Dr. Chuanwu Chen is an Associate professor in the Department of Animal Genetic Resources at Nanjing Normal University. He is interested in extinction vulnerability and metacommunity assembly of vertebrates at regional (China) and global scales. He currently works in the research fields of the extinction risk patterns of terrestrial vertebrates and the island syndrome within Zhoushan islands, the largest archipelago of China.

Educational background

2018-2020, Postdoctoral fellow, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University

2012-2017, Ph.D., Ecology, Zhejiang University, China 

2015-2017, Joint Ph.D., Ecology, University of California, Davis, USA

2008-2012, BS, Biotechnology, Yangzhou University, China

Research Projects

National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32001226, 2021.01-2023.12)

Publications:

1) Chen, C., Holyoak, M., Xu, J., de Oliveira Caetano, G., Wang, Y.* 2023. Range restriction, climate variability, and human-related risks imperil lizards worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32, 780-792.

2) Chen, C., Zhan, C., Wang, Y.* 2022. Do functional and phylogenetic nestedness follow the same mechanisms as taxonomic nestedness? Evidence from amphibians in the largest archipelago of China. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91, 2424-2436.

3) Chen, C., Jefferson, T. A., Chen, B., Wang, Y.* 2022. Geographic range size, water temperature, and extrinsic threats predict the extinction risk in global cetaceans. Global Change Biology, 28, 6541-6555.

4）Chen, C., Qu, Y., Zhou, X., Wang, Y.* 2019. Human overexploitation and extinction risk correlates of Chinese snakes. Ecography, 42, 1777-1788.

5) Chen, C., Xu, A., Wang, Y.* 2021. Area threshold and trait–environment associations of butterfly assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China. Journal of Biogeography, 48, 785-797.

6) Chen, C., Yang, X., Tan, X., Wang, Y.* 2020. The role of habitat diversity in generating the small-island effect. Ecography, 43, 1241-2149.

7）Chen, C., Chen, C., Wang, Y.* 2019. Ecological correlates of extinction risk in Chinese amphibians. Diversity and Distributions, 25, 1586-1598.

8）Chen, C., Zeng, D., Zhao, Y., Wu, Y., Xu, J., Wang, Y.* 2019. Correlates of extinction risk in Chinese endemic birds. Avian Research, 10, 8.

9）Chen, C., Xu, A., Ding, P., Wang, Y.* 2019. The small-island effect and nestedness in assemblages of medium- and large-bodied mammals on Chinese reservoir land-bridge islands. Basic and Applied Ecology, 38, 47–57.

10）Chen, C., Holyoak, M., Wang, Y., Si, X., Ding, P.* 2019. Spatiotemporal distribution of seasonal bird assemblages on land-bridge islands: linking dynamic and static views of metacommunities. Avian Research, 10, 25. 

11）Chen, C., Holyoak, M., Si, X., Wang, Y., Ding, P.* 2018. Do seasonal species assemblages differ in their biogeography? Evidence from the spatial structure of bird communities on land-bridge islands. Journal of Biogeography, 45, 473-483.

Awards

China Zoological Society, Changlong-Qihang Award, 2022

Wiley, Outstanding Open Science Author of the Year 2022, 2022

The Organization Department of Jiangsu Province, Doctor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2021

Academic Title

Youth editor of Integrative Zoology, 2023-ff

Youth editor of Biodiversity Science, 2024-ff