Qi Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Contact Information
Email: qieco.liu@utoronto.ca
Phone: 647-406-7254
ResearchGate: Profile
Profile
Hometown: Trivandrum, India
Qi is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He now joins Ensminger’s lab and is a member of the FastPheno project which try to combine the next generation of high-throughput drone-based phenotyping platforms, and plant ecophysiological and genomics approaches to understand forest dynamics and tree resilience to climate change impacts.
Qi received his doctorate in Ecology from Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands. His PhD thesis is focused on the ecology of a liana community in a SW Chinese rainforest: functional traits, dynamics, and distribution. He completed his master’s degree in plant eco-physiological group in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science in 2016.
Outside the lab, Qi enjoys photography and cycling, and he is also a father to an energetic toddler.
Education
PhD (Ecology) – Wageningen University and Research (2017-2021).
Msc (Ecology) – Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012-2016)
Bsc (Biological Science) Anhui Normal University (2008-2012)
Journal Publications
- Song, Y.J., Sterck, F.J., Zhou, X.Q., Liu, Q., Kruijt, B., and Poorter, L. (2022). Drought resilience of conifer species is driven by leaf lifespan but not by hydraulic traits. New Phytologist.
- Bai, X. L.#, Liu, Q.#, Mohandass. D., Cao, M., … Zhang, J. L. (2022). Spatial autocorrelation shapes liana distribution better than topography and host tree properties in a subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in SW China.Biotropics. (#Equal contribution)
- Liu, Q., Sterck, F. J., Zhang, J.-L., Scheire, A., Konings, E., Cao, M., … Poorter, L. (2021). Traits, strategies, and niches of liana species in a tropical seasonal rainforest. Oecologia.
- Liu, Q., Sterck, F.J., Medina-Vega, J.A., Sha, L., Cao, M., Bongers, F., … Poorter, L. (2021). Soil nutrients, canopy gaps and topography affect liana distribution in a tropical seasonal rainforest in SW China. Journal of Vegetation Science.
- Bai, X. L., Zhang, Y. B., Liu, Q., Wang, Y. S. D., Yang, D., and Zhang, J. L. (2020). Leaf and stem traits are linked to liana growth rate in a subtropical cloud forest. Forests.
Conference Proceedings
- “Lianas are increasing in dominance and water use in tropical rainforest”. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 2021. Lightning Talk (online).
- “Community strategies and local drivers are switching the liana communities”. British Ecology Meeting 2020, Oral presentation (Online).
- “Functional traits shape liana strategies and niches”. Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting 2020, Oral presentation.
Abstracts