Running projects
- Climate future lab DIVERSA
Curriculum Vitae
Since 02/2025 Postdoc
Department of Conservation Biology, University of Göttingen
2024-2025 Assistant Professor
Government Graduate College, Vohova, Dera Ghazi Khan.
2021-2024 Research Fellow
Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Switzerland
2015-2021 Assistant Professor
Department of Zoology, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan
2012-2015 PhD
Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BIK-F) & Senckenberg Gesellschaft fur Naturforschung, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2005-2012 Lecturer
Government College Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan
Publications
2025
Shyamolina G., Blake M., Sarah S., Roel V. K., Francesco P., James R., Khaliq, I., Niklaus Zimmermann N., Wohlgemuth T., Seehausen O., Rixen C., Gossner M., Narwani A., Chase J., and Graham C. (2025) On the nature of synchrony and the stability of ecological communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography (in press).
2024
Rixen, C., Khaliq, I., & Narwani, A. (2024). Der Einfluss des Klimawandels auf das
Leben in Süsswasser- und Landökosystemen. Natur und Landschaft 3, 18-21.
Vorburger, C., Khaliq, I., Ramampiandra, E. C., Narwani, A., & Schuwirth, N. (2024)
Biologische Gewässebeurteilung im Klimawandel. Aqua & Gas 104(19), 60-65.
Khaliq, I.,….. & Narwani, A. (2024) Warming underpins community turnover in temperate
freshwater and terrestrial communities. Nature Communications 14:1921.
Khaliq, I., Ramampiandra, E. C., Vorburger, C., Narwani, A., & Schuwirth, N. (2024) The effect of water temperature changes on biological water quality assessment. Ecological Indicators 159: 111652.
2023
Khaliq, I., Shahid, J.,…. Hof, C. (2023) Role of thermal tolerance in determining elevational distribution in ectotherms. Journal of Animal Ecology 92 (10) 2052-2066.
Khaliq, I., Biber, M., Bowler, D., and Hof, C. (2023) Global change impacts on birds
biodiversity in South Asia: potential effects of future land-use and climate change on avian
species richness in Pakistan. PeerJ. 11:e16212.
Riaz, M. ….., Khaliq, I. & Nowak, C. (2023) Using eDNA to reveal detrimental predator prey interactions caused by invasive species. Oecologia 202, 757–767.
2022
McFadden, I., Sendek, A.,… Khaliq, I... Narwani, A. (2022) Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Ecology Letters 26 (2) 203-218.
Ibrahim, A.,….. Khaliq, I.,…. & Yang, G. (2022) Recent scientific advances on the Indus River Dolphin (Platanista minor). Journal of Biodiversity & Endangered Species 10:418.
Ashfaq, M.,…..Khaliq, I.,… & Hebert, P. D. N. (2022) A DNA barcode survey of insect biodiversity in Pakistan. PeerJ. 10:e13267.
Ahmed, S, Soorae, P. S., Hammadi, E. A., Zaabi, R. A., Saji, A., Khan, S. B., Sakkir, S., Ali, A., Khaliq, I., Gubiani, R. E., Javed, S., Omari, K. A., & Dhaheri, S. A. (2022) Does habitat heterogeneity influence taxonomic richness and abundance? A case study from a terrestrial protected area in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.10.056
2020
Riaz, M., Kuemmerlen, M., Witter, C., Cocchiararo, B., Khaliq, I., Pfenninger, M. & Nowak, C. (2020) Combining environmental DNA and species distribution modelling to evaluate reintroduction success of a freshwater fish. Ecological Applications. Esp2034.
2019
Khaliq, I., Arshad, M. I., Gill, A. H., Chaudry, A. A., Maan, M. A., Iqbal, M. A., Akbar, M. & Bowler, D. E. (2019) Long-term changes of a waterbird community over 26 years at a Pakistani Ramsar Site. Wetlands Ecology and Management 27: 363-376.
Ali, T., Munoz-Fuentes, … Khaliq, I., Nowak, C. & Thines, M (2019) Out of Transcaucasia: Origin of Western and Central Palearctic populations of Microthlaspi perfoliatum. FLORA 253: 127-141.
2018
Khaliq, I. & Hof, C. (2018) Testing the heat dissipation limitation hypothesis: basal metabolic rates of endotherms decrease with increasing upper and lower critical temperatures. PeerJ 6:e5725.
Buckley, L. B., Khaliq, I., Swanson, D. L. & Hof, C. (2018) Does metabolism constrain bird and mammal ranges and predict shifts in response to climate change? Ecology and Evolution 8:12375-12385.
Forcina, G., Guerrini, G., Khaliq, I., Khan, A. A. & Barbanera, F. (2018) Human-modified biogeographic patterns and conservation in game birds: The dilemma of the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus, Phasianidae) in Pakistan. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205059.
2017
Ali, T., Munoz-Fuentes, V., Schmuker, A., Buch, A., Celik, A., Dutbayev, A., Gabrielyan, I., Glynou, K., Kitner, M., Khaliq, I., Nigrelli, L., Macia-Vicente, J., Ploch, S., Rung, F., Solovyeva, I., Vakhrusheva, L., Xia, X., Nowak, C. & Thines, M. (2017) Genetic patterns reflecting Pleistocene range dynamics in the annual calcicola plant Microthlaspi erraticum across its Eurasian range. FLORA 237: 132-142.
Methorst, J., Bohning-Gaese, K., Khaliq, I. & Hof, C. (2017) A framework integrating physiology, dispersal and land-use to project species ranges under climate change. Journal of Avian Biology 48:001-017.
Khaliq, I., Böhning-Gaese, K., Prinzinger, R., Pfenninger, M. & Hof, C. (2017) The influence of thermal tolerances on geographical ranges of endotherms. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26: 650-668.
Hof, C., Fritz A. S., Prinzinger, R., Pfenninger, M., Böhning-Gaese, K. & Khaliq, I. (2017) Phylogenetic signals in thermal traits remain stronger in the tropics if we can believe published physiological data. A reply to McKechnie et al. , “Data quality problems undermine analyses of endotherm upper critical temperatures”. Journal of Biogeography 44:2427-2431.
Hof, C., Khaliq, I., Prinzinger, R., Böhning-Gaese, K. & Pfenninger, M. (2017). Global patterns of thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change remain robust irrespective of varying data suitability criteria. Proceedings of The Royal Society Biological Sciences B 284, 20170232.
2015
Fristoe, T.S., Burger, J.R., Balk, M.A., Khaliq, I., Hof, C. & Brown, J.H. (2015) Metabolic heat production and thermal conductance are mass-independent adaptations into thermal environment in birds and mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 112, 15934-15939.
Khaliq, I., Fritz, S.A., Prinzinger, R., Pfenninger, M., Böhning-Gaese, K. & Hof, C. (2015) Global variation in thermal physiology of birds and mammals: evidence for phylogenetic niche conservatism only in the tropics. Journal of Biogeography 42, 2187-2196.
2014 and earlier
Khaliq, I., Hof, C., Prinzinger, R., Böhning-Gaese, K. & Pfenninger, M. (2014) Global variation in thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change. Proceedings of The Royal Society Biological Sciences B 281, 20141097.
Forcina, G., Panayides, P., Guerrini, M., Nardi, F., Gupta, B.K., Mori, E., Al-Sheikhly, O.F., Mansoori, J., Khaliq, I., Rank, D.N., Parasharya, B.M., Khan, A.A., Hadjigerou, P. & Barbanera, F. (2012). Molecular evolution of the Asian francolins (Francolinus, Galliformes): a modern reappraisal of a classic study in speciation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65: 523-534.
Khaliq, I., Tejedor, M. T., Monteagudo, T. L., Riaz, M. & Khan, A. A. (2011). Analysis of the mitochondrial genetic variability in Francolinus pondicerianus interpositus in the Sulaiman range (Pakistan). Hereditas 148: 70-76.
Riaz, M., Khan, A. A., Babar, M., Akhter, N. & Khaliq, I. (2011). High genetic diversity revealed by RAPD markers in the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus, Galliformes) of Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 43: 889-896.
Imtiaz, A., Akhtar, N., Riaz, M., Babar, M., Khan, A.A. & Khaliq, I. (2011). Genetic diversity of common myna (Acridotheres tristis) in Pakistan. African Journal of Biotechnology 10: 7751-7755.
Akhtar, N., Khaliq, I., Riaz, M., Babar, M. & Khan, A. A. (2011). Population genetic structure of Bank myna Acridotheres ginginianus in Pakistan. African Journal of Biotechnology 10: 6342-6347.
Khaliq, I., Babar, M., Riaz, M. & Khan, A. A. (2010). Genetic structure of see-see partridge (Ammoperdix griseogularis, Galliformes) populations from sub-Himalayan Mountain ranges of Pakistan. Belgian journal of Zoology 140: 229-234.
Muhammad, S., Khan, A.A., Babar, M., Riaz, M., Akhtar, N. & Khaliq, I. (2010). Population genetic structure of rufous-vented prinia (Prinia burnesii) in Pakistan. African Journal of Biotechnology 9: 9077-9081.
Babar, M., Mashhadi, A. F., Mehvish, A., Zahra, A.N., Waheed, R., Hasnain, A., Rahman, S.U., Hussain, N., Ali, M., Khaliq, I.. & Aziz, A. (2010). Identification of rust resistance genes Lr10 and Sr9a in Pakistani wheat germplasm using PCR based molecular markers. African Journal of Biotechnology 9: 1144-1150
Khan, M. N., Khaliq, I., Baksh, A., Akhtar, M.S. & Amin-ud-Din, M. (2009), Distribution of ABO and Rh (D) Blood groups in population of District poonch, Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 15: 717-721.
Khan, A.A., Khaliq, I., Iqbal, M.J., Farooq, A., Hussain, N. (2008). Status, threats and conservation of great Indian bustard Ardeotis nigriceps (Vigors) In Pakistan. Current Science 95: 1079-1082.
Amin-ud-Din, M., Salam, A., Rafiq, M.A., Khaliq, I., Ansar, A. & Ahmed, W. (2007). Aposthia: a birth defect or normal quantitative recessive human genetic trait? Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 13:280-286.
Baksh, A., Dasti, A. A., Munir, A., Khaliq, I., Amin-ud-Din, M. & Akhtar, M.S. (2006), studies on the shape, size and weight of certain weed seeds buried in the soil seed bank. Pakistan Journal of Weed Science Research 12: 79-82.