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Ecology and Evolution
China
2023

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
68
Citations
15439
World Ranking
1537
National Ranking
192

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award

Overview

Douglas W. Yu is a researcher affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields related to environmental science, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work is concentrated in several specialized subfields, including ecology, molecular biology, ecological modeling, insect science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. This multidisciplinary approach supports exploration into topics such as environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, species distribution and climate change, microbial community ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and plant and animal studies. Additionally, their research touches on identification and quantification in food and forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Douglas W. Yu has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with frequent publications in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Ecology Resources, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, BMC Biology, and Ecography. Some of their recent papers include:

  • Strategies for sample labelling and library preparation in DNA metabarcoding studies, 2021, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation, 2020, Science Advances
  • Horizon Scan of the Belt and Road Initiative, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects, 2023, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Biodiversity Soup II: A bulk-sample metabarcoding pipeline emphasizing error reduction, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Collaborations are a significant component of their research efforts. Frequent coauthors include Alex Bush, Maximilian Pichler, Marco Archetti, Kristine Bohmann, and Chunyan Yang, each contributing in multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Environmental DNA for wildlife biology and biodiversity monitoring

    Kristine Bohmann;Kristine Bohmann;Alice Evans;M. Thomas P. Gilbert;M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Gary R. Carvalho

  • Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring

    Douglas W. Yu;Douglas W. Yu;Yinqiu Ji;Brent C. Emerson;Xiaoyang Wang

  • Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding

    Yinqiu Ji;Louise Ashton;Scott M. Pedley;David P. Edwards;David P. Edwards

  • Demographic threats to the sustainability of Brazil nut exploitation.

    Carlos A. Peres;Claudia Baider;Pieter A. Zuidema;Lúcia H. O. Wadt

  • Is beauty in the eye of the beholder

    Douglas W. Yu;Glenn H. Shepard

  • Exploiting sparseness in de novo genome assembly

    Chengxi Ye;Chengxi Ye;Chengxi Ye;Zhanshan Sam Ma;Charles H Cannon;Charles H Cannon;Mihai Pop

  • Opportunities for biodiversity gains under the world/'s largest reforestation programme

    Fangyuan Hua;Xiaoyang Wang;Xinlei Zheng;Brendan Fisher

  • The Competition‐Colonization Trade‐off Is Dead; Long Live the Competition‐Colonization Trade‐off

    Douglas W. Yu;Howard B. Wilson

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

    Lawrence N Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • A mixed community of actinomycetes produce multiple antibiotics for the fungus farming ant Acromyrmex octospinosus.

    Jörg Barke;Ryan F. Seipke;Sabine Grüschow;Darren Heavens

  • Predicting species diversity in tropical forests.

    Joshua B. Plotkin;Matthew D. Potts;Douglas W. Yu;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin

  • Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel

    Isabel M. Scott;Andrew P. Clark;Steven C. Josephson;Adam H. Boyette

  • Effectiveness of China's nature reserves in representing ecological diversity

    Ruidong Wu;Shuang Zhang;Douglas W Yu;Douglas W Yu;Peng Zhao

  • Parasites of mutualisms

    Douglas W. Yu

  • Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

    Alex Bush;Alex Bush;Alex Bush;Rahel Sollmann;Andreas Wilting;Kristine Bohmann;Kristine Bohmann

  • Why the COI barcode should be the community DNA metabarcode for the metazoa.

    Carmelo Andújar;Paula Arribas;Douglas W. Yu;Douglas W. Yu;Douglas W. Yu;Alfried P. Vogler;Alfried P. Vogler

  • A single Streptomyces symbiont makes multiple antifungals to support the fungus farming ant Acromyrmex octospinosus.

    Ryan F. Seipke;Joerg Barke;Charles Brearley;Lionel Hill

  • Effectiveness of China’s National Forest Protection Program and Nature Reserves

    Guopeng Ren;Stephen S. Young;Lin Wang;Wei Wang

  • A castration parasite of an ant–plant mutualism

    D. W. Yu;N. E. Pierce

  • Economic game theory for mutualism and cooperation

    Marco Archetti;István Scheuring;Moshe Hoffman;Megan E. Frederickson

  • The Sustainability of Subsistence Hunting by Matsigenka Native Communities in Manu National Park, Peru

    Julia Ohl-Schacherer;Glenn H. Shepard;Hillard Kaplan;Carlos A. Peres

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia
Taal Levi
Taal Levi Oregon State University
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
James M. Cook
James M. Cook Western Sydney University
Brent C. Emerson
Brent C. Emerson Spanish National Research Council
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Tony R. Walker
Tony R. Walker Dalhousie University
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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