Chia Hsieh

Journal Article​s

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• Greco I, L. Beaudrot, C. Sutherland, S. Tenan, C. Hsieh, D. Gorczynski, et al. (2025) Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forests. PLoS Biology 23(2): e3002976.
   

• Hsieh, C., D. Gorczynski, R. Bitariho, S. Espinosa, S. Johnson, M.G.M. Lima, F. Rovero, J. Salvador, F. Santos, D. Sheil, L. Beaudrot (2024) Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(5): e13829
   

• Chia, S. Y., Y.-T. Fang, Y.-T. Su, P.-Y. Tsai, C. Hsieh, S.-H. Tsao, J.-Y. Juang, C.-M. Hung, M.-N. Tuanmu (2023) A global database of bird nest traits. Scientific Data 10(1): 923.
   

• Gorczynski, D., F. Rovero, A. Mtui, S. Shinyambala, J. Martine, C. Hsieh, L. Frishkoff, L. Beaudrot (2023) Tropical forest mammal occupancy and functional diversity increase with microhabitat surface area. Ecology 104(12): e4181.
   

• Fricke, E., C. Hsieh, O. Middleton, D. Gorczynski, C. D. Cappello, O. Sanisidro, J. Rowan, J.-C. Svenning, L. Beaudrot. (2022) Collapse of terrestrial mammal food webs since the Late Pleistocene. Science 377: 1008-1011.
   

• Gorczynski, D., C. Hsieh, J. Ahumada, E. Akampurira, M. H. Andrianarisoa, S. Espinosa, S. Johnson, C. Kayijamahe, M. Lima, B. Mugerwa, F. Rovero, J. Salvador, F. Santos, D. Sheil, E. Uzabaho, L. Beaudrot (2022) Human density modulates spatial associations among tropical forest terrestrial mammal species. Global Change Biology 28: 7205-7216.
   

• Gorczynski, D, C. Hsieh, J. Tonos Luciano, S. Johnson, M. H. Andrianarisoa, J. Hurtado Astaiza, C. Kayijamahe, J. Ahumada, S. Espinosa, F. Rovero, F. Santos, P. Jansen, M. Lima, J. Salvador, L. Beaudrot. (2021) Tropical mammal functional diversity increases with productivity but decreases with anthropogenic disturbance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288(1945): 20202098.
   

• Tsai, P.-Y., C.-J. Ko, C. Hsieh, Y.-T. Su, Y.-J. Lu, R.-S. Lin, M.-N. Tuanmu (2020) A trait dataset for Taiwan's breeding birds. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e49735.

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Invited Seminar

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• 2025  Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  Unraveling Historical Influences on Pantropical Diversity Disparity of Mammals
   

• 2024  Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University
  Effects of evolutionary history and environmental variability on tropical vertebrates

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Conference Oral Presentations

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• 2024   International Biogeography Society, Prague, Czech Republic
  Evolutionary history and environmental variability shape resource specialization in tropical mammals
               

• 2023   Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, USA
  Evolutionary history and environmental changes shape trophic interactions of tropical mammals
                                    

• 2022   Ecological Society of America and Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution joint meeting,  Montreal, CanadaEvolutionary history, paleo- and contemporary environmental changes drive tropical mammal community structure
   

• 2022   International Biogeography Society, Vancouver, Canada 
  Evolutionary history, paleo- and contemporary abiotic filters drive tropical mammal community structure
   

• 2021   Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, USA (Virtual) 
  Edge effects on species richness distributions in tropical forest protected areas
                                                       

• 2019   International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Milan, Italy
  Within-community Beta-diversity of Breeding Birds Driven by Environmental Factors
   

• 2017   Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 
  Above-belowground Interactions on Soil Ecosystem Functioning in Subtropical Urban Ecosystem

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Conference Poster Presentations

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• 2018   Taiwan Ornithological Congress, Taiwan  
  Effects of Environmental Heterogeneities on Beta-diversity Patterns of Breeding Birds    

• 2018   US-International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA            
  Beta-diversity Patterns of Breeding Birds Influenced by Environmental and Climatic Heterogeneity in Taiwan
   

• 2016   British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Liverpool, U.K.                                             
  Impact of Above-belowground Interactions on Ecosystem Functioning in Urban Ecosystem: by the Spectroscopy of Soil Dissolved Organic Matter
   

• 2013   American Geophysical Union’s Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA                       
  Spatial Variations of Dissolved Organic Matter Compositions and Characteristics in an Urbanized Watershed