CURRICULUM VITAE
ZHAO MEIJUAN
PERSONAL DETAILS:
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:
NATIONALITY:
15 December 1986, Huxian, Henan Province
Chinese
HIGHER EDUCATION:
FIRST DEGREE:
Bachelor of Biology; Henan Normal University,
2004-2008
Xinxiang, 453007, Henan Province.
POST-GRADUATE DEGREE:
MSc at University of Science and Technology of
Sep 2008-present
China, Hefei 230022, Anhui Province (transferred
to PhD degree in 2010)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
During my undergraduate degree I did more than 30 courses, including zoology, botany, biochemistry,
molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, animal physiology, plant physiology, animal physiology and
mathematics. My bachelor’s thesis was on “Types of Behaviors and Time Allocation of Captive Juvenile
Macaca Mulatta in Taihang Montains”, from which I learned some basic behaviour study methods.
My field work during post-graduation has been mainly conducted at Shengjin Lake National Nature Reserve,
Anhui Province, China, which holds up to 40,000 Bean Goose and 13,000 Greater White-fronted Goose
during the wintering period. I started research on goose behaviour during the 2008/2009 winter period when
I commenced my MSc. I led a team of three people studying the wintering ecology of Greater White-fronted
Goose and Bean Goose at Shengjin Lake from October 2009 – April 2010 and also assisted in developing a
systematic waterbird survey methodology for my master’s research. In the 2010/2011 winter my team
investigated competition between Greater White-fronted Geese and Bean Geese, and the habitat choice
and food selection of Bean Geese. I also conducted analysis of Greater White-fronted Goose and Bean
Goose faeces during 2008-2010 summers and took part in aquatic vegetation surveys in summers 2009 and
2010.
Some of the field data have been analysed and published (see below). Now I am processing the 2010/2011
winter data and plan to write papers about “Feeding Ecology of Bean Goose on Trapa”, and “Spatial,
Feeding Ecology and Diet overlap of Bean Goose and Greater White-fronted Goose” resulting from this
work.
In future studies, I plan to investigate why Bean Geese shift their foraging habitats with the wintering period
based on cost-benefit theory.
PUBLICATIONS
Meijuan Zhao, Peihao Cong, Mark Barter, Anthony D. Fox & Lei Cao. 2011. The changing abundance and
distribution of Greater White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons in the Yangtze River floodplain: impacts of
recent hydrological changes. Bird Conservation International doi:10.1017/S0959270911000542.
Lei Cao, Mark Barter, Meijuan Zhao, Haoxian Meng & Yong Zhang. 2011. A systematic scheme for
monitoring waterbird populations at Shengjin Lake, China: methodology and preliminary results.
Chinese Birds 2(1):1–14.
Yong Zhang, Lei Cao, Mark Barter, Anthony D. Fox, Meijuan Zhao, Fanjuan Meng, Hongquan Shi, Yong
Jiang & Wenzhong Zhu. 2011. Changing distribution and abundance of Swan Goose Anser cygnoides
in the Yangtze River floodplain: the likely loss of a very important wintering site. Bird Conservation
International 20:1–13.
Meijuan Zhao, Lei Cao & Anthony D. Fox. 2010. Changes in within-winter distribution and diet of wintering
Tundra Bean Geese Anser fabalis serrirostris at Shengjin Lake, Yangtze floodplain, China. Wildfowl
60:52-63.
Anthony D. Fox, Lei Cao, Yong Zhang, Mark Barter, Meijuan Zhao, Fanjuan Meng & Silong Wang. 2010.
Declines in the tuber-feeding waterbird guild at Shengjin Lake National Nature Reserve – a barometer of
submerged macrophyte collapse. Aquatic Conservation: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst 21: 82-91.
Yuanqi Cheng, Lei Cao, Mark Barter, Wenbin Xu, Yong Zhang & Meijuan Zhao, 2009. Wintering Waterbird
Survey at the Anhui Shengjin Lake National Nature Reserve, China 2008/9. University of Science and
Technology of China Press, Hefei, China.
Contacted details:
Meijuan ZHAO
School of Life Sciences,
University of Science and Technology of China,
No.443 Huangshan Road
Hefei, Anhui 230027
P.R.China
zmj609@mail.ustc.edu.cn
Phone: +86 – 5513606284