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Overview

Xingli Giam is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research contributions are primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, encompassing 76 published works. Within this broad domain, their subfields of study include Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The research topics addressed by Xingli Giam include a focus on Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior.

Their publication record includes papers in prominent academic venues with multiple contributions in Global Ecology and Biogeography, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Ecography.

Notable recent papers by Xingli Giam include:

  • "Climate and land-use changes interact to drive long-term reorganization of riverine fish communities globally," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time-series to study global change ecology in riverine systems," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Phenology in freshwaters: a review and recommendations for future research," 2021, Ecography
  • "The geography of metapopulation synchrony in dendritic river networks," 2021, Ecology Letters
  • "Combining Radar and Optical Imagery to Map Oil Palm Plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia, Using the Google Earth Engine," 2020, Remote Sensing

Xingli Giam's research collaborations involve frequent co-authorship with Pablo A. Tedesco, Lise Comte, Julian D. Olden, Dan Liang, and David S. Wilcove, indicating a network of collaboration across related research areas.

Best Publications

  • Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia

    David S. Wilcove;Xingli Giam;Xingli Giam;David P. Edwards;Brendan Fisher

  • Global biodiversity loss from tropical deforestation.

    Xingli Giam

  • Evaluating the relative environmental impact of countries.

    Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Xingli Giam;Xingli Giam;Navjot Singh Sodhi;Navjot Singh Sodhi

  • The high costs of conserving Southeast Asia's lowland rainforests

    Brendan Fisher;David P Edwards;Xingli Giam;David S Wilcove

  • Future habitat loss and the conservation of plant biodiversity

    Xingli Giam;Corey J.A. Bradshaw;Corey J.A. Bradshaw;Hugh T.W. Tan;Navjot S. Sodhi;Navjot S. Sodhi

  • The Homogocene: a research prospectus for the study of biotic homogenisation

    Julian D. Olden;Lise Comte;Xingli Giam

  • Reservoirs of richness: least disturbed tropical forests are centres of undescribed species diversity.

    Xingli Giam;Brett R. Scheffers;Navjot S. Sodhi;David S. Wilcove

  • Revealing the pathways by which agricultural land-use affects stream fish communities in South Brazilian grasslands

    Renato B. Dala-Corte;Xingli Giam;Julian D. Olden;Fernando G. Becker

  • Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

    Lahiru S. Wijedasa;Jyrki Jauhiainen;Mari Könönen;Maija Lampela

  • Using market data and expert opinion to identify overexploited species in the wild bird trade

    J. Berton C. Harris;Jonathan M.H. Green;Dewi M. Prawiradilaga;Xingli Giam

  • Quantifying variable importance in a multimodel inference framework

    Xingli Giam;Julian D. Olden

  • The world's rediscovered species: back from the brink?

    Brett R. Scheffers;Ding Li Yong;J. Berton C. Harris;Xingli Giam

  • Avian responses to selective logging shaped by species traits and logging practices.

    Zuzana Burivalova;Tien Ming Lee;Xingli Giam;Çağan Hakkı Şekercioğlu

  • Estimating How Many Undescribed Species Have Gone Extinct

    P. A. Tedesco;R. Bigorne;A. E. Bogan;X. Giam;X. Giam

  • Mitigating the impact of oil-palm monoculture on freshwater fishes in Southeast Asia

    Xingli Giam;Xingli Giam;Renny K. Hadiaty;Heok Hui Tan;Lynne R. Parenti

  • Climate and land-use changes interact to drive long-term reorganization of riverine fish communities globally.

    Lise Comte;Julian D. Olden;Pablo A. Tedesco;Albert Ruhi

  • Global extinctions of freshwater fishes follow peatland conversion in Sundaland

    Xingli Giam;Xingli Giam;Lian Pin Koh;Lian Pin Koh;Heok Hui Tan;Jukka Miettinen

  • Impact of coal mining on stream biodiversity in the US and its regulatory implications

    Xingli Giam;Julian D. Olden;Daniel Simberloff

  • Metrics of Lidar-Derived 3D Vegetation Structure Reveal Contrasting Effects of Horizontal and Vertical Forest Heterogeneity on Bird Species Richness

    Luis Carrasco;Xingli Giam;Monica Papeş;Kimberly S. Sheldon

  • Phenology in freshwaters: a review and recommendations for future research

    Taylor Woods;Anna Kaz;Xingli Giam

  • Threat or invasive status in legumes is related to opposite extremes of the same ecological and life-history attributes.

    Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Xingli Giam;Hugh T. W. Tan;Barry W. Brook

  • Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

    Lahiru S. Wijedasa;Jyrki Jauhiainen;Mari Könönen;Maija Lampela

Frequent Co-Authors

Gopalasamy Reuben Clements
Gopalasamy Reuben Clements Zoological Society of London
Julian D. Olden
Julian D. Olden University of Washington
Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Corey J. A. Bradshaw Flinders University
Navjot S. Sodhi
Navjot S. Sodhi National University of Singapore
Lian Pin Koh
Lian Pin Koh National University of Singapore
David S. Wilcove
David S. Wilcove Princeton University
Pablo A. Tedesco
Pablo A. Tedesco Paul Sabatier University
Albert Ruhí
Albert Ruhí University of California, Berkeley
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Tibor Erős
Tibor Erős Balaton Limnological Institute

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