Dr. WONG Hang Gi, Michelle::Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

Fauna Conservation Department - Kadoorie Conservation China Programme

Fauna Conservation Flora Conservation Conservation by Site Ecological Advisory Programme Collaborative Research in KFBG’s Nature Reserve Researchers Facilities

Dr. WONG Hang Gi, Michelle

Senior Project Officer

Fauna Conservation Department - Kadoorie Conservation China Programme

michellewong@kfbg.org

Michelle is now the person-in-charge of the Hainan Eld’s Deer conservation project, leading and coordinating research on the deer’s phylogenetics, diet and nutrition, and habitat selection. She has a Ph.D. in ecology from Yunnan University in China, and spent five years working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences on modelling the impacts of climate change. She is a member of China Primatological Society.

Selected publications:

Wong, M.H.G., Mo, Y. & Chan, B.P.L. (2021). Past, present and future of the globally Endangered Eld’s Deer (Rucervus eldii) on Hainan Island, China. Global Ecology and Conservation, 26: e01505.

Turvey, S.T., Bryant, J.V., Duncan, C., Wong, M.H.G., Guan, Z., Fei, H., Ma, C., Hong, X., Nash, H.C., Chan, B.P.L., Xu, Y. & Fan, P. (2016). How many remnant gibbon populations are left on Hainan? Testing the use of local ecological knowledge to detect cryptic threatened primates. American Journal of Primatology, 79(2): e22593.

Bryant, J.V., Brulé, A., Wong, M.H.G., Hong, X., Zhou, Z., Han, W., Jeffree, T.E. & Turvey, S.T. (2016). Detection of a new Hainan Gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) group using acoustic call playback. International Journal of Primatology, 37: 534-547.

Li, R., Xu, M., Wong, M.H.G., Qiu, S., Li, X., Ehrenfeld, D. & Li, D. (2015). Climate change threatens giant panda protection in the 21st century. Biological Conservation, 182: 93-101.

Li, R., Xu, M., Wong, M.H.G., Qiu, S., Sheng, Q., Li, X. & Song, Z. (2014). Climate change-induced decline in bamboo habitats and species diversity: implication for giant panda conservation. Diversity and Distributions, 21(4): 379-391.

Wong, M.H.G., Li, R., Xu, M. & Long, Y. (2013). An integrative approach to assessing the potential impacts of climate change on the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey. Biological Conservation, 158: 401-409.

Wong, M.H.G., Duan, C.-Q., Long, Y.-C., Luo, Y.-M. & Xie, G.-Q. (2010). How will the distribution and size of subalpine Abies georgei forest respond to climate change? A study in Northwest Yunnan, China. Physical Geography, 31(4): 319-335.