people | Quantitative Ecology and Biogeography Lab

Xiao Feng

Assistant Professor, Biology, UNC Chapel Hill

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I am a quantitative ecologist and biogeographer, interested in macroecological patterns (e.g. biogeography & biodiversity) and emerging environmental issues under global change. I mainly use statistical models and computational informatics to answer ecological and biogeographic questions in a broad spatial context.

Luis Aguirre-López

Ph.D. candidate
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Conservation biogeography, ecology, biodiversity conservation planning, species distribution modeling, GIS applications, climate change and multi-scale species interactions.

Yuyang Xie

Postdoc fellow
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My research fields are landscape ecology and biogeography, focus on global mountain forest ecosystem such as alpine treeline distribution, and forest fragmentation in arid and semi-arid regions under climate change.

Alfredo Alejandro Ascanio Moreno

Postdoc fellow
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I'm interested in understanding how species evolve, separate, diversify, how this process relates to the evolution of their ecological niches, and how all of this affects their distributions. In addition, I'm interested in experimental ecology, patterns of community composition, GIS applications, R programming, Bayesian statistics, and general statistical modeling.

Lab Life

Snapshots from field days, holidays, and lab traditions.

Lab members playing Jungle Speed — **Playing Jungle Speed**A lab tradition from Mona's lab.

Lab members making dumplings for Spring Festival — **Making dumplings**Spring Festival, spring 2025.

Lab group photo while kayaking — **Kayaking**Taking a group photo while kayaking, summer 2024.

Lab members at BBQ night — **BBQ night**Spring 2025.

Alumni

Taina Rocha, lab guest, 2021-2023. Current position: Mombak.
Xin Chen, postdoc, 2021-2023. Current position: Research Scientist, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.