The Ecology Research Center of Chenghuan College published two papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America at the same time, reporting on new developments in the field of theoretical ecology and remote sensing ecology

On September 6, 2022, the same journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published two important research results by the Research Group of Researcher Wang Shaopeng and the Research Group of Researcher Tao Shengli of the Center for Ecology of the School of Urban and Environmental Research of Peking University, with the titles of "Multispecies coexistence in fragmented landscapes" and "Increasing and widespread, respectively.
" Published under the title "vulnerability of intact tropical rainforests to repeated droughts", it reveals the conditions of species coexistence in fragmented habitats and the continuous drought response
of tropical rainforests between 1992 and 2018.

Wang Shaopeng's research group developed the theory of species coexistence in fragmented habitats

How can species with similar resource needs coexist in nature for so long? This is a classic question
that plagues ecologists and conservation biologists.

In response to this problem, Wang Shaopeng's research group collaborated with European and American scientists to construct a competitive model under fragmented habitats to understand and predict the impact of habitat changes on
species coexistence.

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Luo Mingyu, a doctoral candidate at the School of Urban and Environmental Sciences of Peking University, is the first author of the paper, Wang Shaopeng is the corresponding author, and the collaborators are from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Basel and the University of
Zurich.

Tao Shengli's research group developed new remote sensing data to reveal the continuous drought response of tropical rainforests between 1992 and 2018

In the context of climate policies such as the Paris Agreement, the global rainforest has attracted attention
for its huge carbon storage.

Tao Shengli's research group developed the world's first set of C-band, long-duration satellite radar signal datasets, and for the first time studied the continuous drought response
of uncut tropical rainforests in the past 30 years.

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Tao Shengli is the first and corresponding author, Professor Jeorme Chave of the French Scientific Research Center is the co-corresponding author, and other collaborators are from NASA, the French Space Agency, and the GAMMA Remote Sensing Center in Switzerland
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Introduction to the Center for Ecological Studies, Peking University

The Institute of Ecology, Peking University was officially established in June 2018 and is the basis for
the "double first-class" construction of Peking University's ecological disciplines.