Fish and Aquatic Community Ecology, Aquatic Ecosystems Health, Water Quality, River and Lake Restoration, Sustainable Aquaculture and Environmental Management

2014-Present: Professor and Group Leader, Institute of Hydrobiology & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS

2010-2014: Assistant Professor, Aquaculture and Fisheries Center, University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, USA

2009-2010: Post-Doctoral Scientist, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, NOAA NCDDC, Grand Bay NERR, USA

Limnology

Stream Ecology

Aquatic Chemistry and Analysis

Water Quality and Ecosystems Management

Xiong,F., Infante, D.M.,Olden, J.D., Gao, W., Wang, L., Chen, Y. 2023. River–lake connectivity, wetland, and human stress factors shape fish diversity (alpha and beta) patterns in the middle and lower Yangtze River, China. Landscape Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01616-y 

Wang, B., Chen, Y., Qu, X., Kraft, C. 2023. Effects of thiamine and its precursor HMP on growth of periphyton in a mountain stream of the Yangtze River Basin, China. Freshwater Biology, DOI: 10.1111/fwb.14056 

Qu, X., Olden, J.D., Xia, W., Liu, H., Xie, Z., Hughes, R.M., Chen, Y. 2023. Hydrology and water quality shape macroinvertebrate patterns and facilitate non-native species dispersals in an inter-basin water transfer system.Journal of Environmental Management, 329, 117111. 

Wang, R., Xia, W., Eggleton, M. A., Qu, X., Liu, H., Xin, W., Wu, X., Chen, Y. 2022. Spatial and temporal patterns of heavy metals and potential human impacts in Central Yangtze lakes, China. Science of the Total Environment 820, 153368. 

Xia, W., Zhu, B., Zhuang, S., Liu, H., Qu, X., Liu, Y., Rudstam, L.G., Anderson, J.T., Ni, L., Chen, Y.. 2022. Climate, hydrology, and human disturbance drive long-term (1988-2018) macrophyte patterns in water diversion lakes. Journal of Environmental Management 319, 115726. 

Xiong, F., Chen, Y., Zhang, S., Xu, Y., Lu, Y., Qu, X., Gao, W., Wu, X., Xin, W., Gang, D.D.,  Lin, L.-S. 2022. Land use, hydrology, and climate influence water quality of China’s largest river. Journal of Environmental Management 318, 115581. 

Yin, C., He, W., Guo, L., Gong, L., Yang, Y., Yang, J., Ni, L., Chen, Y., Jeppesen, E. 2022. Can top-down effects of planktivorous fish removal be used to mitigate cyanobacterial blooms in large subtropical highland lakes? Water Research 218, 118483. 

Xiong, F., Olden, J.D., Lu, Y., Liu, H., Qu, X., Xia, W., Guo, C., Wu, X., Infante, D.M., Wang, L., Chen, Y. 2021. Riparian land use and in-channel stressors drive fish community structure in the Yangtze River. Landscape Ecology 36: 3079-3095. 

Cooke, S.J., Twardek, W.M., Lynch, A.J., Cowx, I.G., Olden, J.D., Funge-Smith, S., Lorenzen, K., Arlinghaus, R.,Chen, Y., Weyl, O.L.F., Nyboer, E.A., Pompeu, P.S., Carlson, S.M., Koehn, J.D., Pinder, A.C., Raghavan, R., Phang, S., Koning, A.A., Taylor, W.W., Bartley, D., Britton, J.R.  2021.  A global perspective on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on freshwater fish biodiversity.  Biological Conservation 253:108932. 

Qu, X., Chen, Y., Liu, H., Xia, W., Lu, Y., Gang, D.-D., Lin, L.-S. 2020. A holistic assessment of water quality condition and spatiotemporal patterns in impounded lakes along the eastern route of China’s South-to-North water diversion project. Water Research 185: 116275.  

Zhang, H., Tang, W., Chen, Y., Yin, W. 2020. Disinfection threatens aquatic ecosystems. Science 368 (6487): 146-147. 

Chen, Y., Qu, X., Xiong, F., Lu, Y., Wang, L., Hughes, R.M. 2020. Challenges to saving China’s freshwater biodiversity: fishery exploitation and landscape pressures. Ambio 49: 926-938. 

Guo, C., Chen, Y., Gozlan, R.E., Liu, H., Lu, Y., Qu, X., Xia, W., Xiong, F., Xie, S., Wang, L. 2020. Patterns of fish communities and water quality in impounded lakes of China's south-to-north water diversion project. Science of the Total Environment 713: 136515.  

Guo, C., Chen, Y., Gozlan, R.E., Li, Z., Mehner, T., Lek, S., Paukert, C.P. 2019. Biogeographic freshwater fish pattern legacy revealed despite rapid socio-economic changes in China. Fish and Fisheries 20(5): 857-869. 

Chen, Y., Guo, C., Ye, S., Cheng, F., Zhang, H., Wang, L., Hughes, R.M. 2017. Construction: limit China’s sand mining.Nature 550: 457.  

Yingxue Zhang  02  19175  

Xiao Qu  02  19175  

Rui Wang  01  19177  

Han Liu  02  19175  

Wentong Xia  01  19177  

2015-Present: President, American Fisheries Society Water Quality Section

2013-2015: President-Elect, American Fisheries Society Water Quality Section

2015-Present: Advisory Board, Amerian Fisheries Society International Fisheries Section

2012-Present: International Coordination Committee, Society for Freshwater Science