2025-2026 MW CASC Graduate Student
University of Minnesota
Miao He's research focuses on how biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning (BEF) and stability under global change. Her current projects focus on how plant diversity and species interactions affect community elemental homeostasis under changes in resource availability. Her previous projects involve overyielding (one of the BEF), effects of nutrient enrichment and their cessation, ecosystem C:N:P stoichiometry, herbivore grazing, camera trap studies, wildlife conservation, etc.
He's hometown is Zhangzhou, a small coastal city in China. She moved to the Netherlands for her master's program in 2021, and moved to Minnesota as part of her master's program in 2022. He then stayed in Minnesota for her PhD program starting from 2023.
Research topic: Biodiversity stabilizes ecosystem productivity through stoichiometric homeostasis