Alice Catherine Hughes
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Alice Catherine Hughes | |
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Known for | Editor-in-chief of Climate Change Ecology |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Bristol |
Academic work | |
Institutions |
Alice Catherine Hughes is associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, and editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Climate Change Ecology journal.[1][2][3][4]
Education
[edit]Alice Hughes studied at the University of Bristol, from where she completed her PhD.[5] She subsequently moved to Thailand.[5]
Career
[edit]Towards the end of 2013, Hughes took up an appointment as assistant professor at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, to research biodiversity, including the effect of environmental change on some species, particularly bats.[5] She later wrote on the threats of the trade in wildlife,[6][7] including the protection of bats in the Western Ghats, India. [8]
In 2021 Hughes became associate professor of School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong. [9]
Selected publications
[edit]- "The projected effects of climatic and vegetation changes on the distribution and diversity of Southeast Asian bats". Global Change Biology. 18 (6): 1854–1865. June 2012. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02641.x. ISSN 1354-1013. (Co-author)
- "Understanding the drivers of S outheast Asian biodiversity loss". Ecosphere. 8 (1). January 2017. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1624. ISSN 2150-8925.
- Marshall, Benjamin M.; Strine, Colin; Hughes, Alice C. (29 September 2020). "Thousands of reptile species threatened by under-regulated global trade". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 4738. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18523-4. ISSN 2041-1723. (Co-author)
- "Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world". Ecography. 44 (9): 1259–1269. September 2021. doi:10.1111/ecog.05926. ISSN 0906-7590. (Co-author)
- Hughes, Alice C. (11 October 2021). "Wildlife trade". Current biology: CB. 31 (19): R1218–R1224. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.056. ISSN 1879-0445.
- "Identifying priority areas for bat conservation in the Western Ghats mountain range, peninsular India". Journal of Mammalogy. 104 (1): 49–61. 20 July 2022. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyac060. (Co-author)
References
[edit]- ^ "Climate Change Ecology | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ Gallagher, James (19 September 2024). "Covid origins: Genetic ghosts suggest pandemic started in market". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
- ^ Villalobos-Chaves, David; Bonaccorso, Frank J.; Rodriguez-Herrera, Bernal; Cordero-Schmidt, Eugenia; Arias-Aguilar, Adriana; Todd, Christopher M. (2016). "14. The influence of sex and reproductive status foraging behaviour and seed dispersal by Uroderma convexum". In Ortega, Jorge (ed.). Sociality in Bats. Switzerland: Springer. p. 286. ISBN 978-3-319-38951-6.
- ^ Mallapaty, Smriti (20 September 2024). "COVID pandemic started in Wuhan market animals after all, suggests latest study". Nature. 634 (8032): 14–15. doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03026-9.
- ^ a b c "Interview with a real bat-woman: Alice Hughes". gez göz arpacık. 24 February 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2024. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ "Under-regulated pet trade leaves thousands of species vulnerable". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ Hinsley, Amy; Willis, Jasmin; Dent, Abigail R.; Oyanedel, Rodrigo; Kubo, Takahiro; Challender, Daniel W. S. (January 2023). "Trading species to extinction: evidence of extinction linked to the wildlife trade". Cambridge Prisms: Extinction. 1: e10. doi:10.1017/ext.2023.7. ISSN 2755-0958.
- ^ Premkumar, Rohan (23 July 2022). "'Bat habitats in South Western Ghats lie predominantly outside protected areas'". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 6 October 2024. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ "Meet our new staff - Dr Alice Catherine Hughes". Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
Further reading
[edit]- "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). 2023.