Yuanheng Li, MSc

Education

2013 to date: PhD, supervised by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brose. Or PhD)
2010-2013: MSc in Ecology, University of Bremen, Germany
2005-2009: BSc in Forestry, Guizhou University, China


Research interests
Allometric model of spatially implicit food webs – investigating effect of networks on networks

Many complex networks are extended in space, having two types of connections, namely local connections between network nodes and spatial connections between different locations. In ecological food webs, connections between network nodes refer to food web structure, mainly population interactions through predations. Populations of species in the food web community live on a spatial network that is constituted by habitats of different species and locations where no food web member can occupy. In the spatially implicit food web model, it assumes that the habitats are continuous and are without interrupted by a hostile landscape matrix, and it accounts for spatial heterogeneities with mobile consumers integrating their foraging efforts across space. Using allometric models, the structure and dynamics of such “networks on networks” will be investigated and with the focus on how the structure of space, the local trophic network structure, the distribution of species in space, and the population dynamics mutually influence each other.