CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics

NIE Yonggang

2019-03-07 | | 【Print】

Associate Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2016– )
Assistant Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012– 2015)
PhD in Ecology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012)
MS in Zoology, China West Normal University, China (2007)

Awards and Honors:

2015, Young Scientist Award, China Zoological Society.
2013, Outstanding Young Scientist in Animal Ecology of China.

Research Grants:

The nutritional requirements and foraging strategies of giant panda in Qinling Mountains-a study from nutritional geometrical perspective(2014-2017), NSFC.

Research Interest

Conservation Biology, Animal Ecology.

Publications

Nie YG#, Speakman JR#, Wu Q#, Zhang CL, Hu YB, Xia MH, Yan L, Hambly C, Wang L, Wei W, Zhang JG, Wei FW. 2015. Exceptionally low daily energy expenditure in the bamboo-eating giant panda. Science, 349:171–174.

Nie YG, Zhang ZJ, Rambenhamer D, Elser JJ, Wei W, Wei FW. 2015. Obligate herbivory in an ancestrally carnivorous lineage: the giant panda and bamboo from the perspective of nutritional geometry. Functional Ecology, 26:29–34.

Wei W, Nie YG, Zhang ZJ, Hu YB, Yan L, Qi DW, Li XH, Wei FW, 2015, Hunting bamboo: Foraging patch selection and utilization by giant pandas and implications for conservation. Biological Conservation, 186:260–267

Wei FW, Hu YB, Yan L, Nie YG, Wu Q, Zhang ZJ. 2015. Giant pandas are not an evolutionary cul-de-sac: evidence from multidisciplinary research. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(1):4–12.

Wei FW, Swaisgood R, Hu YB, Nie YG, Yan L, Zhang ZJ, Qi DW, Zhu LF. 2015. Progress in the ecology and conservation of giant Pandas. Conservation Biology, 29:1497–1507.

Jin YP, Chen S, Chao YQ, Pu TC, Xu HQ, Liu XB, Zhao KH, Nie YG, Wei W, Lin DG. 2015. Dental Abnormalities of eight wild Qinling giant pandas (Alluropoda Melanoleuca Qinlingensis), Shaanxi Province, China. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 51(4):849–859.

Zhang ZJ, Sheppard JK, Swaisgood RR, Wang G, Nie YG, Wei W, Zhao NX, Wei FW. 2014. Ecological scale and seasonal heterogeneity in the spatial behaviors of giant pandas. Integrative Zoology, 9:46–60.

Nie YG, Swaisgood RR, Zhang ZJ, Hu YB, Ma YS, Wei FW. 2012. Giant panda scent-marking strategies in the wild: role of season, sex and marking surface. Animal Behaviour, 84:39–44.

Nie YG, Swaisgood R, Zhang ZJ, Liu XB, Wei FW. 2012. Reproductive competition and fecal testosterone in wild male giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66:721–730.

Nie YG, Zhang ZJ, R. Swaisgood, Wei FW. 2012. Effects of season and social interaction on fecal testosterone metabolites in wild male giant pandas: implications for energetics and mating strategies. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 58(1):235–241.