Yang Niu
Editors, Plant Diversity
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant evolutionary ecology, plant-animal interaction, pollination, plant color evolution
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant evolutionary ecology, plant-animal interaction, pollination, plant color evolution
Title: Prof.
Email: niuyang@mail.kib.ac.cn
Web-link of Research Group: https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~niuyang
Selected publications:
1. Niu, Yang, Hang Sun*, and Martin Stevens*. 2018. Plant camouflage: ecology, evolution, and implications, Trends in ecology & evolution, 33: 608-18. （植物伪装评述）
2. Zhang H#, Zhang P#, Niu Y#, Tao T#, Liu G#, Dong C, Zheng Z, Zhang Z, Li Y, Niu Z, Liu W, Guo Z, Hu S, Yang Y, Li M*, Sun H*, Renner SS*, Liu J*. Genetic basis of camouflage in an alpine plant and its long-term co-evolution with an insect herbivore. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41559-025-02653-3.（伪装表型的决定机制）
3. Niu, Yang, Gao Chen, De‐Li Peng, Bo Song, Yang Yang, Zhi‐Min Li, and Hang Sun*. 2014. Grey leaves in an alpine plant: a cryptic colouration to avoid attack?, New Phytologist, 203: 953-63.（伪装的适应意义）
4. Niu, Yang, Zhe Chen, Martin Stevens, and Hang Sun*. 2017. Divergence in cryptic leaf colour provides local camouflage in an alpine plant, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284: 20171654.（就地适应与伪装的表型分化）
5. Niu, Yang, Martin Stevens*, and Hang Sun*. 2021. Commercial harvesting has driven the evolution of camouflage in an alpine plant, Current Biology, 31: 446-49.（人为选择影响伪装进化，封面故事）
6. Huang, Tao, Zhe Chen, Bo Xu, Hang Sun*, and Yang Niu*. 2023. Camouflaged plants are shorter than non-camouflaged plants in the alpine zone, Biology Letters, 19: 20220560.（伪装植物长得更矮，封面故事）
7. Huang, Tao#, Song, Bo#, Chen, Zhe, Sun, Hang*, Niu, Yang*. 2024 Pollinator shift ensures reproductive success in a camouflaged alpine plant. Annals of Botany, 134: 325-336（传粉者转变帮助伪装植物保障繁殖）
8. Niu, Yang, Lie-Wen Lin, Yi-Feng Liu, Li-Shen Qian, Zhe Chen, and Hang Sun*. 2025. Dark nectar pouches are visually similar to colored nectar in bird-pollinated flowers. Ecology 106: e70099. （普通花蜜与深色蜜囊组合可平替有色花蜜）
9. Chen, Zhe, O. Nevo, K. Valenta, Hang Sun*, and Yang Niu*. 2023. Red fruits exhibit lower colour diversity than red flowers as perceived by birds. Functional Ecology, 37, 3164–3176. （红花的色调比红果丰富，封面故事）
10. Chen, Zhe, Chang-Qiu Liu, Hang Sun*, and Yang Niu*. 2020. The ultraviolet colour component enhances the attractiveness of red flowers of a bee-pollinated plant, Journal of Plant Ecology, 13: 354-60.（红花中的紫外反射帮助蜂类寻找目标，封面故事）
11. Chen, Zhe#, Yang Niu#*, Chang-Qiu Liu, and Hang Sun*. 2020. 'Red flowers differ in shades between pollination systems and across continents', Annals of botany, 126: 837-48.（红花色调在传粉系统和大陆间有差异）
12. Chen, Zhe, Zhuo Zhou, Ze-Min Guo, Truong Van Do, Hang Sun*, and Yang Niu*. 2023. Historical development of karst evergreen broadleaved forests in East Asia has shaped the evolution of a hemiparasitic genus Brandisia (Orobanchaceae), Plant Diversity.（来江藤属的系统发育与生物地理，封面故事）
13. Niu, Yang, Yang Yang, Zhi-Qiang Zhang, Zhi-Min Li, and Hang Sun*. 2011. Floral closure induced by pollination in gynodioecious Cyananthus delavayi (Campanulaceae): effects of pollen load and type, floral morph and fitness consequences, Annals of botany, 108: 1257-68.（细叶蓝钟花花冠闭合的意义）
14牛洋、王辰、彭建生 青藏高原野花大图鉴, 重庆大学出版社, 2018-10
15牛洋、孙航 横断山有花植物图鉴, 云南科技出版社, 2021-06