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Research interests
Macroecology & Macroevolution: Biodiversity dynamics in time and space.
Shan is broadly interested in understanding broad-scale biodiversity dynamics, in space and time, particularly the dramatic temporal and spatial variation in different aspects of biodiversity. She investigates the processes underlying biodiversity patterns, with an emphasis on the role of history in shaping global and regional biota, including evolutionary history of the organisms (e.g. extinction, range dynamics and morphological evolution) and historical environmental transitions (e.g. landscape evolution and paleoclimate change).
Shan takes an interdisciplinary approach to research by synthesising large datasets from ecology, evolution, palaeontology, geoscience, etc. She also integrates knowledge from studying various organismal systems, including terrestrial mammals, marine bivalves, and infectious diseases.
Biography
2023-present Assistant Professor in Paleobiology, University of Birmingham
2019-2022 Postdoc fellow funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG; an Eigene Stelle grant), Senckenberg Biodiversity & Climate Research Centre.
2015-2019 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Senckenberg Biodiversity & Climate Research Centre.
2012-2015 Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago (Advisor: Dr. David Jablonski)
2012 PhD, Unviersity of Georgia (Advisor: Dr. Sonia Altizer & Dr. John Gittleman)
Qualifications
- PhD in Ecology, University of Georgia
- MSc in Scientific, Technical & Medical Translation with Translation Technology, Imperial College London
- MSc in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation, Imperial College London
- BSc in Biological Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- QH301 Biology
- QL Zoology
- GB Physical geography
- QE Geology
- RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
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Diversity, distribution and intrinsic extinction vulnerability of exploited marine bivalves
Huang, S., Edie, S. M., Collins, K. S., Crouch, N. M. A., Roy, K. & Jablonski, D., 15 Aug 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 1, 12 p., 4639.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Environmental Change and Body Size Evolution in Neogene Large Mammals
Huang, S., Eyres, A., Fritz, S. A., Eronen, J. T. & Saarinen, J., 9 Aug 2023, Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 Years of the NOW Database of Fossil Mammals. Casanovas-Vilar, I., van den Hoek Ostende, L. W., Janis, C. M. & Saarinen, J. (eds.). 1 ed. Springer, p. 79–93 15 p. (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Mammalian body size evolution was shaped by habitat transitions as an indirect effect of climate change
Huang, S., Saarinen, J., Eyre, A., Eronen, J. & Fritz, S., Dec 2022, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31, 12, p. 2463-2474 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Forecasting parasite sharing under climate change
Morales-Castilla, I., Pappalardo, P., Farrell, M. J., Aguirre, A. A., Huang, S., Gehman, A. M., Dallas, T., Gravel, D. & Davies, T. J., 8 Nov 2021, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 376, 1837, 13 p., 20200360.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Infectious disease macroecology: parasite diversity and dynamics across the globe
Huang, S., Farrell, M. & Stephens, P. R., 8 Nov 2021, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 376, 1837, 8 p., 20200350.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial