PI of ecology of global change, director of national key field station-Jianfengling long-term ecological observation station to understand the behaviour of Hainan's tropical forests in the changing earth system. Prof. Chen Dexiang's research centres on the floristics, ecological dynamics, and human use of tropical forests, which are undergoing unprecedented change. His main long-term research goal is to understand the dynamics of carbon and nitrogen cycles across the Hainan's tropical forests, how these change with our changing climate, and how they feedback on the planet.
Guangdong Province Forestry Science and Technology Innovation Project, Key Technologies for Forest Ecological Restoration Based on Multi objective Management, 2022/01-2025/12, ￥3,000,000, PI
Guangzhou Forest Soil Investigation Project, 2021/10-2023/12,￥3,610,000.0, PI
Ministry of Science and Technology, Operating Funds for Jianfengling National Key Field Station, 2020/01-,￥1,000,000 (each year), PI
National Natural Science Foundation, Effects and mechanisms of seasonal precipitation divergence on carbon sequestration of tropical forest in Hainan Island. 2018/01-2021/12, ￥690,000, PI
National Natural Science Foundation, Effects and mechanisms of typhoon on carbon sequestration of tropical forest in Hainan Island. 2012/01-2015/12, ￥660,000, PI
National Natural Science Foundation, Study on strategies of population maintenance-a case study on a low density population of Phoebe hungmaoensis, 2007-2009, ￥230,000, PI
Guilin Wu, Dexiang Chen*, Zhang Zhou, Qing Ye and Jianhui Wu. 2022. Canopy nitrogen addition enhance the photosynthetic rate of canopy species by improving leaf hydraulic conductivity in a subtropical forest. Front. Plant Sci. 13:942851.doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.942851
Ang Wang, Dexiang Chen, Oliver L. Phillips, Per Gundersen, Xulun Zhou, Geshere A. Gurmesa, Shanlong Li, Weixing Zhu, Erik A. Hobbie, Xueyan Wang, Yunting Fang*. 2021, Dynamics and multi-annual fate of atmospherically deposited nitrogen in montane tropical forests. Global change biology, 27(10): 2076–2087
Yutong Lin, Luhui Kuang, Songbo Tang, Zhijian Mou, Oliver L. Phillips, Hans Lambers, Zhanfeng Liu, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas, Yuan Lai,Mingxian Lin, Dexiang Chen*, and Yuanwen Kuang*. 2021, Leaf traits from stomata to morphology are associated with climatic and edaphic variables for dominant tropical forest evergreen oaks. Journal of Plant Ecology, doi:10.1093/jpe/rtab060
Ang Wang, Weixing Zhu, Per Gundersen, Oliver L. Phillips, Dexiang Chen*, Yunting Fang*, 2018, Fates of atmospheric deposited nitrogen in an Asian tropical primary forest, Forest Ecology and Management, 411: 213-222
Ang Wang, Yunting Fang*, Dexiang Chen*, Oliver Phillips, Keisuke Koba, Weixing Zhu, Jiaojun Zhu, 2018. High nitrogen isotope fractionation of nitrate during denitrification in four forest soils and its implications for denitrification rate estimates, Science of the Total Environment, 633: 1078-1088
Wenguang Tang, Dexiang Chen*, Oliver L. Phillips, Xian Liu, Zhang Zhou, Yide Li,Dan Xi, Feifei Zhu, Jingyun Fang, Limei Zhang, Mingxian Lin, Jianhui Wu,Yunting Fang*, 2018. Effects of long-term increased N deposition on tropical montane forest soil N2 and N2O emissions, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 126: 194-203
Chen D X, Li Y D, Liu H P, Xiao W F, Xu H, et al. 2010. Biomass and carbon dynamics of a tropical mountain rain forest in China. Science China Life Sciences, 53: 798-810
