代表性成果:
1. Lei Chen, Nathan G. Swenson, Niuniu Ji, Xiangcheng Mi, Haibao Ren, Liangdong Guo, Keping Ma*. 2019. Differential soil fungus accumulation and density dependence of trees in a subtropical forest. Science, 366(6461):124-128.
2. Lei Chen, Yunquan Wang, Xiangcheng Mi, Xiaojuan Liu, Haibao Ren, Jianhua Chen, Keping Ma*, Nathan J. B. Kraft. 2019. Neighborhood effects explain increasing asynchronous seedling survival in a subtropical forest. Ecology, 100(11): e02821.10.1002/ecy.2821.
3. Lei Chen, Liza S. Comita, S. Joseph Wright, Nathan G. Swenson, Jess K. Zimmerman, Xiangcheng Mi, Zhanqing Hao, Wanhui Ye, Stephen P. Hubbell, W. John Kress, Maria Uriarte, Jill Thompson, Christopher J. Nytch, Xugao Wang, Juyu Lian, Keping Ma*. 2018. Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species. Ecography. 41(7):1114-1123.
4. Lei Chen, Mi Xiangcheng, Comita Liza, Zhang Liwen, Ren Haibao, Ma Ke-ping*. 2010. Community-level consequences of density dependence and habitat association in a subtropical broad-leaved forest. Ecology letters, 13, 695-704.
5. Jianhui Ma, Lei Chen*, Xiangcheng Mi, Haibao Ren, Xiaojuan Liu, Yunquan Wang, Fang Wang. 2023. The interactive effects of soil fertility and tree mycorrhizal association explain spatial variation of diversity–biomass relationships in a subtropical forest. Journal of Ecology, 111, 1037-1049.