Alice Hughes

Alice is a Professor and leads the Landscape Ecology group at XTBG-CAS. Alice has worked extensively across the Tropics, and held positions in Thailand, Australia, Costa Rica, and the UK before moving to China.  

Alice’s work focuses on patterns of biodiversity and drivers of biodiversity change, at various spatiotemporal scales to develop pro-active management strategies that aim to mitigate the impacts of human activities on biodiversity. Her work explores both drivers of habitat loss, and direct over-exploitation of species, and the mechanisms which may more effectively curb such threats. She has projects to develop spatial policy targets for sustainable development and conservation such as China’s ecological Redline Policy, developing global conservation goals for CBD biodiversity targets. Furthermore her work includes OneHealth approaches to enable sustainable development whilst mitigating risks through adaptive management strategies to species stress responses and habitat needs.  

Her work seeks to better understand natural systems, and to use that information to develop priorities for conservation and management across scales, this also includes the development of tools to monitor natural systems, and methods to explore the sensible use of data to ensure targets are appropriate and meaningful, and can therefore effectively inform policy and management targets.