Welcome to Dossa personal website

Dossa belongs to Forest Canopy Ecology Research group. This group aims to understand how biodiversity is spatiotemporally structured by stochastic processes, and biotic and abiotic factors. We investigate intra- and interspecific interactions of organisms at individual, species and community levels, which give rise to and govern complex food-webs and ecosystem functions such as herbivory, pollination and decomposition. Our group capitalizes on a network of Chinese canopy cranes to explore the frontiers of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the canopy, an unexplored realm of forest (see [Research](research)).
We are located at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (XTBG-CAS), which belongs to tropical China a gate door to Tropical East Asia.
**We are looking for passionate new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team** [(more info)](/vacancies) **!**

We are grateful for funding from Yunnan Government, [Science and Technology department](http://www.ynst.org.cn/english/page/index.html?id=1) and the [CAS President International Fellowship Intitiative (PIFI)](http://international-talent.cas.cn/front/pc.html#/bicsite/pifiIntroduce/pifi), and from an [National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) ](https://www.nsfc.gov.cn/english/site_1/index.html), as well as continuous support from XTBG.

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