Chia Hsieh
chiahsieh.bsky.social
Chia Hsieh
@chiahsieh.bsky.social
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at Michigan State University. Integrate macroecology and macroevolution to understand the patterns and maintenance of biodiversity.

https://chiahsieheeb.wixsite.com/chiahsieh
BBS Taiwan is listed! Check out handy R packages that can boost your research.

#Ecology #OpenScience
rOpenSci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up | R-bloggers
As we welcome the third cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program, our second cohort has now completed the second phase of the program. In this article, we share each Champion’s project, their achievem...
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September 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Join at 🌏 Species on the Move in Taiwan! A global forum where researchers, practitioners & policymakers share insights, innovations, and strategies shaping the future of biodiversity.

#Ecology #ClimateChange #RangeShift #Biodiversity #Conservation
Home - Species on the Move 2026
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August 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Reposted by Chia Hsieh
Which paleoclimate dataset do you use for your research?

In my latest research, I compared temperature estimates from five well-known paleoclimate datasets to proxy data and found that inter-dataset variability can strongly affect temperature-delimited reconstructions. 🧵

➡️ doi.org/10.21425/fob...
Global variability in LGM cooling amongst paleoclimate datasets affects biome reconstructions in mountains
Downscaled paleoclimate datasets are widely used in biogeographical research, aiding our understanding of past environmental shifts and species’ responses to climate change. Numerous datasets exist, v...
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May 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Lab’s publication came out!

Bye-bye butterflies? Insects are in 'precipitous decline' in Midwest.

#ZipkinLab #Ecology #QuantitativeEcology #Conservation
Some butterfly species have declined in the Midwest; none has increased, MSU study finds
In the last three decades of data from butterfly counts in the Midwest, none of the butterfly species increased in population. More than 40% declined in number.
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August 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Reposted by Chia Hsieh
First postdoc paper just dropped! Using 50 years of Breeding Bird Survey data, we found that the unexpected functional shifts of bird communities in North America do not track species-level expectations, and these unexpected shifts can be explained by just 5% of “hyper-dominant” species.
Hyper-dominant species drive unexpected functional shifts in North American birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666479v1
July 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Quantifying similarity among ecological network is getting feasible to understand assembly processes from communities to species interactions. Upcoming publication using this for African mammal food webs is under revision now. Stay tuned!

#Ecology #EcologicalNetwork #Macroecology #Biogeography
Quantifying functionally equivalent species and ecological network dissimilarity with optimal transport distances
Quantifying the structure and dynamics of species interactions in ecological communities is fundamental to studying ecology and evolution. While there are numerous approaches to analysing ecologic...
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August 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM