Fangyuan Hua

Fangyuan Hua is an Associate Professor of Conservation Ecology at Peking University in China. She was trained as a field ecologist with research experiences in the US, Indonesia, and China, and orients her research around understanding and bettering the fate of biodiversity under the interrelated contexts of habitat loss, degradation, and restoration. Fangyuan’s research group has led a portfolio of research projects to understand how wild species and assemblages are affected by anthropogenic changes of forest ecosystems, as well as to identify practical solutions that can lessen the loss of these species and assemblages and promote their recovery – with a particular focus on forest birds. In addition to academic research and teaching, Fangyuan also provides active service to academic journals and conservation organizations in China and internationally, with board membership for the journal Current Biology and the organization Society for Ecological Restoration being two examples.