Ying Sun
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biography
Dr. Sun is a postdoctoral fellow in the Eco-Complexity Lab at Nankai University. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology from Lanzhou University in 2025. Her research focuses on plant diversity responses to climate change and functional traits, aiming to understand how environmental change shapes species distributions and ecological strategies across large spatial scales.
Research Interests
- 1. Species distribution and biogeography
- 2. Plant functional traits and ecological strategies
Selected Publications
- 1. Sun, Y., Deng, Y., Yao, S., Sun, Y., Degen, A. A., Dong, L., ... & Deng, J. (2025). Distribution range and richness of plant species are predicted to increase by 2100 due to a warmer and wetter climate in Northern China. Global Change Biology, 31(7), e70334.
- 2. Sun, Y., Sun, Y., Yao, S., Akram, M. A., Hu, W., Dong, L., ... & Deng, J. (2021). Impact of climate change on plant species richness across drylands in China: From past to present and into the future. Ecological Indicators, 132, 108288.
Contact
Email: sunying@nankai.edu.cn
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