Brief CV

• Associate Professor, Xiamen University (2019- )
  

• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zurich (2016-2018)

• BS (2011), PhD (2016) and Associate Research Fellow (2019), Sun Yat-sen University

Research Interests

How do the diverse species coexist in ecosystems? 

How will biodiversity change affect ecosystem functioning and human well-being?

Selected Publications

• Chen, Y.*, Y. Huang*, P. A. Niklaus, N. Castro-Izaguirre, A. T. Clark, 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.

• Chen, Y., M. Uriarte, S. J. Wright, and S. Yu. (2019). Effects of neighborhood trait composition on tree survival differ between drought and post-drought periods. Ecology 100: e02766

• Huang, Y.*, Y. Chen*, N. Castro-Izaguirre, M. Baruffol, M. Brezzi, A. Lang, Y. Li, W. Härdtle, G. von Oheimb, X. Yang, X. Liu, K. Pei, S. Both, B. Yang, D. Eichenberg, T. Assmann, J. Bauhus, T. Behrens, F. Buscot, X.-Y. Chen, D. Chesters, B.-Y. Ding, W. Durka, A. Erfmeier, J. Fang, M. Fischer, L.-D. Guo, D. Guo, J. L. M. Gutknecht, J.-S. He, C.-L. He, A. Hector, L. Hönig, R.-Y. Hu, A.-M. Klein, P. Kühn, Y. Liang, S. Li, S. Michalski, M. Scherer-Lorenzen, K. Schmidt, T. Scholten, A. Schuldt, X. Shi, M.-Z. Tan, Z. Tang, S. Trogisch, Z. Wang, E. Welk, C. Wirth, T. Wubet, W. Xiang, M. Yu, X.-D. Yu, J. Zhang, S. Zhang, N. Zhang, H.-Z. Zhou, C.-D. Zhu, L. Zhu, H. Bruelheide, K. Ma, P. A. Niklaus, and B. Schmid. (2018). Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment. Science 362:80-83.

• 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.

• 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.

Teaching Experience

• Biodiversity and human health

• Experiment design and data analysis in ecology

• Fundamental concepts in plant ecology