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@vicki_mzhang
PhD Candidate @UTMBiology studying subarctic invasive species & tweeting with typos 🌱| Instructor @UofT & @HumberCollege | she/her
Mississauga, Ontario
vickimzhang.github.io
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    @vicki_mzhang
    Sep 30, 2025
    📢NEW PAPER ALERT!📢 We found that temperature is a limiting factor for invasive plants in a subarctic treeline environment, which is also reflected in their higher success in the sheltered warmer boreal forest compared to the harsh open tundra. doi.org/10.1007/s00442…
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    @vicki_mzhang
    Aug 12, 2024
    Fieldwork for my PhD is officially complete!!! 🌱👷🏻‍♀️
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    @vicki_mzhang
    Jul 15, 2024
    Check out the newest issue of The EEB Quarterly! There are some thoughtful pieces, & stunning photography & art. Thanks to the writers & editors for all their time & for their words!
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    Jul 15, 2024
    Volume 5, Issue 2 of the #EEBQuarterly is out: theeebquarterly.github.io! In this issue: @TheEEBAtwood recap, a feature about how we use AI, and a beautiful visual abstract. Cover: @ZifangX Editor-­In-­Chief: @vicki_mzhang
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    @vicki_mzhang
    Jun 9, 2024
    Excited to be back in subarctic for my 4th & final field season! This week, I’m busy setting up experiments that will run throughout the growing season in the tundra and boreal forest. It’s spring, the time of migratory birds & early wildflowers! @UTMBiology #KotanenLab
    Foreground: an experiment using greenhouse open-top chambers to test the effect of warming on invasive plants in the tundra.
Background: two other experiments: one tests the effect of native ground cover, and the second tests the effect of physical disturbance on invasive plants.
    The earlier tundra flowering plant, purple saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia).
    Hudson Bay, still covered in ice, with some krummholz trees in the foreground.
    A lesser yellowlegs (left), and a black bellied plover (right) foraging for food in a mudflat.
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    @vicki_mzhang
    May 27, 2024
    I was super excited to present first thing this morning at #CSEE2024! If you missed it, I talked about dispersal & temperature barriers leading to failed invasions in the tundra. Please feel free to connect & talk more about subarctic plant invasions! @CSEE_SCEE @CSEE_SCEEmtgs
    Title slide reading: Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Canadian Arctic.
    Summary slide describing barriers to non-native plant invasions in the Canadian tundra, and the potential risk for invasive species spread if barriers are removed.

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