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03.02.i04. Prof. Shih-Chieh profile phot

Dr. Shih-Chieh Chang

Director of CIRES

　　Shih-Chieh Chang is an ecosystem ecologist with a research focus on the carbon fluxes of forest ecosystems. He and his colleagues established two long-term research sites in Taiwan, the first situated in the montane cloud forest of Chi-Lan Mountain (CLM) located in I-Lan in 2002. Early research at the site investigated nutrient cycling, fog meteorology and fog deposition. Fog-related studies have continued until today, including the development of a distribution map of cloud forest. This was recently published in collaboration with German colleagues.

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　　Shih-Chieh Chang's current efforts on carbon budget study are the quantification of CO2 and CH4 fluxes using eddy covariance method and the development of a novel chamber technique for continuous measurements of leaf photosynthesis and respiration in the field. The second research site is the Da-Nong-Da-Fu (DNDF) plantation in Hualien. The main research question at DNDF seeks to understand the carbon and water budget of lowland plantation using eddy covariance method, and to evaluate the system resilience among different land use types.

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Expertise:

Ecosystem ecology,  Biogeochemistry,  Ecosystem carbon budget

Lab of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, B446

Tel：+886-3-8903275

       +886-3-8903270

Email: scchang@gms.ndhu.edu.tw

CIRES,College of Environmental Studies, National Dong Hwa University. 
No.1,Sec.2, Da Hsueh Rd., Shoufeng, Hualien 974301, Taiwan.

Active Projects

  • The Study on the Impact of Atmospheric Particulate Matter on Forest Water Use Efficiency (MOST 109-2313-B-259-001-)

  • Verification of Eddy Covariance Footprint Models (MOST 108-2111-M-259-001-)

  • Sustainability of Ecosystem Services in Alpine Lakes under Environmental Change – Subproject 1: Atmospheric Carbon Flux Study of Mid- to High-Elevation Lakes in Taiwan (MOST 108-2621-M-239-001-)

  • Study on the Impact of Atmospheric Particulate Matter on the Physiological Ecology of Cinnamomum Trees (MOST 108-2911-I-259-501-)

Key Publications

  • Chang, S.-C., Schemenauer, R.S. (2021). Fog Deposition. In: T. Foken (ed) Springer Handbook of Atmospheric Measurements. Springer, pp. (in print)

  • Imbert, J.B., Blanco, J.A., Candel-Pérez, D., Lo, Y.-H., de Andrés, E.G., Yeste, A., Herrera-Álvarez, X.,Barba, G.R., Liu, Y., Chang, S.-C. (2021). Synergies between climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem function and services, indirect drivers of change and human well-being in forests. In: Ramanan,V.V., Shah, S., Prasad, R., (eds). Exploring Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals. Spring Nature, pp. 263-320, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-7301-9_12

  • Bond-Lamberty, B. et al. (2020) COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data. Global Change Biology, 26:7268-7283, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15353

  • Chang, S.-C., Saitoh, T. M., Shibata, H., Suzuki, S. N. (2020) Recent advances in the understanding of ecosystem processes at eddy covariance CO2 flux sites in East Asian forest ecosystems: a review. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 77:52-65, DOI: 10.2480/agrmet.D-20-00018

  • Schulz, H.M., Li C.F., Thies, B., Chang, S.C., Bendix J., (2017). Mapping the montane cloud forest of Taiwan using 12 year MODIS-derived ground fog frequency data. PLoS One 12, e0172663, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172663

  • Pariyar, S., Chang, S.-C., Zinsmeister, D., Zhou, H., Grantz, D.A., Hunsche, M., Burkhardt, J. (2017). Xeromorphic traits help to maintain photosynthesis in the perhumid climate of a Taiwanese cloud forest. Oecologia, 184:609-621, DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-3894-4

  • Wu C-H, Lo Y-H, Blanco JA, Chang S-C, 2015: Resilience assessment of lowland plantations using an ecosystem modeling approach. Sustainability, 7:3801-3822, DOI: 10.3390/su7043801
     

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