Minghua Shen

Scholarship Holder

Affiliations

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Postal address

Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany

Room: B.01.26

Contact details

iDiv Publications

Publications 2024

van Klink, Roel, Bowler, Diana E., Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Shen, Minghua, Swengel, Scott R., Chase, Jonathan M. (2024): Disproportionate declines of formerly abundant species underlie insect loss. Nature

Shen, Minghua, van Klink, Roel, Sagouis, Alban, Petsch, Danielle K., Abong’o, Deborah Atieno, Alahuhta, Janne, Al-Shami, Salman Abdo, Armendáriz, Laura Cecilia, Bae, Mi-Jung, Begot, Tiago Octavio, Belliard, Jerome, Benstead, Jonathan Peter, Bomfim, Francieli F., Bredenhand, Emile, Budnick, William R., Callisto, Marcos, Calvão, Lenize Batista, Camacho-Rozo, Claudia Patricia, Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel, Carvalho, Fernando Geraldo, Chapman, Jacqueline, Chapman, Lauren, Chen, Qiuwen, Chernoff, Barry, Cibils-Martina, Luciana, Closs, Gerard Patrick, Corbi, Juliano J., Cunha, Erlane José, Cunico, Almir Manoel, De los Rios-Escalante, Patricio, Dolédec, Sylvain, Dunck, Barbara, Edegbene, Augustine Ovie, Engman, Augustin C., Erős, Tibor, Esteves, Katharina Eichbaum, Faquim, Ruan Carlos Pires, Faria, Ana Paula Justino, Ferreira, Claudia Maris, Ferreira, Márcio Cunha, Fierro, Pablo, Freitas, Pâmela V., Fugère, Vincent, Garcia, Thiago Deruza, Giam, Xingli, Gonino, Gabriel Murilo Ribeiro, González-Trujillo, Juan David, Gubiani, Éder André, Hamada, Neusa, Haro, Roger John, Hepp, Luiz Ubiratan, Herrera-R, Guido A., Hill, Matthew J., Huda, A. Nurul, Iniguez-Armijos, Carlos, Jamoneau, Aurélien, Jonsson, Micael, Juen, Leandro, Kadye, Wilbert T., Kahirun, Kahirun, Kasangaki, Aventino, Larson, Chad A., Pereira, Alexandre Leandro, Leboucher, Thibault, Leite, Gustavo Figueiredo Marques, Li, Dunhai, Luiza-Andrade, Ana, Luke, Sarah H., Lundquist, Matthew Joseph, Lupi, Daniela, Machuca-Sepúlveda, Jorge, Macuiane, Messias Alfredo, Mancera-Rodriguez, Nestor Javier, Márquez, Javier A., Martins, Renato Tavares, Masese, Frank O., Meixler, Marcia S., Michelan, Thaisa Sala, Monge-Salazar, María José, Mruzek, Joseph L., Mugni, Hernan Diego, Ndagurwa, Hilton Garikai Taambuka, Niba, Augustine, Nimptsch, Jorge, Novelo-Gutiérrez, Rodolfo, Ochieng, Hannington, Pacheco-Díaz, Rodrigo, Park, Young-Seuk, Passy, Sophia I., Pearson, Richard G., Peressin, Alexandre, Périco, Eduardo, Pires, Mateus Marques, Poulos, Helen, Principe, Romina E., Prudente, Bruno S., Ríos-Touma, Blanca, Ruaro, Renata, Schmitter-Soto, Juan J., Schneck, Fabiana, Schulz, Uwe Horst, Selvakumar, Chellappa, Sharma, Chhatra Mani, Siqueira, Tadeu, Solis, Marina Laura, Sousa, Raniere Garcez Costa, Stanley, Emily H., Stenger-Kovács, Csilla, Tales, Evelyne, Teresa, Fabrício Barreto, Thornhill, Ian, Tison-Rosebery, Juliette, Vieira, Thiago Bernardi, Villada-Bedoya, Sebastián, White, James C., Wood, Paul J., Xie, Zhicai, Yule, Catherine M., Zequi, João Antonio Cyrino, Chase, Jonathan M. (2024): FreshLanDiv: A Global Database of Freshwater Biodiversity Across Different Land Uses. Global Ecology and Biogeography

Research Interests

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?

 

Short CV

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

 

Publications before iDiv

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