Mengesha Asefa Abera
About
Grants and Awards
• Intraspecific trait variation of trees through the lens of genetic variation and plasticity in a Chinese tropical forest, National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (January 2020-December 2020) • Phylogenetic correlates of genetic and plastic intraspecific trait variation in tree communities, Yunnan Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018 – 2019) • Ecological and socio-economic impacts of Eichhornia crasipes (Mart) Solms-water hyacinth Lake Tana, and biological control method as a management option (2014) • Diversity and regeneration status of Ethiopian monastery forests: The case of Mendaba monastery, Northwest Ethiopia (2013)
Supervision
Ayenew Abuhay (MSc student)
Publication
1. 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. 2. Mengesha Asefa, Han‐Dong Wen, Calum Brown, Min Cao, Kun Xu, Yue‐Hua Hu 2020. Ecological drivers of tree assemblage in tropical, subtropical and subalpineforests. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31:107–117. 3. 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 (Accepted)https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468265921001128 4. Mengesha Asefa, Min Cao, Yunyun He, Ewuketu Mekonnen, Xiaoyang Song, Jie Yang 2020. Ethiopian vegetation types, climate and topography. Plant Diversity, 42:30-311 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. 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.