Area of research
Ecology · Global and Planetary Change
Research interest
Research interests include Plague (disease), Geography, Pandemic, Ecology, Yersinia pestis, and Climate change.
Reducing the threats of rodent-borne zoonoses requires an understanding and leveraging of three key pillars: disease ecology, synanthropy, and rodentation
Long term monitoring and adaptive strategies: lessons from Hainan’s malaria elimination and prevention efforts
Spatiotemporal trends of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in China under climate variation
Persistent humid climate favored the Qin and Western Han Dynasties in China around 2,200 y ago
Differential pathogenicity and lethality of bubonic plague (1720–1945) by sex, age and place
Leaf economics fundamentals explained by optimality principles
Coupling of crop and livestock production can reduce the agricultural GHG emission from smallholder farms
Greenhouse gas emissions from extractive industries in a globalized era
Association of vaccination, international travel, public health and social measures with lineage dynamics of SARS-CoV-2
Reply to Alfani: Reconstructing past plague ecology to understand human history
No evidence for persistent natural plague reservoirs in historical and modern Europe
Reply to Weiss: Tree-ring stable oxygen isotopes suggest an increase in Asian monsoon rainfall at 4.2 ka BP
The End of Plague in Europe
Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years
Associations between changes in population mobility in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and socioeconomic factors at the city level in China and country level worldwide: a retrospective, observational study
Assessing the origins of the European Plagues following the Black Death: A synthesis of genomic, historical, and ecological information
Bioarchaeological insights into the last plague of Imola (1630–1632)
Assessing the origins of the European Plagues following the Black Death: a synthesis of genomic, historical and ecological information
Human plague: An old scourge that needs new answers
Assessing the role of live poultry trade in community-structured transmission of avian influenza in China
A genomic and historical synthesis of plague in 18th century Eurasia
Drivers of change in China’s energy-related CO<sub>2</sub>emissions
Climate-driven variation in mosquito density predicts the spatiotemporal dynamics of dengue
The Third Plague Pandemic in Europe
Reply to Barbieri et al.: Out of the Land of Darkness: Plague on the fur trade routes
Human ectoparasites and the spread of plague in Europe during the Second Pandemic
Climate-driven range shifts of the king penguin in a fragmented ecosystem
Integrative approach using <i>Yersinia pestis</i> genomes to revisit the historical landscape of plague during the Medieval Period
Transmission dynamics of re-emerging rabies in domestic dogs of rural China
Genomic blueprint of a relapsing fever pathogen in 15th century Scandinavia