About
Education
2004-2008: M.Sc. in Animal Science, China Agricultural University
2008-2014: Ph.D. in Wildlife Conservation and Utilization, Beijing Forestry University
Work Experience
2024.5-present Associate Professor, Community Assembly and Species Coexistence Research Group, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences
2014.7-2024.4 Assistant Professor, Community Assembly and Species Coexistence Research Group, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research interests
My research interests primarily focus on the mechanisms of species coexistence in tropical and subtropical forests, with the utilization of biodiversity monitoring techniques such as camera trapping and acoustic recording.
Funding
2025-2028, Yunnan Fundamental Research Project: Bird acoustic niche and species coexistence of evergreen broad-leaved forest.
2025-2026, Ailaoshan Natural Reserve: Comprehensive protection and utilization of bird resources of Chuxiong Region of Ailaoshan Natural Reserve.
2020-2023, National Natural Science Foundation of China: Bird-plant ecological network structure and underlying mechanism of evergreen broad-leaved forest in Ailao Mountain, Yunnan Province
2020-2023, Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects: Structure and driving mechanism of plant-frugivore bird interaction network in evergreen broad-leaved forest
2016-2018, National Natural Science Foundation of China: The mechanism of bird community assembly based on phylogenetic and functional traits: a case study of bird communities with different altitude gradients in the north section of Ailao Mountain
Articles
First authors & corresponding authors:
1. He, X.*, Campos-Arceiz, A., Lin, L.* 2025. Stronger phylogenetic effects on birds than on plants, and on seed dispersal than on pollination mutualistic networks, in a subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94: 2558-2571.
2. Nonsri, P., He, X.*, Lin, L*. 2025. Evaluating drivers shaping the structure of bird-plant pollination and seed dispersal mutualistic networks in a subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest. Global Ecology and Conservation, 59, e03523.
3. Wang, H., He, X.*, Yao, Z., Wang, B., Jiang, Y.*, Lin, L. 2025. Acoustic beta indices exhibited a weak correlation with both vocal species composition dissimilarity and environmental factors dissimilarity in a subtropical forest. Ecological indicators, 172, 113266.
4. Dong, A., He, X.*, Deng, Y., Lin, L., Goodale., E.* 2023. Passive acoustic surveys reveal interactions between frugivorous birds and fruiting trees on a large forest dynamics plot. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9: 284-295.
5. He, X., Deng, Y., Dong, A., Lin, L.* 2022. The relationship between acoustic indices, vegetation, and topographic characteristics is spatially dependent in a tropical forest in southwestern China. Ecological Indicators. 142: 109229.
6. He, X., Brown, C., Lin, L.* 2021. Relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes for beta diversity of bird assemblages in Yunnan, China. Ecosphere. 12: e03545.
7. He, X., Swenson, N.G., Lin, L.* 2021. Functional trait space of forest passerine bird assemblages along a latitudinal gradient in China. Trees, Forests and People. 5: 100096.
8. Tongkok, S., He, X.*, Alcantara, M. J. M., Saralamba, C., Nathalang, A., Chanthorn, W., Brockelman, W. Y. Lin, L*. 2020. Composition of frugivores of Baccaurea ramiflora (Phyllanthaceae) and effects of environmental factors on frugivory in two tropical forests of China and Thailand. Global Ecology and Conservation. e01096.
9. He, X., Luo, K., Lu, Z., Xiao, Z., Lin, L.* 2018. Preliminary camera-trapping survey on wild mammals and birds in Ailaoshan National Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province, China. Acta Theriologica Sinica, 38: 318-322.
10. He, X., Luo, K., Brown, C., Lin, L.* 2018. A taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic perspective on the community assembly of passerine birds along an elevational gradient in southwest China. Ecology and Evolution. 8: 2712-2720.
11. He, X., Ding, C.Q.*, Han, J.L.* 2013. Lack of structural diversity but extensive length polymorphisms and heteroplasmic length variations in mitochondrial DNA D-loop of highly inbred Crested Ibis, Nipponia nippon. PLoS ONE, 8: e66324.
