MEI YU

The Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies welcomes Associate Professor Mei Yu to their faculty. Dr. Yu earned a Ph.D. in plant ecology from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences and a B.S. in probability and statistics from Beijing Normal University. She conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Virginia, Colorado State University, and University of Connecticut. Her research interests are broad, covering applications of GIS and remote sensing in natural resources management, biodiversity analysis on permanent plots, and ecological models for species distribution prediction and climate change. Her current research projects include predicting potential distribution of Rhododendron L., responses of ecosystem processes to climate change at landscape scale, and biodiversity richness patterns in Eastern China.

meiyu@ibcas.ac.cn