Si-Chong CHEN

Si-Chong CHEN is a plant ecologist whose research focuses on seed ecology, plant regeneration, and biotic interactions across environmental gradients. Her work combines field studies, large-scale data synthesis, and macroecological approaches to understand how plant reproductive strategies shape biodiversity patterns from local to global scales, with particular attention to biases and gaps in geography and taxonomy. She is a PI at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an Honorary Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. Si-Chong has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in journals including Ecology Letters, New Phytologist, and Global Ecology and Biogeography. She currently serves as President-Elect of the International Society for Seed Science (ISSS) and is on the editorial boards of several international journals.