ERIC AMECA现为海南大学生态环境学院教授、博士生导师。我拥有伦敦帝国理工学院和伦敦动物学会动物研究所的联合博士学位。我是IUCN SSC气候变化专家组指导委员会委员、灵长类专家组马达加斯加分会委员、中国物种专家组成员。我联合各小组开展的研究重点是了解气候变化和人类压力对动物种群、物种类型和生物多样性重点保护地区带来的新威胁。

我们与中国科学院动物研究所 (IoZ-CAS) 的同事一起评估了中国主要生物多样性保护区的脊椎动物在物种丰富度高的地区、洪水易发区和人类避难区之间的相关性。同样，我们在大熊猫自然保护区内确定了人类干扰的区域，这些区域需要对自然干扰进行风险评估，以避免人类对熊猫栖息地干扰的增加，减少突发极端事件带来的影响。

我使用系统发育分析、空间统计和编程来研究动物物种的生态和生活史属性，这些属性可能与因极端气候事件而导致的严重种群下降和灭绝风险增加有关。最近，在先前研究的基础上，我们评估了世界灵长类动物对飓风和干旱的响应以及世界干旱地区鸟类对高温的响应，量化了全球濒危的米尔恩-爱德华氏冕狐猴的灭绝风险，并提出了一个评估物种应对极端气候事件的行为灵活性的模型。我是《Conservation Biology》、《Integrative Zoology》、《Climate Change Ecology》和《Integrative Conservation》的编委会成员。

欢迎有相同研究兴趣并希望与我们合作的人士。如果您希望在 2025-2026 年加入我们（硕士/博士/博士后），请发送电子邮件（eric.ameca08@alumni.imperial.ac.uk / https://eric-ameca.org/ ）描述您自己的研究兴趣以及您希望与我们合作的研究想法。

最近出版的作品 (*通讯作者):

· Ameca EI*, Nie Y, Wu R, Mittermeier RA, Foden W, Wei F* (2024). Identifying protected areas in biodiversity hotspots at risk from climate and human-induced compound events for conserving threatened species. Science of The Total Environment. 938. 15

· Ding Ch, Newbold T*, Ameca EI* (2024). Assessing the global vulnerability of dryland birds to heatwaves. Global Change Biology. 30:e17136.

· Ameca EI*, Chamart L, Garber PA (2023). A conceptual framework for assessing behavioral flexibility of species in response to extreme climatic events. Scientific Reports. 13, 1-10.

· Preston-Allen R, Hakkinen H, Cañellas-Dols L, Ameca EI, Orme D, Pettorelli N* (2023). Geography, taxonomy, extinction risk, and exposure of fully migratory birds to droughts and cyclones. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33, 1:63-73.

· Sharnuud R, Ameca EI* (2023). Taxonomy, distribution and contemporary exposure of terrestrial mammals to floods and human pressure across different areas for biodiversity conservation in China. Integrative Zoology. 0, 1-10.

· Zhang L†, Ameca EI†*, Otero B, Montano S, Kelly T, Shea A, Adrianoely D, Wright P (2022) Human-induced deforestation increases extinction risk faster than climate pressures: evidence from long-term monitoring of the globally endangered Milne-Edward’s sifaka. Biological Conservation. 279, 109716, 1-10.

· Hakkinen H, Petrovan S, Sutherland W, Dias M, Ameca EI, Oppel S, Ramírez I, Lawson B, Lehikoinen, A, Bowgen K, Taylor N, Pettorelli N* (2022). Linking climate change vulnerability research and evidence on conservation action effectiveness to safeguard seabird populations in Western Europe. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59, 1178-1186.

· Ameca EI* (2019). Adapting for extremes. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 3, 1279–1280.

· Zhang L, Ameca EI*, Cowlishaw G, Pettorelli N, Foden W, Mace GM. (2019). Global assessment of primate vulnerability to extreme climatic events. Nature Climate Change. 9: 554-561 (doi: 10.1038/s41558-019-0508-7).

· Ameca EI, Qiang D, Nie, Y, Gu X, Wei F* (2019). Implications of flood disturbance for conservation and management of giant panda habitat in human-modified landscapes. Biological conservation. 232: 35-42.

· Ameca EI, Jiang Z* (2016) Flood exposure for vertebrates across terrestrial Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation: identifying internal refugia. Biological Conservation 199:135-145.

· Ameca EI*, Ellis E, Rodríguez-Luna E. (2015) Quantifying the severity of hurricanes on extinction probabilities of a primate population: insights into island extirpations. American Journal of Primatology 77(7), 786-800.

· Ameca EI*, Mace GM, Cowlishaw G, Cornforth W, Pettorelli N (2013) Assessing exposure to extreme climatic events for terrestrial mammals. Conservation Letters 6(3):145-153.

· Ameca EI, Mace GM, Cowlishaw G, Pettorelli N* (2012) Natural population die-offs: causes and consequences for terrestrial mammals. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27(5):272-277.