Research group

Food Web Ecology and Fish Communities

Expertise

1）Freshwater food web dynamics

2）Fish ecology and limnology

CV

Since 2016: Lecturer, School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University 

2013-2016: Ph.D., Ecology, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2009-2012: M.S., Limnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

2005-2009: B.A., Fisheries Biology, Huazhong Agricultural University

Publications

1. Huan Zhang, Xiubo Yu, Yuyu Wang, Jun Xu. Spatial heterogeneity in food web structure of floodplain lakes at the landscape scale. Aquatic Science (accepted).

2. Sihong Yang, Yangyang Liu, Yuvenalis Morara Mbuni, Weirong Huang, Yadong Zhou, Huan Zhang. 2025. Global distribution patterns and climatic drivers of plant diversity in Rubiaceae. Biology 14: 1719.

3. Huan Zhang, Yuyu Wang, Jun Xu. 2023. Influence of seasonal water-level fluctuations on food web structure of a large floodplain lake in China. Sustainability 15: 10724.

4. Bai JP, Zhang H, Zhou HK, Li S, Gao B, Chen P, Ma L, Xu ZF, Zhang Z, Xu CX, Ruan LZ, Ge G. 2021. Winter coexistence in herbivorous waterbirds: Niche differentiation in a floodplain, Poyang Lake, China. Ecology and Evolution 11: 16835-16848.

5. Huan Zhang, Xiubo Yu, Yuyu Wang, Jun Xu. 2017. The importance of terrestrial carbon in supporting benthic macroinvertebrates in the wetlands of Poyang Lake. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology 35: 825-832.

6. Huan Zhang, Gongguo Wu, Huan Zhang, Ping Xie, Jun Xu, Qiong Zhou. 2013. Role of body size and temporal hydrology in the dietary shifts of shortjaw tapertail anchovy Coilia brachygnathus (Actinoptergii, Engraulidae) in a large floodplain lake. Hydrobiologia 703: 247-256.