoic geoclimatic events in Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119: e2207845119. (Cover Paper)
  12. 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. Ecological traits affect the seasonal migration patterns of breeding birds along a subtropical altitudinal gradient. Avian Research, 13: 100066.