Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Ecology

Institute of Natural Sciences Massey University Private Bag 102 904 North Shore Mail Centre Auckland, New Zealand
+64 (9) 414-0800 ext. 41195
j.j.weihong@massey.ac.nz

B.Sc., Landzhou University (1984); MSc, Northwest University, China
(1987); Ph.D., University of Auckland (2001). Post-doctoral fellow,
The University of York, UK (2002-2004). Massey University
(2005-present).

196.205: Ecology and Conservation (paper coordinator),
196.318: Molecular Ecology (paper coordinator)
199.101: Biology of Animals,
232.701: Conservation Biology

• Conservation ecology
• Vertebrates behavioural ecology
• Social and mating systems of vertebrates
• Effects of industrial pollutants on aquatic organisms

More information about my research and postgraduate student
opportunities is available at:
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~dhbrunto/staffmain.htm

• Mark N.H. Seabrook-Davison, Weihong Ji and Dianne H. Brunton 2010. Survey of New Zealand Department of Conservation staff involved in the management and recovery of threatened species. Biological Conservation 143: 212-219
• Stephen P. Carter, Sugoto S. Roy, Dave P. Cowan, Giovanna Massei, Graham C. Smith, Richard J. Delahay, Weihong Ji, Sophie Rossi, Rosie Woodroffe (2009) Control of vectors In: Management of Disease in Wild Mammals (Eds: Dez Delehay, Graham and Mike Hutchings). Springer Tokyo.
• Weihong Ji 2009. The impact and management of an invasive marsupial--common brushtail possum in New Zealand.Human Wildlife Conflict 3: 20-29.
• Dapeng Zhao, Weihong Ji, Baoguo Li, Kunio Watanabe (2008) Mate Competition and reproductive correlates of female dispersal in a polygynous primate species (Rhinopithecus Roxellana). Behavrioural Processes. 79: 165-170.
• Dejun Huang, Yingmei Zhang, Yongmei Qi, Che Chen, Weihong Ji (2008) Global DNA hypomethylation, rather than reactive oxygen species (ROS), a potential facilitator of Cadmium-stimulated K562 cell proliferation. Toxicology Letters (179): 43-47
• Songtao Guo, Weihong Ji, Baoguo Li, Ming Li (2008) Response to Commercial Logging by a group of Sichuan Snub-Nosed Monkeys in the Qinling Mountains, China. Conservation Biology 22: 1055-1064.
• Weihong Ji, Piran L. White, Mick N. Clout 2005. Contact rates between possums revealed by proximity data logger. Journal of Applied Ecology 42: 595-604
• Weihong Ji, Sarre, S.D., White, P.L., & Clout, M.N. (2004) Population recovery of common brushtail possums after local depopulation. Wildlife research, 31(5): 543-550.
• Weihong Ji &Mick Clout, 2003. Denning behavior of brushtail possums in populations recovering from density reduction. Journal of Mammalogy 84 (3): 1059-1067.
• Weihong Ji, Stephen D. Sarre, Niccy Aitken, Robin K. S. Hankin and Mick N. Clout, 2001. Sex biased dispersal and a density independent mating system in the Australian brushtail possum, as revealed by minisatellite DNA profiling. Molecular Ecology 10: 1527-1537.