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研究组论文发表

代表论文

  1. Wei X#, Li H#, Huang ZYX#, Li S, Wang Y, Lan J, Hu L, Li Y, Becker DJ*, Wei F*, Xu Y*. 2026. A global-scale assessment of zoonotic virus diversity and spillover potential in urban-adapted mammal species. Nature Microbiology. 11: 1410-1423

  2. Yin S, Li N, Xu W, Becker DJ, de Boer WF, Xu C, Mundkur T, Fountain-Jones NM, Li C, Han G-Z, Wu Q, Prosser D, Cui L, Huang ZYX*. 2023. Functional traits explain waterbirds’ host status, subtype richness, and community-level infection risk for avian influenza. Ecology Letters. 26:1780–1791

  3. Huang ZYX*, Halliday FW, Becker DJ*. 2023. Host functional traits as the nexus for multi-level infection patterns. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38: 1125-1128 (Selected in Cell Press 2023 One Health Day)

  4. Yin S, Xu Y, Xu M, de Jong MCM, Huisman MRS, Contina A, Prins HHT, Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF. 2022. Habitat loss exacerbates pathogen spread: An Agent-based model of avian influenza infection in migratory waterfowl. PLoS Computational Biology. 18: e1009577 (Cover feature)

  5. Wang YXG, Matson KD, Prins HHT, Gort G, Awada L, Huang ZYX*, de Boer F. 2019. Phylogenetic structure of wildlife assemblages shapes patterns of infectious livestock diseases in Africa. Functional Ecology. 33:1332-1341.(2019 Haldane prize)

其它主要论文

  1. Li H#, Huang ZYX#, Lan J#, Hu L, Wang Z, Wang Y, Santini L, Becker DJ*, Xu Y*. 2026. Insectivores exhibit superior microbial network connectivity and elevated zoonotic risk by 2035 relative to rodents and bats. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences. 69: 2390-2403

  2. Yin S, Xie Q, Mundkur T, Wu Y, Chai H, Wu Q, Huang ZYX*. 2025. The predictable HPAI H5 outbreaks in European wild birds. Avian Research. 16: 100311

  3. Li H#, Huang ZYX#, Lan J, Hu L, Wei X, Wang Y, Li X, Li Y, Becker DJ*, Wei F*, 2025. Diversity and transmission and zoonotic potential of microbes in true insectivores. Nature Communications. 16:6709

  4. Yin S, Xu C, Zhang Y, de Boer WF, Mundkur T, Artois J, Velckers F, Takekawa JY, Si Y, Tian H, Han G-Z, Chen Y, Chai H, Cui L, Huang ZYX*. 2024. Strong and consistent effects of waterbird community composition on HPAI H5 occurrences across Europe. Ecological Applications. 34(6): e3010

  5. Wang YXG, Matson KD, Prins HHT, Xu Y, Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF. 2023. Risk factors for Lyme disease: a scale-dependent effect of host species diversity and a consistent negative effect of host phylogenetic diversity. Tick and Tick-borne Diseases. 14: 102073

  6. Wang YXG, Matson KD, Santini L, Visconti P, Hilbers JP, Huijbregts MAJ, Xu Y, Prins HHT, Allen T, Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF*. 2021. Mammal assemblage composition predicts global patterns in emerging infectious disease risk. Global Change Biology. 27: 4995-5007.

  7. Yin S, de Knegt HJ, de Jong MCM, Si Y, Prins HHT, Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF. 2020. Effects of migration network configuration and migration synchrony on infection prevalence in geese. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 502: 110315

  8. Dong Y, Huang ZYX*, Zhang Y, Wang YXG, Yang L*. 2020. Comparing the climatic and landscape risk factors for Lyme cases in the Upper Midwest and Northeast United States. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17: 1548

  9. Huang ZYX*, Xu C*, van Langevelde F, Langendoen T, Ma Y, Mundkur T, Si Y, Tian H, Kraus RHS, Gilbert M, Han G-Z, Ji X, Prins HHT, de Boer F. 2019. Contrasting effects of host species and phylogenetic diversity on the occurrence of HPAI H5N1 in European wild birds. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88:1044–1053

  10. Li C, Zhang Y, Zha D, Yang S, Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF. 2019. Assembly processes of waterbird communities across subsidence wetlands in China: a functional and phylogenetic approach. Diversity and Distributions. 25:1118-1129

  11. Wang YXG, Matson KD, Xu Y, Prins HHT, Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF. 2019. Forest connectivity, host assemblage characteristics of local and neighbouring counties, and temperature jointly shape the spatial expansion of Lyme disease in United States. Remote Sensing. 11:2354

  12. Wei S#, Li H#, Xu J, Luan X, Qiu Y, Yang X, Shen D, Liu M, Huang ZYX*, Xu C*. 2019. Hierarchical structure in the world’s largest high-speed rail network. PLoS ONE. 14: e0211 052

  13. Huang ZYX*, Yu Y, van Langevelde F, de Boer F. 2017. Does the dilution effect generally occur in animal diseases? Parasitology. 144(6): 823-826

  14. Huang ZYX*, Honer KJ, Naguib M, van Langevelde F, de Boer F. 2017. Regional level risk factors associated with the occurrence of African swine fever in West and East Africa. Parasites & Vectors. 10:16

  15. Huang ZYX*, van Langevelde F, Estrada-Peña A, Suzan G, de Boer F. 2016. The diversity-disease relationship: evidence for and criticisms of the dilution effect. Parasitology. 143: 1075 - 1086

  16. Huang ZYX*, van Langevelde F, Prins HHT, de Boer WF. 2015. Dilution versus facilitation: Impact of connectivity on disease risk in metapopulations. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 376: 66-73

  17. Huang ZYX#* & Xu C#, van Langevelde F, Prins HHT, Ben Jebara K, de Boer WF. 2014. Dilution effect and identity effect by wildlife in the persistence and recurrence of bovine tuberculosis. Parasitology. 141: 981-987

  18. Xu C# & Huang ZYX#, Chi T, Chen BJW, Zhang M, Liu M*. 2014. Can local landscape attributes explain species richness patterns at macroecological scales? Global Ecology and Biogeography. 23: 436-445

  19. Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF, van Langevelde F, Xu C, Ben Jebara K, Berlingieri F, Prins HHT. 2013. Dilution effect in bovine tuberculosis: risk factors for regional disease occurrence in Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Series 280: 20130624

  20. Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF, van Langevelde F, Olson V, Blackburn TM, Prins HHT. 2013. Species’ life-history traits explain interspecific variation in reservoir competence: a possible mechanism underlying the dilution effect. PLoS ONE 8: e54341

  21. Huang Z, Liu MS, Chen B, Uriankhai T, Xu C, Zhang M*. 2010. Distribution and interspecific correlation of root biomass density in an arid Elaeagnus angustifolia - Achnatherum splendens community. Acta Ecologica Sinica 30: 45–49

共同作者论文

  1. Wu Q, Han Y, Fecchio A, Ren P, Huang ZYX, Ding P. 2026. Migratory birds shape potential haemosporidian transmission through a parasite-sharing network. Avian Research. 17: 100378

  2. Li N, Luo X, Li X, Tang N, Wang Z, Li J, Huang Z. 2026. Long-term landscape change drives shifts in functional traits of wintering waterbirds along China’s Yellow Sea Coast. Journal of Environmental Management. 401:129007

  3. Yin S, Zhang C, Teitelbaum C, Si Y, Zhang G, Wang X, Mao D, Huang ZYX, de Boer WF, Takekawa J, Prosser DJ, Xiao X. 2025. Landscape changes elevate the risk of avian influenza virus diversification and emergence in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 122: e2503427122.

  4. Carlson CJ, Brookson CB, Becker DJ, Cummings CA, Gibb R, Halliday FW, Heckley AM, Huang ZYX, Lavelle T, Robertson H, Vicente-Santos A, Weets CM, Poisot T. 2025. Pathogens and planetary change. Nature Reviews Biodiversity. 1: 32-49

  5. Wu Q, Fecchio A, Han Y, Liu J, Jin T, Huang ZYX, Ding P. 2025. Scaling-up to understand disease risk: distinct roles of host functional traits in shaping infection risk of avian malaria across different scales. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Series. 292: 20242175

  6. Li X, Li A, Qu F, Li Y, Chen F, Lv X, An Q, Fei M, Chen H, Liang Hi, Zhang X, Li J, Yu M, Qin S, Xie L, Yin S, Huang ZYX, Yang S, Sun H, Li X, Chai H. 2025. Evaluation of global distribution, genetic evolution, and mammalian infectivity and pathogenicity of H13 and H16 avian influenza viruses. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 14: 2482695.

  7. Ma J, Xu N, Xu Y, Huang ZYX, Chen C, Wang YWG. 2025. Impacts of Urbanization and Habitat Characteristics on the human risk of West Nile Disease in the United States. Biology. 14: 224

  8. Chen S, Zhang Y, Xu C, Cao L, Huang ZYX, Chen BJW, Li C, Xu W, Song Y, de Boer WF. 2022. Neighbourhood threats: landscape context and anthropogenic changes can trigger waterbird population collapse. Landscape Ecology. 37: 3141-3158

  9. Yu J, Xiao H, Yang W, Dellicour S, Kraemer M, Liu Y, Cai J, Huang ZYX, Zhang Y, Feng Y, Huang W, Zhang H, Gilbert M, Tian H. 2020. The impact of anthropogenic and environmental factors on human rabies cases in China. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 67: 2544-2553.

  10. Chen BJW, Xu C, Liu M, Huang ZYX, Zhang M, Anten NPR. 2020. Neighbourhood-dependent root distributions and the consequences on root separation in arid ecosystems. Journal of Ecology. 108:1635–1648

  11. Luan X, Yu Z, Zhang Y, Wei S, Miao X, Huang ZYX, Teng SN, Xu C. 2020. Remote sensing and social sensing data reveal scale-dependent and system-specific strengths of urban heat island determinants. Remote Sensing. 12: 351

  12. Li Y, Cazelles B, Yang G, Laine M, Huang ZYX, Cai J, Tan H, Stenseth NC, Tian H. 2019. Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of transmission dynamics of the hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by the Seoul virus. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 13(9): e0007757

  13. Qiu Y, Teng SN, Zhang Y, Santana J, Svenning J, Reino L, Abades S, Ma H, Yang L, Wu Y, Huang ZYX, Xu C. 2019. The resolution‐dependent role of landscape attributes in shaping macro-scale biodiversity patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28:767-778

  14. Xiao H, Tong X, Gao L, Hu S, Tan H, Huang ZYX, Zhang G, Yang Q, Li X, Hunag R, Tong S, Tian H. 2018. Spatial heterogeneity of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome is driven by environmental factors and rodent community composition. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 12(10): e0006881

  15. Chen L, Huang ZYX, Zhou S. 2018. The Allee effect in hosts can weaken the dilution effect of host diversity on parasitoid infections. Ecological Modelling. 382: 43-50

  16. Xiao H, Tong X, Huang R, Gao L, Hu S, Li Y, Gao H, Zheng P, Yang H, Huang ZYX, Tian H. 2018. Landscape and rodent community composition are associated with risk of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in two cities in China, 2006–2013. BMC Infectious Diseases. 28: 17

  17. Tao T, Abades S, Teng S, Huang ZYX, Reinoe L, Chen BJW, Yong Zhang, Xu C* Svenning J. 2017. Macroecological factors shape local-scale spatial patterns in agriculturalist settlements. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Series. 284: 20172003

  18. Qiu Y, Chen JWB, Song Y, Huang ZYX, Wan L, Huang C, Liu M, Xu C. 2016. Composition, distribution and habitat effects of vascular plants on the vertical surfaces of an ancient city wall. Urban Ecosystems.19: 939 - 948

  19. Xu C, Chen BJW, Abades S, Reino L, Teng S, Ljungqvist FC, Huang ZYX, Liu M. 2015. Macroecological factors explain large-scale spatial population patterns of ancient agriculturalists. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 24: 1030-1039

  20. Xu C, Liu MS, Zhang M, Chen B, Huang Z, Uriankhai T, Sheng S. 2011. The spatial pattern of grasses in relation to tree effects in an arid savannah community: Inferring the relative importance of canopy and root effect. Journal of Arid Environment 75: 953-959

  21. Xu C, Liu MS, Yang XJ, Sheng S, Zhang MJ, Huang Z. 2010. Detecting the spatial differentiation in settlement change rates during rapid urbanization in the Nanjing metropolitan region, China. Environmental Monitoring and Assessments 171: 457-470