A5014556259- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Ecology and Conservation Studies
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
2016-2025
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016-2025
Henan University
2025
Anyang Academy of Agricultural Sciences
2024
The Open University
2013-2024
University of Bristol
2024
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology
2013-2024
Kunming Institute of Botany
2014-2023
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2013-2022
Guangzhou University
2022
Angiosperm fruiting axes were discovered from the Upper Jurassic of China. Angiosperms are defined by carpels enclosing ovules, a character demonstrated in this fossil. This feature is lacking other fossils reported to be earliest angiosperms. The fruits small follicles formed conduplicate helically arranged. Adaxial elongate stigmatic crests conspicuous on each carpel. basal one-third bore deciduous organs uncertain affinities. No scars subtending floral present define individual fertile...
The youngest palm fossil record in Tibet suggests that there was no high Tibetan Plateau until the Neogene.
Abstract The often-used phrase ‘the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ implies a flat-surfaced Tibet rose as coherent entity, and that was driven entirely by collision northward movement India. Here, we argue these are misconceptions derived in large part from simplistic geodynamic climate modeling, well proxy misinterpretation. growth complex process involving mostly Mesozoic collisions several Gondwanan terranes with Asia, thickening crust generating relief before arrival In this review, Earth...
The uplift history of south-eastern Tibet is crucial to understanding processes driving the tectonic evolution Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas. Underpinning existing palaeoaltimetric studies has been regional mapping based in large part on biostratigraphy that assumes a Neogene modernization highly diverse, but threatened, Asian biota. Here, with new radiometric dating newly collected plant-fossil archives, we quantify surface height margin latest Eocene (∼34 Ma) be ∼3 km rising,...
The growth of the Tibetan Plateau throughout past 66 million years has profoundly affected Asian climate, but how this unparalleled orogenesis might have driven vegetation and plant diversity changes in eastern Asia is poorly understood. We approach question by integrating modeling results fossil data. show that north northeastern Tibet affects and, crucially, altering monsoon system. This northern orographic change induces a precipitation increase, especially dry (winter) season, resulting...
The family Fagaceae includes nine currently recognized genera and ca. 1000 species, making it one of the largest most economically important groups within order Fagales. In addition to wide variation in cupule fruit morphology, polymorphism pollination syndrome (wind vs. generalistic insect) also contributes uniqueness family. Phylogenetic relationships were examined using 179 accessions spanning taxonomic breadth family, emphasizing tropical, subtropical, relictual taxa. Nuclear ribosomal...
Significance The ancient topography of the Tibetan Plateau and its role in biotic evolution are still poorly understood, mostly due to a lack fossil evidence. Our discovery ∼47-Mya plant fossils from present elevation 4,850 m central Tibet, diminishes, significantly, that knowledge. represent humid subtropical vegetation some 70 different forms show affinity Early-Middle Eocene floras both North America Europe. Using leaf architecture, we calculate forest grew at ∼1,500-m within an east–west...
Abstract Aim Early in their evolution, angiosperms evolved a diversity of leaf form far greater than that any other group land plants. Some this response to varying climate. Our aim is test the global relationship between woody dicot and climate which they live. Location We have compiled data set describing (using 31 standardized categorical characters) from 378 natural or naturalized vegetation sites around world. include all continents except A ntarctica encompass biomes tropical taiga,...
Research Article| October 31, 2017 New U-Pb dates show a Paleogene origin for the modern Asian biodiversity hot spots U. Linnemann; Linnemann * 1Senckenberg Museum of Mineralogy and Geology, Natural History Collections Dresden, Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159, 01109 Germany *E-mail: Ulf.Linnemann@senckenberg.de Search other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar T. Su; Su 2Key Laboratory Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy Sciences, Menglun, Yunnan...
Within the ongoing controversy regarding orogeny of Tibetan Plateau region, two directly conflicting endmember frameworks have emerged in which either: (1) a high central ‘proto-plateau’ existed before onset India–Asia continental collision; or (2) early Paleogene Tibet comprised wide east–west-oriented lowland c. 1–2 km above sea-level, bounded by (>4.5 km) mountain systems. Reconstructing development plateau correctly is fundamental to running realistic Earth system models that explore...
Abstract Understanding the Cenozoic vegetation history of what is now Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau crucial for elucidating co‐evolutionary dynamics between plateau development, its environment, and organisms it hosts. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive analysis phytoliths within late Oligocene–Early Miocene lacustrine sedimentary section Lunpola Basin, central Plateau. The diverse phytolith morphotype assemblages indicate that Tibetan region mainly comprised mixed coniferous broad‐leaved...
Abstract Aim A wide range of forests distributed across steep environmental gradients are found in Y unnan, southwest C hina. Climate change could profoundly these by affecting species ranges. We produce predictions about suitable habitat shifts and use to (1) evaluate size change, loss turn‐over under no‐ full‐dispersal nine climate scenarios (2) identify variables responsible for current richness future local losses. Location unnan P rovince, S outhwest Methods Using M ax E nt, we modelled...
Clarifying the relationship between distribution patterns of organisms and geological events is critical to understanding impact environmental changes on organismal evolution. Quercus sect. Heterobalanus now distributed across Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains (HHM) warm lowland in East China, yet how this group changed response HHM uplift remains largely unknown. This study examines effect tectonic region oaks, providing a biological perspective history region. Fifty-six populations were...
Abstract. The paleoclimate of the late Pliocene Longmen flora from Yongping County located at southeastern boundary Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was reconstructed using two leaf-physiognomy-based methods, i.e., leaf margin analysis (LMA) and Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Program (CLAMP), to understand condition geographical pattern monsoonal climate in southwestern China during Pliocene. mean annual temperatures (MATs) estimated by LMA CLAMP are 17.4 ± 3.3 °C 1.3 °C, respectively, compared...
Abstract Aim Many subtropical organisms exhibit an East Asian‐Tethyan disjunction, a distribution split between Asia and the Mediterranean. The underlying mechanisms timing have remained unclear to date. evolutionary history of Quercus section Ilex Loudon, representative disjunct lineage with rich widespread fossil record, was investigated understand key drivers this disjunction. Location Eurasia. Methods phylogeny reconstructed using RAD‐seq. Divergence times were estimated based on three...