Dali Lin, who Tatsuya collaborated with as the Associate Advisor of his PhD project, has published his final chapter of the thesis in Landscape Ecology: “Designing biodiversity-friendly landscapes: the effects of landscape heterogeneity across scales on bird species richness in Taiwan”.

This paper used nationwide citizen science data based on The Taiwan Breeding Bird Survey to investigate the effects of landscape heterogeneity and habitat amount on the species richness of all breeding birds, forest birds, farmland birds, and introduced birds in Taiwan. We found that high compositional and low configurational landscape heterogeneity help maintain native bird richness while minimising the spread of introduced species.

Read the paper here.