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Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Ecology & Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University
Weiqian Gao is a Ph.D. candidate and a graduate research assistant in the Department of Ecology & Conservation Biology. She received her B.S. in Natural Resources Management with a minor in Agricultural & Resource Economics from Colorado State University and M.S. in Ecosystem Science and Management from Texas A&M University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Ecology & Conservation Biology at Texas A&M University. Weiqian has research experiences examining the influence of grazing pressure and severe winter disasters on livestock population dynamics at the national level on rangeland in Mongolia. Her current research focuses on spatially and temporally evaluating multi-species grazing distribution, forage quality, livestock diet quality, and integrated analysis of fire-grazing interaction under patch burn conditions grazing in the Mesquite-Oak Savanna ecosystem.