Haoran is interested in tree pests and disease outbreaks worldwide. During the Master’s, he worked to understand the ecological consequences of ash dieback disease. He compiled a climate-demographics database to study how the environment interacts with the pathogen to change tree mortality rates.
He also developed a model to forecast disease impact on forest health at Wytham Woods. In his DPhil project, Haoran will compile a global database of forest pests and diseases, and assessing how they affect forest biodiversity and nutrient cycles through integrative modelling. He is passionate about providing data and modelling products to nature recovery in diseased woodlands.
Haoran has a BA in Ecology from Zhejiang University, and an MPhil in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management from, the University of Oxford. His DPhil project will be funded by the Scottish Forestry Trust.
Related Projects
Healthy Ecosystem Restoration in Oxfordshire
Developing the local Oxfordshire landscape as a case-study, nature-recovery laboratory and community of practice.
Exploring the ecological effects of forest pests and diseases in a changing world
We leverage experimental and synthesised data approaches to create integrative models that predict the effects of pests and pathogens on forest ecology.
Related Outputs
Evaluating the impact of an invasive pathogen on tree population decline: An evidence based modelling approach.
Highlights A complexity-appropriate model was developed to forecast an invasive forest disease If 15 % of trees are resistant they create an efficient buffer against population decline Our modelling framework helps prediction, error assessment, and scenario building
