General

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We study the processes shaping forest community assembly and diversity maintenance  at local, regional, and global scales.


Selected publications

  1. Chen, L., Mi, X., Comita, L.S., Zhang, L., Ren, H. & Ma, K. (2010). Community-level consequences of density dependence and habitat association in a subtropical broad-leaved forest. Ecol. Lett., 13, 695-704.

  2.  Chen, L., Comita, L.S., Wright, S.J., Swenson, N.G., Zimmerman, J.K., Mi, X. et al. (2018). Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species. Ecography, 41, 1114-1123.

  3.  Chen, L., Swenson, N.G., Ji, N., Mi, X., Ren, H., Guo, L. et al. (2019). Differential soil fungus accumulation and density dependence of trees in a subtropical forest. Science, 366, 124-128.

  4. Chen, L., Wang, Y., Mi, X., Liu, X., Ren, H., Chen, J. et al. (2019). Neighborhood effects explain increasing asynchronous seedling survival in a subtropical forest. Ecology, 100, e02821.