教育经历
2004 09 – 2007 06：中国科学院动物研究所，理学博士学位，生态学
1997 09 – 2000 06：四川师范学院生物系，理学硕士学位，动物学
1993 09 – 1997 06：四川师范学院生物系，理学学士学位，生物科学
工作经历
2008 07 – 至今：华中师范大学生命科学学院，讲师、副教授、教授
2012 04 – 2013 03：美国威尔克斯大学(Wilkes University)，访问学者
2000 07 – 2008 06：华中农业大学水产学院，助教，讲师
主讲课程
本科生：动物学、生态学、行为生态学、保护生物学、普通生物学
硕士生：动物行为学、动物生态学、动物学概论
博士生：行为生态学研究前沿与方法、动物学研究进展
主要研究领域
城市生态学：城市化对动植物多样性及功能性状的影响，以及动植物对城市化的响应与适应机制，生物多样性与城市生态健康；
动植物种间互作：城市森林斑块、亚热带、温带森林内啮齿动物、鸟类、昆虫、微生物、植物之间的相互关系，动植物种间互作网络与群落稳定性机制；
鼠类生态学：鼠类的食物贮藏、盗食与反盗食、个性化、空间记忆与适应性进化，以及农田、森林生态系统鼠类监测，鼠害爆发机制与防控等；
生物资源与保护：生物资源调查、监测及生态环境影响评价等。
近5年主持科研项目（5项）
国家自然科学基金面上项目(32470510)：快速城市化背景下鼠类功能性状改变及其对种子传播的影响，2025–2028。
国家自然科学基金面上项目(32170508)：城市森林斑块化对鼠类个性及其介导的种子传播的影响，2022 – 2025。
国家自然科学基金面上项目(31772471)：分散贮藏后期植物对鼠类贮藏行为的调节：营养及气味衰减假说，2018 – 2021。
某铁路生物多样性影响评价， 2025年2月。
雅砻江上游河段水电规划环境影响评价陆生生态调查与评价专题服务项目。2025年2月。
近3年代表论文（10篇）
Chen L, Shi M, Lian W, Wang X, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2025. Urbanization altered the functional traits of acorns, weevil larva and their interactions: Implications for urban forest conservation. Biological Conservation 312 (2025) 111518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111518
Yan C, Wu M, Peng H, Wan J, Li R, Ye X, Zhang H*, Ding S*. 2025. Chronic DBP exposure may cause reduced fertility in female mice by interfering with the HPO axis. Environmental Pollution 384: 127039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.127039
Zhao H, Zhang M, Chen Z, Chen X, Chen L, Zhang C, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2025. Seeds of a perennial plant (Quercus variabilis) were smaller, dispersed less frequently and shorter, and had poorer seedling growth performance in city areas than in rural areas. Urban Ecosystems, 28:163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-025-01777-5.
Cheng J, He H, Zheng L, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2025. Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 79:62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03601-8.
Cheng J, He H, Zheng L, Zhang C, Wang X, Hu X, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2025. Bold rats (Niviventer confucianus) are more effective in seed dispersal: evidence both under enclosure conditions and in the field. Integrative Zoology 20: 740–754. DOI:10.1111/1749-4877.12906.
Niu H, Wang X, Chen L, Liang S, Shi M, Zhao H, Zhang H*. 2025. Reforestation effects on urban soils depend on tree species in subtropic China. Restoration Ecology, doi: 10.1111/rec.70166.
Peng L, Liu Q, Wang Q, Si X, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2024. Effects of urbanization and vegetation on bird diversity in a megacity of central China. Biological Conservation 297: 110718.
Zhang H*, Niu H, Steele MA, Peng L, He H, Li A, Yi X, Li H, Zhang Z*. 2024. Masting promotes transformation from predation to mutualism in an oak-weevil-rodent system. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 67: 1514–1524. http://engine.scichina.com/doi/10.1007/s11427-023-2517-1
Zhao H, Chen Z, Zhang M, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2024. Rapid urbanization declined mammals and mammal-mediated seed dispersal in a megacity, central China. Urban Ecosystems 27: 1675-1684.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-024-01544-y
Niu H*, Rehling F, Chen Z, Yue X, Zhao H, Wang X, Zhang H*, Schabo DG, Farwig N. 2023. Regeneration of urban forests as influenced by fragmentation, seed dispersal mode and the legacy effect of reforestation interventions. Landscape and Urban Planning, 233: 104712.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104712
近5年专著与教材（5种）
普通生态学（方精云主编），高等教育出版社，2025.9，参编，出版中.
湖北七姊妹山国家级自然保护区昆虫图鉴，湖北科学技术出版社，2025.3，主编. ISBN：978-7-5706-3903-8.
宿迁市陆生野生动物资源，湖北科学技术出版社，2024.9，主编. ISBN：978-7-5706-3599-3.
西沙群岛鸟类多样性研究, 中国林业出版社, 2022，主编. ISBN：978-7-5219-1481-8.
中国植物保护百科全书：鼠害卷，中国林业出版社，2022，参编，ISBN：978-7-5219-1529-7.
教学科研奖励（5项）
武汉市“生物地图”与生物多样性保护空间网络研究，武汉市规划协会优秀规划设计奖，署名第1，2023。
武汉市生物多样性保护规划，湖北省优秀城市规划设计奖，署名第1，2023。
动物学，华中师范大学本科教学创新奖，署名第4，2021.
国家虚拟仿真实验教学项目（教育部），珍稀动物生物学习性观察研究虚拟仿真实验项目：以神农架川金丝猴为例，排名第1，2019。国家一流本科课程，国家高等教育智慧教育平台课程。
学术兼职（5个）
国际生物科学联合会中国委员会委员（CCIUBS）
国际动物学会(ISZS)动植物关系研究专家工作组召集人（Coordinator）
中国生态学学会动物生态专业委员会副主任委员
中国动物学会兽类学分会常务理事
Integrative Zoology编委（Subject editor），Wildlife Letters副主编，兽类学报编委
实验室理念
尊重、包容、实诚、勤勉、自律
招生方向
博士研究生：生物学（动物学方向）、生态学
硕士研究生（学术型）：生态学、生物学（动物学方向）、植物保护（虫鼠害方向）
硕士研究生（专业学位型）：生物学学科教学论、生物与医药（生物多样性保护及生态环境影响评价方向）
Hongmao Zhang
Title： PhD, Professor
Office Address： 9 – 912
Lab Address： 9 – 925
E – mail： zhanghm@ccnu.edu.cn
Resume
1993 – 1997: B. Sc. in Biology, China West Normal University.
1997 – 2000: M. Sc. in Zoology, China West Normal University.
2004 – 2007: PhD. Sc. in Ecology, Institute of Zoology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2000 – 2008: Assistant professor, School of Fishery, Huazhong Agricultural University.
2012 – 2013: Visiting Scholar, Wilkes University.
2008 – present Assistant / Associate professor / Professor, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University.
Research Interests
My research interests are urban ecology, plant-animal interactions in respect to seed predation and dispersal in warm-temperate forests and urban forest patches, and wildlife conservations. I look at 1) the ecological consequences of rapid urbanizations, how plants and animals respond to urban environments, and their implications to ecological-based management and conservation of urban green lands; 2) plants-rodents/birds interactions as to seed predation, hoarding, and dispersal, here, I highlighted how plants manipulate small rodents and birds increasing seed dispersal by regulating seed traits, and the ecological net-works between plants and small rodents/birds, and their contributions to plant regeneration and community structure of forests; And 3) wildlife conservation and pests controlment, in which, I look at the ecological-based control and management of pest rodents in forests and farmlands; effects of habitat fragmentation and urbanization on wild plants and animals, and how plants and animals respond to rapidly urbanizing in megacities.
Research Grants (5)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (32470510). Functional plasticity of rodents in urban forests and its effects on rodent-mediated seed dispersal, 2025 – 2028.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (32170508). Effects of deforestation on personality of small rodents and their mediated seed dispersal in urban forests, 2022 – 2025.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31772471). How plants regulate hoarding behavior of rodents during the later stage of seed – caching: nutrition / odor attenuation hypotheses, 2018 –2021.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31372212). Asymmetrical pilferage among sympatric small rodents, 2014 –2017.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31172102). Cooperation in food hoarding in conspecifics of Niviventer confucianus and Apodemus peninsulae, 2012 –2015.
Recent Publications (10)
Chen L, Shi M, Lian W, Wang X, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2025. Urbanization altered the functional traits of acorns, weevil larva and their interactions: Implications for urban forest conservation. Biological Conservation 312 (2025) 111518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111518
Yan C, Wu M, Peng H, Wan J, Li R, Ye X, Zhang H*, Ding S*. 2025. Chronic DBP exposure may cause reduced fertility in female mice by interfering with the HPO axis. Environmental Pollution 384: 127039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.127039
Zhao H, Zhang M, Chen Z, Chen X, Chen L, Zhang C, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2025. Seeds of a perennial plant (Quercus variabilis) were smaller, dispersed less frequently and shorter, and had poorer seedling growth performance in city areas than in rural areas. Urban Ecosystems, 28:163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-025-01777-5.
Cheng J, He H, Zheng L, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2025. Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 79:62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03601-8.
Cheng J, He H, Zheng L, Zhang C, Wang X, Hu X, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2025. Bold rats (Niviventer confucianus) are more effective in seed dispersal: evidence both under enclosure conditions and in the field. Integrative Zoology 20: 740–754. DOI:10.1111/1749-4877.12906.
Niu H, Wang X, Chen L, Liang S, Shi M, Zhao H, Zhang H*. 2025. Reforestation effects on urban soils depend on tree species in subtropic China. Restoration Ecology, doi: 10.1111/rec.70166.
Peng L, Liu Q, Wang Q, Si X, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2024. Effects of urbanization and vegetation on bird diversity in a megacity of central China. Biological Conservation 297: 110718.
Zhang H*, Niu H, Steele MA, Peng L, He H, Li A, Yi X, Li H, Zhang Z*. 2024. Masting promotes transformation from predation to mutualism in an oak-weevil-rodent system. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 67: 1514–1524. http://engine.scichina.com/doi/10.1007/s11427-023-2517-1
Zhao H, Chen Z, Zhang M, Niu H*, Zhang H*. 2024. Rapid urbanization declined mammals and mammal-mediated seed dispersal in a megacity, central China. Urban Ecosystems 27: 1675-1684.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-024-01544-y
Niu H*, Rehling F, Chen Z, Yue X, Zhao H, Wang X, Zhang H*, Schabo DG, Farwig N. 2023. Regeneration of urban forests as influenced by fragmentation, seed dispersal mode and the legacy effect of reforestation interventions. Landscape and Urban Planning, 233: 104712.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104712
Academic Position (5)
International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS), Coordinator Of working group
China Committee of International Union of Biological Sciences (CCIUBS), Member
China Society of Animal Ecology, Vice President
Mammalogical Society of China, EC Member
Integrative Zoology, Wildlife Letters, Acta Theriologica Sinica, Associate Editor / Subject Editor