Vegetation Ecology Lab / 植群生態研究室

Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University

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Our research team

David Zelený

David Zelený
澤大衛

Associate Professor

www.davidzeleny.net

Scopus, WoS, ORCID, Google Scholar, ResearchGate

zeleny@ntu.edu.tw


Chien-Fan Chen
陳建帆

PhD candidate at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Working at Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (Taipei)

Succession of vegetation on landslides in the montane forest zone of Taiwan

taif.chenc@gmail.com


Mark Anthony Rabena
安馬克

PhD Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

d11b44005@ntu.edu.tw


Yan-Han Wu
吳衍翰

PhD Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

d13b44002@ntu.edu.tw


Ju-Chieh Wu (Luke)
吳儒杰

Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, previously an undergraduate student at the Department of Life Science and the School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, and an intern in the VegLab

Bachelor's thesis: Environmental drivers of understory vegetation dynamics in montane cloud forest of Taiwan (abstract)

r15b44005@ntu.edu.tw


Shu-Ping Wang
王舒平

Master's student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, previously an undergraduate student at the Department of Life Science and an intern in the VegLab

Bachelor's thesis: Understory species composition and its relationship with the environment in a one-hectare forest dynamics plot (abstract)

b09b01019@ntu.edu.tw


Ching-Ning Yeh
葉晴寧

Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and temporarily serving as Research Assistant in the lab

r13b44007@ntu.edu.tw


Syuan-An Shih (Andy)
石軒安

Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

r15b44014@ntu.edu.tw


Chen-Lee Lin
林宸立

Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

r15b44013@ntu.edu.tw


Meng-Kai Sheu (Benedict)
許孟凱

Undergraduate student at the Department of Life Science, intern in the VegLab

b12b01022@ntu.edu.tw


Former lab members


Yu-Heng Liu
劉宇恆

Previously a Master's Student at the School of Forestry and Resource Conservation (co-advisors: C.-T. Lin & F.-C. Chang)

Master's thesis: Relationship between litter decomposition and environmental factors in Taiwan forest vegetation (abstract)

r11625049@ntu.edu.tw


Yu-Wen Chen
陳毓文

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Master's thesis: Mass elevation effect in Taiwan: examination of patterns and mechanisms (abstract)

r13b44010@ntu.edu.tw


Mariasole Calbi
柯璧⽇

Previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow (NSTC) (12/2025-07/2026)

ResearchGate, ORCID, Google Scholar

mariasolecalbi@ntu.edu.tw


Yi-Nuo Lee (Enoch)
李以諾

Previously a Research Assistant (08/2024-03/2026) and a Master's student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Master's thesis: Importance of interspecific and intraspecific variation of plant functional traits: a case study in the Lalashan Forest Dynamics Plot (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202104070)

poiuytrewq976431@gmail.com


Cheng-Rui Yang (Ray)
楊承睿

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Master's thesis: Forest vegetation changes in Lopeishan Forest Dynamics Plot after 30 years (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202504829)

rax4070882@gmail.com


Michael Poirrette

Previously a Master's student at the Master's Program in Biodiversity

r11h44007@ntu.edu.tw


Jéssica L. Viana
李惟曦

Previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (MOST) (01/2022-07/2024). Currently works as a postdoc at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, with Prof. Hanna Tuomisto.

ResearchGate, ORCID, Twitter

lira.phb@gmail.com


Shu-I Lin
林書逸

Previously a Research Assistant (03/2024-07/2024) and a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Master's thesis: Relationships of environmental factors and plant traits to fog frequency gradient in cloud forest of northern Taiwan (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202304362)

r09b44030@ntu.edu.tw


Hsun-Hung Chu
朱訓宏

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Master's thesis: New framework for assigning Ellenberg-type indicator values and its application to define Taiwan indicator values (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202401533)

hsunhungchu@gmail.com


Yin-Sun Yao
姚尹舜 

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (main advisor: W.-Y. Kao)

Master's thesis: Leaf ecophysiological traits related to light of eight climbing plants in Taiwan (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202401034)

r10b44002@ntu.edu.tw


Po-Yu Lin
林柏佑

Previously a Research assistant (12/2022-03/2024) and a Master's student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Master's thesis: Woody species richness along elevation in Taiwan: patterns and mechanisms (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202101126)

flutter925517@gmail.com


Tsung-Chen Lee
李宗宸

Previously a Master's Student at the School of Forestry and Resource Conservation (co-advisor: B.-T. Guan)

Master's thesis: Environment-diversity relationships of bryophyte communities in Northeastern Taiwan forest (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202304498)

lemaplestory@gmail.com


Yi-Mei Wu
吳奕媺

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Master's thesis: Is decreasing richness of alien plant species along elevation in Taiwan caused by species temperature preference or intensity of human activities? (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202300700)

r08b44003@ntu.edu.tw


Shuo Wei
魏碩

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Currently studying as a PhD student at Yale University, New Haven, USA, in the lab of Dr. Liza S. Comita.

Master's thesis: The ecological characteristics of the safe sites for early-stage regeneration of Chamaecyparis obtusa var. formosana seedlings in Taiwan (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202300650)

shuo.wei@yale.edu


Ting Chen
陳婷

Previously a Master's Student at the School of Forestry and Resource Conservation (co-advisor: K.-F. Chung)

Woody species composition of the Lalashan Forest Dynamics Plot and its relationship to environment (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202300621)

r07625018@ntu.edu.tw


Ching-Lin Huang (Andy)
黃敬麟

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Currently studying as a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in the lab of Dr. Allison K. Shaw.

Disentangling ecological processes underlying the metacommunity by integrating several analytical methods (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202300163)

r09b44010@ntu.edu.tw


Kun-Sung Wu
吳昆松

Previously a Research Assistant (2018-2022)

kunsungwu@gmail.com


Yu-Pei Tseng
曾宇霈

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Currently studying as a PhD student at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, in the lab of Dr. Andrew Letten.

Master's thesis: Landscape effects on local species richness of woody specialists in Subtropical Montane Cloud Forest of Taiwan (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202204126)

peggy870507@gmail.com


Hsin-Yen Teng
鄧信彥

Previously a Master's Student at the School of Forestry and Resource Conservation (co-advisor: K.-F. Chung) and Research Assistant (2/2018-7/2018)

Master's thesis: Phytosociological study of natural forest vegetation in Lalashan and Tamanshan regions, northern Taiwan (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202202203)

r07625027@ntu.edu.tw


Kuan-Fu Lin
林冠甫

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Master's thesis: The relationship between understory species composition and environmental factors in the Lalashan Forest Dynamics Plot (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202200877)

ww579432@gmail.com


Cheng-Yang Tsai
蔡晟洋

Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

† May 8, 2022


Kenny Helsen
賀肯尼

Previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (MOST) (12/2020-7/2021)

ResearchGate, ORCID, Twitter

helsenkenny@ntu.edu.tw


Tsung-Yi Lin
林宗儀

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Master's thesis: The pattern of fern and lycophyte species composition and community-level fern leaf functional traits along an elevation gradient in Northeastern Taiwan (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU201903764)

r05b44017@ntu.edu.tw


Kenichiro Kurihara
栗原健一郎

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (exchange student from the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan)

a07b44101@ntu.edu.tw


Yen-Cheng Shen
沈彥成

Previously a Master's Student at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (co-advised by W.-Y. Kao)

Master's thesis: Relationship between functional traits of woody species and elevation gradient: a case study from forest vegetation in Northern Taiwan (abstract) (https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU201900071)

r05b44012@ntu.edu.tw