CHEN Yushun

Faculty

Name：	CHEN Yushun
Academic Title：	Professor
Education：	Ph.D.
Phone：	86-27-68780161
E-mail：	yushunchen@ihb.ac.cn

Resume：

Yushun Chen, Ph.D., Professor, Group Leader, Director of Huai’an Research Center.

Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. from West Virginia University, USA in 2009. Before he joined the current position in late 2014, Dr. Chen conducted his Post-Doc research with Dauphin Island Sea Lab, NOAA National Coastal Data Development Center, and Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve from 2009-2010. Then Dr. Chen worked in Aquaculture and Fisheries Center, University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, USA as an Assistant Professor from 2010-2014. In Arkansas, Dr. Chen taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Limnology, Stream Ecology, Water Quality Management and others.

While serving as the major professor for several graduate students, Dr. Chen led a research lab on water quality and aquatic communities, and conducted research projects in the Central Appalachians, the Northern Gulf of Mexico, and the Mississippi River Basin, which were funded by US EPA, USDA, USGS, NASA, and the State of Arkansas, respectively.

Currently, funded by Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Ministry of Ecology and Environment, National Key R&D Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China and others, Dr. Chen and his lab are conducting fish and aquatic communities, water quality, habitat, and aquatic ecosystems health assessment and restorations research in the Yangtze River Basin, the Eastern Route of China’s South to North Water Diversion Project region, Shenzhen urban center, and also Mississippi-Yangtze Large River Basins aquatic resources conservation and restorations through international collaborations.

Dr. Chen served as officers or committee members in American Fisheries Society (AFS) and others. He is also the coordinator for the Mississippi-Yangtze River Basins Symposium (MYRIBS) Series and long-term international collaboration network.

Teaching Interests:

Limnology, Stream Ecology, Water Quality and Ecosystems Management

Research Directions：

Fish and Aquatic Community Ecology; Water Quality; Habitat; Ecosystem Health Assessment and Restorations

Awards：

The American Fisheries Society 2017 Distinguished Service Award

Selected Publications：

Books:

Chen, Y., Chapman, D. C., Jackson, J. R., Chen, D., Li, Z., Kilgore, K. J., Phelps, Q., Eggleton, M. A. editors. 2016. Fisheries resources, environment, and conservation in the Mississippi and Yangtze (Changjiang) River basins. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 84, Bethesda, Maryland.

Articles:

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.