Selected Publications
Representative achievements
Below are some representative achievements of the research team in recent years in the fields of environmental DNA, fish community structure, biodiversity monitoring, and conservation.
Science of the Total Environment · 2024
Zhang S, Zhan A, Zhao J, Yao M*. Metropolitan pressures: Significant biodiversity declines and strong filtering of functional traits in fish assemblages. Science of the Total Environment. 2024;944:173885.
Journal of Environmental Management · 2023
Zhang S, Bi Y, Zhu Y, Zhao J, Yao M*. To the north: eDNA tracing of the seasonal and spatial dynamics of fish assemblages along the world’s largest water diversion project. Journal of Environmental Management. 2023;331:117217.
Science Advances · 2022
Zhang S, Zheng Y, Zhan A, Dong C, Zhao J, Yao M*. Environmental DNA captures native and non-native fish community variations across the lentic and lotic systems of a megacity. Science Advances. 2022;8(6).
BMC Ecology and Evolution · 2022
Zhang S, Lin M, Liu J, Chen J, Liu D, Zhao J, Yao M*. A centenary tale: Population genetic insights into the introduction history of the oriental fire-bellied toad (Bombina orientalis) in Beijing. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 2022;22(1):117.
Molecular Ecology · 2022
Yao M*, Zhang S, Lu Q, Chen X, Zhang S, Kong Y, Zhao J. Fishing for fish environmental DNA (eDNA): ecological applications, methodological considerations, surveying designs, and ways forward. Molecular Ecology. 2022;31(20):5132-5164.
Environmental Science & Technology · 2022
Chen X, Kong Y, Zhang S, Zhao J, Li S, Yao M*. Comparative evaluation of common materials as passive samplers of environmental DNA. Environmental Science & Technology. 2022;56(15):10798-10807.
Diversity and Distributions · 2021
Zheng Y, Zhang S, Lu Q, Zhang SY, Wang L, Hong M, Nguyen T, Zhao J, Yao M*. Population genetic patterns of a mangrove-associated frog reveal its colonization history and habitat connectivity. Diversity and Distributions. 2021;27(8):1584-1600.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2020
Zhang S, Zhao J, Yao M*. A comprehensive and comparative evaluation of primers for metabarcoding eDNA from fish. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2020;11(12):1609-1625.
Molecular Ecology Resources · 2020
Zhang S, Lu Q, Wang Y, Wang X, Zhao J, Yao M*. Assessment of fish communities using eDNA: effect of spatial sampling design in lentic systems of different sizes. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2020;20(1):242-255.
Biological Invasions · 2019
Lin M, Zhang S, Yao M*. Effective detection of environmental DNA from the invasive American bullfrog. Biological Invasions. 2019;21:2255-2268.