About Liu Lin’s work
Liu Lin held a Croucher Visitorship at Lingnan University from February to August 2017. At the time, Lin was based at Hainan Normal University.
Biography
Liu Lin received his bachelor’s degree from the School of Life Sciences of Beijing Normal University in 2004 and his PhD from the School of Life Sciences of Beijing Normal University in 2009. From 2009 to 13, he taught at the School of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University. He studies endangered animal ecology and conservation biology, and carries out special research on endangered animals such as Asian elephants and turtles. It focuses on wildlife resources, species classification, wild ecology, habitat quality assessment, illegal wildlife trade, and conservation of population genetic resources.
In recent years, ecological and conservation genetics studies have been systematically carried out on the endangered species of spotted turtles, revealing the ecological characteristics and population status of spotted turtles. Since 2016, he has carried out systematic research on the breeding ecology, habitat pollution, migration and migration of green sea turtles, which are national first-class protected animals in the Xisha Islands. Lin is the Secretary-General of the Hainan Zoological Society and the Director of the Hainan Genetics Society.