Group Members
Current Members
Yuxin Chen (陈宇新)
Principal Investigater, Professor
- Postdoc, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2016-2018
- BS, PhD and Research Associate, Sun Yat-sen University， 2007-2019
Research: Yuxin is interested in how climate change will affect biodiversity, and its underlying consequences for ecosystem functioning and human wellbeing.
Editorial Services: Reviewing Editor of eLife (2020 - )
Email: yuxin.chen“AT”xmu.edu.cn
More: ORCID, Google Scholar and ResearchGate
Wenbin Li (李文斌)
Postdoc, 2021~
- PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, 2015-2021
- MS, South China Agricultural University, 2013-2015
Research: Wenbin is a community ecologist, with broad interest in biodiversity maintenance, global change, and systematics of plants and animals in forests. He is studying how environmental changes will shape multi-trophic species interactions using both field observation and experiments
Email: lwb"At"xmu.edu.cn
Chuying Guo (郭初莹)
Postdoc, 2022~
- PhD, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2014-2021
- BS, Sun Yat-sen University, 2010-2014
Research: ecosystem ecology and global change, carbon and nitrogen cycles and their key processes, plant-soil feedback, nutrient cycling, soil greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, and N2O) fluxes
Email: chuyingguo"At"xmu.edu.cn
Yue Qiu (邱月)
Postdoc, 2025~
- PhD, The Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019-2024
Research: how land-use change or intensification affects biodiversity and its consequences for ecosystem functioning
Email: yqiu"At"xmu.edu.cn
Xinfeng Chen (陈鑫凤)
Research assistant, 2022~
- BS, Fujian Normal University, 2017-2021
Research: plant ecology
Email: xf.chen"AT”xmu.edu.cn
Yiyang An(安轶阳)
Master student, 2023~
- BS, Xiamen University, 2019-2023
Research: distribution and functioning of plant microbiome under climate change
Email: 664967271"At"qq.com
Xiujuan Cheng (程秀娟)
Master student, 2025~
- BS, Xiamen University, 2021-2025
Research: how do environment and host jointly shape the composition of endophytic microbial
communities in mangrove plantsEmail: 33120212202063"AT”stu.xmu.edu.cn
Siqing Fang (方思晴)
PhD student, 2023~
- BS, Fujian Normal University, 2017-2021
Research: Siqing is interested in the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across spatial scales. She is working on (i) how the effects of tree β diversity on landscape productivity depend on α and γ diversity, (ii) how the relationship between soil microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning varies
acorss spatial scales, and (iii) how range-shift-induced changes in plant diversity affect ecosystem functioning, using a combination of mathematical derivation, simulations, field observation and experiments.Email: faustine"At"stu.xmu.edu.cn
Yudi Hua (华雨笛)
Master student, 2024~
- BS, Xiamen University, 2020-2024
Research: elevational patterns of insect herbivory on leaves of woody plants in a subtropical forest
Email: 1354210757"At"qq.com
Ziyuan Lin (林子渊)
PhD student, 2024~
- BS, Lanzhou University, 2018-2022
Research: Ziyuan is: (i) using data from global biodiversity experiments and long-term resurvey
to study ecosystem consequences of directed plant extinction; (ii) conducting a greenhouse experiment to study how elevated CO2 will affect the effectivenss of biodiversity on the restoration of highly degraded forest ecosystems
ecological succession.Email: linzy2022"At"stu.xmu.edu.cn
Jiangyue Long (龙江玥)
Master student, 2023~
- BS, Xiamen University, 2019-2023
Research: distribution and functioning of plant species in coastal wetlands
Email: 394362724"At"qq.com
Yuefeng Luo (罗月凤)
Master student, 2024~
- BS, South China Agricultural University, 2020-2024
Research: how belowground biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning under elevated CO2
Email: luoyuefeng"At"stu.xmu.edu.cn
Liting Su (苏丽婷)
Master student, 2024~
- BS, Huazhong Agricultural University, 2020-2024
Research: how community (dis-)assemblly processes affect ecosystem functioning
Email: suliting"At"stu.xmu.edu.cn
Lei Wang (王磊)
PhD student, 2020~
- Research Assistant, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019-2020
- MS, Fujian Normal University, 2016-2019
Research: belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reponse to climate change, carbon and nitrogen cycles in forest ecosystems, plant-microbe interactions
Email: wangsanshi"AT”stu.xmu.edu.cn
Ya Wang (王雅)
PhD student, 2024~
Research: assembly of multi-trophic biodiversity and its consequences for ecosystem functioning
Email: wangya2024"AT”stu.xmu.edu.cn
Kunwei Yu (余坤蔚)
Master student, 2025~
- BS, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, 2021-2025
Research: roles of biodiversity in forest restoration at a landscape scale
Email: 15616519048"AT”163.com
Zewei Zhuang (庄泽玮)
PhD student, 2022~
- BS, Fujian Normal University, 2016-2020
Research: experimental quantification of resilience, biodiversity distribution in fragmented landscapes
Email: zhuangzewei"AT”stu.xmu.edu.cn
Alumni
Master student
- Sijinghui Qiu (邱思婧晖, 2022)
- Xiuzhe Li (李秀哲, 2024)
- Xueer Zhong (钟雪儿, 2024)
Undegraduate student
- Ang Ji (冀昂, 2021)
- Jiaxi Yao (姚家曦, 2022)
- Chenyu Zhao (赵辰宇, 2022)
- An Yiyang (安轶阳, 2023)
- Junkai Ma (马君楷, 2023)
- Zheyang Su (苏哲洋, 2023)
- Yudi Hua (华雨笛, 2024)
- Xiaoxiao Liu (刘晓晓, 2024)
- Xinyue Zeng (曾心玥, 2024)
- Xiujuan Cheng (程秀娟, 2025)
- Mujiao Wang (王慕娇, 2025)
Research assistant
- Ruiling Liu (刘芮伶, 2021-2022)
