Resume：

• 1999-2004, PhD candidate, Wuhan University (earned doctoral degree at June of 2004);

  2004-2007, assistant professor, Wuhan University;

  2007-2009, associate professor, Wuhan University;

  2009-2017, associate professor, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences;

  2015-2016, visiting scholar, University of Maryland, College Park;

  2017-, professor, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Professional specialty：

• Prof. Dr. Chun-Feng Yang is the leader of laboratory of plant reproductive ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He and his team major in studies of plant reproductive ecology with emphasize on plant-pollinator interactions. The main study interests include the evolutionary relationship between floral diversity and pollination events; pollinator-mediated plant-plant interactions and flower-mediated interactions among pollinators across diverse communities; and the ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant-pollinator interactions in the Anthropocene. Currently, their studies are supported by four grants from national natural science foundation of China.

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• Dr. Yang is an editorial member of Plant Science Journal and Subtropical Plant Science.

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Major publications：

• 1. Lun H-N, Inouye DW, Yang C-F*. 2025. Nectar sugar concentration contributes to structuring bumblebee and plant interactions. Journal of Ecology，113:2744–2757.cover story
  2. He Y-D, Lázaro A, Bergamo PJ, Liang H, Yang C-F*, Ye Z-M*. 2025. Disentangling the mechanisms behind indirect interactions between plants via shared pollinators: Effects of neutral and niche-based processes. Journal of Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.70184
  3. Huang W, Li X, Wang Q-F, Yang C-F*. Ågren J. 2025. Scavenging contributes to larval food intake in fungus gnats using the Arisaema kettle trap as a brood site. Ecology, 106: e70118.
  4. Ochola AC, Njoroge DM, Shao X-L, Gituru RW, Wang Q-F, Yang C-F*. 2025. Global meta-analysis shows an indispensable role of pollinator diversity in promoting fruit quality. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 393: 109829.
  5. Ye Z-M, He Y-D, Huang W, Jin X-F, Bergamo PJ*, Yang C-F*. 2025. Resource availability, competitor abundance and specialization affect competition among bumblebees. Behavioral Ecology, 36: araf038.
  6. Li X-Q, Zhu H-Y, Ochola AC, Qiong L, Ye Z-M, Yang C-F*. 2025. To produce many small or a few large seeds: size-dependent germination strategies of herbs in a species-rich natural alpine grassland. Plant Biology, doi:10.1111/plb.70081
  7. Lun H‑N, Yang C‑F*. 2025. Quantitative analyses reveal interactions of community plants and insect flower visitors are associated with relative composition of nectar amino acids. Plant Ecology, 226:451–463
  8. Zhong J-R, Jin X-F, Orr MC, Li X-Q, He Y-D, Wang S-W, Wang Q-F, Yang C-F*, Ye Z-M*. 2025. The ethics of theft: Reevaluating the impacts of floral larceny on plant reproductive success. Plant Diversity, 47: 148-158.
  9. Ye Z-M, He Y-D, Bergamo PJ, Orr MC, Huang W, Jin X-F, Lun H-N, Wang Q-F, Yang C-F*. 2024. Floral resource partitioning of coexisting bumblebees: Distinguishing species-, colony-, and individual-level effects. Ecology, e4284.
  10. Li X-Q, Zhu H-Y, He Y-D, Ochola AC, Qiong L, Yang C-F*. 2024. Mother-reliant or self-reliant: the germination strategy of seeds in a species-rich alpine meadow is associated with the existence of pericarps. Annals of Botany, 134: 485-490.
  11. Huang W, Vallejo-Marín M, Inouye DW, Yang C-F*, Ye Z-M*. 2024. Bumblebees’ flower preferences are associated with floral abundance and buzz frequency when buzz-pollinating co-flowering plants[J]. Entomologia Generalis, 44: 133-141.
  12. Ye Z‑M, Jin X‑F, He Y‑D, Cao Y, Zou Y, Wang Q‑F, Traveset A, Bergamo PJ*, Yang C‑F*. 2023. The interplay between scale, pollination niche and floral attractiveness on density‑dependent plant–pollinator interactions. Oecologia, 203: 193-204.
  13. Liang H, He Y-D, Theodorou P*, Yang C-F*. 2023. The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta-analysis. Ecology Letters, 26: 1629-1642. Highly cited article
  14. Tie S, He Y-D, Lázaro A, Inouye DW, Guo Y-H*, Yang C-F*. 2023. Floral trait variation across individual plants within a population enhances defense capability to nectar robbing. Plant Diversity, 45: 315-325.
  15. Katumo DM, Liang H, Ochola AC, Lv M, Wang Q-F, Yang C-F*. 2022. Pollinator diversity benefits natural and agricultural ecosystems, environmental health, and human welfare. Plant Diversity, 44: 429-435. Top cited article