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Curriculum Vitae

Fangliang He, Professor

Canada Research Chair in SYSU-Alberta Joint Lab for

Biodiversity & Landsape Modeling Biodiversity Conservation

Department of Renewable Resources School of Life Sciences

University of Alberta Sun Yat-sen University

Edmonton, Canada Guangzhou, China

Email: fhe@ualberta.ca Email: fhe@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Education

1991–1994: Ph.D. (Ecology)

Dept. of Biological Sciences

Université de Montréal

1995–2000: M.Sc. (Statistics)

Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics

University of Victoria

1985–1988: M.Sc. (Population ecology)

Institute of Applied Ecology

Chinese Academy of Sciences

1979–1983: B.Sc. (Forestry)

Dept. of Forestry

Nanjing Forestry University, China

Academic Interests

Population/Community Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation, Biogeography,

Conservation Biology, Landscape Ecology, Spatial Statistics, Biometrics, Global

Chang Biology, Ecological Genomics

Professional Experience

July 2010– Professor

Sun Yat-sen University

July 2007– Professor

Canada Research Chair in Biodiversity and Landscape Modeling

Department of Renewable Resources

University of Alberta

2003–June 2007: Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Biodiversity and Landscape Modeling

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Department of Renewable Resources

University of Alberta

1996–2003: Research Scientist

Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre

Victoria, BC, Canada

1994–1996: NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow (government lab)

Wetland ecology, vegetation analysis, insect-plant interaction

Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

1991–1993: Research Assistant

Statistical ecology

Lab of Prof. Pierre Legendre

Dept. of Biological Sciences

Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada

Awards and Honours

Killam Annual Professorship, 2013

Canada Research Chair, 2003-2013

Changjiang Scholar (长江讲座教授), East China Normal University, 2010-2013

Endowed Guest Professor, Beijing Normal University, 2006-2009

Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser

University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. 2000-2008

NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1994-1996

Graduate Student Fellowship, Ministére de l’Éducation du Québec, 1991-1993

Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Université de

Montréal, 1992

Teaching Experience

Teach three graduate courses at Univ of Alberta since 2004 (two courses per year):

RENR680: Advanced Biometrics

RENR 501: Spatial Data Analysis in Ecology

RENR469: Biodiversity Analysis

Shared teaching (two weeks, winter 2013):

ENCS364: Conservation Biology

Summer 2002: STAT890/490: Spatial Statistics. Dept. of Statistics of Simon Fraser

University. Jointly lectured by Prof. Charmaine Dean and me (half-

half split). I covered point pattern analyses and geostatistics, CD

covered lattice data modeling.

Summer 2001: Short course (10 hrs): Linear/Generalized Linear Regression Models,

to 30 foresters and ecologists from 12 countries at the Center for

Tropical Forest Science of the Smithsonian Workshop on the Analysis

of Forest Plot Data, India Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Summer 1996: Teaching assistant for Probability and Statistics, to over 100

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engineering students, Dept of Math and Stat, the Univ of Victoria.

Associate Editor/Editorial Board

Proceedings of Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) (2011-2014)

Ecology Letters (2004-)

Ecology (2002-2012, three terms)

Ecological Monographs (2002-2012, three terms)

Journal of Applied Ecology (2006-2010)

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology (2005-2008)

Plant Ecology (2006-2007)

Frontiers of Biology in China (2008-2010)

Acta Phytoecologica Sinica (2002-2005)

Manuscript and Book Review

Manuscript review for:

Acta Biotheoretica, Acta Oecologia, Acta Phytoecologica Sinica, American Journal

of Botany, American Naturalist, Animal Biology, Austral Ecology, Avian

Conservation and Ecology, Biological Conservation, Biological Invasions,

Biotropica, Bulletin of Entomological Research, Canadian Entomogist, Canadian

Journal of Forest Research, Chinese Journal of Biodiversity, Conservation Biology,

Conservation Letters, Ecography, Ecology, Ecology and Evolution, Ecological

Monographs, Ecological Research, Ecology Letters, Ecological Complexity,

Ecological Modeling, EcoScience, Ecosphere, Environmental and Ecological

Statistics, Environmental Management, Forest Science, Functional Ecology, Global

Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied

Ecology, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Community Ecology, Journal of

Ecology, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Journal

of Vegetation Science, Landscape Ecology, Nature, Nature Communications,

Natural Resources Modelling, Northwest Science, Oikos, Physical Review E,

Physical Review Letters, Plant Ecology, PLoS One, Population Ecology,

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal

Society of London B, Science, Scientific Reports, Theoretical Ecology, Nature

Communications, Theoretical Population Biology

Reviewed book proposals for Oxford University Press (2002, 2009)

Reviewed book chapters for Springer (2003), Cambridge University Press (2005),

Nova Science Publisher (2005), Oxford University Press (2009).

Research Proposal Review

SERDP (the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, US

Department of Defense, 8 proposals, 2010)

Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand (2009)

NSERC (Canada, 9 proposals since 2004)

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NSF (US, 7 proposals since 2004)

EarthWatch (2008)

Academia Sinica, Taiwan (two proposals, 2008, 2011)

US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (1 proposal, 2007)

NNSFC (China, Panelist, 19 key project proposals since 2006)

Georgia Science Foundation (two proposals in 2007)

Alberta Conservation Association (1 proposal/year since 2004)

Academia Sinica (Taipei, Republic of China, 1 proposal in 2006)

BC Forest Science Program (5 proposals in 2005)

The Rural Economy and Land Use Programme for the UK Economic and Social

Research Council (Panelist, Swindon, England, November 13-18, 2004)

NWO (the Netherlands, 2 proposals since 2004)

NERC (UK, 2002)

The FII (Panelist, BC, 2001)

Professional Service/Impact

International and National:

1. Leading an NCEAS working group (2012-2013). Title: Dance with neighbors: what

have we learned about species coexistence in tree communities from the global stem-

mapped forest plots?

2. Influencing the course of research and literature in ecology through my role as

associate editor/editorial board for 9 journals and as reviewer for over 60 scientific

journals and book publishers.

3. Expert Advice Committee (7 members, led by Prof. Chung-I Wu) on

"Microevolution Research Program", a key program of the National Science

Foundation of China, with a total funding of 400 millions CNY (~ Can $125

millions) over 8 years period.

4. Chair of Travel Award Committee, the 24th

International Congress for Conservation

Biology, Society for Conservation Biology, July 3-7, 2010, Edmonton, Alberta.

5. Institute Review Committee for the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The CAS is

undertaking a process to review all the PI’s of its 30+ biological research institutes.

The CAS will make decision to continue to support or to disband the PI’s groups

based on the outcome of the review (2009-2010).

6. Initiating a long-term and large-scale Forest Dynamics Plot Network of China

(http://www.cfbiodiv.org/) in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences

and three universities in mainland China and Taiwan. The network is in partnership

with CTFS of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The network is funded

by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Education and Chinese Academy

of Forest Science (with 8.5 millions Reminbi, ~$1.5 millions Canadian). Six large-

scale (20-60 ha) plots have been and are being stem-mapped along a latitudinal

gradient from temperate forest to tropical forest in China. I have so far trained over

15 scientists for the network (since 2004).

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7. Co-organizing a Banff International Research Station Workshop, Forests, Fires and

Stochastic Modeling. May 6-11, 2006. Organizers: W. Braun (Western Ontario), C.

Dean (SFU), F. He (Alberta), D. Martell (Toronto) and H. Preisler (USDA Forest

Service).

8. Leading an NCE-SFM network research project ($540k plus $75 industry

contribution) on developing biodiversity patterns for predicting the effect of

management on the boreal mixedwood forests of Alberta. This three-year project

consists of five researchers from four universities (UofA, McGill, UQAM and

SFU) and six government and industrial partners (2006-2009).

Local:

9. Curriculum Review Chair for Environmental and Conservation Sciences (BSc)

Program, Department of Renewable Resources, UofA (2009-2010).

10. Member of Departmental Gradudate Committee. Dept of Renewable Resources,

UofA (2006-2008).

11. Coordinator of the biweekly meeting of the Statistical Ecology Discussion Group

(campus wide). Each meeting lasts for 1.5 hrs reading and discussing classical

papers or latest topical publications. The theme of this term’s discussion is: “Liking

genetic diversity and species diversity”. Attendance: 20-40 people (Winter term,

2007)

12. Committee member of the International Partnership Fund, UofA (2005-2007).

13. Environmental and Conservation Science Undergraduate Curriculum Committee,

UofA (2004-2005).

14. Seminar Committee, Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC

(1997-2003).

15. Organized and chaired the Spatial Statistics Session at the 2001 Annual Meeting of

the Statistical Society of Canada (June 10-14, 2001, Burnaby, BC).

Media cover/interviews:

1. Nature News Briefing (organized by Nature): Interviewed by over 20 news

presses on May 17, 2011, including: IG Brazil, Reuters, Nzz.ch, AP, Bloomberg

News, Lifefine.com, Postmedia News, National Geographical News, The Christian

Science Monitor, Nature Press, GreenWire, Science News, Argent Press Paris,

Deutschfunk, Cosmos Mag, The Times , Die Zeit, New Scientists, etc.

2. The Rutherford Radio Show: Live radio news talk show on issues of species

extinction. Monday, May 23 at 11:00 a.m.

3. The Global & Mail interview on a study about an Amazonian frog. Nov 25, 2011.

(http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/amazonian-frogs-beautiful-toxic-

and-diverse/article2256357/).

Other professional services:

Support letter (requested by faculty) for the Lamar Dodd Award (Univ of Georgia,

2004) and Regents Professor award for Oklahoma State University (2007), Nomination

Letter for Kyoto Prize (2007), Tenure promotion review (The Hebrew University of

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Jerusalem, 2009), Professor promotion reviews (University of Leeds 2009, University

of Guelph, 2011).

Research Outputs

(1) Articles in referred journals (* indicates students/postdoctoral fellows):

1. Blanchet, F.G.*, Legendre, P., Bergeron, J.A.C. and He, F. 2013. Consensus RDA

across dissimilarity coefficients for canonical ordination of community composition

data. Ecological Monographs (in press).

2. Yue Bin*, Spence, J., Wu, L.-F., Li, B.-H., Hao, Z.-Q., Ye, W.H. and He, F. 2014.

Species-habitat associations and demographic rates of forest trees. Ecography (in

press).

3. Zhang, J.*, Huang, S., Hogg, E.H., Lieffers, V., Qin, Y. and He, F. 2014.

Estimating spatial variation in Alberta forest biomass from a combination of forest

inventory and remote sensing data. Biogeosciences (in press).

4. Yin, D.-Y.* and He, F. A simple method for estimating species abundance from

occurrence maps. Methods in Ecology & Evolution 5:336-343.

5. Zhang, J.*, Mayor, S.J.* and He, F. 2014. Does disturbance regime change

community assembly of angiosperm plant communities in the boreal forest? Journal

of Plant Ecology 7:188–201.

6. Shen, G.-C., Wiegand, T., Mi, X.-C. and He, F. 2013. Quantifying spatial

phylogenetic structures of fully stem-mapped plant communities. Methods in

Ecology and Evolution 4:1132–1141.

7. Cáceres, M.D., Legendre, P. and He, F. 2013. Dissimilarity measurements and the

size structure of ecological communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution

4:1167–1177.

8. Shen, G.-C., He, F., Waagepetersen, R., Sun, I-F., Hao, Z.-Q., Chen, Z.-S. and Yu,

M.-J. 2013. Quantifying effects of habitat heterogeneity and other clustering

processes on spatial distributions of tree species. Ecology 94:2436-2443.

9. Gibson, L., Lynam, A.J., Bradshaw, C.J.A., He, F., Bickford, D., Woodruff, D.S.,

Bumrungsri, S. and Laurance, W.F. 2013. Near-complete extinction of native small

mammal fauna 25 years after forest fragmentation. Science 341:1508-1510.

10. He, F. and Hubbell, S.P. 2013. Estimating extinction from species-area

relationships: Why the numbers do not add up. Ecology 94:1905-1912.

11. Yan, E.-R., Wang, X.-H., Chang, S.X. and He, F. 2013. Scaling relationships

among twig size, leaf size and leafing intensity in a successional series of

subtropical forests. Tree Physiology 33:609-617.

12. Zhang, J.*, Kissling, D. and He, F. 2013. Local forest structure, climate and human

disturbance determine regional distribution of boreal bird species richness in

Alberta, Canada. Journal of Biogeography 40:1131–1142.

13. Blanchet, F.G.*, Bergeron, J.A.C., Spence, J.R. and He, F. 2013. Landscape effects

of disturbance, habitat heterogeneity and spatial autocorrelation on a ground beetle

(Carabidae) assemblage in mature boreal forest. Ecography 36: 636-647.

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14. Wiegand, T. He, F. and Hubbell, S.P. 2013. A systematic comparison of summary

characteristics for quantifying point patterns in ecology. Ecography 36:92-103.

15. Cáceres, M.D., Legendre, P., Valencia, R., Cao, M., Chang, L.-W., Chuyong, G.,

Condit, R., Hao, Z.-Q., Hsieh, C.-F., Hubbell, S., Kenfack, D., Ma, K.-P., Mi, X.-

C., Noor, Md. N.S., Kassim, A.R., Ren, H.-B., Su, S.-H., Sun, I-F., Thomas, D.,

Ye, W.-H. and He, F. 2012. The variation of tree beta diversity across a global

network of forest plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography 12:1191-1202.

16. Mayor, S.J.*, Cahill, J.F., He, F., Sólymos, P. and Boutin, S. 2012. Regional boreal

biodiversity peaks at intermediate human disturbance. Nature Communications

3:1142 (pages 1-6).

17. Xu, H., Liu, S.-R, Li, Y.D., Zang, R.-G. and He, F. 2012. Assessing non-parametric

and area-based methods for estimating regional species richness. Journal of

Vegetation Science 23:1006-1012.

18. He, F. 2012. Area based assessment of extinction risk. Ecology 93: 974-980.

19. Rosindell, J., Hubbell, S.P., He, F., Harmon, L.J. and Etienne, R.S. 2012. The case

for ecological neutral theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27: 203-208.

20. Ding, Y., Zang, R., Letcher, S.G., Liu, S. and He, F. 2012. Disturbance regime

changes the trait distribution, phylogenetic structure, and community assembly of

tropical rain forests. Oikos (doi: www.10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19992.x).

21. Ding, Y., Zang, R., Liu, S., He, F. and Letcher, S.G. 2012. Recovery of woody

plant diversity in tropical rain forests in southern China after logging and shifting

cultivation. Biological Conservation 145:225-233.

22. He, F. and Hubbell, S.P. 2012. Geometry and scale in species-area relationships;

Extinction and climate change: a reply. Nature 482:E5-E6 (doi:

www.10.1038/nature10859).

23. Yu, S.X., Zhang, D.Y. and He, F. 2012. The multitude of biodiversity: methods,

theories and applications (Editorial). Journal of Plant Ecology 5:1-2.

24. He, F., Zhang, D.Y. and Lin, K. 2012. Coexistence of nearly neutral species.

Journal of Plant Ecology 5:72-81.

25. Zhang, D.Y., Zhang, B.Y., Lin, K., Jiang, X.H., Tao, Y., Hubbell, S.P., He, F. and

Ostling, A. 2012. Demographic trade-offs determine species abundance and

diversity. Journal of Plant Ecology 5:82-88.

26. He, F. and Hubbell, S.P. 2011. Species-area relationships always overestimate

extinction rates from habitat loss. Nature 473:368-371.

27. Hwang, W.H. and He, F. 2011. Estimating abundance from presence-absence

maps. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2:550-559.

28. Zillio, T.* and He, F. 2010. Modeling spatial aggregation of finite populations.

Ecology 91:3698-3706.

29. He, F. 2010. Maximum entropy, logistic regression, and species abundance. Oikos

119:578-582.

30. Zillio, T* and He, F. 2010. Inferring species-abundance distribution across spatial

scales. Oikos 119:71-80.

31. Gray, L.* and He, F. 2009. Spatial point-pattern analysis for detecting density-

dependent competition in a boreal chronosequence of Alberta. Forest Ecology and

Management 259:98-106.

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32. Yavitt, J.B., Harms, K.E., Garcia, M.N., Wright, S.J., He, F. and Mirabello, S.J.

2009. Spatial heterogeneity of soil chemical properties in a lowland tropical moist

forest, Panama. Australian Journal of Soil Research 47:674-687.

33. Niu, K.C., Liu, Y.N., Shen, Z.H., He, F. and Fang, J.Y. 2009. Community

assembly: the relative importance of neutral theory and niche theory (群落构建的中

性理论和生态位理论). Biodiversity Science 17:579-593. (invited review for the

Chinese journal)

34. Morlon, H., White, E.P., Etienne, R.S., Green, J.L., Ostling, A., Alonso, D.,

Enquist, B.J., He, F., Hurlbert, A., Magurran, A.E., Maurer, B.A., McGill, B.J.,

Olff, H., Storch, D., Zillio, T.* 2009. Taking species abundance distributions

beyond individuals. Ecology Letters 12:488-501.

35. Hu, X.-S.*, He, F., and Hubbell, S.P. 2009. Community differentiation on

landscapes: drift, migration and speciation. Oikos 118:1515-1523.

36. He, F. 2009. Price of prosperity: economic development and biological

conservation in China (财富的代价: 中国的经济发展和生物保护). Journal of

Applied Ecology 46:511-515.

37. Legendre, P., Mi, X.C., Ren, H.B., Ma, K.P., Sun, I.F., Yu, M.J. and He, F. 2009.

Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of China. Ecology

90:663-674.

38. Li, L.*, Huang, Z.-L., Ye, W.-H., Cao, H.-L., Wei, S.-G., Wang, Z.-G., Lian, J.-Y.,

Sun, I.-F., Ma, K.-P. and He, F. 2009. Spatial patterns of tree species in a

subtropical forest of China. Oikos 118:495-502.

39. Babak, P.* and He, F. 2009. A neutral model of edge effects. Theoretical

Population Biology 75:76-83.

40. Lin, K., Zhang, D.-Y. and He, F. 2009. Demographic trade-offs in a neutral model

explain death rate-abundance rank relationship. Ecology 90:31-38.

41. Chen, X.-Y. and He, F. 2009. Speciation and endemism under the model of island

biogeography. Ecology 90:39-45.

42. Hubbell, S.P., He, F., Condit, R., Borda-de-Água, L., Kellner, J. and ter Steege, H.

2008. How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will

go extinct? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:11498-11504.

43. Babak, P.* and He, F. 2008. Species abundance distribution and dynamics in two

locally coupled communities. Journal of Theoretical Biology 253:739-748.

44. Zhu, H.T.*, He, F. and Zhou, J. 2008. Auto-multicategorical regression model for

the distribution of vegetation. Statistics and Its Interface 1:63-73.

45. Gamarra, J.G.P.* and He, F. 2008. Spatial scaling of mountain pine beetle

infestations. Journal of Animal Ecology 77:796-801.

46. Shen, T.-J. and He, F. 2008. An incidence-based richness estimator for quadrats

sampled without replacement. Ecology 89:2052-2060.

47. Getzin, S.*, Wiegand, T., Wiegand, K. and He, F. 2008. Heterogeneity influences

spatial patterns and demographics in forest stands. Journal of Ecology 96:807-820.

48. Witte, J.-P. M., He, F. and Groen, C. 2008. Grid origin affects scaling of species

across spatial scales. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17:448-456.

49. He, F. and Tang, D.L. 2008. Estimating the niche preemption parameter of the

geometric series. Acta Oecologica 33:105-107.

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50. Nelson, W.*, Potapov, A., Lewis, M., Hundsdorfer, A.* and He, F. 2008. The

balance of complexity in mechanistic modeling: Risk analysis in the mountain pine

beetle. Journal of Applied Ecology 45:248-257.

51. Wang, S.F., Tang, D.L., He, F., Fukuyo, Y. and Azanza, R.V. 2008. Occurrences of

harmful algal blooms (HABs) associated with ocean environments in the South

China Sea. Hydrobiologia 596:79-93.

52. Hu, X.-S.*, He, F. and Hubbell, S.P. 2007. Species diversity in local neutral

communities. American Naturalist 170:844-853.

53. Hu, X.-S.*, Yeh, F.C. and He, F. 2007. Sex-ratio distortion driven by migration

loads. Theoretical Population Biology 72:547-559.

54. Pueyo, S.*, He, F. and Zillio, T.* 2007. The maximum entropy formalism and the

idiosyncratic theory of biodiversity. Ecology Letters 10:1017-1028.

55. He, F. and Gaston, K. 2007. Estimating abundance from occurrence: an

underdetermined problem. American Naturalist 170:655-659.

56. McGill, B.J., Etienne, R.S., Gray, J.S., Alonso, D., Anderson, M.J., Benecha, H.K.,

Dornelas, M., Enquist, B.J., Green, J., He, F., Hurlbert, A., Magurran, A.E.,

Marquet, P.A., Maurer, B.A., Ostling, A., Soykan, C.U., Ugland, K., White, E.

2007. Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to

integration within an ecological framework. Ecology Letters 10:995-1015.

57. Getzin, S.*, Dean, C., He, F., Trofymow, T., Wiegand, T. and Wiegand, T. 2006.

Spatial patterns and competition of tree species in a Douglas-fir chronosequence on

Vancouver Island. Ecography 29:671-682.

58. Magnussen, S., Pélissier, R., He, F. and Ramesh, B.R. 2006. An assessment of

sample-based estimators of tree species richness in two wet tropical forest

compartments in Panama and India. International Forestry Review 8:417-431.

59. Hu, X.-S.*, He, F. and Hubbell, S.P. 2006. Neutral theory in population genetics

and macroecology. Oikos 113:548-556.

60. Hu, X.-S.* and He, F. 2006. Seed and pollen flow in expanding a species’ range.

Journal of Theoretical Biology 240:662-672.

61. Volkov, I., Banavar, J.R., He, F., Hubbell, S.P. and Maritan, A. 2006. Comparing

models of species abundance: a reply. Nature 441:E1-E2.

62. Gaston, K.J., Borges, P.A.V., He, F. and Gaspar, C. 2006. Abundance, spatial

variance, & occupancy: species distribution in the Azores. Journal of Animal

Ecology 75:646-656.

63. Wills, C., Harms, K.E., Condit, R., King, D., Thompson, J., He, F., Muller-Landau,

H.C., Ashton, P., Losos, E., Comita, L., Hubbell, S., LaFrankie, J.,

Bunyavejchewin, S., Dattaraja, H.S., Davies, S., Esufali, S., Foster, R., Gunatilleke,

N., Gunatilleke, S., Hall, P., Itoh, A., John, R., Kiratiprayoon, S., Loo de Lao, S.,

Massa, M., Nath, C., Noor, M.N.S., Kassim, A.R., Sukumar, R., Suresh, H.S., Sun,

I.-F., Tan, S., Yamakura, T. and Zimmerman, J. 2006. Non-random processes

contribute to the maintenance of diversity in tropical forests. Science 311:527-531.

64. Muller-Landau, H.C., Condit, R.S., Harms, K.E., Marks, C.O., Thomas, S.C.,

Bunyavejchewin, S., Chuyong, G., Co, L., Davies. S., Foster, R., Gunatilleke, S.,

Gunatilleke, N., Hart, T., Hubbell, S.P., Itoh, A., Kassim, A.R., Kenfack, D.,

LaFrankie, J.V., Lagunzad, D., Lee, H.S., Losos, E., Makana, J.-R., Ohkubo, T.,

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Samper, C., Sukumar, R., Sun, I.-F., Nur Supardi M.N., Tan, S., Thomas, D.,

Thompson, J., Valencia, R., Vallejo, M.I., Muñoz, G.V., Yamakura, T.

Zimmerman, J.K., Dattaraja, H.S., Esufali, S., Hall, P., He, F., Hernandez, C.,

Kiratiprayoon, S., Suresh, H.S., Wills, C. & Ashton, P. 2006. Comparing tropical

forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and

equilibrium models. Ecology Letters 9:589-602.

65. He, F. and Hubbell, S.P. 2005. Percolation theory for the distribution and

abundance of species: a reply. Physical Review Letters 95, article # 189804.

66. Volkov, I., Banavar, J.R., He, F., Hubbell, S.P. and Maritan, A. 2005. Density

dependence explains tree species abundance and diversity in tropical forests. Nature

438:658-661.

67. He, F. and Hu, X.-S.* 2005. Hubbell’s fundamental biodiversity parameter and the

Simpson diversity index. Ecology Letters 8:386-390.

68. He, F., Gaston, K.J., Connor, E.F. and Srivastava, D. 2005. Local-regional species

diversity relationship: immigration, extinction, and scale. Ecology 86:360-365.

69. Hu, X.-S. and He, F. 2005. Background selection and population differentiation.

Journal of Theoretical Biology 235:207-219.

70. He, F. 2005. Deriving a neutral model of species abundance from fundamental

mechanisms of population dynamics. Functional Ecology 19:187-193.

71. Wu. J., Huang, J.-H., Han, X.-G., Gao, X.-M., He, F., Jiang, M.-X., Jiang, Z.-G.,

Primack, R. B. and Shen, Z.-H. 2004. Three Georges Dam: An ecological

perspective. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2:241-248.

72. He, F. and Hubbell, S.P. 2003. Percolation theory for the distribution and

abundance of species. Physical Review Letters 91, article # 198103.

73. He, F. and Gaston, K.J. 2003. Occupancy, spatial variance, and the abundance of

species. American Naturalist 162:366-375.

74. Trofymow, J.A., Addison, J., Blackwell, B.A., He, F., Preston, C.A. and Marshall,

V.G. 2003. Attributes and indicators of old-growth and successional Douglas-fir

forests on Vancouver Island. Environmental Reviews 11:S187-204.

75. He, F., Zhou, J. and Zhu, H.T.* 2003. Autologistic regression model for the

distribution of vegetation. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental

Statistics 8:205-222.

76. He, F., LaFrankie, J.V. and Song, B. 2002. Scale dependence of tree abundance and

richness in a tropical rain forest, Malaysia. Landscape Ecology 17:559-568.

77. Gaston, K.J. and He, F. 2002. The distribution of species range size: a stochastic

process. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 269:1079-1086.

78. He, F. and Legendre, P. 2002. Species diversity patterns derived from species-area

models. Ecology 83:1185-1198 (Concepts/synthesis paper).

79. He, F., Gaston, K.J. and Wu, J. 2002. On species occupancy-abundance models.

Écoscience 9:119-126.

80. Holt, A.R., Gaston, K.J. and He, F. 2002. Occupancy-abundance relationships and

spatial distribution: a review. Basic & Applied Ecology 3:1-13.

81. He, F. and Gaston, K.J. 2000. Estimating species abundance from occurrence.

American Naturalist 156:553-559.

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82. He, F. and Duncan, R.P. 2000. Density-dependent effects on tree survival in an old-

growth Douglas-fir forest. Journal of Ecology 88:676-688.

83. He, F. and Alfaro, R.I. 2000. White pine weevil attack on white spruce: a survival

time analysis. Ecological Applications 10:35-42.

84. He, F. and Gaston, K.J. 2000. Occupancy-abundance relationships and sampling

scale. Ecography 23:503-511.

85. He, F. and Barclay, H. 2000. Long-term response of understory plant species to

thinning and fertilization in a Douglas-fir plantation on southern Vancouver Island,

British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30:566-572.

86. Tomlin, E.S., Alfaro, R.I., Borden, J.H. and He, F. 1998. Histological response of

resistant and susceptible white spruce to simulated white pine weevil damage. Tree

Physiology 18:21-28.

87. He, F., Legendre, P. and LaFrankie, J.V. 1997. Distribution patterns of tree species

in a Malaysian tropical rain forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 8:105-114.

88. Alfaro, R.I., He, F., Tomlin, E. and Kiss, G. 1997. White spruce resistance to white

pine weevil related to bark resin canal density. Canadian Journal of Botany 75:568-

573.

89. He, F. and Alfaro, R.I. 1997. White pine weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) attack

on white spruce: spatial and temporal patterns. Environmental Entomology 26:888-

895.

90. He, F. and Legendre, P. 1996. On species-area relations. American Naturalist

148:719-737.

91. He, F., Legendre, P. and LaFrankie, J.V. 1996. Spatial patterning of diversity in a

tropical rain forest in Malaysia. Journal of Biogeography 23:57-74.

92. Alfaro, R.I., He, F., Kiss, G., King, J. and Yanchuk, A. 1996. Resistance of white

spruce to white pine weevil: Development of a resistance index. Forest Ecology and

Management 81:51-62.

93. Jeglum, J. and He, F. 1995. Pattern and vegetation-environment relationships in a

boreal forested wetland in northeastern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Botany

73:629-637.

94. He, F., Legendre, P., Belleheumer, C. and LaFrankie, J.V. 1994. Spatial scale and

diversity patterns: a study of a tropical rain forest of Malaysia. Environmental and

Ecological Statistics 1:265-286.

(2) Book chapters:

95. He, F. 2012. Extinction rates, estimation of. Pages 938-942 in Encyclopedia

of Environmetrics Second Edition, eds. A.-H. El-Shaarawi and W. Piegorsch. John

Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK. (DOI: 10.1002/9780470057339.vnn145).

96. Gaston, K.J. and He. F. 2010. Species occurrence and occupancy. Chapter 8, in

Biological Diversity: Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment, eds. A. Maguran

and B. McGill. Oxford University Press.

97. He, F. and Condit, R. 2007. The distribution of species: occupancy, scale and

rarity. Pages 32-50 in Scaling Biodiversity, eds. D. Storch, P.L. Marquet and J.H.

Brown. Cambridge University Press.

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98. Borda de Agua, L., Hubbell, S.P. and He, F. 2007. Scaling biodiversity under

neutrality. Pages 347-375 in Scaling Biodiversity, eds. D. Storch, P.L. Marquet and

J.H. Brown. Cambridge University Press.

99. He, F. and Reed, W. 2006. Downscaling abundance from the distribution of

species: occupancy theory and applications. Pages 89-108 in Scaling and

Uncertainty in Ecology: Methods and Applications, eds. J. Wu, B. Jones, H. Li and

O. Loucks. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

100. He, F. 2002. Species abundance-distribution relationships. Pages 16-25 in

Lectures in Modern Ecology (II): From Basic Science to Environmental Issues,

eds. J. Wu & X.G. Han. Science and Technology Press, Beijing.

(3) Manuscripts in review/submission:

1. Zhang, J.-L., Zhang, S.-B., Cao, K.-F. and He, F. Linking wood density with leaf

economics spectrum for 101 tropical woody species. New Phytologist (in review).

2. He, F., Song, B. and Condit, R. Tree size distribution across forest communities.

American Naturalist (in submission).

3. Zillio, T.* and He, F. Diversity indices: , and phylogenetic trees. Ecology

Letters (in submission).

(4) Invited seminars/lectures:

1. Keynote speaker: Assessing extinction rates. ATBC – Asia Pacific Chapter Annual

Meeting 2012, March 24. Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan

Province, China.

(http://www.tropicalbio.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=469

:bangkok-march-2011&catid=46)

2. Invited speaker for the 60th

anniversary celebration of East China Normal

University, Shanghai: "Species-area relationships always overestimate extinction

rates from habitat loss". May 30, 2011

(http://news.ecnu.edu.cn/academic/2011/2011,academic,079068.shtml).

3. Invited working group on "Estimating extinction rates" sponsored by Australian

Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, in the Linnaeus Estate near Lennox

Head, NSW, Australia. For summary information on the working group see:

http://conservationbytes.com/2011/07/09/life-death-and-linneaus/. July 2-8, 2011.

4. Invited seminar 1: Area-based assessment of extinction risk. Time: Monday

11th

July, 10:00-11:30 am, School of Plant Biology, University of Western

Australia, Perth, Australia. Agriculture Lecture theatre.

5. Invited Seminar 2: Estimating extinction rates: habitat loss, species-area

relationships, and the “extinction debt”. Time: Monday 11th

July, 4:00-5:30 pm.

Bayliss Building MCS Lecture Room G.33. School of Plant Biology, University of

Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

6. Estimating Extinction Rates: Habitat loss, species-area curves, and the “extinction-

debt”. Invited seminar, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, September 30, 2010.

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7. Invited seminar: Area based assessment of extinction risk. Shenyang Institute of

Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sept 27, 2010

(http://www.iae.cas.cn/xwzx/xshd/201009/t20100930_2977253.html).

8. Area based assessment of extinction risk. Invited seminar, Beijing Normal

University, July 23, 2010.

9. Invited working group on universal diversity patterns across sciences. Talk: Model

extreme ecological values. Centre for Theroretical Study, Charles University,

Prague, Czech, May 5-10, 2010.

10. Quantifying impacts of logging and deforestation on tree species diversity. Invited

seminar, Department of Renewable Resources, Univ of Alberta, January 28, 2010.

11. Estimating extinction rates: Habitat loss, species-area curves and the “extinction-

debt”. Invited seminar, the Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Alberta,

Nov. 23, 2009.

12. Invited speaker to the 2009 National Summer School of Biodiversity for

Postgraduates (funded by National Science Foundation of China and Ministry of

Education) in Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. July 15-30, 2009.

13. Invited working group on universal diversity patterns across sciences at Santa Fe

Institute. Talk: Scaling tree size distribution. February 23-26, 2009.

14. Invited working group on upscaling diversity patterns at University of Leeds. Talk:

Estimating species richness. February 1-3, 2009.

15. Invited workshop on neutral theory at Beijing Normal University. Two talks: (1)

Macroecological patterns of biodiversity, and (2) Asymmetric neutral community

assembly rules. October 23 – November 1, 2008. ~120 attendees.

16. Modeling species abundance-distribution relationships. Department of Biology,

McGill University, April 10, 2008.

17. Sustaining Biodiversity of the boreal mixedwood forests of Alberta. Universidad de

Chile, Santiago, March 11, 2008 & Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile,

March 13, 2008.

18. Modeling species abundance-distribution relationships. Department of Ecology &

Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, January 29, 2008.

19. Invited to attend PI’s meeting of the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS),

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, to discuss the direction of the CTFS

network and data sharing policy. In National Center of Ecological Analysis and

Synthesis (NCEAS), UC-Santa Barbara. September 9-14, 2007.

20. Coexistence of nearly neutral species. Invited seminar at Dept de biologique

sciences, Universté de Montréal. September 4, 2007

21. Species-abundance distribution: neutral regularity, niche determinism, or

idiosyncratic stochasticity? Invited seminar at the Program in Interdisciplinary

Biological & Biomedical Sciences. University of New Mexico. April 18, 2007.

(http://pibbs.unm.edu/courses_spring2007.html)

22. Tree size distribution across forest communities. Invited presentation at the BIRS

“Forests, Fires and Stochastic Modeling” Workshop. Banff, Alberta. May 6-11,

2006. Organizers: W. Braun (Western Ontario), C. Dean (SFU), F. He (Alberta), D.

Martell (Toronto) and H. Preisler (USDA Forest Service).

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23. Species distribution and abundance. Invited departmental seminar, Dept. of

Biological Sciences, University of Calgary. November 1, 2006.

24. Invited NCEAS working group: Tools and fresh approaches for species abundance

distributions. One week working meeting. I presented a talk, Sufficient but

unnecessary species-abundance theories, to the group of 15 invited participants.

UC-Santa Barbara, October 23-27, 2006.

25. Invited to give one week short course on biodiversity (title: Biodiversity analysis) at

Tunghai University, Taiwan, Republic of China. December 22 – 30, 2005.

(http://www2.thu.edu.tw/~cteb/)

26. Population dynamics, niche theory, and neutral macroecology. Invited seminar.

Research Center for Biodiversity, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of

China. December 30, 2005.

27. The correlation between the distribution and abundance of species. Invited seminar.

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. December 28,

2005.

28. Invited to the Biodiversity Science and Education Initiative (BSEI;

http://www.discoverlife.org/pa/ev/me/2005bsei/index.html) – Ten Years Plan

sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. There were a series of meetings taking

place in various locations to identify key gaps in the theoretical and empirical

understanding of biodiversity, both pattern and process. The first two meetings took

place in Panama (October 20-23, 2005) and Georgia (January 12-14, 2006),

respectively.

29. Macroecology of Biodiversity: Patterns, Theories, Data and Conservation. Invited

seminar, jointly invited by the Zhejiang University and Botanical Society of

Zhejiang. June 7, 2005. (http://www.cls.zju.edu.cn/sub/bsz.org/)

30. Population dynamics, niche theory, and neutral macroecology. Invited speaker at

the Third International Symposium on Modern Ecology. Beijing, China. June 1-6,

2005. (http://www.moderneco.net/)

31. Spatial Ecology. Invited speaker at the Workshop on Forest Fires and Point

Processes sponsored by the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences,

University of Toronto. May 25, 2005. (http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/audio/04-

05/forest_fires/he/)

32. The distribution of species: occupancy, scale and rarity. Invited workshop on

Scaling biodiversity, organized and sponsored by the Sante Fe Institute and the

Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University, Prague, October 19-23, 2004.

33. The application of geostatistics in soil data sampling and analysis. Invited speaker

to a workshop on soil sampling protocol and analysis for the tropical forest

mapping plots, June 4-9, 2004, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

City.

34. Neutral theory of biodiversity: linking macroecological patterns of species

abundance to local population processes. Invited departmental seminar at UBC –

the Centre of Biodiversity /Zoology, Feb. 25, 2004.

35. Occupancy, spatial variance, and the abundance of species. Invited seminar to the

Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Alberta, Nov. 17, 2003.

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36. Percolation theory for the distribution and abundance of species. Invited speaker at

the 18PthP

Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape

Ecology, Banff Centre, Alberta, April 2-6, 2003.

37. Downscaling abundance from the distribution of species: occupancy theory and

applications. Invited workshop on ecological scaling sponsored by the EPA at

Arizona State University, Tempe, October 17-19, 2002.

38. Statistical modelling of species occurrence. Invited speaker to an NSF funded

workshop in Panama on Species diversity analysis and species distribution in

tropical rainforests. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution, Gamboa, Panama,

July 7-29, 2002.

39. The distribution and abundance of species. Invited seminar in the Dept. of

Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Victoria, April 2, 2002.

40. Linear/generalized linear regression models, lecture to 30 foresters and ecologists

from 12 countries. Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) Workshop on the

Analysis of Forest Plot Data, India Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. July 19-

August 12, 2001.

41. Correlation between species distribution and abundance. Invited speaker at the

2000 Symposium of the Centre for Tropical Forest Science of the Smithsonian

Institution, Singapore, May 28-June 4, 2000.

42. Species-area, species-dominance and species-aggregation relationships. Invited

seminar in the Dept. of Life Sciences, Arizona State University West, Phoenix,

March 10, 2000.

(5) Symposium/conference presentations:

Too many to be listed.

(6) Contract and government reports:

43. Ryan, M., Fraser, D.F., Marshall, V.G. and He, F. 2009. Successional changes in

plant species diversity in forest chronosequences on southern Vancouver Island,

British Columbia. Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria,

British Columbia. Information Report BC-X-421 (ISBN 978-1-100-13683-7).

44. He, F.. 2006. Modeling infestation and mortality rates for lodgepole pine trees

attacked by the mountain pine beetle. Final Project Report of MPBI Project #

1.04B. Submitted to the Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC.

Training and supervisory experience

Over the past five years, I have supervised 16 personnel (technicians, research associates,

pdfs, graduate students, undergraduate students). Seven have successfully completed their

studies and have been appointed to permanent positions (3) or chosen to continue their

postdoctoral training in other institutions (4). I have hosted many visiting scientists from

other countries (China, Germany, New Zealand, UK, USA) and have served the university

well on 13 graduate supervisory/examination committees.

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I have encouraged students to take advantage of the strong international connections of the

lab and to directly communicate and work with world-class scientists (e.g., Profs. S.

Hubbell, P. Legendre and K. Gaston). Furthermore, my extensive connections with

governments and industry have provided opportunities for students to work with those

agencies and to expose themselves to future employers.

(1) Postdoctoral research fellows supervised

Surname First

name

Field Years

supervised

Title of research project Current position

Moreno Monica Statistics June 2011-Dec

2013

Modeling spatio-temporal

distribution of species

In progress

Aditya Raghavan Physics Sept 2011-

April 2013

Spatio-temporal dynamics In progress

(cosupervision with Dr.

Hao Wang in Dept of

Math)

Zillio Tommaso Physics Jan 2007-2010 Theoretical physics,

spatially explicit neutral

models of biodiversity

Changed his career path

as a successful

musician

Pyueo Salvador Ecology 2006-2007 Biodiversity patterns and

species assemblage rules

(Max Entropy)

Group Leader, Climate-

Biosphere Interaction

Group, Catalan

Institute of Climate

Sciences, Barcelona

Gamarra Javier Ecology 2005-2006 Modeling the spatial

distribution of mountain

pine beetle outbreaks in BC

Research assistant

professor, U of

Wales

Borda-

de-Agua

Luis Ecology 2002-2003 Multifractal properties of

species distribution

Centro de Biologia

Ambiental,

Universidade de Lisboa

Zhang Qibing Ecology January-June,

2001

Modeling impact of

climate on vegetation

distribution

Professor, Institute of

Botany, Chinese

Academy of Sciences

Zhu Hongtu Statistics 2000-2001 Spatial statistics and

autologistic models

Professor, Dept of

Biostat, U of North

Carolina, Chapel Hill

(2) Graduate students supervised and under supervision

Surname First

name

Years

supervised

Degree Title of research project

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La Rocca Claudio Sept 2012 - PhD (in progress) Biodiversity-carbon relationship

Akande Jessica Sept 2011- PhD (in progress) Spatial variation in soil respiration

Khan Sarah Sept 2011- PhD (in progress) Coarse woody debris and forset carbon

Zhang Jian Sept 2009- PhD (in progress) Modeling forest carbon

Ruan Xiaofen Sept 2009- PhD (in progress) Spatial ecology

Mayor Stephen Sept 2007- PhD (in progress)

Cosupervision

Biodiversity and human disturbance in

boreal forests

Guillaume Blanchet Sept 2007-

2012

PhD (completed, June

2012)

Modeling insect biodiversity patterns in

boreal forests

Bodeux Brett Sept. 2006-

2012

MSc (completed, Feb

2012)

Beta diversity of insects in boreal forest

of Alberta (EMEND study)

Chen Ting 2005-2008 MSc (completed, Dec

2008)

Spatial analysis of North Saskatchewan

River valley corridor in Edmonton

Gray Laura Sept. 2006-

July 2008

MSc (completed, July

2008)

Tree competition and stand dynamics of

boreal forest of Alberta (EMEND

study). Continued PhD study in different

lab of the same dept.

Babak Petro 2004-2006 PhD (completed Nov

2006)

Continuous probabilistic analysis of

neutral macroecological models for

species abundance dynamics

Hunsdoerfer Anina 2004-2006 MSc (completed July

2006)

Mountain pine beetle infestation risk:

Interactions of population phase, host

vigour and spatial aggregation

(3) Research personnel and undergraduate supervised

Surname First

Name

Years

supervised

Position Research Project

Hu Xinsheng Aug 2003-

Jan 2009

Research associate Population genetics and

biodiversity

Fan Shihe 2003-June

2006

Research

associate/technician

Modeling mountain pine beetle

outbreaks.

Current position: Biostatistician of

the Capital Health, Edmonton,

Alberta

Bodeux Brett Summer

2006, 2007

Undergraduate Field assistant worked at the

EMEND site

Fitzpatrick Jeremy

Summer

2006, 2007

Undergraduate

student internship

Field assistant worked at the

EMEND site

Oakley Robert Summer

2006

Undergraduate

student internship

Field assistant worked at the

EMEND site

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Jackson Sarah Summer

2005

Undergraduate

student internship

Modeling spatial autocorrelation in

bird distribution

(4) Visiting scientists from the Chinese Biodiversity Monitoring Network

(http://www.cfbiodiv.org/) and related institutions. The network consists of 10 large-scale

stem mapping plots from temperate to tropical forests in China. Since 2004 I have

supported over 30 scientists from the network for 4-12 months visit.

Surname First Name Home Institution Years supervised Activity

Liu Yanyan Northeast Forestry University Oct 2011-Mar 2013 Modeling tree

distribution in a 9 ha

temperate forest

Zhang Yuhua Sun Yat-sen University Jul-Nov 2012 Diversity-productivity

relationship

Wang Yongfan Sun Yat-send University Jul-Oct 2012 Diversity-productivity

relationship

Bin Yue Sun Yat-sen University Sept-Dec 2012 Competition-

colonizaation

Chen Qingsong East China Normal University Aug 2011-Sept 2012 Modeling tree

distribution in a 20 ha

subtropical forest

Lin Guojun South China Botanic Garden,

CAS

Sept 2011-Oct 2012 Seed dispersal and

germination

Liu Xubing Sun Yat-sen University Sept 2011-Jan 2012 Effect of pathogens on

seedling survival

Zhu Biru Beijing Normal University Oct 2009-Feb 2010 Maximum entropy and

functional traits

Ding Yi Chinese Academy of Forestry Oct 2009-Apr 2010 Diversity in Hainan

Island

Chen Jinsong Chendu Institute of Biology,

CAS

May 2009-2010 Plant ecology and

biodiversity

Liu Wei Beijing Normal University Aug-Nov 2009 Modeling bird

distribution in China

Xu Han Institute for Tropical Forestry,

Chinese Academy of Forestry

Aug-Nov 2009 Plant diversity of

Hainan Island

Lin Yiching Tunghai University, Taiwan July-Sept 2009 Modeling point

patterns of trees

Wang Yanping Zhejiang University Apr 2009-2010 Macroecological

patterns

Zhang Jiaoling Xishuangbanna Tropical

Botanical Garden, CAS

June-Dec 2009 Functional traits

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Hu Yuehua Xishuangbanna Tropical

Botanical Garden, CAS

June-Dec 2009 Species-habitat

association in

Xishuangbanna Plot

Gao Meng Dept of Mathematics, Lanzhou

University

Jan 2007-Jan 2008 Spatial statistics

Lan Guoyu Xishuangbanna Tropical

Botanical Garden, CAS

Apr-Aug 2008 Spatial variations of

tree species diversity

in Xishuangbanna plot

Zhang Xifeng Dept of Mathematics, Lanzhou

University, China

Oct 2007-Oct 2008 Spatio-temporal

distributions of

Chlorophyll-a

Shen Guochun Dept of Biology, Zhejiang

University

Sept 2007-Sept 2008 Modeling species-

abundance distribution

Zhao Gufeng Dept of Biology, Zhejiang

University

Sept 2007-Sept 2008 Life-history traits in

fragmented forests

Wang

Xugao Shenyang Institute of Applied

Ecology, CAS

May–Aug 2007 Tree diversity patterns

in Changbai plot

Zhang Jian Shenyang Institute of Applied

Ecology, CAS

May–Aug 2007 Density-dependent

effect in Changbai plot

Lian Juyun South China Botanical Garden,

CAS

Feb-June 2007 Tree size distribution

in the Dinghu plot

Li Lin South China Botanical Garden,

CAS

Sept 2005-Jan 2006 Tree distribution in the

Dinghu plot

Wang Zhigao South China Botanical Garden,

CAS

March-June 2006 Species-habitat

association in the 20

ha Dinghu plot

Chen Xiaoyong Dept of Environ Sci & Tech,

East China Normal Univ,

Shanghai

Oct 2005-Feb 2006 Island biogeography

and population

genetics

Yu Mingjiang Dept of Biology, Zhejiang

Univ

Feb-May 2006 Life-history traits in

Gutian plot

Ding Ping Dept of Biology, Zhejiang

Univ

Feb-May 2006 Bird diversity in the

Gutian Reserve

Ren Haibao Beijing Institute of Botany,

CAS

Nov 2005-May 2006 Species-habitat

association in the

Gutian plot

Mi Xiangcheng Beijing Institute of Botany,

CAS

Nov 2005-March

2006

tree distribution of the

24 ha Gutian plot

Getzin Stephen Institute of Ecology, University

of Jena, Germany

Nov 2004-Feb 2005 Modeling point

patterns of tree

distribution

Ye Ji Shenyang Institute of Applied

Ecology, CAS

Dec 2004-May 2005 tree distribution of the

25 ha Changbai plot

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(5) Hosting visiting scientists

Surname First Name Home Institution Year visited Activity

Hwang Wenhan Dept of Applied Mathematics,

National Chung Hsing

University, Taiwan, ROC

Feb 2009 Modeling species

occupancy

Gaston Kvein University of Exeter Aug 2008 Conservation biology

Silva Marina Dept of Biology, University of

Prince Edward Island, Canada

May 2008 Regional patterns of

avian species richness

on Prince Edward

Island, Canada

Wan Juliana, W.

A.

School of Environ and Natural

Resource Sciences, Universiti

Kebangsaan Malaysia

June-Aug 2008 Relationship between

tree species and soil

condition in a lowland

forest of Malaysia

Buckley Hannah Dept of Ecology, Lincoln

University, New Zealand

July 2007 Modeling occupancy

of tussock species

Shen Tsung-Jen Dept of Applied Mathematics,

National Chung Hsing

University, Taiwan, ROC

Aug 2006 Estimating species

richness

Green Jessica University of Merced, USA Jan 2004 Species distribution

Research Grants Received since Joining UofA in 2003

Granting body Title Total

funding

(period)

Amount I

received

PI/Co-PI

Alberta Bio Solution

Value Chains

Predicting the impact of

management activities on forest

carbon pools and biodiversity.

$284.8k

(2012-2015)

$284.8k F. He

CFI Biodiversity Science and

Conservation Ecology Group

$134.4k

(2009-2014)

$67.2k Scott Nielsen/F. He

Alberta SEGP Biodiversity Science and

Conservation Ecology Group

$115.5k

(2009-2014)

$57.75 Scott Nielsen/F. He

Alberta Biodiversity

Monitoring Institute

Spatial correlation between

biodiversity and ecosystem service

in Alberta

$60k (2009-

2012)

$60k F. He

University of Alberta,

Provost Grant

Support Canada Research Chair

position in biodiversity research

$180k

(2008-2016)

$180k F. He

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China Institute, Univ of

Alberta

Forest biodiversity and dynamics

plots network of China

$20k

(2009)

$20k F. He

NSERC Modeling biodiversity patterns in

tropical, temperate and boreal

Forests

$147.5k

(2008-2013)

$147.5k F. He

GEOIDE

Forests, fires and stochastic

modeling

$500k

(2008-2011)

$45k Charmaine

Dean/John

Braun/David

Martell/F. He and 9

other researchers

NSERC Establishing the National Institute

for Complex Data Structure

$200k

(2008-2011)

$20k

John

Braun/Charmaine

Dean/David

Martell/F. He etc.

National Natural Science

Foundation of China

(Collaborative Fund, 海外

青年学者合作研究基金)

Modeling biodiversity patterns

from niche and neutral theories

Ұ400k CNY

(2006-2009)

$64.5k F. He/Collaborator:

Dayong Zhang

(College of Life Sci,

Beijing Normal U)

Canada Foundation for

Innovation

Equipment for study of spatial

ecology and biodiversity

$72k

(2003-2008)

$72k F. He

NSERC Predicting macroecological patterns

from population processes

$100k

(2004-2008)

$100k F. He

Alberta Ingenuity Fund Modeling distribution and

abundance of species in landscapes

$225k

(2005-2007)

$225k F. He

National Excellent Centre

for Sustainable Forest

Management

Developing biodiversity patterns

for predicting the effect of

management on the boreal

mixedwood forests of Alberta

$539.7k

(2006-2009)

$209.7k F. He/C. Dean, D.

Langor, B. McGill, J.

Spence, F. Sperling

and T. Work

Manning Forestry

Research Fund

Biodiversity patterns in the boreal

mixedwood forests of Alberta

$75k

(2006-2009)

$75k F. He

Canadian Forest Service Modeling infestation and mortality

rates for lodgepole pine trees

attacked by the mountain pine

beetle

$240k

(2003-2005)

$240k F. He

Canadian Forest Service Landscape modeling of spatio-

temporal patterns of mountain pine

beetle infestation

$395k

(2004-2007)

$200k M. Lewis/F. He

Forest Resource

Improvement Assoc. of

Alberta

Modeling the occurrence of forest

fires in Alberta

$300k

(2005-2006)

$20k Frank Liu/F. He

GEOIDE

Forests, fires and stochastic

modeling

$130k

(2005-2006)

$70k Charmaine Dean/F.

He and 9 other

researchers

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FSIDA, UofA Forest biodiversity and dynamics

plot network of China

$10k (2005) $10k F. He