Visiting scholar
| Office Nr. | 116, main building, 1st floor |
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| Phone | +41 31 684 49 34 |
| yao.xiao@ips.unibe.ch |
I am interested in plant diversity, light competition, and plant allometric growth in grasslands. I focus on understanding the mechanisms, especially light competition, that influence species diversity under global change, such as nutrient enrichment, pathogen, herbivory and shrub encroachment. Specifically, I am interested in using plant allometric growth to uncover the plant size-dependent processes and detect the response from individual plants to diversity. For example, I use the allometry of plant height to indicate species “shape” strategy in acquiring light resources and elucidate the role of light competition in driving species diversity. I am also intrigued by the strength of light competition in driving plant diversity across climate and soil fertility gradients.
Project: PaNDiv Experiment
Allan Ecology Lab 
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