CHENG Wenda

基本信息

职称：助理教授

导师类型：硕士导师

学历：博士研究生

个人主页：https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wenda-Cheng

研究方向

主要研究兴趣为亚热带、热带森林重要功能性昆虫（鳞翅目、膜翅目）群落及其同植物间的相互作用。利用野外观测、室内实验等手段，从生理、群落构建和生活史性状上探究环境变化（气候变化和生境改变）对生物多样性和生态系统功能的影响。欢迎喜欢野外工作的同学加入。

教育经历

2007.9 - 2011.7，中国农业大学，资源与环境学院，植物营养学，学士

2011.9 - 2014.7，中国科学院动物研究所，鸟类生态学，硕士

2014.9 - 2018.10，香港大学，生命科学学院，昆虫生态学，博士

工作经历

2018.10 - 2021.10，香港大学，生命科学学院，昆虫生态学，博士后

2020.9-2021.3， 捷克科学院昆虫研究所，昆虫生态学，访问学者

2022.1- 至今， 中山大学生态学院，昆虫生态学， 助理教授

代表论文

Wenda, C., Gaitán‐Espitia, J. D., Solano‐Iguaran, J. J., Nakamura, A., Majcher, B. M., & Ashton, L. A. (2022). Heat tolerance variation reveals vulnerability of tropical herbivore–parasitoid interactions to climate change. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14150

Wenda, C., Nakamura, A., & Ashton, L. A. (2022). Season and herbivore defence trait mediate tri‐trophic interactions in tropical rainforest. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13865

Wenda, C., Xing, S., Nakamura, A., & Bonebrake, T. C. (2021). Morphological and behavioural differences facilitate tropical butterfly persistence in variable environments. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90(12), 2888-2900.

Cheng, W., & Ashton, L.A. (2021). Ecology: what affects the distribution of global bee diversity. Current Biology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.044

Cheng, W., Kendrick, R.C., Guo, F., Xing, S., Bonebrake, T.C. (2019). Complex occurrence changes in a tropical lowland moth community following a decade of warming. Diversity and Distributions. 25 (4), 514-523

Cheng, W., Xing, S., Chen, Y., Lin, R., Bonebrake, T. C., Nakamura., A. (2018). Dark butterflies camouflaged from predation in dark tropical forest understories. Ecological Entomology. DOI:10.1111/een.12499

Cheng, W., Xing, S., Bonebrake, T. C. (2017). Recent Pangolin Seizures in China Reveal Priority Areas for Intervention. Conservation letters. 10(6), 757-764.

Cheng, W., & Bonebrake, T. C. (2017). Conservation effectiveness of protected areas for Hong Kong butterflies declines under climate change. Journal of Insect Conservation. 21(4), 599-606.

其它论文

Liang, D., Pan, X., Luo, X., Wenda, C., Zhao, Y., Hu, Y., ... & Liu, Y. (2021). Seasonal variation in community composition and distributional ranges of birds along a subtropical elevation gradient in China. Diversity and Distributions, 27(12), 2527-2541.

Hu, Y., Scheffers, B., Pan, X., Hu, H., Zhou, Z., Liang, D., Wenda, C., Wen, Z. & Gibson, L. (2021). Positive abundance–elevational range size relationship weakened from temperate to subtropical ecosystems. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90(11), 2623-2636.

Xing, S., Bonebrake, T. C., Cheng, W., Zhang, M., Ades, G., Shaw, D., & Zhou, Y. (2020). Meat and medicine: historic and contemporary use in Asia. In Pangolins (pp. 227-239). Academic Press.（book chapter）

Zhao, J., Lyu, N., Cheng, W., Zhou, L. (2020) Cryptic competition from neighbours significantly reduces intake rate of foraging greater white-fronted geese Animal Behaviour DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.07.011

Xing, S., Au,T.F., Dufour, P., Cheng,W., Landry Yuan, F., Vu, L.V., Jia, F., Wang, M., Bonebrake, T.C. (2019). Treading the Wallacean shortfall for an endangered, iconic and in-demand Southeast Asian butterfly. Biological Conservation 234, 154-164

Xing, S., Cheng, W., Nakamura, A., Tang, C.C., Pickett, E.J., Huang, S., Odell, E., Wang, M., Goodale, E., Goodale, M. U., Bonebrake, T.C. (2018) Butterflies are darker at higher elevations: implications for tropical butterflies in a warming world. Biological Journal of Linean Society. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blx159

Pickett, E. J., Chan, M., Cheng, W., Allcock, J., Chan, S., Hu, J., Lee, K., Smith, B., Xing,S., Yu, Y. & Bonebrake, C.T. (2017) Cryptic and cumulative impacts of global change threaten the long-term viability and recovery of endangered species. Environmental Conservation. 1-8. DOI:10.1017/S0376892917000340

Xing, S., Bonebrake, T. C., Tang, C. C., Pickett, E. J., Cheng, W.,Greenspan, S. E., ... & Scheffers, B. R. (2016). Cool habitats support darker and bigger butterflies in Australian tropical forests. Ecology and Evolution. 6(22), 8062-8074.

承担项目

国家自然科学基金青年项目：高温对热带鳞翅目拟寄生性天敌幼虫发育的影响研究 （32301457）；负责人

2023年度高校基本科研业务费中山大学青年教师培育项目:气候变化对热带鳞翅目-拟寄生性天敌食物网稳定性的影响研究（23qnpy43）；负责人

科技基础资源调查专项项目: 粤港澳大湾区陆生昆虫多样性调查及评估（2022FY100503）；子课题单位负责人