Educational experience：

1984, BSc, Biology, Beijing Normal University, China. 1987, MSc, Zoology, Beijing Normal University, China. 1998, PhD. Ecology, Beijing Normal University, China.

Statement：

My research works currently focus on conservation genetics of the threatened species of pheasants (Brown eared pheasant and Reeves’s pheasant), population dynamics and habitat protection of the waterbirds along the Bohai Bay. I am also interest in the breeding behaviors of Hair-crested Drongo，Pengduline tit and House Martin.

Selected Publication：

1. Duan W. and Zhang Z. (2017). The Encyclopedia of Birds in China (Vol. I and II). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, China.

2. Wang,N., Kimball, R. T., Braun, E. L., Liang, B. and Zhang Z. (2017). Ancestral range reconstruction of Galliformes: the effects of topology and taxon sampling. Journal of Biogeography 44, 122-135.

3. Fu, Y., Dai, B., Wen, L., Chen, B., Dowell, S. and Zhang, Z. (2017). Unusual incubation behavior and embryonic tolerance of hypothermia in the Sichuan Partridge ( Arborophila rufipectus ). Journal of Ornithology, 158(3), 707-715.

4. Wang, P., Liu, Y., Liu, Y., Chang, Y., Wang, N. and Zhang, Z. (2017). The role of niche divergence and geographic arrangement in the speciation of Eared Pheasants (Crossoptilon, Hodgson 1938). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 113, 1-8.

5. Li, D., Liu, Y.,Sun, X., Lloyd, H., Zhu, S., Zhang, S.,Wan, D. and Zhang, Z. (2017). Habitat-dependent changes in vigilance behaviour of Red-crowned Crane influenced by wildlife tourism.  Scientif Report, 7(1), 16614-16614.

6. Lv, L., Komdeur J., Li, J., Is Scheiber, B.R., and Zhang Z.(2016). Breeding experience, but not mate retention, determines the breeding performance in a passerine bird. Behavioral Ecology, 27(4), 1255-1262.

7. Chen, D.,Chang, J., Li, S., Liu, Y., Liang, W., Zhou, F., Yao, C. and Zhang, Z. (2015). Was the exposed continental shelf a long-distance colonization route in the ice age? The Southeast Asia origin of Hainan and Taiwan partridges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 83, 167–173.

8. Zhou, C., Xu, J. and  Zhang, Z. (2015). Dramatic decline of the Vulnerable Reeves’s pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii, endemic to central China. Oryx, 49(3), 529–534.

9. Que, P., Chang,Y., Eberhart-Phillips, L., Liu, Y., Szekely, T. and Zhang Z.(2015).  Low nest survival of a breeding shorebird in Bohai Bay, China. Journal of Ornithology, 156:297–307.

10.   Ma, ZJ., Melville, DS, Liu, JG, Chen, Y, Yang, HY, Ren, WW, Zhang, ZW, Piersma, T and Li, B.(2014). Rethinking China’s new great wall. Science, 346: 912-914.