Bo Zhang

Ph.D., Department of Environmental Science and Policy

University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
bozhangophelia@gmail.com
Personal website: http://bozhangophelia.weebly.com/index.html

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Chancellors’ Postdoctoral Fellow July 2018 - Current
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
Supervisor: Alan Hastings
Department of Biology Postdoctoral Fellow Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Supervisor: J David Van Dyken
Associate Faculty Member for Faculty of 1000, Theoretical Ecology Jan 2017 - Current

EDUCATION
Ph.D. – Biology Fall. 2011 - Spring. 2017
University of Miami. (GPA: 3.8/4.0)
Committee: Donald L. DeAngelis (Advisor), Carol C. Horvitz, Leonel Sternberg, Chris
Cosner, Daniel B. Botkin, Wei-Ming Ni
Certificate Program in Geospatial Technology Fall. 2013 - Spring. 2016
University of Miami.
B.S. – Forestry Fall. 2007 - Spring. 2011
Nanjing Forestry University. (GPA: 3.9/4.0)

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Applied Ecology; Quantitative Biological Science; Microbial Ecology; Forest Ecology;
Landscape Ecology; Movement Ecology; Invasive Plants Management; Community Ecology.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS Total Awarded ≈ $300,000

2019 - 2020, USGS’s Greater Everglades Priority Ecosystem Science funding, PI: B. Zhang,
($45,000, Pending)
2019 - F1000 AFM Travel Grant
2018 - 2020, UC Davis Chancellors’ Postdoctoral Fellowship ($113,382)
2018 - 2019, USGS’s Greater Everglades Priority Ecosystem Science funding, PI: B. Zhang,
($20,000)
2018 - USGS EMA Invasive Species FY18 Cyclical Fund, PI: B. Zhang. ($30,000, Declined)
2018 - F1000 AFM Travel Grant
2017 - Effects, Impacts and Influences of Hurricane Irma Funding, The College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Miami, PI: D. Van Dyken, Co-PI: B. Zhang, ($4,650.40)
2017 - Greater Everglades Priority Ecosystems Science (GEPES) Fiscal Year 2018 Post-
Hurricane Irma Damage Assessment Award, U.S. Geological Survey, PI: B. Zhang, Co-PIs: D.
L. DeAngelis, M. Rayamajhi, M. Smith, ($11,000)
2017 - NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement awards

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2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, USGS’s Greater Everglades Priority Ecosystem
Science funding ($30,000) per Fiscal Year (Served as graduate research assistant)
2016 - Best Talk Runner Up, Department of Biology Graduate Symposium, University of Miami
2015 -3rd place poster award, Department of Biology Graduate Symposium, University of Miami
2015 - GAFAC Travel Grant, University of Miami ($375)
2015 - Graduate Student Award to Promote Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, University of
Miami ($500)
2014 - Research in Ecology assistantship, University of Miami ($2,500)
2014, 2015 - Max and Peggy Kriloff student travel Scholarship, College of Art and Sciences,
University of Miami ($500)
2013 - J. Gerry Curtis Plant Sciences Scholarships, University of Miami ($1,160)
2010 - Excellent Student Leader of Jiangsu Province, China.
2009 - The title of Tri-A of Nanjing Forestry University.
2009 - The title of Excellent Youth League Member in Jiangsu Province, China.
2009 - National scholarship in 2008-2009 academic year (RMB 10000), China.

PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed
¶corresponding author, *undergraduate mentee, **graduate mentee
20. Zhai, L., B. Zhang, S.S. Roy, D.O. Fuller, L.d.S.L. Sternberg. 2019. Remote sensing
unhelpful resilience to sea level rise caused by mangrove expansion: A case study of
islands in Florida Bay, USA. Ecological Indicator 97: 51-58.
19. Van Dyken, J. D., and B. Zhang. 2019. Carrying capacity of a spatially-structured population:
disentangling the effects of dispersal, growth parameters, habitat heterogeneity and
habitat clustering. Journal of Theoretical Biology 460: 115-124.
18. Liu, X., Z. Fu, B. Zhang, L. Zhai, M. Meng, J. Lin, J. Zhuang, G. Wang, J. Zhang. 2018.
Effects of sulfuric, nitric, and mixed acid rain on Chinese fir sapling growth in Southern
China. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 160: 154-161.
17. Zhang, B., X. Liu, D.L. DeAngelis, L. Zhai, M.B. Rayamajhi, S. Ju. 2018. Modeling the
compensatory response of an invasive tree to specialist insect herbivory. Biological
Control 117: 128-136.
16. Zhang, B, A. Kula, K.M.L. Mack, L. Zhai, A.L. Ryce1*, W. Ni, D.L. DeAngelis, J. D. Van
Dyken. 2017. Carrying capacity in a heterogeneous environment with habitat connection.
Ecology Letters 20: 1118-1128.
Popular press coverage: University of Miami e-Veritas
15. Zhang, B., X. Lu, J. Jiang, D.L. DeAngelis, Z. Fu* and J. Zhang. 2017. Similarity of plant
functional traits and aggregation pattern in a subtropical forest. Ecology and Evolution 7:
4086-4098.
14. Zhang, B., D.L. DeAngelis, M.B. Rayamajhi, D. Botkin. 2017. Modeling the long-term
effects of introduced herbivores on the spread of an invasive tree, Landscape Ecology 32:
1147-1161.
Popular press coverage: Science Daily, Science Newsline, Lab Manager, Phys.org,
13. Liu, X., B. Zhang, W. Zhao, L. Wang, D. Xie, W. Huo, Y. Wu, and J. Zhang. 2017.
Comparative effects of sulfate and nitrate acid rain on litter decomposition and soil
microbial community in subtropical plantation of Yangtze River Delta region. the
Science of Total Environment 601: 669-678.

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12. Liu, X., B. Zhang, J. Zhuang, C. Han, L. Zhai, W. Zhao, and J. Zhang. 2017. The
relationship between sap flow density and environmental factors in the 2 Yangtze River
Delta region of China. Forests 8: 74.
11. Yan. Q., L. Zhai, B. Zhang, J.E. Dallman. 2016 Spatial patterning of excitatory and
inhibitory synapses during spinal circuit development. Journal of Comparative
Neurology 525: 1649-1667.
10. Zhuang. J., J. Zhang, Y. Yang, B. Zhang, J. Li. 2016. Effect of forest shelter-belt as a
regional climate improver along the old course of the Yellow River, China. Agroforestry
Systems 91: 393-401.
9. DeAngelis, D.L., W. Ni, and B. Zhang. 2016. Effects of diffusion on total biomass in
heterogeneous continuous and discrete-patch systems. Theoretical Ecology 9(4): 443-453.
8. DeAngelis, D.L., W. Ni, and B. Zhang. 2016. Dispersal and spatial heterogeneity: single
species. The Journal of Mathematical Biology 72: 239-254.
7. Zhang, B., X. Liu*, D.L. DeAngelis, W. Ni, G.G. Wang. 2015. Effects of dispersal on total
biomass in a patchy, heterogeneous system: Analysis and experiment, Mathematical
Biosciences 264: 54-62.
6. DeAngelis, D., and B. Zhang. 2014. Effects of dispersal in a non-uniform environment on
population dynamics and competition: A Patch Model Approach. Invited paper in
Journal discrete and Continuous Dynamical System – B 19: 3087-3104.
5. Jiang, J., D.L. DeAngelis, B. Zhang, and J.E. Cohen. 2014. Population age and initial density
in a patchy environment affect the occurrence of abrupt transitions in a birth-and-death
model of Taylor's law. Ecological Modelling 289: 59-65.
4. Zhang, B., L. Zhai, J. Lin, C. Sun, Z. Fu*. 2011. The Dynamics of Water Quality of Urban
Wetland and Its Assessment. Wetland Science & Management. 7(1): 29-39. Chinese with
English abstract.
3. Zhang, B., J. Zhuang, J. Zhang, R. Wang. 2010. Evaluation of the function of reforestation on
soil loss control in the Dabie Mountains, China. Bioinformatics and Biomedical
Engineering, 4th International Conference Proceedings, pp 1–4, 10.1109/
ICBBE.2010.5515947.
2. Zhang, J., J. Zhuang, B. Zhang, J. Yang, and J. Lin. 2010. Application and test of gis based
fusle model in a pine forest subcatchment in the dabie mountains, china. Bioinformatics
and Biomedical Engineering, 4th International Conference Proceedings, pp 1–5,
10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5516965.
1. Zhuang, J., J. Zhang, B. Zhang, H. Luo, X. Huang, and J. Fu. 2009. Plant roots and anti-
scourability of soils in the Shangshe Catchment, Dabie Mountains, Anhui Province,
Eastern China. Front. Foc. China, 4: 323-329.
Manuscript in review:
1. Zhang, X., L. Zhai, K. Feeley, Z. Fu**, G.G. Wang, J. Zhang and B. Zhang¶. Downslope
shifts of woody species after cessation of human disturbances in spite of global warming.
Major revision Environmental Research Letters.
2. Zhang, B., D. L. DeAngelis, W. Ni, Y. Wang, L. Zhai, A. Kula, S. Xu, J. D.Van Dyken.
Scaling the effect of stressors from populations to metapopulations. Major revision
ISME.
3. Zhang, B., L. d. S. L. Sternberg, A. Hastings, Z Fu**, L. Zhai, J. Zhang. Plant nutrient stress
drives the up-slope shifts of wood species under warming climate and land use change in
mountain systems. Submitted.

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4. Fu, Z. **, X. Zhang, L. Xu*, M. E. Afkhami, L. Huang, J. Zhang, B. Zhang¶. Mapping
nitrogen flows in plant – leaf litter – soil cycles along an altitude gradient. Submitted.
5. Xu, L. *, M. C. Zdechlik*, M. C. Smith, M. B. Rayamajhi, D. L. DeAngelis, B. Zhang¶.
Simulation of post-hurricane impact on invasive species with biological control
management. Submitted.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Miami
• BIL 151: General Biology Laboratory, Fall 2012, 2013
• BIL 161: Evolution and Biodiversity Laboratory, Spring 2012, 2013, 2014
Lecture in Research in Ecology assistantship, University of Miami, 2014

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (Total = 22, Invited talks in BOLD)

Jun 2019 - Center for Population Biology seminar series. UC Davis, CA, USA. (upcoming)
May 2019 - Life Sciences Symposium at UC Berkeley, CA, USA. (upcoming)
May 2019 - 5th Annual UC Davis Postdoctoral Research Symposium. Davis, CA, USA.
(upcoming)
May 2019 - 2019 Academic Retreat for the UC President's and Chancellor’s Postdoctoral
Fellows, UCLA, CA, USA. (upcoming)
Mar 2018 - University of Central Florida seminar, Orlando, FL, USA
Jan 2018 - 150 American Naturalist symposium, Pacific Grove, California, USA
Sep 2017 - Southeastern Ecology & Evolution Conference (SEEC), Fort Myers, USA
Apr 2017 - US-IALE Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Apr 2017 - Broward College Environmental Science Friday seminar, Davie, FL, USA
Apr 2017 - Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER), Coral Springs, FL, USA
Oct 2016 - 10th INTECOL international Wetlands Conference, Changshu, China
Aug 2016 - 101th Ecological Society of America Annual meeting (ESA), Fort Lauderdale, USA
July 2016 - 4th Annual International Conference on Ecology, Ecosystems and Climate Change,
Athens, Greece
May 2016 - The international Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference, Baltimore,
Maryland, USA
Apr 2016 - National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER), Coral Springs, FL, USA
Nov 2015 - BIL 149 Guest Speaker, Department of Biology, University of Miami
Aug 2015 - 100th Ecological Society of America Annual meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Apr 2015 - Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER), Coral Springs, FL, USA
Aug 2014 - Bernoulli Workshop on Dispersal in heterogeneous environment, Lausanne,
Switzerland
July 2014 - USGS Southeast Ecological Science Center Seminar
Nov 2012 - Department of Biology Friday seminar, University of Miami
Jan 2012, 2014 - Graduate Students Symposium, Department of Biology, University of Miami

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, WORKSHOP

(A) Academic Societies: Center for biological diversity (2011-), Ecological Society of
America (2015-), The Mycological Society of America (2016 -), American Society of

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 Naturalists (2016 -), Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (2016 -), Society of Wetland
Scientists (2016 -)
(B) Diversity and Inclusion societies: Women in Life Sciences at Davis (WiLD), 500
Women Scientists
(C) Workshops: STEM Workforce Diversity: Where do we go from here? (2019), NIMBIoS
Investigative Workshop: Transients in Biological Systems(2019), UC Davis Center for
Educational Effectiveness Faculty workshop “Promoting a sense of belonging in STEM
classrooms” (2019), CMSI Professional Development Workshop (2019), NSF-funded
EarthCube Research Coordination Network Workshop: Advancing the Analysis of High
Resolution Topography (A2 HRT) (2018), Workshop on best practices in scientific
presentations (2017), Workshop on Water, Energy and Carbon Cycling within Greater
Everglades Ecosystems (2017), Telecoupling Workshop at US-IALE (2017), Workshop
on Spatial Raster Data & Time series in R, ESA (2016), Joint 2013 MBI-NIMBioS-
CAMBAM Summer Graduate Workshop (2013)
MENTORING EXPERIENCE
2018 - University of Miami Marya Claire Zdechlik
2017 – Nanjing Forestry University Linhao Xu
2017 – University of Miami Ashley Sanchez
2015 – Nanjing Forestry University Zhiyuan Fu; Miaojing Meng
2015 – University of Miami Arrix Ryce
2013 - Nanjing Forestry University Youpeng Zhao, Yujie Liu and Xinli Yan

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND OUTREACH

2019 – Teacher of Kids into Discovering Science (KiDS) program
2018 - Organizer of Southeastern Ecology & Evolution Conference (SEEC) 2018
2018, 2016 - Judge for University of Miami, Department of Biology Graduate Symposium for
Best Poster.
2017 - Co-organizer of Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) (Section of Applying
Innovative Modeling Approaches to Protect and Restore the Greater Everglades)
2016 - Presider of 101 ESA Annual Meeting (Section of Climate Change & Theoretical Ecology)
2016 - Mentor of Spring EES (Exploring the Environmental Science Challenge) in Fairchild
Tropical Botanic Garden.
2015, 2016 - Organizing committee for Graduate symposium at Department of Biology,
University of Miami
Fall 2014 - Graduate student organizer for Friday Seminar Series at Department of Biology,
University of Miami
Reviewer:
• External reviewer for 2018 AASHE Conference & Expo proposal
• Forestry, Journal of Vegetation Science (2), Ecological Complexity, Forest Ecology and
Management, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Journal of Theoretical Biology (3),
Ecological Indicators, Austin Environmental Sciences, IOP Conference Series: Earth and
Environmental Science (EES), Journal of Forestry Research, CATENA, Journal of Plant
Ecology, Mathematics (2), Journal of Environmental Science and Management, Forests,
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2), Sustainability

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2015 – 2018 Member of Florespa Fencing Club, Miami
2019 – Member of UC Davis Fencing Club

REFERENCES

1. Dr. Donald L. DeAngelis, Research Professor, University of Miami (PhD advisor)

271 Cox Science Center
1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
Email: don_deangelis@usgs.gov
Office: (305) 284-1690

2. Dr. Alan Hastings, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis (Postdoc advisor)
3136A Wickson Hall
1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616
Email:
Office: (530)752-8116

3. Dr. Wei-Ming Ni, Professor, University of Minnesota (Collaborator)

School of Mathematics
453 Vincent Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
Email: wmni@umn.edu
Office: (970)-295-5983