Yanping Wang

Professor, Laboratory of Island Biogeography and Conservation Biology, Nanjing Normal University

Focus regions: Global

Yanping Wang is a professor in the Laboratory of Island Biogeography and Conservation Biology at the College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University. He is generally interested in island biogeography, conservation biology, macroecology, urban ecology and life-history theories, as well as the interactions between these fields. His recent research focuses on the small-island effect, nested subset pattern, community assembly rules and extinction vulnerability in vertebrates. He used the Thousand Island Lake and the Zhoushan Archipelago, China as model systems, and used birds, amphibians and reptiles as model taxa.

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What Makes Salamanders Face Higher Extinction Risk? Key Findings and Conservation Priorities

Issue 2 — June 2026·June 16, 2026

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Relative importance of traits, climate, and threats to extinction risk in salamanders

Wang, J., Chen, C., Zhang, Y., & Wang, Y. · Conservation Biology · April 2026

A global comparative analysis of 711 salamander species disentangling how species traits, climate, and human threats drive extinction risk and population decline. Identifies Cryptobranchidae and Hynobiidae as the highest-risk families, names small geographic range size, terrestrial breeding, high elevation, human threat intensity, low protected area coverage, and climatic stress as the strongest predictors of extinction risk, and predicts 22 high-risk Data Deficient species warranting reassessment. Provides actionable conservation priorities at family, species, and habitat scales.

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