Alice Catherine Hughes
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Alice Catherine Hughes is associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, and editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Climate Change Ecology journal. She is known for her research on biodiversity, including the effect of environmental change on some species, particularly bats, and the threat to many species from the wildlife trade.
Early life and education
[edit]Alice Hughes spent some of her childhood in Norfolk, observing birds with her mother.[1] In 2004 she gained a higher diploma in animal behaviour from the University of Southampton.[2] Subsequently, she studied zoology at the University of Bristol, from where she graduated in 2007, and completed her PhD four years later.[1][2]
Career
[edit]In 2011 Hughes moved to Thailand, where she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Prince of Songkla University. The following year she gained a fellowship with the CSIRO in Canberra, Australia.[2][1][3] Towards the end of 2013, she took up an appointment as assistant professor at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, to research biodiversity, including the effect of environmental change on some species, particularly bats.[1] She later wrote on the threats of the trade in wildlife,[4][5] including the protection of bats in the Western Ghats, India. [6]
In 2021 Hughes became associate professor of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong. [7][8][9] She became editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Climate Change Ecology journal.[when?][10]
Selected publications
[edit]- "The projected effects of climatic and vegetation changes on the distribution and diversity of Southeast Asian bats". Global Change Biology. 18 (6): 1854–1865. June 2012. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02641.x. ISSN 1354-1013. (Co-author)
- "Understanding the drivers of S outheast Asian biodiversity loss". Ecosphere. 8 (1). January 2017. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1624. ISSN 2150-8925.
- Marshall, Benjamin M.; Strine, Colin; Hughes, Alice C. (29 September 2020). "Thousands of reptile species threatened by under-regulated global trade". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 4738. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18523-4. ISSN 2041-1723. (Co-author)
- "Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world". Ecography. 44 (9): 1259–1269. September 2021. doi:10.1111/ecog.05926. ISSN 0906-7590. (Co-author)
- Hughes, Alice C. (11 October 2021). "Wildlife trade". Current biology: CB. 31 (19): R1218–R1224. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.056. ISSN 1879-0445.
- "Identifying priority areas for bat conservation in the Western Ghats mountain range, peninsular India". Journal of Mammalogy. 104 (1): 49–61. 20 July 2022. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyac060. (Co-author)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Interview with a real bat-woman: Alice Hughes". gez göz arpacık. 24 February 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2024. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ a b c "Curriculum vitae: Alice Catherine Hughes" (PDF). www.biosch.hku. University of Hong Kong. 2023.
- ^ Villalobos-Chaves, David; Bonaccorso, Frank J.; Rodriguez-Herrera, Bernal; Cordero-Schmidt, Eugenia; Arias-Aguilar, Adriana; Todd, Christopher M. (2016). "14. The influence of sex and reproductive status foraging behaviour and seed dispersal by Uroderma convexum". In Ortega, Jorge (ed.). Sociality in Bats. Switzerland: Springer. p. 286. ISBN 978-3-319-38951-6.
- ^ "Under-regulated pet trade leaves thousands of species vulnerable". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ Hinsley, Amy; Willis, Jasmin; Dent, Abigail R.; Oyanedel, Rodrigo; Kubo, Takahiro; Challender, Daniel W. S. (January 2023). "Trading species to extinction: evidence of extinction linked to the wildlife trade". Cambridge Prisms: Extinction. 1: e10. doi:10.1017/ext.2023.7. ISSN 2755-0958.
- ^ Premkumar, Rohan (23 July 2022). "'Bat habitats in South Western Ghats lie predominantly outside protected areas'". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 6 October 2024. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ "Meet our new staff - Dr Alice Catherine Hughes". Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
- ^ Gallagher, James (19 September 2024). "Covid origins: Genetic ghosts suggest pandemic started in market". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
- ^ Mallapaty, Smriti (20 September 2024). "COVID pandemic started in Wuhan market animals after all, suggests latest study". Nature. 634 (8032): 14–15. doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03026-9.
- ^ "Climate Change Ecology | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 6 October 2024.