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Chaolun Allen Chen

Chaolun Allen Chen

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Ecology and Evolution
Taiwan
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
58
Citations
9784
World Ranking
2618
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Taiwan Leader Award

Overview

Chaolun Allen Chen is a researcher affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions also in earth and planetary sciences. The main research subfields include ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their research topics center around coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, marine and fisheries research, ichthyology and marine biology, marine biology and ecology research, cephalopods and marine biology, and marine sponges and natural products.

Chen has contributed to multiple recent scientific papers, including:

  • The Origin of the Subtropical Coral Alveopora japonica (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in High-Latitude Environments, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Physiological plasticity of corals to temperature stress in marginal coral communities, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Impacts of heat stress and storm events on the benthic communities of Kenting National Park (Taiwan), 2021, PeerJ
  • Demographic census confirms a stable population of the critically-endangered caryophyllid coral Polycyathus chaishanensis (Scleractinia; Caryophyllidae) in the Datan Algal Reef, Taiwan, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Variable responses to chronic and acute elevated temperature of three coral species from reefs with distinct thermal regimes, 2022, Marine Biology

Their frequent co-authors include Shashank Keshavmurthy, Chao-Yang Kuo, Ming-Jay Ho, Ya-Yi Huang, and Vianney Denis.

Chen's work is regularly published in venues such as PeerJ, Frontiers in Marine Science, Marine Biodiversity, The Science of The Total Environment, and Scientific Reports, indicating an active engagement with journals focused on marine and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Conventional taxonomy obscures deep divergence between Pacific and Atlantic corals

    Hironobu Fukami;Hironobu Fukami;Ann F. Budd;Gustav Paulay;Antonio Solé-Cava

  • Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria)

    Hironobu Fukami;Chaolun Allen Chen;Chaolun Allen Chen;Ann F. Budd;Allen Gilbert Collins

  • Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene

    Emily S Darling;Emily S Darling;Emily S Darling;Tim R McClanahan;Joseph Maina;Georgina G Gurney

  • Risk-sensitive planning for conserving coral reefs under rapid climate change

    Hawthorne L. Beyer;Hawthorne L. Beyer;Emma V. Kennedy;Maria Beger;Maria Beger;Chaolun Allen Chen;Chaolun Allen Chen

  • Ecologically differentiated stress-tolerant endosymbionts in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) Clade D are different species

    Todd C. LaJeunesse;Drew C. Wham;D. Tye Pettay;John Everett Parkinson

  • Extraordinary diversity of reef corals in the South China Sea

    Danwei Huang;Danwei Huang;Wilfredo Y. Licuanan;Bert W. Hoeksema;Chaolun Allen Chen;Chaolun Allen Chen

  • Reefs and islands of the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean: why it is the world's largest no-take marine protected area.

    Charles (Charles R. C.) Sheppard;M. Ateweberhan;B. W. Bowen;P. Carr

  • Blind to morphology: genetics identifies several widespread ecologically common species and few endemics among Indo‐Pacific cauliflower corals (Pocillopora, Scleractinia)

    Jorge H C Pinzón;Eugenia M. Sampayo;Evelyn F. Cox;Leonard J. Chauka

  • Fluctuating algal symbiont communities in Acropora palifera (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) from Taiwan

    Chaolun Allen Chen;Jih-Terng Wang;Lee-Shing Fang;Ya-Wen Yang

  • Morphometric analysis of shell and operculum variations in the viviparid snail, Cipangopaludina chinensis (Mollusca: Gastropoda), in Taiwan

    Yun-Wen Chiu;Hon Cheng Chen;Sin Che Lee;Chaolun Allen Chen;Chaolun Allen Chen

  • Analysis of the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene supports a two-clade hypothesis of the evolutionary history of scleractinian corals.

    Chaolun Allen Chen;Carden C. Wallace;Jackie Wolstenholme;Jackie Wolstenholme

  • Intraspecific genetic diversity of the endemic freshwater crab Candidiopotamon rathbunae (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) reflects five million years of the geological history of Taiwan

    Hsi-Te Shih;Huei-Chuan Hung;Christoph D. Schubart;Chaolun Allen Chen

  • Secondary Structure and Phylogenetic Utility of the Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2) in Scleractinian Corals

    Chaolun Allen Chen;Chau-Ching Chang;Nuwei Vivian Wei;Chien-Hsun Chen

  • Systematic relationships within the Anthozoa (Cnidaria : Anthozoa) using the 5'-end of the 28S rDNA

    C. A. Chen

  • DNA barcoding reveals the coral "laboratory-rat", Stylophora pistillata encompasses multiple identities

    Shashank Keshavmurthy;Sung Yin Yang;Sung Yin Yang;Ada Alamaru;Yao Yang Chuang;Yao Yang Chuang

  • Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the grass lizards genus Takydromus (Reptilia: Lacertidae) of East Asia.

    Si Min Lin;Chaolun Allen Chen;Kuang Yang Lue

  • The dynamics of microbial partnerships in the coral Isopora palifera

    Chung-Pin Chen;Ching-Hung Tseng;Chaolun A Chen;Sen-Lin Tang

  • Symbiont diversity in scleractinian corals from tropical reefs and subtropical non-reef communities in Taiwan

    Chaolun Allen Chen;Chaolun Allen Chen;Ya-Wen Yang;Nuwei Vivian Wei;Nuwei Vivian Wei;Wan-Shen Tsai

  • Reassessing evolutionary relationships of scleractinian corals

    J. E. N. Veron;D. M. Odorico;C. A. Chen;D. J. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Carden C. Wallace
Carden C. Wallace Queensland Museum
Chang-Feng Dai
Chang-Feng Dai National Taiwan University
Wen-Ming Chen
Wen-Ming Chen Fudan University
Andrew H. Baird
Andrew H. Baird James Cook University
Francesca Benzoni
Francesca Benzoni King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Emily S. Darling
Emily S. Darling Wildlife Conservation Society
Nancy Knowlton
Nancy Knowlton National Museum of Natural History
David Obura
David Obura Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean
Charles Sheppard
Charles Sheppard University of Warwick
Danwei Huang
Danwei Huang National University of Singapore

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