Alice Catherine Hughes

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University of Bristol

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| workplaces = *Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

University of Hong Kong

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Alice Catherine Hughes is associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, and editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Climate Change Ecology journal. She is known for her research on biodiversity, including the effect of environmental change on some species, particularly bats, and the threat to many species from the wildlife trade.

Early life and education

Alice Hughes spent some of her childhood in Norfolk, observing birds with her mother.{{cite web |date=24 February 2014 |title=Interview with a real bat-woman: Alice Hughes |url=https://bilgenurb.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/interview-with-a-real-bat-woman-alice-hughes/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241006170942/https://bilgenurb.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/interview-with-a-real-bat-woman-alice-hughes/ |archive-date=6 October 2024 |access-date=6 October 2024 |website=gez göz arpacık |language=en}} In 2004 she gained a higher diploma in animal behaviour from the University of Southampton.{{cite web |date=2023 |title=Curriculum vitae: Alice Catherine Hughes |url=https://www.biosch.hku.hk/staff/AH/CV_pubs_edu_Hughes032022%284%29.pdf |website=www.biosch.hku. |publisher=University of Hong Kong}} Subsequently, she studied zoology at the University of Bristol, from where she graduated in 2007, and completed her PhD four years later.

Career

In 2011 Hughes moved to Thailand, where she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Prince of Songkla University. The following year she gained a fellowship with the CSIRO in Canberra, Australia.{{cite book |last1=Villalobos-Chaves |first1=David |last2=Bonaccorso |first2=Frank J. |last3=Rodriguez-Herrera |first3=Bernal |last4=Cordero-Schmidt |first4=Eugenia |last5=Arias-Aguilar |first5=Adriana |last6=Todd |first6=Christopher M. |editor1-last=Ortega |editor1-first=Jorge |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9aFPDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA286 |title=Sociality in Bats |date=2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-38951-6 |location=Switzerland |page=286 |language=en |chapter=14. The influence of sex and reproductive status foraging behaviour and seed dispersal by Uroderma convexum}} Towards the end of 2013, she took up an appointment as assistant professor at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, to research biodiversity, including the effect of environmental change on some species, particularly bats. She later wrote on the threats of the trade in wildlife,{{cite web |title=Under-regulated pet trade leaves thousands of species vulnerable |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/908873 |website=EurekAlert! |access-date=8 October 2024 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Hinsley |first1=Amy |last2=Willis |first2=Jasmin |last3=Dent |first3=Abigail R. |last4=Oyanedel |first4=Rodrigo |last5=Kubo |first5=Takahiro |last6=Challender |first6=Daniel W. S. |title=Trading species to extinction: evidence of extinction linked to the wildlife trade |journal=Cambridge Prisms: Extinction |date=January 2023 |volume=1 |pages=e10 |doi=10.1017/ext.2023.7 |pmid=40078683 |pmc=11895731 |language=en |issn=2755-0958}} including the protection of bats in the Western Ghats, India. {{cite news |last1=Premkumar |first1=Rohan |date=23 July 2022 |title='Bat habitats in South Western Ghats lie predominantly outside protected areas' |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/bat-habitats-in-south-western-ghats-lie-predominantly-outside-protected-areas/article65670284.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241006092306/https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/bat-habitats-in-south-western-ghats-lie-predominantly-outside-protected-areas/article65670284.ece |archive-date=6 October 2024 |access-date=6 October 2024 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN}}

In 2021 Hughes became associate professor of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong. {{cite web|url=https://www.scifac.hku.hk/page/detail/7696|title=Meet our new staff - Dr Alice Catherine Hughes|publisher=Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong|access-date=2024-09-19}}{{cite web |last=Gallagher |first=James |date=19 September 2024 |title=Covid origins: Genetic ghosts suggest pandemic started in market |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8095xjg4po |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250518091425/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8095xjg4po |archive-date=18 May 2025 |access-date=2024-09-19 |website=BBC News}}{{cite journal |last1=Mallapaty |first1=Smriti |title=COVID pandemic started in Wuhan market animals after all, suggests latest study |journal=Nature |date=20 September 2024 |volume=634 |issue=8032 |pages=14–15 |doi=10.1038/d41586-024-03026-9 |pmid=39304754 |bibcode=2024Natur.634...14M |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03026-9 |language=en|url-access=subscription}} She became editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Climate Change Ecology journal.{{when|date=October 2024}}{{cite web |title=Climate Change Ecology {{!}} Journal {{!}} ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/climate-change-ecology |website=www.sciencedirect.com |access-date=6 October 2024 |language=en-us}}

Selected publications

{{cite journal |title=The projected effects of climatic and vegetation changes on the distribution and diversity of Southeast Asian bats |journal=Global Change Biology |date=June 2012 |volume=18 |issue=6 |pages=1854–1865 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02641.x |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02641.x |language=en |issn=1354-1013 |last1=Hughes |first1=Alice C. |last2=Satasook |first2=Chutamas |last3=Bates |first3=Paul J. J. |last4=Bumrungsri |first4=Sara |last5=Jones |first5=Gareth |bibcode=2012GCBio..18.1854H }} (Co-author)
{{cite journal |title=Understanding the drivers of S outheast Asian biodiversity loss |journal=Ecosphere |date=January 2017 |volume=8 |issue=1 |doi=10.1002/ecs2.1624 |language=en |issn=2150-8925 |last1=Hughes |first1=Alice C. |bibcode=2017Ecosp...8E1624H |doi-access=free }}
{{cite journal |last1=Marshall |first1=Benjamin M. |last2=Strine |first2=Colin |last3=Hughes |first3=Alice C. |title=Thousands of reptile species threatened by under-regulated global trade |journal=Nature Communications |date=29 September 2020 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=4738 |doi=10.1038/s41467-020-18523-4 |pmid=32994397 |bibcode=2020NatCo..11.4738M |language=en |issn=2041-1723|pmc=7525537 }} (Co-author)
{{cite journal |title=Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world |journal=Ecography |date=September 2021 |volume=44 |issue=9 |pages=1259–1269 |doi=10.1111/ecog.05926 |url=https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecog.05926 |language=en |issn=0906-7590 |last1=Hughes |first1=Alice C. |last2=Orr |first2=Michael C. |last3=Ma |first3=Keping |last4=Costello |first4=Mark J. |last5=Waller |first5=John |last6=Provoost |first6=Pieter |last7=Yang |first7=Qinmin |last8=Zhu |first8=Chaodong |last9=Qiao |first9=Huijie |bibcode=2021Ecogr..44.1259H |hdl=2292/55902 |hdl-access=free }} (Co-author)
{{cite journal |last1=Hughes |first1=Alice C. |title=Wildlife trade |journal=Current Biology |date=11 October 2021 |volume=31 |issue=19 |pages=R1218–R1224 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.056 |pmid=34637735 |bibcode=2021CBio...31R1218H |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34637735/ |issn=1879-0445}}
{{cite journal |title=Identifying priority areas for bat conservation in the Western Ghats mountain range, peninsular India |journal=Journal of Mammalogy |date=20 July 2022 |volume=104 |issue=1 |pages=49–61 |doi=10.1093/jmammal/gyac060 |url=https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/104/1/49/6646745 |last1=Raman |first1=Sreehari |last2=Shameer |first2=Thekke Thumbath |last3=Pooja |first3=Ushakumari |last4=Hughes |first4=Alice C. }} (Co-author)

Alice Catherine Hughes

Early life and education

Career

Selected publications

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