Centers
Research Group on Systems Ecology and Watershed Ecology
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PI: Prof. TANG Tao, PhD
Group Members:
Tao Tang, Qinghua Cai, Lin Ye, Lu Tan, Zihao Wen, Qingyi Luo
Contact:
Office: 68-27-68780030
Email: tangtao@ihb.ac.cn
Address: No. 7 Donghu South Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
About our group:
Our research group specializes in watershed ecology, focusing on inland water bodies and their catchment areas as integrated systems. We employ theories and methods from systems ecology to investigate the impacts of both natural environments and human activities on freshwater biodiversity, ecological patterns, functions, and processes within watersheds. We also examine the relationship between watershed biodiversity and ecosystem functions, exploring the mechanisms that sustain these connections. Additionally, we analyze energy flow and nutrients cycling across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems within watersheds. Our research supports sustainable water resource management, biodiversity conservation, and regional development.
Recent research interest include:
1. Interactions among river flow, physicochemical conditions, and lotic biodiversity, along with their responses to climate change and human activities.
2. The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in rivers and lakes.
3. The impacts of human activities on aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in watersheds.
4. Assessments of the ecological carrying capacity of water bodies.
5. Identification of critical areas for the conservation of aquatic biodiversity in watersheds and the establishment of conservation networks.
Publications in the Last 5 Years:
1. Chiu M-C, Ao S, Ling C, He F, Luo Q, Wen Z, Cai Q, Resh V. 2024. Meta-ecosystem frameworks can enhance control of the biotic transport of microplastics. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(29), 12846-12852.
2. Hu J, Xu N, Ao S, Tan L, Li X, Cai Q, Tang T. 2024. Species turnover and functional nestedness constitute the geographic patterns of stream diatoms in the Three Parallel Rivers region, China. Ecology and Evolution, 14(7), e70010.
3. Li H, Tan L, Li X, Cai Q. 2024. Aquatic protected area system in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: establishment, challenges and prospects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12: 1204494.
4. Luo Q, Li S, Kinouchi T, Wu N, Fu X, Ling C, Cai Q, Chiu M-C, Resh VH. 2024. Existing levels of biodiversity and river location may determine changes from small hydropower developments. Journal of Environmental Management, 357: 120697
5. Luo Q, Xu Y, Zhang W, Wu R, Lin X, Cai Q, Chiu M-C. 2024. Research Status and Future Agenda in Small Hydropower from the Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals. ACS ES&T Water, 2024, 4(5): 2212-2224.
6. Sang C, Tan L, Cai Q, Ye L. 2024. Long-term (2003-2021) evolution trend of water quality in the Three Gorges Reservoir: An evaluation based on an enhanced water quality index. Science of the Total Environment, 915: 169819.
7. Tan L, Wang L, Cai Q. 2024. Daily process and key characteristics of phytoplankton bloom during a low-water level period in a large subtropical reservoir bay. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15: 1390019.
8. Wang L, Tan L, Cai Q. 2024. Distinct differences of vertical phytoplankton community structure in mainstream and a tributary bay of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15: 1381798.
9. Wu X., Liu X., Liu C., Tan L., Chen Y., Tang T. 2024. Eco-morphological traits inform responses of diatom assemblages to urbanization in rivers in China. Hydrobiologia, 2024: 1-16.
10. Ao S, Chiu M-C, Lin X, Cai Q. 2023. Trait selection strategy for functional diversity in freshwater systems: A case framework of macroinvertebrates. Ecological Indicators, 153: 110450.
11. Liu C, Sun T, Wu X, Tan L, Cai Q and Tang T. 2023. Disentangling multiple relationships of species diversity, functional diversity, diatom community biomass and environmental variables in a mountainous watershed. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11: 1150001.
12. Tang T, Stevenson RJ. 2023. Striving for consistent bioassessment across diverse landscapes: Using land use matters for classifying reference and disturbed sites for index development. Science of the Total Environment, 900: 165849.
13. Wen Z, Wang H, Shan H, Cao Y, Tan L, Zhu T, Cai Q, Ni L, Zhang X, Chou Q, Cao T. 2023. Water depth modulates the species richness–biomass relationship in submerged macrophytes. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11: 1115119.
14. Ye L, Chen K, Cheng J, Tan L, Zhang M, Zhang X, Cai Q. 2023. Ecological water quality of the Three Gorges Reservoir and its relationship with land covers in the reservoir area: implications for reservoir management. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11: 1196089
15. Ao S, Ye L, Liu X, Cai Q, He F. 2022. Elevational patterns of trait composition and functional diversity of stream macroinvertebrates in the Hengduan Mountains region, Southwest China. Ecological Indicators, 144: 109558.
16. Ao S, Li X, Tian Z, Hu J, Cai Q. 2022. Harmonizing and searching macroinvertebrate trait information in alpine streams: method and application–A case study in the Three Parallel Rivers Region, China. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 945824.
17. Hu J, Song Z, Zhou J, Soininen J, Tan L, Cai Q, Tang T. 2022. Differences in diversity and community assembly processes between planktonic and benthic diatoms in the upper reach of the Jinsha River, China. Hydrobiologia, 849(7): 1577-1591.
18. Li H, Gu Y, Cai Q, Dong X, Ye L. 2022. Zooplankton size structure in relation to environmental factors in the Xiangxi Bay of Three Gorges Reservoir, China. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 800025.
19. Li Y, Ding W, Huang Z,·Pan R, Li N, Ren G, Cui L, Cai Q, Xiao W. 2022. Why empresses have more sons? Maternal instant social condition determines it. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76: 116.
20. Luo Q, Chiu M-C, Tan L, Cai Q. 2022. Hydrological season can have unexpectedly insignificant influences on the elevational patterns of functional diversity of riverine macroinvertebrates. Biology, 11(2): 208.
21. Shen H, Ye L, Cai Q, Tan L. 2022. Longitudinal variations in physio-chemical conditions and their consequent effect on phytoplankton functional diversity within a subtropical system of cascade reservoirs. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 914623.
22. Wang Y, Wu N, Tang T, Wang Y, Cai Q. 2022. Small run-of-river hydropower dams and associated water regulation filter benthic diatom traits and affect functional diversity. Science of the Total Environment, 813: 152566.
23. Wang Y, Wu N, Tang T, Zhou S, Cai Q. 2022. Small run-of-river dams affect taxonomic and functional β-diversity, community assembly process of benthic diatoms. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 895328.
24. Wen Z, Wang H, Zhang Z, Cao Y, Yao Y, Gao X, Tian Y, Su H, Ni L, Xiao W, Cai Q, Zhang X, Cao T. 2022. Depth distribution of three submerged macrophytes under water level fluctuations in a large plateau lake. Aquatic Botany, 176: 103451
25. Ye L, Tan L, Wu X, Cai Q, Li B. 2022. Nonlinear causal analysis reveals an effective water level regulation approach for phytoplankton blooms controlling in reservoirs. Science of the Total Environment, 86: 150948.
26. Zhang X, Tan L, Cai Q, Ye L. 2022. Environmental factors affect phytoplankton community stability via functional diversity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 990835.
27. Ao S, Chiu M-C, Li X, Tan L, Cai Q, Ye L. 2021. Watershed farmland area and instream water quality co-determine the stream primary producer in the central Hengduan Mountains, southwestern China. Science of the Total Environment, 770: 145267.
28. Chiu M-C, Ao S, Resh VH, He F, Cai Q. 2021. Species dispersal along rivers and streams may have variable importance to metapopulation structure. Science of the Total Environment, 760: 144045.
29. Liu S, Li X, Tan L, Fornacca D, Fang Y, Zhu L, Rao C, Cao Y, Huang J, Ren G, Cai Q, Xiao W. 2021. The ecological niche and terrestrial environment jointly influence the altitudinal pattern of aquatic biodiversity. Science of the Total Environment, 800: 149404.
30. Luo Q, Chiu M-C, Tan L, Cai Q. 2021. An environmental flow framework for riverine macroinvertebrates during dry and wet seasons through non-linear ecological modeling. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 734716.
31. Wen Z, Ma Y, Wang H, Cao Y, Yuan C, Ren W, Ni L, Cai Q, Xiao W, Fu H, Cao T, Zhang X. 2021. Water Level regulation for eco-social services under climate change in Erhai Lake over the past 68 years in China. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9: 697694.
32. Chiu M-C, Ao S, He F, Resh VH, Cai Q. 2020. Elevation shapes biodiversity patterns through metacommunity-structuring processes. Science of the Total Environment, 743: 140548.
33. Guo S, He F, Tang T, Tan L, Cai Q. 2020. Intra-annual fluctuations dominating temporal dynamics of benthic diatom assemblages in a Chinese mountainous river. Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology, 56: 22.
34. He F, Wu N, Dong X, Tang T, Domisch S, Cai Q, Jähnig SC. 2020. Elevation, aspect, and local environment jointly determine diatom and macroinvertebrate diversity in the Cangshan Mountain, Southwest China. Ecological Indicators, 108: 105618.
35. Kurthen AL, He F, Dong X, Maasri A, Wu N, Cai Q, Jähnig SC. 2020. Metacommunity structures of macroinvertebrates and diatoms in high mountain streams, Yunnan, China. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8: 571887.
37. Tang T, Stevenson RJ, Grace JB. 2020. The importance of natural versus human factors for ecological conditions of streams and rivers. Science of the Total Environment, 704: 135268.
