Chen, Weinan

Member Profile

School of Integrative Plant Science
Cornell University
110 Arboretum Rd, Ithaca, NY 14853

Education
2017.09 ~ 2023.06, Ph.D. of Ecology, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Research Network, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2013.09 ~ 2017.06, Bachelor of Geography, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University.

Research Interests
My research interests mainly focus on the temperature responses and thermal acclimation/adaptation of carbon fluxes including carbon dioxide and methane fluxes.

Publications
1. Chen, W., Wang, B., Zhang, F., Li, Z., Wang, J., Yu, G., et al. (2020). Hysteretic relationship between plant productivity and methane uptake in an alpine meadow. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 288-289.

2. Chen, W., Zhang, F., Wang, B., Wang, J., Tian, D., Han, G., et al. (2019). Diel and Seasonal Dynamics of Ecosystem‐Scale Methane Flux and Their Determinants in an Alpine Meadow. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(6), 1731-1745.

3. Wang, B#., Chen, W#., Dai, J., Li, Z., Fu, Z., Sarmah, S., et al. (2022). Dryness controls temperature-optimized gross primary productivity across vegetation types. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 323. (equally contribution)

4. Wang, B.#, Chen, W.#, Tian, D., Li, Z., Wang, J., Fu, Z., Luo, Y., Piao, S., Yu, G., Niu, S. (2023). Dryness limits vegetation pace to cope with temperature change. Global Change Biology, 29(17), 4750-4757. (equally contribution)

5. Chen, W., Wang, S., Wang, J., Xia, J., Luo, Y., Yu, G., Niu, S. (2023). Thermal optimality of ecosystem respiration. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7, 1379–1387.

6. Niu, S.，Chen, W. (2020). Global change and ecosystems research progress and prospect. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology, 44(5), 449-460.

7. Chen, W.，Wang, S.，Niu, S. (2023). Observation data set of carbon, water and heat fluxes at Zoige alpine meadow from 2015 to 2020. China Scientific Data. 8(2)

8. Ma, F., Chen, W., Wang, J., Tian, D., Zhou, Q., & Niu, S. (2022). Below-ground net primary productivity stability in response to a nitrogen addition gradient in an alpine meadow. Functional Ecology, 37(2), 315-326.

9. Wang, S., Chen, W., Fu, Z., Li, Z., Wang, J., Liao, J., & Niu, S. (2022). Seasonal and Inter-Annual Variations of Carbon Dioxide Fluxes and Their Determinants in an Alpine Meadow. Front Plant Sci, 13, 894398.

10. Knox, S., Jackson, R., Poulter, B., …, Chen, W., …, Niu, S., …, Zona, D. (2019). FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions. Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society, 100(12), 2607-2632.

11. Delwiche, K. B., Knox, S. H., Malhotra, A., Fluet-Chouinard, E., McNicol, G., Feron, S., …, Chen, W., …, Niu, S., …., Jackson, R. (2021). FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands. Earth System Science Data, 13(7), 3607-3689.

12. Li, Z., Tang, Z., Song, Z., Chen, W., Tian, D., Tang, S., et al. (2022). Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate. Glob Chang Biol, 28(6), 2133-2145.

13. Li, Z., Zeng, Z., Tian, D., Wang, J., Fu, Z., Wang, B., Tang, Z., Chen, W., …, Niu, S. (2020). The stoichiometry of soil microbial biomass determines metabolic quotient of nitrogen mineralization. Environmental Research Letters, 15(3), 034005.

14. Li, Z., Zeng, Z., Tian, D., Wang, J., Fu, Z., Zhang, F., Zhang, R., Chen, W., Luo, Y., Niu, S. (2020). Global patterns and controlling factors of soil nitrification rate. Glob Chang Biol, 26(7), 4147-4157.

15. Li, Z., Zeng, Z., Tian, D., Wang, J., Wang, B., Chen, H. Y. H., Quan, Q., Chen, W., Yang, J., Meng, C., Wang, Y., Niu, S. (2020). Global variations and controlling factors of soil nitrogen turnover rate. Earth-Science Reviews, 207, 103250.

16. Ma, F., Zhang, F., Quan, Q., Wang, J., Chen, W., Wang, B., et al. (2021). Alleviation of light limitation increases plant diversity and ecosystem carbon sequestration under nitrogen enrichment in an alpine meadow. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 298-299.

17. Wang, J., Luo, Y., Quan, Q., Ma, F., Tian, D., Chen, W., et al. (2021). Effects of warming and clipping on CH4 and N2O fluxes in an alpine meadow. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 297.

18. Wang, J., Quan, Q., Chen, W., Tian, D., Ciais, P., Crowther, T. W., et al. (2021). Increased CO2 emissions surpass reductions of non-CO2 emissions more under higher experimental warming in an alpine meadow. Sci Total Environ, 769, 144559.

19. Wang, J., Song, B., Ma, F., Tian, D., Li, Y., Yan, T., …, Chen, W., Niu, S. (2019). Nitrogen addition reduces soil respiration but increases the relative contribution of heterotrophic component in an alpine meadow. Functional Ecology, 33(11), 2239-2253.

20. Wang, P., Wang, J., Elberling, B., Yang, L., Chen, W., Song, L., et al. (2022). Increased annual methane uptake driven by warmer winters in an alpine meadow. Glob Chang Biol, 28(10), 3246-3259.

21. Wang, S., Quan, Q., Meng, C., Chen, W., Luo, Y., Niu, S. (2021). Experimental warming shifts coupling of carbon and nitrogen cycles in an alpine meadow. Journal of Plant Ecology, 14(3), 541-554.

22. Yang, L., Pan, J., Wang, J., Tian, D., Zhang, C., Zhao, X., …, Chen, W., …, Niu, S. (2023). Soil microbial respiration adapts to higher and longer warming experiments at the global scale. Environmental Research Letters, 18(3).

23. Zhang, J., Li, Y., Wang, J., Chen, W., Tian, D., & Niu, S. (2021). Different responses of soil respiration and its components to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in a subtropical secondary forest. Forest Ecosystems, 8(1).

24. Yu, G., Niu, S., Li, F., Zhang, L., Chen, W. (2021). Manipulative experiments networks on response and adaptation of terrestrial ecosystems to environmental changes: Building the research methods and technology system. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 32(7), 2275-2289.