Feihai Yu

Biography

Educational Background: 2002 — 2005 : Postdoc, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research. 1997 — 2002 : Ph. D in Ecology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1993 — 1997 : B. Sc in Biology, Hangzhou University (current Xixi School, Zhejiang University). Working Experience: 2009: Professor, Beijing Forestry University. 2005-2009: Associate professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2008.10: Visiting scholar at Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic. 2008.11- 2009.2: Visiting scholar at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. 2010.12: Visiting scholar at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. 2012. 9: Visiting scholar at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Research Interest

[1] Clonal plant ecology and environmental heterogeneity: ecological consequences of small-scale environmental heterogeneity at different levels, i.e. on individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems; adaptive evolution of clonal life histories; effects of clonality on performance of individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems. [2] Wetland plant ecology: adaptive strategies of plants in wetland conditions and restoration of degraded wetland vegetation. [3] Invasive plant ecology: roles of clonal life history traits in plant invasiveness and community invasibility. [4] Plant-plant interactions: intra- and interspecific competition and facilitation.