Xiao Huang
huang-xiao.bsky.social
Xiao Huang
@huang-xiao.bsky.social
Macroecologist focusing on biotic interactions, aiming to reveal the construction and maintenance of biodiversity patterns.

PhD student at Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and visiting PhD student at Aarhus University.
Our multi-site, multi-season field experiment reveals potential bias in using plasticine models to assess biotic interactions, highlighting the need for ecological studies to move beyond human-centric assumptions.

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royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans perceive but animals don’t: pitfalls in using plasticine models for assessing biotic interactions | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Observation methods are crucial for understanding ecological processes. One widely used method is the application of plasticine models that visually mimic prey organisms in assessing biotic interactio...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM