CV

Vicki Mengyuan Zhang

vickizhang97@gmail.com

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

PhD in Biology, with experience in research, data science, consulting, fieldwork, and teaching.

7. Nutrient addition increases non-native plant growth but not survival in a subarctic treeline environment
2026
Biological Invasions
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6. Anthropogenically-modified soil increases the performance of non-native
plants in a subarctic ecosystem
2025
NeoBiota
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5. Low temperatures reduce establishment of new populations of invasive plants
in a subarctic treeline environment
2025
Oecologia
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4. Potential role of the seed bank in spreading invasive plants in a tundra-edge environment
2023
Botany
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3. Development of negative soil feedback by an invasive plant near the northern limit of its invaded range
2023
Plant Ecology
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2. Chronic Road Salt Exposure Across Life Stages and The Interactive Effects of Warming and Salinity in a Semiaquatic Insect
2022
Environmental Entomology
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1. Climate change has different predicted effects on the range shifts of two hybridizing ambush bug (Phymata, Family Reduviidae, Order Hemiptera) species
2020
Ecology and Evolution
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2. Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Canadian Arctic invasions.
2025
UTM Biology Seminar Series. University of Toronto Mississauga.
1. Northern invasions.
2022
National Invasive Species Awareness Week, Northwest Territories Council on Invasive Species, Pests, and Pathogens. Virtual.

8. Human‑mediated soil disturbance removes limits to plant invasions at the edge
of the Canadian Arctic.
2025
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
7. Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Canadian Arctic.
2024
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). Vancouver, BC, Canada.
6. Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Canadian Arctic.
2024
Invasive Species Centre (ISC) Annual Forum. Virtual.
5. Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Arctic.
2023
International Conference on Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions. Pucón, Chile.
Awarded 'Best Talk'.
4. Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Arctic.
2023
Invasive Species Centre (ISC) Annual Forum. Virtual.
3. Invasive Species at the Edge of the Canadian Arctic.
2022
ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2. Soil feedbacks in northern ecosystems invaded by non‑native plants.
2021
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE‑SCEE) Annual Meeting. Virtual.
1. Hot Models: Projecting future climate‑driven distributions of two ambush bug species, Phymata americana and Phymata pennsylvanica.
2019
Toronto Entomologist Association (TEA) Student Symposium.

2. Climate change has different predicted effects on the range shifts of two hybridising ambush bug (Phymata) species.
2020
International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE): North America Region Virtual Meeting.
1. Hot Models: Predicting the current and future distributions of two ambush bug species, Phymata americana and Phymata pennsylvanica.
2020
Ontario Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution Colloquium (OE3C).

Introduction to Biological Data (BIO259)
2025
Biology Department, University of Toronto Mississauga
Undergraduate course.
Data Mining, Modeling and Biostatistics (BINF5003)
2025
Humber Polytechnic - International Graduate School Campus
Graduate Certificate in Clinical Bioinformatics.
Plant Ecology (BIO330)
2024
Biology Department, University of Toronto Mississauga
Undergraduate course.
Data Analytics and Storytelling (BINF5503)
2024
Humber Polytechnic - Virtual
Graduate Certificate in Clinical Bioinformatics.
Data Mining, Modeling and Biostatistics (BINF5003)
2023
Humber Polytechnic - Virtual
Graduate Certificate in Clinical Bioinformatics.
Quantitative Methods in R for Biology (EEB313)
2023
University of Toronto St. George
Undergraduate course (co-taught).
Quantitative Methods in R for Biology (EEB313)
2022
University of Toronto St. George
Undergraduate course (co-taught).

Arctic Ecology (BIO332)
2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
University of Toronto Mississauga
Undergraduate field course.
Plant Ecology (BIO330)
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
University of Toronto Mississauga
Undergraduate tutorials. Virtual in 2020 and 2021.
Ecology (BIO205)
2019, 2020
University of Toronto Mississauga
Undergraduate labs. Administrative TA in 2020.
Quantitative Methods in R for Biology (EEB313)
2022-09-01
University of Toronto St. George
Undergraduate computer labs.

Invasive Species at the Edge of the Canadian Arctic
2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Arctic Ecology (BIO332). University of Toronto Mississauga.
Range shifts, hybridisation, and climate change
2021, 2022, 2023
Animal Behaviour Ecology (BIO328). University of Toronto Mississauga.
Virtual in 2021.
Data Visualization in R
2021
Quantitative Methods in R for Biology (EEB313). University of Toronto St. George.
Range Limits, Invaders and Enemies
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Plant Ecology (BIO330). University of Toronto Mississauga.
Virtual in 2020 and 2021.

Josef Svaboda Graduate Fellowship Award
2025
UTM Biology
CAD2,000
Alvin Singh Graduate Teaching Assistance Excellence Award
2025
UTM Biology
CAD2,000
Excellence in Service Award
2025
UTM Biology
CAD100
The Harvey Prize
2025
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
CAD1,000
Northern Research Fund
2021-2024
Churchill Northern Studies Centre
CAD3,418 total
Northern Scientific Training Program
2021-2024
Government of Canada
CAD15,700 total
Postgraduate Scholarships – Doctoral
2023-2025
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
CAD63,000
Graduate Student Research Award
2023
Centre for Global Change Science (CGCS)
CAD3,763
Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s
2021-2022
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
CAD17,500
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2020-2021
Government of Ontario
CAD15,000
Grant-in-aid of Research
2020
Sigma Xi Fund of Canada
CAD1,400
Zimmerman/Weis Graduate Award
2019
Koffler Scientific Research (KSR)
CAD5,500
Undergraduate Student Research Award
2019
Koffler Scientific Research (KSR)
CAD6,000