My research interests include freshwater ecology, macroecology and community ecology. In the Biodiversity Synthesis Lab, my focus is on examining land-use effects freshwater biodiversity. To research this, I compiled a database from literatures with species abundance data across sites with different land use intensities. I’m working on several questions with the database: How does land-use effect on freshwater biodiversity? Are the effects different across different scales? Which species are winners or losers?

November 2021 – ongoing: PhD, Biodiversity Synthesis Lab, iDiv

September 2018 – June 2021: Master of Science, Institute of hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

September 2014 – June 2018: Bachelor of Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Minghua Shen, Xueqin Liu. 2021. Assessing the effects of lateral hydrological connectivity alteration on freshwater ecosystems: A meta-analysis. Ecological Indicators, 125.