Selected publications

Listed are my first and senior author publications.

See Google Scholar for all my publications, updated.

[2025] Wang Z, Singh J, Davies A. Consistent patterns of LiDAR-derived measures of savanna vegetation complexity between wet and dry seasons. Ecological Indicators.

[2024] Wang Z, Huben R, Boucher P, Van Amburg C, Zeng J, Chung N…Davies A. Automated detection of an insect-induced keystone vegetation phenotype using airborne LiDAR. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

[2023] Wang Z, Chan W, Pham NT, Zeng J, Pierce N, Lohman D, Meng W. One in five butterfly species sold online across borders. Biological Conservation.

[2023] Wang Z, Zeng J, Ran H, Meng W, Zhou S, Davies A, Liu C. Monitoring the online ant trade reveals high biological invasion risk. Biological Conservation.

[2021] Wang Z, Zeng J, Meng W, Lohman D, Pierce N. Out of sight, out of mind: public and research interest in insects is negatively correlated with their conservation status. Insect Conservation and Diversity.

[2024] Wang Z, Kim S, Farrell BD, de Medeiros BAS. Customizable PCR-based target enrichment probes for sequencing fungi-parasitized insects. Insect Science.

[2023] Wang Z, Pierce N. Fine-scale genome-wide signature of Pleistocene glaciation in host moths of caterpillar fungus in parallel river valleys. Molecular Ecology.

[2022] Wang Z, Da W, Negi CS, Ghimire PL, Wangdi K, Yada P…Pierce N. Profiling, monitoring and conserving caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region using anchored hybrid enrichment markers. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences.

[2020] Wang Z, Meng L, Ju W, Ye W, Xue L, Zhang F…Pierce N. The entomophagous caterpillar fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis is consumed by its lepidopteran host as a plant endophyte. Fungal Ecology.

[2020] Wang Z, Yang D, Janak R, Pierce N. Report on emergence time of Thitarodes ghost moth (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae), host of caterpillar fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis in Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Economic Entomology.

[2019] Wang Z, Zhuang H, Wang M, Pierce N. Thitarodes shambalaensis sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae): a new host of the “caterpillar fungus” Ophiocordyceps sinensis supported by genome-wide SNP data. Zookeys.

[2023] Da W, Rana S, Bawa K, Kunte K, Wang Z. Roof of the world: home and border in the genomic era. Molecular Ecology Resources.

[2023] Li Z, Linard B, Vogler A, Yu D, Wang Z. Phylogenetic diversity only weakly mitigates climate-change-driven biodiversity loss in insect communities. Molecular Ecology.

[2022] Wang Z, Li Y, Jain A, Pierce N. Agent-based models reveal limits of mark-release-recapture estimates for the rare butterfly, Bhutanitis thaidina (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Insect Science.

[2019] Zhang Z, Jiang Z, Wang Z. Habitat, life-cycle and ovipositing choice of the endangered Bhutan glory swallowtail Bhutanitis lidderdalii (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) in Yunnan, China. Journal of Insect Conservation.

[2019] Wang Z, Huang Y, Pierce N. Radio telemetry helps record the dispersal patterns of birdwing butterflies in mountainous habitats: Golden Birdwing (Troides aeacus) as an example. Journal of Insect Conservation.

[2018] Wang Z, Huang Y., Luo X, Qin K, Merz R, Zhou S. Habitat monitoring of an endangered Asian butterfly, Teinopalpus aureus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) and change in local residents’ conservation awareness. Journal of Insect Conservation.