Associate Professor Alice Hughes

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Alice C. Hughes is Associate Professor at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and Vice Director of their Field Studies Program. Alice has worked extensively across the Tropics, and previously held positions in Thailand, Australia, Costa Rica, and the UK. Her work focuses on patterns of biodiversity and drivers of biodiversity change, at various spatiotemporal scales in order to develop pro-active management strategies that aim to mitigate the impacts of human activities on biodiversity. Hughes is a board member of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation, the Society for Conservation Biology, the European Tropical Ecology Society, and the International Network of Next Generation Ecologists. She is Secretary of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the ATBC, and Chair of the Capacity Building and Meetings committees. Hughes is actively engaged in capacity building, with a focus on real-world conservation and management issues. Since 2012 she has directly trained over 500 students from over 40 countries and organized training for many more. She has organized conferences on key issues such as trans-boundary conservation, the illegal wildlife trade, and climate change ecology.