Flora Conservation Department
Conservation and Research - Researchers
Dr. Jinlong Zhang
Senior Ecologist
Flora Conservation Department
I am a plant ecologist interested in the diversity and distributions of vascular plants.
I use quantitative methods to understand the mechanisms underlying species distribution patterns at various scales. The results will be used in the conservation and restoration of tropical forests.
Selected publications:
Abbas, S., Nichol, J. E., Zhang, J.L., & Fischer, G. A. (2019). The accumulation of species and recovery of species composition along a 70 year succession in a tropical secondary forest. Ecological Indicators, 106, 105524.
Zhu, H.L., Liu, J.G., Zhang, J.L., Hang, K.Y., Yeung, W.K., & Fischer, G.A. (2018) Ten newly recorded taxa to the flora of Hong Kong, China. Guihaia, 38(9), 1221-1228.
Li, J.H., Gale, S. W., Kumar, P., Zhang, J.L., & Fischer, G.A. (2018). Prioritizing the orchids of a biodiversity hotspot for conservation based on phylogenetic history and extinction risk. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 186(4), 473–497.
Zhang, J.L., Zhu, H.L., Liu, J.G, & Fischer, G. A. (2016) Principles behind designing herbarium specimen labels and the R package ‘herblabel’. Biodiversity Science, 24(12), 1345-1352.
Zhang, J.L., & Ma, K.P. (2014). spaa: an R package for computing species association and niche overlap. Research Progress of Biodiversity Conservation in China, 10, 165-174.