Zuosinan Chen

PhD
Academy Research Fellow, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Forest (Eco)hydrology

Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Technology

Oulanka forests, 2023 autumn

My ecohydrology research have been focusing on forest ecosystems covering various forest types, e.g., semi-arid, temperate, boreal, urban, and managed. I am interested in process-based mechanisms spanning different spatio-temporal scales under climate change: (1) biophysical controls of daytime and also nighttime leaf transpiration, stem water capacitance recharge, and whole tree water uptake, (2) sub-daily responses of tree sap flow to weather extremes and precipitation seasonality, (3) long-term (over decades) effects of forest management on forest transpiration. Based on my multidisciplinary knowledge, especially the research experience in ecohydrology and isotope hydrology, I am currently combining sap flow techniques and isotope hydrology to elucidate tree water use strategies and boreal forest (eco)hydrology under the changing snow-rain seasonality.

Blogs:

What happens if the water intake of the billions of Finnish trees would change one day?

Research interests

  • Forest (eco)hydrology
  • Tree water uptake strategy
  • Water movement in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum
  • Nighttime sap flow
  • Impacts of extreme weather events, e.g., intense precipitation (rainfall and snowfall), hot days, drought stress
  • Isotope hydrology
  • Cold climate hydrology
  • Tree physiology
  • Forest management
  • Forest ecology

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Contact information

E-mail

zuosinan.chen@oulu.fi

Phone number

+358 406863049

Visiting address

PR340