Hao Ran Lai

This paper introduces RRGDM, a method for model-based ordination of dissimilarity data that addresses challenges in linking environmental predictors to pairwise responses.

The paper examines how pest damage to crops varies globally based on coevolutionary indicators and agricultural management practices.

The paper examines how different environmental fluctuation components affect macroinvertebrate communities and finds that slow fluctuations have stronger trait-mediated effects than seasonal or fast fluctuations.

The paper investigates how plant fidelity to root symbionts affects performance under changing community contexts, finding that fidelity to antagonists is stronger and mutualist fidelity impacts performance differently based on plant traits and herbivore presence.

The paper predicts trade-offs among nature's contributions to people based on land-use patterns and species movement, finding that mixed forest-grassland areas maximize beneficial contributions and minimize detrimental ones.

The paper introduces GDUM to better understand how environmental gradients influence community uniqueness in biodiversity studies.

This paper adapts joint species distribution models to ecological networks to model Eltonian niches, revealing trait and phylogeny relationships and enabling interaction predictions without empirical data.

This study examines how climate change affects the quantity and timing of phenology in tropical dry-forest trees, finding that climate variables explain more variation in phenological amplitude than timing or intensity.

This study examines how introduced trout affect the recovery of native galaxiid fish populations after extreme flooding, finding that trout reduce growth rates and impact smaller fish more severely.