Jiquan Chen is a landscape ecologist, primarily focused on nutrient flux, carbon cycling, bioenergy, and grassland ecology.
[2] He graduated Inner Mongolia University in 1983 with an undergraduate degree in grassland plant ecology, received his MS in forest ecology in 1986 from the Chinese Academy of Science, and his PhD in ecosystem analysis from the University of Washington in 1991.
[3] From 1992 to 1993 he completed postdoc training in stream ecology and ecosystem management also at the University of Washington.
His research is focused on ecosystem nutrient flux, fragmented landscapes, agriculture, grasslands, hydrology, global change, and bioenergy.
[1] In 2014, he became a professor of geography at Michigan State University, where he currently directs the Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Science lab (LEES).