Resume：

Professional specialty：

• Macroecology; Biogeography; Seed ecology; Plant life strategies; Species interaction

  
  

  Our group work on plant regeneration and biotic interaction at the macroecological scale. We aim to contribute to our understanding of ecology, especially seed ecology, in three key ways: 1) by narrowing the gaps between data, intuitive ideas and theories; 2) by enhancing the integration of replicated studies at a macro-ecological scale; and 3) by extending understanding from a local scale and a small number of species to a global scale spanning many biomes and taxonomic groups.

  
  

   

  Student: HUANG Xiao   FU Fanyu   HU Zhian   XU Qingqing  Wang Haoyu  Gerald Keneth Kaniaru

  Postdoctor: Zong Lu

   

Funded projects：

Academic service：

• 2023 ~ present, Associate Editor, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  2022 ~ present, Youth Editor, Integrative Zoology
  2020 ~ present, Subject Editor, Oikos
  2020 ~ present, Guest Editor, Frontiers in Plant Science, Special Issue “Functional Seed Ecology”
  Reviewer for 40+ journals, including Ecology Letters, New Phytologist, Journal of Ecology, Evolution, Global Ecology and Biogeography, etc.

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Major publications：

• 1. Chen S-C*, Antonelli A, Huang X, Wei N, Dai C & Wang Q*. (2025) Large seeds as a defensive strategy against partial granivory in the Fagaceae. Journal of Ecology ,113(3): 598–607.
  2. Huang X, Dalsgaard B & Chen S-C*. (2025) Weaker plant-frugivore trait matching towards the tropics and on islands. Ecology Letters，28(1): e70061.
  3. Chen SC^*, Wang B & Moles AT .2021. Exposure time is an important variable in quantifying post-dispersal seed removal.Ecology Letters，24(7): 1522–1525.
  4. Chen SC^*, Poschlod P, Antonelli A, Liu U & Dickie JB .2020. Trade-off between seed dispersal in space and time. Ecology Letters，23(11): 1635–1642.
  5. Chen SC^*, Wu L-M, Wang B & Dickie JB .2020. Macroevolutionary patterns in seed component mass and different evolutionary trajectories across seed desiccation responses. New Phytologist，228(2): 770–777.
  6. Chen SC^*, Dener E, Altman A, Chen F &Giladi I .2020. Effect of habitat fragmentation on seed dispersal ability of a wind-dispersed annual in an agroecosystem. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment，304: 107138.
  7. Moles AT^*, Laffan SW, Keighery M, Dalrymple RL, Tindall ML &Chen SC^* .2020. A hairy situation: Plant species in warm, sunny places are more likely to have pubescent leaves. Journal of Biogeography，47(9): 1934–1944.
  8. Chen SC^*& Giladi I .2020. Variation in morphological traits affects dispersal and seedling emergence in dispersive diaspores of Geropogon hybridus. American Journal of Botany，107(3): 436–444.
  9. Chen SC^*, Tamme R, Thomson FJ & Moles AT^* .2019. Seeds tend to disperse further in the tropics. Ecology Letters，22(6): 954–961.
  10. Chen SC^*, Pahlevani AH, Malíková L, Riina R, Thomson FJ & Giladi I .2019. Trade-off or coordination? Correlations between ballochorous and myrmecochorous phases of diplochory. Functional Ecology，33(8): 1469–1479.
  11. Wu LM^#, Chen SC^#& Wang B^*.2019. An allometry between seed kernel and seed coat shows greater investment in physical defense in small seeds. American Journal of Botany，106(3): 371–376.
  12. Chen SC^*& Giladi I .2018. Allometric relationships between masses of seed functional components. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics，35: 1–7.
  13. Chen SC^*& Moles AT .2018 . Factors shaping large-scale gradients in seed physical defence: Seeds are not better defended towards the tropics. Global Ecology and Biogeography，27(4): 417–428.
  14. Chen SC^*, Hemmings FA, Chen F & Moles AT .2017. Plants do not suffer greater losses to seed predation towards the tropics. Global Ecology and Biogeography，26(11): 1283–1291.
  15. Chen SC^*, Cornwell WK, Zhang H-X & Moles AT .2017. Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients. Ecography，40(4): 531–538.
  16. Chen SC^*& Moles AT .2015. A mammoth mouthful? A test of the idea that larger animals ingest larger seeds. Global Ecology and Biogeography，24(11): 1269–1280.
  17. Chen SC, Cannon CH^*, Kua CS, Liu JJ & Galbraith DW .2014. Genome size variation in the Fagaceae and its implications for trees. Tree Genetics & Genomes，10(4): 977–988.