Ning-Chen, Ph.D.
Research Area
Dryland Ecology, Regime shifts of ecosystems, Forest ecology
Contact Information
E-mail: cn@lzu.edu.cn; chenning.cn2015@gmail.com.
Tel: + 86-13893162745
Address: College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, No.222, Tianshui South Road, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
Education
2013.09-2016.11 Ph.D. (Ecology), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2010.09-2013.06 M.Sc. (Ecology), Lanzhou University
2006.09-2010.06 B.Sc. (Ecology), China Agricultural University
Work Experience
2022.06- Present Postdoctoral researcher, Marie Curie Fellowship
2019.11- Present Young Researcher
2016.11-2019.12 Postdoc in Ecology
Publications
*means corresponding author，#means co-first author
1.Yafeng Zhang*, Yuan Chun, Ning Chen, Delphis F. Levia. 2023. Rainfall partitioning by vegetation in China: A quantitative synthesis. Journal of Hydrology 617: 128946. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128946
2.Ying Zheng, Ning Chen, Kailiang Yu, Changming Zhao*. 2023. The effects of fine roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on soil macropores. Soil and Tillage Research 225: 105528. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2022.105528
4.Weiwei She, Ning Chen, Yuqing Zhang*, Shugao Qin, Yuxuan Bai, Wei Feng, Zongrui Lai, Yangui Qiao, Liang Liu, Wenjin Zhang, Chun Miao. 2022. Precipitation and nitrogen deposition alter biocrust–vascular plant coexistence in a desert ecosystem: Threshold and mechanisms. Journal of Ecology 110(4):772-783. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13834.
5.Chao Guan, Ning Chen, Linjie Qiao, Changming Zhao*. 2022. Photosynthesis regulates the diel hysteresis pattern between soil respiration and soil temperature in a steppe grassland, Geoderma. 408: 115561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115561.
6.Ning Chen, Yafeng Zhang*, Changming Zhao*. 2021. On the importance of stemflow to the woody plants in drylands: Individual vs. ecosystem scales. Journal of Hydrology. 601:126591. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126591.
7.Ying Zheng, Ning Chen, Cankun Zhang, Xiaoxue Dong, Changming Zhao*. 2021. Effects of Rock Fragments on the Soil Physicochemical Properties and Vegetation on the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 9(215):693769. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.693769.
8.Chun Han, Cankun Zhang, Yongjing Liu, Yage Li, Tairan Zhou, Salman Khan, Ning Chen, Changming Zhao*. 2021. The capacity of ion adsorption and purification for coniferous forests is stronger than that of broad-leaved forests. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 215:112137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2021.112137.
9.Yafeng Zhang*, Xinping Wang, Yanxia Pan, Rui Hu, Ning Chen. 2021. Global quantitative synthesis of effects of biotic and abiotic factors on stemflow production in woody ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(8):1713-1723. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13322.
10.Jingyao Sun, Xinrong Li*, Rongliang Jia, Ning Chen, Tian Zhang. Null model analysis and changes in species interactions in biocrusts along a successional gradient in the Tengger Desert, northern China. Journal of Vegetation Science. 32(3):e13037. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13037
11.Meiling Liu, Xinrong Li, Ruiqing Zhu*, Ning Chen, Ling Ding, Cuiyun Chen. 2021. Vegetation richness, species identity and soil nutrients drive the shifts in soil bacterial communities during restoration process. Environmental Microbiology Report. Online. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12913
12.Chun Han, Yongjing Liu, Cankun Zhang, Yage Li, Tairan Zhou, Salman Khan, Ning Chen, Changming Zhao*. 2021. Effects of three coniferous plantation species on plant‐soil feedbacks and soil physical and chemical properties in semi‐arid mountain ecosystems. Forest Ecosystems 8(1): 3. DOI: 10.1186/s40663-021-00281-4.
13.Ning Chen, Kailiang Yu*, Rongliang Jia, Jialing Teng, Changming Zhao*. 2020. Biocrust as one of multiple stable states in global drylands. Science Advances 6(39): eaay3763. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay3763.
14.Salman Khan, Ning Chen, Canqun Zhang, Luning Wang, Chun Han, Kanglong Lu, Yage Li, Muhammad Rafiq, Awais Iqbal, Changming Zhao*. 2020. Soil fungal taxonomic diversity along an elevation gradient on the semi-arid xinglong mountain, northwest China. Archives of Microbiology 202(8): 2291-2302. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-020-01948-2.
15.Meiling Liu, Ning Chen, Ruiqing Zhu*. 2020. Distribution patterns of planted-shrubs of different restoration ages in artificial sand-fixing regions in the southeastern Tengger Desert. Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions, 12(2):119-124. DOI: 10.3724/sp.J.1226.2020.00119.
16.Guohua Wang*, Seth M. Munson, Kailiang Yu, Ning Chen, Qianqian Gou. 2020. Ecological effects of establishing a 40-year oasis protection system in a northwestern China desert. Catena, 187, 13. DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2019.104374
17.Jingyao Sun, Xinrong Li*, Ning Chen, Yanli Wang, Guang Song. 2020. Regular pattern formation regulates population dynamics: Logistic growth in cellular automata. Ecological Modelling, 418:108878. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108878.
18.Chao Guan, Xinrong Li*, Ning Chen, Peng Zhang, Changming Zhao. 2019. Warming effects on soil respiration in moss-dominated crusts in the Tengger Desert, northern China. Plant and Soil, 443(1):591-603. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-019-04255-y.
19.Chun Han, Ning Chen, Cankun Zhang, Yongjing Liu, Salman Khan, Kanglong Lu, Yage Li, Xiaoxue Dong, Changming Zhao*. 2019. Sap flow and responses to meteorological about the Larix principis-rupprechtii plantation in Gansu Xinlong mountain, northwestern China. Forest Ecology and Management, 451:117519. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117519.
20.Miaojun Ma*, Carol C. Baskin, Wenjin Li, Yunpeng Zhao, Liang Zhao, Ning Chen, Guozhen Du. 2019. Seed banks trigger ecological resilience in subalpine meadows abandoned after arable farming on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecological Applications, 29(7):e01959. DOI: 10.1002/eap.1959.
21.Kanglong Lu, Ning Chen, Cankun Zhang, Xiaoxue Dong, Changming Zhao*. 2019, Drought Enhances the Role of Competition in Mediating the Relationship between Tree Growth and Climate in Semi-Arid Areas of Northwest China, Forests, 10, 804. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/f10090804.
22.Ning Chen, Xudong Liu, Kai Zheng, Cankun Zhang, Yongjing Liu, Kanglong Lu, Rongliang Jia, Changming Zhao*. 2019. Ecohydrological effects of biocrust type on restoration dynamics in drylands. Science of the Total Environments, 687: 527-534. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.007.
23.Ning Chen*, Zak Ratajczak, Kailiang Yu. 2019. A dryland re-vegetation in northern China: success or failure? quick transitions or long lags? Ecosphere, 10(4):e02678. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2678
24.Kanglong Lu, Ning Chen, Xiaowei Zhang, Jingru Wang, Minghao Wang, Salman Khan, Chun Han, Cankun Zhang, Shuyuan Wang, Luning Wang, Wenting Gao, Yongjing Liu, Changming Zhao*. 2019. Increased drought and atmospheric CO2 positively impact intrinsic water use efficiency but do not promote tree growth in semi-arid areas of northwestern China. Trees, 33(3):669-679. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-018-1807-8.
25.Rongliang Jia, Ning Chen*, Kailiang Yu, Changming Zhao. 2019. High rainfall frequency promotes the dominance of biocrust under low annual rainfall. Plant and Soil, 435(1):257-275. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-018-3880-6
26.Jingru Wang, Minghao Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Shan Sun, Ning Chen, Aiping Zhang, Changming Zhao*. 2018. Picea purpurea has a physiological advantage over its progenitors in alpine ecosystems due to transgressive segregation. Journal of Forest Research, 23(6):363-371. DOI: 10.1080/13416979.2018.1521905.
27.Jingru Wang, Minghao Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Shan Sun, Aiping Zhang, Ning Chen, Changming Zhao*. 2018. Enhanced cell dehydration tolerance and photosystem stability facilitate the occupation of cold alpine habitats by a homoploid hybrid species, Picea purpurea, AoB PLANTS, 10(5): ply053, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/ply053.
28.Ning Chen, Xinping Wang, Yafeng Zhang, Kailiang Yu, Changming Zhao* 2018. Ecohydrological effects of biological soil crust on the vegetation dynamics of restoration in a dryland ecosystem. Journal of Hydrology, 563: 1068-1077. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.06.076.
29.Ning Chen*, Ciriyam Jayaprakash, Kailiang Yu, Vishwesha Gutall. 2018. Rising variability, not slowing down, as a leading indicator of a stochastically driven abrupt transition in a dryland ecosystem. The American Naturalist, 191(1): E1-E14. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1086/694821. Reviewed in Faculty of 1000.
30.Yuanzhi Li, Bill Shipley*, … Ning Chen, … 2018. Habitat filtering determines the functional niche occupancy of plant communities worldwide. Journal of Ecology, 106(3): 1001-1009. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12802.
31.Ning Chen*, Xinping Wang. 2016. Driver-system state interaction in regime shifts: A model study of desertification in drylands. Ecological Modelling, 339:1-6. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.08.006.
32.Mingzhu He*, Xin Song, Fuping Tian, Ke Zhang, Zhishan Zhang, Ning Chen, Xinrong Li. 2016. Divergent variations in concentrations of chemical elements among shrub organs in a temperate desert. Scientific Reports, 6:20124. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep20124.
33.Rui Hu, Xinping Wang*, Yanxia Pan, Yafeng Zhang, Hao Zhang, Ning Chen. 2015. Seasonal variation of net N mineralization under different biological soil crusts in Tengger Desert, North China. Catena, 127:9-16. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.12.012.
34.Rui Hu, Xinping Wang*, Yafeng Zhang, Wei Shi, Yanxia Jin, Ning Chen. 2016. Insight into the influence of sand-stabilizing shrubs on soil enzyme activity in a temperate desert. Catena, 137:526-535. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2015.10.022.
35.Kailiang Yu, Thomas Pypker, Keim Richard, Ning Chen, Yingbo Yang, Shuqing Guo, Wenjin Li, Gang Wang*. 2012. Canopy rainfall storage capacity as affected by sub-alpine grassland degradation in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China. Hydrological Processes, 26(20):3114-3123. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.8377.
37.Chun Han, Ning Chen, Shan Sun, Changming Zhao*. 2019. Proceedings of the hydrological regulation and mechanisms of forest ecosystems (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Ecology, 38(7): 2191-2199. DOI: 10.13292/j.1000-4890.201907.019
38.Ning Chen, Xinping Wang*. 2016. Regime shifts in dryland ecosystems: drift potential as external driver (in Chinese). Journal of Desert Research, 37(1):73-80.
39.Rui Qi, Yonghong Yang*, Ning Chen, Xiuwen Cao, Jingqian Liu, Fei Wang, Yang Zhao. 2016. Litter storage and water holding capacity characteristics of five typical shrubs in the upper reaches of BaiLongJiang River in Gansu Province (in Chinese). Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 30(06):123-127.
40.Rui Hu, Xinping Wang*, Yanxia Pan, Yafeng Zhang, Hao Zhang, Ning Chen. 2016. Seasonal dynamics of soil nitrogen mineralization of biological soil crusts and soil system during growing season (in Chinese). Journal of Desert Research, 36(1):174-180.
41.Rui Hu, Xinping Wang*, Yanxia Pan, Yafeng Zhang, Hao Zhang, Ning Chen. 2015. Seasonal dynamics of soil net nitrogen mineralization under moss crust in Shapotou Region, northern China (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 26(4):1106-1112.
42.Hao Zhang, Xinping Wang*, Yafeng Zhang, Rui Hu, Yanxia Pan, Ning Chen. 2015. Responses of plant growth of different life forms to rainfall amount changes in an arid desert area (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Ecology, 34(7):1847-1853.
43.Ruling Shi, Ning Chen, Yuanzhi Li, Gang Wang*. 2012. The influences of year and different levels of intra-specific variability in communities on the prediction of species richness (in Chinese). China Sciencepaper, http://www.paper.edu.cn/releasepaper/content/201212-83.
44.Ning Chen, Yuanzhi Li, Shunping Bao, Gang Wang*. 2012. Variability composition of plant functional traits and the effect of intraspecific variability on species coexistence (in Chinese). China Sciencepaper, http://www.paper.edu.cn/releasepaper/content/201205-27.
45.Yuanzhi Li, Ning Chen, Gang Wang*. 2012. Plant intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly in subalpine meadow (in Chinese). China Sciencepaper, http://www.paper.edu.cn/releasepaper/content/201201-513.
46.Kailiang Yu, Ning Chen, Gang Wang*. 2011. Canopy rainfall storage capacity related to canopy properties along different states of sub-alpine meadow degradation (in Chinese). China Sciencepaper, http://www.paper.edu.cn/releasepaper/content/201105-490.
47.Kailiang Yu, Ning Chen, Sisheng Yu, Gang Wang*. 2011. Effects of species composition on canopy rainfall storage capacity in an alpine meadow, China (in Chinese). Acta Ecologica Sinica, 31(19):5771-5779.
Funding
1.Differential constructing mechanisms of system equilibrium behavior of dryland ecosystems with distinct soil texture (grant no. 32271620, PI-Ning Chen), Supported by Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥540,000
2.Biocrust distribution in global drylands under climate change (grant no. CRUSTDIS, PI-Ning Chen), supported by Horizon Europe Framework Programme, €145,000.
3.Supporting funding for the talent young scientist (grant no. lzujbky-2021-ey16, PI-Ning Chen), supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, ¥800,000.
4.Specific funding for improving observing ability of Yuzhong Mountain Ecosystem Field Observation and Research Station (grant no. lzujbky-2021-sp05; PI-Ning Chen), supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, ¥105,000.
5.Specific funding for improving observing ability of Yuzhong Mountain Ecosystem Field Observation and Research Station (grant no. lzujbky-2020-kb42; PI-Ning Chen), supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, ¥140,000.
6.Study on system equilibrium behavior and thresholds of forest ecosystems in the Loess Plateau (grant no. 31971452; PI-Ning Chen), supported by Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥580,000.
7.Specific funding for improving observing ability of Yuzhong Mountain Ecosystem Field Observation and Research Station (grant no. lzujbky-2019-kb38; PI-Ning Chen), supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, ¥140,000.
8.Study on ecohydrological mechanisms of biological soil crust on stable states of dryland ecosystems (grant no. 2018T111117; PI-Ning Chen), supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, ¥150,000.
9.Evaluation on ecosystem functions and health states of ecosystems in Qilian Mountain (grant no. 504000-(87080303); PI-Ning Chen), supported by the Open Foundation of Research institute of Qilian Mountains, ¥100,000.
10.Study on the underlying mechanisms of regime shifts of forest-shrubs in semi-arid montane ecosystems (grant no. lzujbky-2018-it06; PI-Ning Chen), supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, ¥22,000.
11.Study on the phenomenon and underlying mechanisms of alternative stable states of forest ecosystems in semi-arid land (grant no. 31700373; PI-Ning Chen), supported by Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥260,000.
12.Study on forest alternative stable states in semi-arid lands (grant no. 2017M620479; PI-Ning Chen), supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, ¥80,000.
13.Responses of life history strategy of annual plants in temperate desert to rainfall regimes (grant no. 31600332; PI-Meiling Liu), supported by Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥200,000.
14.Characteristics of spa-temporal variation in the redistribution of canopy precipitation for desert shrubs, and associated response of soil water dynamics (grant no. 41501108; PI-Yafeng Zhang), supported by Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥250,000.
15.Mechanism of soil moisture-vegetation feedbacks and its spatial heterogeneity in arid desert ecosystems of Alax, Inner Mongonia (grant no.41530750; PI-Xinping Wang), supported by Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥2,950,000.
16.Study on the formation mechanisms of vegetation species diversity based on the integration of ecological niche and neutral theory (grant no. 30970465; PI-Gang Wang), supported by Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥350,000.
Honors & Awards
1.The Seventh Liangxi Excellent Academic Paper of Young Scientists.
2.First Prize Scholarship by Lanzhou University in 2011-2013, Lanzhou, China.
3.Excellent Student Award by China Agricultural University in 2007-2008, Beijing, China.