Department: College of Resources and Environmental Sciences
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Graduate School: North China Electric Power University
Degree: PhD
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Email: lei.zhao@cau.edu.cn
Office Location: 2-227 Zihuan Building
Address: 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian, Beijing
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Resume
I am interested in population dynamics in a food web and ecological applications of complex network theory. I am also interested in the effects of warming on aquatic communities. Currently I am working on spatial synchrony and Taylor’s law and the relationship between them. My recent or ongoing projects include: 1) spatial synchrony of phytoplankton in the California Current, and 2) the determinants of Taylor’s law slopes, as well as some new forms of Taylor’s law.
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Theoretical Ecology, including ecological networks, community dynamics, spatial synchrony, and Taylor's Law.
Thesis
Selected publications:
1) Lei Zhao, Huayong Zhang*, Eoin J. O'Gorman, Wang Tian, Athen Ma, John C. Moore, Stuart Borrett, Guy Woodward. Weighting and indirect effects identify keystone species in food webs, Ecology Letters, 2016, 19: 1032-1040. (IF: 9.45)
