Sean E. H. Pang- Doctor of Philosophy
- PostDoc Position at Aarhus University
Sean E. H. Pang
- Doctor of Philosophy
- PostDoc Position at Aarhus University
Studying rewilding impacts on future pan-European plant diversity and distribution, under climate and land-use change
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Introduction
Postdoc at Aarhus University, ECONOVO center. On the WildE project to quantify rewilding impacts on plant diversity and distribution across Europe. I will look across various future climate and land-use change scenario, to identify one that best serves European biodiversity.
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August 2018 - October 2022
August 2014 - August 2018
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Risk assessments of invasive species are among the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs). This challenge arises from the disequilibrium in invasive distributions, where recorded occurrences do not fully represent the species' potential range. The spatiotemporal dynamics of invasive populations are shaped by intraspecif...
The concept of the ecological niche is fundamental to understanding species distributions but it often overlooks the critical role of demography in shaping said distributions. Conversely, demographic theory has traditionally neglected how vital rates vary across environments, limiting our understanding of population dynamics across species’ ranges....
The concept of the ecological niche is fundamental to understanding species distributions but it often overlooks the critical role of demography in shaping said distributions. Conversely, demographic theory has traditionally neglected how vital rates vary across environments, limiting our understanding of population dynamics across species’ ranges....
The concept of the ecological niche is fundamental to understanding species distributions but it often overlooks the critical role of demography in shaping said distributions. Conversely, demographic theory has traditionally neglected how vital rates vary across environments, limiting our understanding of population dynamics across species’ ranges....
The forests of Southeast Asia harbour high levels of species diversity, providing a plethora of ecosystem services. However, this biodiversity is threatened by both climate and land-use change, the impacts of which are poorly understood. We modelled 1,498 tree species distributions under four shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) with varying global...
Bees and the ecosystem services they provide are vital to urban ecosystems, but little is understood about their distributions, particularly in the Asian tropics. This is largely due to taxonomic impediments and limited inventorying, monitoring, and digitization of occurrence records. While expert collections (EC) are demonstrably insufficient by t...
Bees and the ecosystem services they provide are vital to urban ecosystems, but little is understood about their distributions, particularly in the Asian tropics. This is largely due to taxonomic impediments and limited inventorying, monitoring, and digitization of occurrence records. While expert collections (EC) are demonstrably insufficient by t...
Understanding the relative contributions of historical and anthropogenic factors to declines in genetic diversity is important for informing conservation action. Using genome-wide DNA of fresh and historic specimens, including that of two species widely thought to be extinct, we investigated fluctuations in genetic diversity and present the first c...
Complex distribution data can be summarized by grouping species with similar or overlapping distributions to unravel spatial patterns and separate trends (e.g., of habitat loss) among spatially unique groups. However, such classifications are often heuristic, lacking the transparency, objectivity, and data-driven rigor of quantitative methods, whic...
Future biodiversity outcomes are expect to vary across Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) of climate and land-use change. We modelled 1476 tree species distributions in Southeast Asia, classified them into 12 spatially associated groups, and projected distributional changes under four SSPs. The sustainable pathway, SSP1-2.6, led to the best outco...
Published version on RG: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372024203_The_clustering_of_spatially_associated_species_unravels_patterns_in_tropical_tree_species_distributions
Published version open-access on Ecosphere: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.4589
Complex distribution data can be summarised by groupi...
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Human‐induced pressures such as deforestation cause anthropogenic range contractions (ARCs). Such contractions present dynamic distributions that may engender data misrepresentations within species distribution models. The temporal bias of occurrence data—where occurrences represent distributions before (past bias) or after (recent bias) ARCs—...
Quantifying the amount of carbon stored in tropical forests is needed to inform climate mitigation mechanisms such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). Remote sensing is a cost-effective tool to accurately estimate aboveground forest carbon stocks. Studies that use data from multiple sensors for estimating aboveg...
Southeast Asian forests are dominated by the tree family Dipterocarpaceae, whose abundance and diversity are key to maintaining the structure and function of tropical forests. Like most biodiversity, dipterocarps are threatened by deforestation and climate change, so it is crucial to understand the potential impacts of these threats on current and...
The Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus has experienced marked population declines and extirpations due to unsustainable trade and habitat loss across South-East Asia. As a result, the species has been uplisted from Endangered to Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List within a short span of two years. To ascertain the extent of its region...
