Partial representative achievements
- 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.
- 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117217
- 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):2375-2548.
- 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.
- 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. DOI: 10.1111/mec.16659
- 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. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c02506
- 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. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13304
- 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. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13485
- 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. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13105
- Lin M, Zhang S, Yao M*. Effective detection of environmental DNA from the invasive American bullfrog. Biological Invasions. 2019;21:2255-2268. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-019-01974-2