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Yiching Lin

Spatial analysis of tropical forests

Yiching is an assistant professor in the Department of Life Science at the Tunghai University, Taiwan. Her main research interest is to understand ecological processes that generate spatial distributions of tree species in various forest ecosystems. Currently, she is studying spatial patterns and dynamics of seeds and seedlings in the Kenting Forest Dynamics Plot in Taiwan, where she established seed traps and seedling plots in 2006-2007. She is also utilizing various point pattern models to analyze spatial patterns of tree species in several Taiwanese forest dynamics plots.

Yiching started her spatial study as a graduate student. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003. Her dissertation is entitled “The impact of neighborhood-based processes on demography and a decline in species diversity in a temperate deciduous forest”. Before she landed in her current position in 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Taiwan University and an assistant professor at the Koahsiung Medical University.
 

  View to the 10ha Kenting plot