Mengesha Asefa
Junior Editors, Plant Diversity
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant Community Ecology, Trait-based Ecology, Plant Biodiversity
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant Community Ecology, Trait-based Ecology, Plant Biodiversity
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: mengesha@xtbg.ac.cn
Web-link of Research Group: http://english.xtbg.cas.cn/rh/rd/kl/200912/t20091218_49438.html
Selected publications (no more than 15):
Ayenew Abuhay, Eshete Kassaw, Getinet Masresha, Mengesha Asefa* (2024). Small forest patches in Ethiopian highlands uniquely support high plant biodiversity (Accepted), Biodiversity and Conservation, 33: 1711- 1727.
Eshete Kassaw, Getinet Masresha, Mengesha Asefa* (2023). Environment differentially affects the functional and phylogenetic structures of plant communities in a dry evergreen Afromontane tropical forest, Biotropica, 55: 1203-1214.
Mengesha Asefa, Samantha J. Worthy, Min Cao, Xiaoyang Song, Yudi M. Lozano, Jie Yang (2022). Above and belowground plant traits are not consistent in response to drought and competition treatments. Annals of Botany, 130: 939–950,
Mengesha Asefa, Xiaoyang Song, Min Cao, Jesse R. Lasky, Jie Yang 2021. Temporal trait plasticity predicts the growth of tropical trees. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32 (4) e13056.
Mengesha Asefa, Han‐Dong Wen, Calum Brown, Min Cao, Kun Xu, Yue‐Hua Hu 2020. Ecological drivers of tree assemblage in tropical, subtropical and subalpine forests. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31:107–117.
Mengesha Asefa, Min Cao, Yunyun He, Ewuketu Mekonnen, Xiaoyang Song, Jie Yang 2020. Ethiopian vegetation types, climate and topography. Plant Diversity, 42:30-311
Mengesha Asefa, Han-Dong Wen, Min Cao and Yue-Hua Hu 2020. Key Community Assembly Processes Switch between Scales in Shaping Beta Diversity in Two Primary Forests, Southwest China. Forests, 11, 1106.
Mengesha Asefa, Calum Brown, Min Cao, Guocheng Zhang, Xiuqin Ci, Liqing Sha, Jie Li, Luxiang Lin, Jie Yang 2018. Contrasting effects of space and environment on functional and phylogenetic dissimilarity in a tropical forest. Journal of Plant Ecology, 12:314–326.
Mengesha Asefa, Min Cao, Guocheng Zhang, Xiuqin Ci, Jie Li, and Jie Yang 2017. Environmental filtering structures tree functional traits combination and lineages across space in tropical tree assemblages. Scientific Reports 7:132.
Yun-Yun He, Kwansupa Srisombut, Ding-Liang Xing, Nanthan G. Swenson, Mengesha Asefa, Min Cao, Xiao-Yang Song, Han-Dong Wen, Jie Yang. Ontogenetic trait variation and metacommunity effects influence species relative abundances during tree community assembly. Plant Diversity 44: 360-368.
Xiaoyang Song, Wenfu Zhang, Daniel J. Johnson, Jie Yang, Mengesha Asefa, Xiaobao Deng, Xiaofei Yang, Min Cao 2020. Conspecific negative density dependence in rainy season enhanced seedling diversity across habitats in a tropical forest. Oecologia, 193:949–957.