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  1. Wang, Y., Zeng, D., Zhao, Y., Tingley, M., Cadotte, M., Ding, P., & Si, X.* Imperfect detection biases β diversity estimates based on whether species are shared between sites. Zoological Research, 46(6), 1351-1362.
  2. Zhao Y.#, Zeng, D.#, Matthews T.J., Craven, D., Tingley M., Wang, S., Li, S., Ding, P., & Si X.* Island biogeography and life-history traits stabilize island bird communities. Global Change Biology, 31(10), e70535. [PDF]
  3. Liu X., Zeng D., Zhao Y., Li S., Wang S., Li B., Yuan X., Bo S., & Si X.* (2025) Contrasting effects of habitat fragmentation on community stability of breeding and wintering birds in urban green spaces. Urban Forest & Urban Greening, 112, 128961.
  4. Zeng D., Matthews T.J., Wang R., Zhao, Y., Yan C., Ding P., & Si X.* (2025) Defaunation erodes the diversity of rodent personality traits in fragmented forests. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(10), 2047-2061. [PDF]
  5. Zhu C., Dalsgaard B., Li W., Kaiser-Bunbury C.N., Simmons B.I., Ren P., Zhao Y., Zeng D., Gonçalves F., Zhang X., Chang L.,Ding P.* , & Si X.* (2025) Interconnecting fragmented forests: Small and mobile birds are cornerstones in the plant–frugivore meta-network, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U. S. A., 122(7), e2415846122.
  6. Si X.*, Jin T., Li W., Ren P., Wu Q., Zeng D., Zhang X., Zhao Y., Zhu C. & Ding P.* (2024) TIL20: A review of island biogeography and habitat fragmentation studies on subtropical reservoir islands of Thousand Island Lake, China. Zoological Research: Diversity and Conservation, 1(2), 89-105. [PDF]
  7. Zhao Y., Mendenhall C., Matthews T., Wang D., Li W., Liu X., Tang S., Han P., Wei G., Kang Y., Wu C., Wang R., Zeng D., Frishkoff L. & Si X.* (2024) Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291, 20232245.
  8. Liu X., Zhao Y., Zeng D., Yang Y., Li W., Kang Y., Wei G., Yuan X., Bo S., Si X.* (2023) Characterizing bird species for achieving the win-wins of conserving biodiversity and enhancing regulating ecosystem services in urban green spaces. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 87, 128064.
  9. Ren P., Didham R.K., Murphy M.V., Zeng D., Si X. & Ding P.* (2023) Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(3), 393-404.
  10. Wang D., Zhao Y., Tang S., Liu X., Li W., Han P., Zeng D., Yang Y., Wei G., Kang Y. & Si X.* (2023) Nearby large islands diminish biodiversity of the focal island by a negative target effect. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(2), 492-502.
  11. Zhu C., Li W., Gregory T., Wang D., Ren P., Zeng D, Kang Y., Ding P. & Si X.* (2022) Arboreal camera trapping: a reliable tool to monitor plant‐frugivore interactions in the trees on large scales. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 8(1), 92-104.
  12. Liu J., Xia S., Zeng D., Liu C., Li Y., Yang W., Yang B., Zhang J. *, Slik F. & Lindenmayer D.B. (2022) Age and spatial distribution of the world’s oldest trees. Conservation Biology, 36(4), e13907.
  13. Liu J., MacDonald Z.G., Si X., Wu L., Zeng D., Hu G., Ding P. & Yu M.* (2022) SLOSS‐based inferences in a fragmented landscape depend on fragment area and species–area slope. Journal of Biogeography, 49(6), 1075-1085.
  14. Li W., Zhu C., Grass I., Vázquez D.P., Wang D., Zhao Y., Zeng D., Kang Y., Ding P. & Si X.* (2022) Plant-frugivore network simplification under habitat fragmentation leaves a small core of interacting generalists. Communications Biology, 5(1), 1214.
  15. Zeng D., Galetti M., Liu, J., Jin T., Zhao Y. & Ding P.* (2022). Size-related seed use by rodents on early recruitment of Quercus serrata in a subtropical island forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 503, 119752. [PDF]
  16. 王彦平, 宋云枫, 钟雨茜, 陈传武, 赵郁豪, 曾頔, 吴亦如, 丁平* (2021) 中国鸟类的生活史和生态学特征数据集. 生物多样性, 29(9), 1149.
  17. Li J., Dirzo R., Wang Y., Zeng D., Liu J., Ren P., Zhong L., Ding P.* (2021) Rapid morphological change in a small mammal species after habitat fragmentation over the past half‐century. Diversity and Distributions, 27(12), 2615-2628.
  18. Zeng D., Jin T., Zhao, Y., Yan C., Zhang Z.* & Ding P.* (2021) Rodent abundance triggered switch between the relative mutualism and predation in a rodent–seed system of the subtropical island forest. Integrative Zoology, 16, 109-119. [PDF]
  19. 周浩楠, 赵郁豪, 曾頔, 刘娟, 金挺浩, 丁平* (2019) 千岛湖陆桥岛屿地表蚂蚁群落物种多样性空间格局及其影响因素. 生物多样性, 27(10): 1101-1111.
  20. Chen C., Zeng D., Zhao Y., Wu Y., Xu J. & Wang Y.* (2019) Correlates of extinction risk in Chinese endemic birds. Avian Research, 10, 8.
  21. Zeng D., Swihart R., Zhao Y., Si X. & Ding P.* (2019) Cascading effects of forested area and isolation on seed dispersal effectiveness of rodents on subtropical islands. Journal of Ecology, 107, 1506-1517. [PDF]
  22. Wang Y., Si X., Bennett P.M., Chen C., Zeng D., Zhao Y., Wu Y. & Ding P.* (2018) Ecological correlates of extinction risk in Chinese birds. Ecography, 41(5), 782-794.
  23. Si X., Cadotte M., Zhao Y., Zhou H., Zeng D., Li J., Jin T., Ren P., Wang Y. & Ding P.* (2018) The importance of accounting for imperfect detection when estimating functional and phylogenetic community structure. Ecology, 99(9), 2103-2112.
  24. Si X., Cadotte M., Zeng D., Baselga A., Zhao Y., Li J., Wu Y., Wang S. & Ding P.* (2017) Functional and phylogenetic structure of island bird communities. Journal of Animal Ecology, 86(3), 532-542.
  25. Hao H., Jiang C., Wu J.* , Zong C.*, Zeng D., Alimubike N. (2017) The effects of scatter-hoarding rodents on Mongolian oak (Quercus mongolica) acorn dispersal and seedling distribution in urban woodland. Urban Ecosystem, 20, 1277–1283.
  26. 斯幸峰, 赵郁豪, 陈传武, 任鹏, 曾頔, 吴玲兵, 丁平* (2017) Beta多样性分解: 方法、应用与展望. 生物多样性, 25(5):464-480.
  27. 吴奕如, 斯幸峰, 陈传武, 曾頔, 赵郁豪, 李家琦, 丁平* (2016) 千岛湖陆桥岛屿繁殖鸟类的扩散能力差异对群落动态的影响. 生物多样性, 24(10):1135-1145.
  28. 孔石, 曾頔, 杨宇博, 柴政, 郁超杰, 马建章* (2013) 中国国家级自然保护区与森林公园空间分布差异比较. 东北农业大学学报, (11):56-61.