Shu Chen

Research topic: Strategic communication strategies to support landholder adoption and stewardship of conservation covenants

Supervisors: Professor Kelly Fielding, Professor Jonathan Rhodes (QUT)

Research interests: biodiversity communication, species conservation, human-wildlife coexistence, private land conservation, stakeholder engagement

Qualifications: Master of Science, National University of Singapore (2010-2012)

Publications

Selected journal articles

Chen, S., Sun, G., Wang, . . . & Campos-Arceiz, A. (2021). A multistakeholder exercise to identify research and conservation priorities for Asian elephants in China. Global Ecology and Conservation, 27, e01561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01561

Turvey, S.T., Chen, S., Tapley, B., Liang, Z., Wei, G., Yang, J., Wang, J., Wu, M., Redbond, J., Brown, T., & Cunningham, A. A. (2021). From dirty to delicacy? Changing exploitation in China threatens the world’s largest amphibians. People and Nature, 3(2): 446–456. 1. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10185

Campos-Arceiz, A., de la Torre, J. A., Wu, X .Y., Zhu, Y. F., Bai, Y., Chen, S., Corlett, R., Chen, F. (2021) The return of the elephants– how two groups of dispersing elephants attracted the attention of billions and what can we learn from their journeys. Conservation Letter, 14(6), e12836. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12836

Chen, S., Sun, G., Wang, Y., . . . & Campos-Arceiz, A. (2021). A multistakeholder exercise to identify research and conservation priorities for Asian elephants in China. Global Ecology and Conservation, 27, e01561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01561

Borz´ee, A., Kielgast, J., Wren, S., Angulo, A., Chen,  S., Magellan, K.,  . . . & Bishop, P. J. (2021). Using the 2020 global pandemic as a springboard to highlight the need for amphibian conservation in eastern Asia. Biological Conservation, 255, p.108973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.108973

Tapley, B., Turvey, S. T., Chen, S., et al. (2021). Range-wide decline of Chinese giant salamanders Andrias spp. from suitable habitat. Oryx, 1-9. http://doi:10.1017/S0030605320000411

Chen, S., Cunningham, A. A., Wei, G, et al. (2018). Determining threatened species distributions in the face of limited data: spatial conservation prioritization for the Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus). Ecology and Evolution, 8(6): 3098-3108.

Turvey, S.T., Chen, S., Tapley, B., Wei, G., Xie, F., Yan, F., Yang, J., Liang, Z., Tian, H., Wu, M.,Okada, S., Wang, J., Lu¨, J., Zhou, F., Papworth, S.K., Redbond, J., Brown, T., Che, J. and Cunningham, A.A. (2018). Imminent extinction in the wild of the world’s largest amphibian. Current Biology, 28(10): R592-R594.

Yan,  F.,  Lu¨,  J.,  Zhang,  B.,  Yuan,  Z.,  Zhao,  H.,  Huang,  S.,  Wei, G., Mi, X., Zou, D., Xu, W. Chen, S., Wang, J., Feng, X., Wu, M., XIaou, H., Liang, Z., Jin, J., Wu, S., Xu, C., Tapley, B., Turvey, S.T., Papenfuss, T.J., Cunningham, A.A., Murphey, R.W., Zhang, Y. and Che, J. (2018). The Chinese giant salamander exemplifies the hidden extinction of cryptic species. Current Biology, 28(10): R590-R592.

Pan, Y., Wei, G., Li, S., Chen, S., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Cunningham, A.A. & Turvey, S.T. (2015). Using local ecological knowledge to identify spatial priorities for Chinese giant salamander conservation in Guizhou Province, China. Oryx, 1-8.

Tapley, B., Okada, S., Redbond, J., Turvey, S.T., Chen,  S., Lu¨, J., Wei, G., Wu, M.Y., Pan, Y., Niu, K.F. and Cunningham, A.A. (2015). Failure to detect the Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) in Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, Guizhou Province, China. Salamandra 51, 206-208.

Chen, S., Yi, Z.F., Campos-Arceiz, A. and Chen, M.Y. (2013). Developing a spatially-explicit, sustainable and risk-based insurance scheme to mitigate human-wildlife conflict. Biological Conservation 168, 31-39.

Chen, S., Qian, Z.Q., Gong, X., Zhao, R., Yang, M.Z., 2010. Comparison of SSR and RAPD technologies in genetic diversity analysis of wild grape resources Vitis bryoniaegolia from Xishan Mountain in Kunming. Southwest China Journal of Agricultural Science 23, 2008-2013.

Book chapters

Niu, K.F., Tan, C. L., Cui, D.Y., Chen, S., Shi, L. (2015). Xingda’s Explorations in Fanjingshan. Guizhou Technology Press, Guiyang.

International guidelines

Ament, R., Tiwari, S.K., Butynksi, M., Chen, S., Dodd, N.,Gangadharan, A., Jayasinghe, N., Laur, A., Oppler. G., Wong, E. P., van der Ree, R., & Wang, Y. (2021). Protecting Asian elephants from linear transport infrastructure: The Asian Elephant Transport Working Group’s introduction to the challenges and solutions. AsETWG (Asian Elephant Transport Working Group; IUCN WCPA Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group/IUCN SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group)

Tapley, B., Chen, S., Turvey, S. T., Redbond, J., Okada, S., & Cunningham, A. A. (2017). A sustainable future for Chinese giant salamanders: Chinese giant salamander field survey manual. Technical report, Zoological Society of London. Available at: shorturl.at/ksyVW