1.物种功能性状对动物传染病风险影响的多尺度研究（国家自然科学基金：2023-2026） 

2.宿主群落系统发育结构对人畜共患病传播风险的影响及内在机制（国家自然科学基金：2019-2022）

3. 景观组成结构对动物传染病传播风险的影响（国家自然科学基金：2016-2018）

近五年代表论文：

1. Wei X#, Li H#, Huang ZYX#, Li S, Wang Y, Lan J, Hu L, Li Y, Becker DJ*, Wei F*, Xu Y*. 2026. A global-scale assessment of zoonotic virus diversity and spillover potential in urban-adapted mammal species. Nature Microbiology. 11: 1410-1423

2. Yin S#, Xu C#, Zhang Y, de Boer WF, Mundkur T, Artois J, Velckers F, Takekawa JY, Si Y, Tian H, Han G-Z, Chen Y, Chai H, Cui L, Huang ZYX*. 2024. Strong and consistent effects of waterbird community composition on HPAI H5 occurrences across Europe. Ecological Applications. 34(6): e3010

3. Huang ZYX*, Halliday FW, Becker DJ*. 2023. Host functional traits as the nexus for multi-level infection patterns. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38: 1125-1128 (selected in Cell Press 2023 One Health Day) 

4. Yin S#, Li N#, Xu W, Becker DJ, de Boer WF, Xu C, Mundkur T, Fountain-Jones NM, Li C, Han G, Wu Q, Prosser D, Cui L, Huang ZYX*. 2023. Functional traits explain waterbirds’ host status, subtype richness, and community-level infection risk for avian influenza. Ecology Letters. 26:1780–1791

5. Yin S, Xu Y, Xu M, de Jong MCM, Huisman MRS, Contina A, Prins HHT, Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF. 2022. Habitat loss facilitate infection outbreak and pathogen dispersal: an agent-based model of infected migratory waterfowl. PLoS Computational Biology. 18: e1009577 (Cover feature)

其他代表性论文

1. Li H#, Huang ZYX#, Lan J#, Hu L, Wang Z, Wang Y, Santini L, Becker DJ*, Xu Y*. 2026. Insectivores exhibit superior microbial network connectivity and elevated zoonotic risk by 2035 relative to rodents and bats. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences. 69: 2390-2403

2. Yin S#, Xie Q#, Mundkur T, Wu Y, Chai H, Wu Q, Huang ZYX*. 2025. The predictable HPAI H5 outbreaks in European wild birds. Avian Research. 16: 100311

3. Li H#, Huang ZYX#, Lan J, Hu L, Wei X, Wang Y, Li X, Li Y, Becker DJ*, Wei F*, Xu Y*. 2025. Diversity and transmission and zoonotic potential of microbes in true insectivores. Nature Communications. 16:6709

4. Wang YXG, Matson KD, Prins HHT, Xu Y, Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF. 2023. Risk factors for Lyme disease: a scale-dependent effect of host species diversity and a consistent negative effect of host phylogenetic diversity. Tick and Tick-borne Diseases. 14: 102073

5. Wang YXG, Matson KD, Santini L, Visconti P, Hilbers JP, Huijbregts MAJ, Xu Y, Prins HHT, Allen T, Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF*. 2021. Mammal assemblage composition predicts global patterns in emerging infectious disease risk. Global Change Biology. 27: 4995-5007.

6. Yin S, de Knegt HJ, de Jong MCM, Si Y, Prins HHT, Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF. 2020. Effects of migration network configuration and migration synchrony on infection prevalence in geese. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 502: 110315

7. Wang YXG, Matson KD, Prins HHT, Gort G, Awada L, Huang ZYX*, de Boer F. 2019. Phylogenetic structure of wildlife assemblages shapes patterns of infectious livestock diseases in Africa. Functional Ecology. 33:1332-1341. （2019年英国生态学会 Haldane Prize）

8. Huang ZYX*, Xu C*, van Langevelde F, Langendoen T, Ma Y, Mundkur T, Si Y, Tian H, Kraus RHS, Gilbert M, Han G, Ji X, Prins HHT, de Boer F. 2019. Contrasting effects of host species and phylogenetic diversity on the occurrence of HPAI H5N1 in European wild birds. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88:1044–1053 

9. Li C, Zhang Y, Zha D, Yang S, Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF. 2019. Assembly processes of waterbird communities across subsidence wetlands in China: a functional and phylogenetic approach. Diversity and Distributions. 25:1118-1129

10. Huang ZYX*, Yu Y, van Langevelde F, de Boer F. 2017. Does the dilution effect generally occur in animal diseases? Parasitology. 144(6): 823-826

11. Huang ZYX*, Honer KJ, Naguib M, van Langevelde F, de Boer F. 2017. Regional level risk factors associated with the occurrence of African swine fever in West and East Africa. Parasites & Vectors. 10:16

12. Huang ZYX*, van Langevelde F, Estrada-Peña A, Suzan G, de Boer F. 2016. The diversity-disease relationship: evidence for and criticisms of the dilution effect. Parasitology. 143: 1075 - 1086

13. Huang ZYX*, van Langevelde F, Prins HHT, de Boer WF. 2015. Dilution versus facilitation: Impact of connectivity on disease risk in metapopulations. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 376: 66-73

14. Huang ZYX#* & Xu C#, van Langevelde F, Prins HHT, Ben Jebara K, de Boer WF. 2014. Dilution effect and identity effect by wildlife in the persistence and recurrence of bovine tuberculosis. Parasitology. 141: 981-987

15. Xu C# & Huang ZYX#, Chi T, Chen BJW, Zhang M, Liu M*. 2014. Can local landscape attributes explain species richness patterns at macroecological scales? Global Ecology and Biogeography. 23: 436-445

16. Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF, van Langevelde F, Xu C, Ben Jebara K, Berlingieri F, Prins HHT. 2013. Dilution effect in bovine tuberculosis: risk factors for regional disease occurrence in Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Series 280: 20130624

17. Huang ZYX*, de Boer WF, van Langevelde F, Olson V, Blackburn TM, Prins HHT. 2013. Species’ life-history traits explain interspecific variation in reservoir competence: a possible mechanism underlying the dilution effect. PLoS ONE 8: e54341

18. Huang Z, Liu MS, Chen B, Uriankhai T, Xu C, Zhang M*. 2010. Distribution and interspecific correlation of root biomass density in an arid Elaeagnus angustifolia - Achnatherum splendens community. Acta Ecologica Sinica 30: 45–49