• Team~我们

      Yuxin Chen (陈宇新)

      Principal Investigater, Associate Professor

      Profile: Yuxin got his PhD in Ecology at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU,中山大学) in 2016. After that he worked as an Associate Researcher at SYSU and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich. He joined Xiamen University and started the Lab in 2019.

       

      Research: Biodiversity maintenance, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships, statistical modeling, the diversity of leaf colors, etc.

       

      Editorial Services: Reviewing Editor of eLife (2020 - )

       

      Office: B330

       

      Email: yuxin.chen“AT”xmu.edu.cn or chenyux9“AT”gmail.com

       

      More: ORCID, Google Scholar and ResearchGate

      Lei Wang (王磊)

       

      PhD student (2020~ )

       

      Profile: Lei got his master degree in ecology at Fujian Normal University (福建师范大学) in 2019. After that, he worked as a research assistant in the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院城市环境研究所).

       

      Research: Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships, carbon and nitrogen cycles in forest ecosystems

       

      Office: A4-2

       

      Email: wangsanshi"AT”stu.xmu.edu.cn

      Zewei Zhuang (庄泽玮)

       

      Master student (2020~ )

       

      Profile: Zewei graduated from Fujian Normal University (福建师范大学) .

       

      Research: Drought tolerance of tree species, community assembly, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships

       

      Office: A4-2

       

      Email: zhuangzewei"AT”stu.xmu.edu.cn

    • Research~研究

      Colourful leaves in the forest

      Why the leaves are not all green? We are exploring the leaf color diversity in a subtropical forest.

      为什么叶子的颜色不都是绿色的？我们正在一个亚热带森林（广东黑石顶）中研究叶子的颜色多样性。

      Collaborators: Wenbing Li (SYSU), Yandan Lu (SYSU), Dr. Yong Shen (SYSU),and Prof. Shixiao Yu (SYSU)

      合作者：李文斌（中大）、卢燕丹（中大）、沈勇博士（中大）、余世孝教授（中大）

      Glasshouse experiment at the U. of Zurich

      How will repeated drought affect the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning? We set up a plant diversity experiment in a glasshouse to explore this question.

      干旱会如何改变生物多样性与生态系统功能的关系？我们在温室设置了一个植物多样性实验以研究这个问题。

      Collaborators: Prof. Bernhard Schmid (U. Zurich), Dr. Anja Vogel (iDiv), Dr. Cameron Wagg (U. Zurich) and Tianyang Xu (U. Zurich)

      How will species loss affect forest productivity? We are studying this question using a large-scale field experiment (BEF-China) in Jiangxi.

      物种丢失会如何影响森林的生产力？我们在江西开展了一个近40公顷的森林实验（BEF-China）、种植超过30万棵植物以研究这个问题。

      Collaborators: Prof. Helge Bruelheide (iDiv), Dr. Yuanyuan Huang (U. Zurich), Prof. Keping Ma (CAS), Dr. Pascal Niklaus (U. Zurich), and Prof. Bernhard Schmid (U. Zurich)

      Publication: Huang et al. 2018 Science; Chen et al. 2020 Nature Ecology & Evolution.

    • Publication~成果

      2021

      14. Huang, E., Y. Chen, M. Fang, Y. Zheng, S. Yu. (2021). Environmental drivers of plant distributions at global and regional scales. Global Ecology and Biogeography (in press). [PDF]

       

      13. Li, W., Y. Chen*, Y. Shen, Y. Lu and S. Yu*. (2021). Plant trait differences and soil moisture jointly affect insect herbivory on seedling young leaves in a subtropical forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 482. (*Corresponding authors) [PDF]

      2020

      12. Yang, J., X. Song, J. Zambrano, Y. Chen, M. Cao, X. Deng, W. Zhang, X. Yang, G. Zhang, Y. Tang, and N. G. Swenson. 2020. Intra‐specific variation in tree growth responses to neighborhood composition and seasonal drought in a tropical forest. Journal of Ecology. [PDF]

       

      11. Chen, J., Y. Luo, Y. Chen, A. J. Felton, K. A. Hopping, R.-W. Wang, S. Niu, X. Cheng, Y. Zhang, J. Cao, J. E. Olesen, M. N. Andersen, and U. Jørgensen. 2020. Plants with lengthened phenophases increase their dominance under warming in an alpine plant community. Science of The Total Environment. [Full text]

       

      10. Huang, F., M. Liang, Y. Zheng, X. Liu, Y. Chen, W. Li, S. Luo, and S. Yu. 2020. Soil nitrogen availability intensifies negative density-dependent effects in a subtropical forest. Journal of Plant Ecology. [Full text]

       

      9. Chen, Y.#, Y. Huang#, P. A. Niklaus,N. Castro-Izaguirre, A. T. Tomas, H. Bruelheide, K. Ma and B. Schmid. 2020. Directed species loss reduces community productivity in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 550-559. (#co-first authors) [Full text; Data; Code] [Behind the paper] [Media: UZH; ScienceDaily; Phys.org; XinhuaNet] [媒体：中国新闻网; 中国科学网; 央广网; 新华网；科技日报；东南网；厦门日报]

       

      8. Luo, S., B. Schmid, C. Wagg, Y. Chen, B. Jiang, M. Liang, X. Liu, and S. Yu. 2020. Community‐wide trait means and variations affect biomass in a biodiversity experiment with tree seedlings. Oikos.  [PDF]

      2019

      7. Shen, Y., M. N. Umaña, W. Li, M. Fang, Y. Chen, H. Lu, and S. Yu. 2019. Coordination of leaf, stem and root traits in determining seedling mortality in a subtropical forest. Forest Ecology and Management 446:285-292. [PDF]

       

      6. Wang, Y., M.W. Cadotte, Y. Chen, L.H. Fraser, Y. Zhang, F. Huang, S. Luo, N. Shi, and M. Loreau, Global evidence of positive biodiversity effects on ecosystem spatial stability in a natural grasslands. Nature Communications 10:3207. [PDF] [媒体：中山大学]

       

      5. Chen, Y., M. Uriarte, S. J. Wright, and S. Yu, Effects of neighborhood trait composition on tree survival differ between drought and post-drought periods. Ecology 100:e02766. [PDF; Code]

       

      4. Bruelheide, H., Y. Chen, Y. Huang, K. Ma, P. A. Niklaus, and B. Schmid. 2019. Response to Comment on “Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment”. Science 363:eaav9863. [Full text]

      2018

      3. Huang, Y.#, Y. Chen#, et al. 2018. Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment. Science 362:80-83. (#Co-first authors) [Full text] [F1000 recommendation] [Media: ScienceDaily; TheScientist; Phys.org] [媒体：科学网；中国科技网；中国绿色时报；科学网；搜狐]

       

      2. Chen, Y.#, M. N. Umaña#, M. Uriarte, and S. Yu. 2018. Abundance-dependent effects of neighbourhood dissimilarity and growth rank reversal in a neotropical forest. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285:20172878. (#Co-first authors) [PDF; Code]

      2016

      1. Chen, Y., S.J. Wright, H.C. Muller-Landau, S.P. Hubbell, Y. Wang, and S. Yu. (2016) Positive effects of neighborhood complementarity on tree growth in a neotropical forest. Ecology, 97, 776-785. [PDF; Code]

    • Join us~加入我们

      We have positions for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers in 2020 and 2021. If you are interested in biodiversity, plant ecology or community ecology, please email Yuxin (yuxin.chen"AT"xmu.edu.cn) to discuss your suitability in the lab.

       

      我们计划于2020-2021年招聘1-2位博士后。同时，我们每年招收硕士和博士研究生。如果你对生物多样性、植物生态学或者群落生态学感兴趣，欢迎联系陈宇新（yuxin.chen"AT"xmu.edu.cn）。

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