Jianguo Chen

Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Lanhei Road 132#, Panlong District
Kunming, 650201,
China
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Research Interests

My current research focuses on species interactions and their functions on the alpine ecosystems. My target systems are alpine communities in which cushion and shrub species dominate; and my interests are the influences of species interactions on: 1) population dynamics; 2) maintenance of plant diversity; 3) species' responses to environmental stresses and thus global change; 4) any other interesting topics.

Education

2008.09 - 2013.06 Ph.D., Botany, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2004.09 - 2008.07 B.S., Ecology, School of Life Science, Yunnan University

Work Experience

2013 - Present, Assistant professor, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Selected Publications

Jianguo Chen, Christian Schöb, Zhuo Zhou, Qiangbang Gong, Xinhui Li, Yang Yang*, Zhimin Li*, Hang Sun*. 2015. Cushion plants can have a positive effect on diversity at high elevations in the Himalayan-Hengduan Mountains. Journal of Vegetation Science 26: 768–777.

Yang Yang*, Jianguo Chen (equal contribution), Christian Schöb, Hang Sun*. 2017. Size-mediated interaction between a cushion species and other non-cushion species at high elevations of the Hengduan Mountains, SW China. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 465. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00465.

Jianguo Chen, Yang Niu, Zhimin Li, Yang Yang*, Hang Sun*. 2017. Sex allocation in gynodioecious Cyananthus delavayi differs between gender morphs and habitat backgrounds. Plant Reproduction 30:107–117.

Jianguo Chen, Yang Yang, Jürg Stöcklin, Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Deli Peng, Zhimin Li, Hang Sun*. 2015. Soil nutrient availability determines the facilitative effects of cushion plants on other plant species at high elevations in the south-eastern Himalayas. Plant Ecology & Diversity 8: 199-210.

Jianguo Chen, Shuai Chang, Yang Niu, Zhimin Li, Yang Yang*, Hang Sun*. 2017. Seed quality of the Sino–Himalayan endemic genus Cyananthus (Campanulaceae) increases with elevation and varies with life histories. Plant Ecology & Diversity 10: 43-52.

Jianguo Chen, Yang Niu, Yang Yang*, Hang Sun*. 2015. Sexual allocation in the gynodioecious species Cyananthus macrocalyx (Campanulaceae) at high elevations in the Sino-Himalaya Mountains. Alpine botany 126: 49–57.

Jianguo Chen, Yang Yang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Yang Niu, Hang Sun*. 2014. A nodding capitulum enhances the reproductive success of Cremanthodium campanulatum (Asteraceae) at high elevations in the Sino-Himalayan Mountains. Plant Ecology & Diversity 6: 487-494.

Jianguo Chen, Yanbo Li, Yang Yang*, Hang Sun*. 2017. How cushion communities are maintained in alpine ecosystems: A review and case study on alpine cushion plant reproduction. Plant Diversity 39: 221-228.

Shuai Chang, Jianguo Chen, Jianqiang Su*, Yang Yang*, Hang Sun*. 2018. Seasonal comparison of bacterial communities in rhizosphere of alpine cushion plants in the Himalayan Hengduan Mountains. Plant Diversity 40: 209-216.

DeLi Peng, Yang Niu, Bo Song, Jianguo Chen, ZhiMin Li, Yang Yang, Hang Sun*. 2015. Woolly and overlapping leaves dampen temperature fluctuations in reproductive organ of an alpine Himalayan forb. Journal of Plant Ecology 8: 159-165.

Hang sun*, Yang Niu, Yongsheng Chen, Bo Song, Changqiu Liu, Deli Peng, Jianguo Chen, Yang Yang*. 2014. Survival and reproduction of plant species in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 52: 378–396.

Bo Song, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jürg Stöcklin, Yang Yang, Yang Niu, Jianguo Chen, Hang Sun*. 2013. Multifunctional bracts enhance plant fitness during flowering and seed development in Rheum nobile (Polygonaceae), a giant herb endemic to the high Himalayas. Oecologia 172: 359–370.