Qi Lu (陆 琪), Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

College of the Environment and Ecology

Xiamen University

Xiamen 361102, China

University webpage: https://cee.xmu.edu.cn/info/1033/30154.htm

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Qi-luqi

Selected Publications：

1. Lu, Q., Zhang, Y., Du, J., Liu, Y., & Yao, M. (2026). Environmental DNA reveals multi-trophic biodiversity patterns and community assembly mechanisms across contrasting river systems on the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 64, 138–155.

2. Lu, Q., Liu, Y., Zhao, J., & Yao, M. (2024). Successive accumulation of biotic assemblages at a fine spatial scale along glacier-fed waters. iScience, 27, 109476.

3. Lu, Q., Cheng, C., Xiao, L., Li, J., Li, X., Zhao, X., Lu, Z., Zhao, J., & Yao, M. (2023). Food webs reveal coexistence mechanisms and community organization in carnivores. Current Biology, 33, 647–659.e5.

4. Lu, Q., Zhang, S., Du, J., Liu, Q., Dong, C., Zhao, J., Wang, Y., & Yao, M. (2023). Multi-group biodiversity distributions and drivers of metacommunity organization along a glacial-fluvial-limnic pathway on the Tibetan plateau. Environmental Research, 220, 115236.

5. Yao, M., Zhang, S., Lu, Q., Chen, X., Zhang, S.Y., Kong, Y., & Zhao, J. (2022). Fishing for fish environmental DNA: ecological applications, methodological considerations, surveying designs, and ways forward. Molecular Ecology, 31, 5132–5164.

6. Lu, Q., Xiao, L., Cheng, C., Lu, Z., Zhao, J., & Yao, M. (2021). Snow leopard dietary preferences and livestock predation revealed by fecal DNA metabarcoding: no evidence for apparent competition between wild and domestic prey. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 783546.

7. Shao, X., Lu, Q., Xiong, M., Bu, H., Shi, X., Wang, D., Zhao, J., Li, S., & Yao, M. (2021). Prey partitioning and livestock consumption in the world’s richest large carnivore assemblage. Current Biology, 31, 4887-4897.e5.

8. Shao, X., Lu, Q., Liu, M., Xiong, M., Bu, H., Wang, D., Liu, S., Zhao, J., Li, S., & Yao, M. (2021). Generalist carnivores can be effective biodiversity samplers of terrestrial vertebrates. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 19, 557–563.

9. Zheng, Y., Zhang, S., Lu, Q., Zhang, S., Wang, L., Hong, M., Nguyen, T.S., Zhao, J., & Yao, M. (2021). Population genetic patterns of a mangrove‐associated frog reveal its colonization history and habitat connectivity. Diversity and Distributions, 27, 1584–1600.

10. Zhang, S., Lu, Q., Wang, Y., Wang, X., Zhao, J., & Yao, M. (2020). Assessment of fish communities using environmental DNA: effect of spatial sampling design in lentic systems of different sizes. Molecular Ecology Resources, 20, 242–255.

11. 陆琪, 胡强, 施小刚, 金森龙, 李晟, 姚蒙. (2019). 基于分子宏条形码分析四川卧龙国家级自然保护区雪豹的食性. 生物多样性, 27, 960–969.