Zhiduan Chen
Editors, Plant Diversity
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Area of expertise: Systematic botany, phylogenetic biodiversity
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Area of expertise: Systematic botany, phylogenetic biodiversity
Title: Professor
Email: zhiduan@ibcas.ac.cn
Selected publications:
Lai Yangjun, Jun Wen, Zhekun Zhou, Song Ge, Robert A. Spicer, Zhiduan Chen, Yiyu Chen. 2025.
Uplift history and biological evolution of the Himalaya. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 63(1): 1-4. [Special issue]
Lai Yangjun, Jianfei Ye, Bing Liu, Yun Liu, Anming Lu, Fuwen Wei, Zhiduan Chen. 2025. Integrating fossil and extant plant communities to calibrate paleoelevation of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 63(1): 25-38.
Zhang Qian, Yang Yuchang, Liu Bing, Lu Limin, Hervé Sauquet, Li Dezhu, Chen Zhiduan. 2024.Meta‐analysis provides insights into the origin and evolution of East Asian evergreen broad‐leaved forests. New Phytologist 242: 2369-2379.
Zhao Lina, Li Jinya, Russell L. Barrett, Liu Bing, Hu Haihua, Lu Limin, Chen Zhiduan. 2024. Spatial heterogeneity of extinction risk for flowering plants in China. Nature Communications 15(1): 6352. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50704-3.
Lu Limin, Lina Zhao, Haihua Hu, Bing Liu, Yuchang Yang, Yichen You, Danxiao Peng, Russell L. Barrettd, Zhiduan Chen. 2023. A comprehensive evaluation of flowering plant diversity and conservation priority for national park planning in China. Fundamental Research (3): 939-950.
Liu Yun, Yangjun Lai, Jianfei Ye, Haihua Hu, Danxiao Peng, Limin Lu, Hang Sun, Zhiduan Chen. 2023. The Sino‑Himalayan flora evolved from lowland biomes dominated by tropical floristic elements. BMC Biology (21): 239
Zhang Xiaoxia, Jianfei Ye, Shawn W. Laffan, Brent D. Mishler, Andrew H. Thornhill, Limin Lu, Lingfeng Mao, Bing Liu, Youhua Chen, Anming Lu, Joseph T. Miller, Zhiduan Chen. 2022. Spatial phylogenetics of the Chinese angiosperm flora provides insights into endemism and conservation. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 64(1): 105-117.
Wang Qing-Hua, Jian Zhang, Yang Liu, Yu Jia, Yuannian Jiao, Bo Xu, Zhiduan Chen. 2022. Diversity, phylogeny and adaptation of bryophytes: insights from genomic and transcriptomic data. Journal of Experimental Botany 73(13): 4306-4322.
Liu Yun, Jianfei Ye, Haihua Hu, Danxiao Peng, Lina Zhao, Limin Lu, Wajid Zaman, Zhiduan Chen. 2021. Influence of elevation on bioregionalisation: A case study of the Sino-Himalayan flora. Journal of Biogeography 48(10): 2578-2587.
Lu Limin, Hu Haihua, Peng Danxiao, Liu Bing, Ye Jianfei, Yang Tuo, Li Honglei, Sun miao, Smith Stephen A., Soltis Pamela S, Soltis Douglas E, Chen Zhiduan. 2020. Noise does not equal bias in assessing the evolutionary history of the angiosperm flora of China: A response to Qian (2019). Journal of Biogeography 47: 2286-2291.
Ye Jianfei, Liu Yun, Chen Zhiduan. 2020. Dramatic impact of metric choice on biogeographical regionalization. Plant Diversity 42: 67-73.
Zhang Jian, Xin-Xing Fu, Rui-Qi Li, Xiang Zhao, Yang Liu, Ming-He Li, Arthur Zwaenepoe, Hong Ma, Bernard Goffinet, Yan-Long Guan, Jia-YuXue,Yi-Ying Liao, Qing-Feng Wang, Qing-Hua Wang, Jie-Yu Wang, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Zhi-Wen Wang, Yu Jia, Mei-Zhi Wang, Shan-Shan Dong, Jian-Fen Yang, Yuan-Nian Jiao ,Ya-Long Guo, Hong-Zhi Kong, An-Ming Lu, Huan-Ming Yang, Shou-Zhou Zhang ,Yves Van de Peer, Zhong-Jian Liu, Zhiduan Chen. 2020. The hornwort genome and early land plant evolution. Nature Plants 6: 107–118
Ye Jianfei, Limin Lu, Bing Liu, Tuo Yang, Jinlong Zhang, Haihua Hu, Rong Li, Anming Lu, Huiyuan Liu, Lingfeng Mao, Zhiduan Chen. 2019. Phylogenetic delineation of regional biota: A case study of the Chinese flora. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 135: 222–229.
Lu Limin, Cymon Cox, Sarah Mathews, Wei Wang, Jun Wen, Zhiduan Chen. 2018. Optimal data partitioning, multispecies coalescent, and Bayesian concordance analyses resolve early divergences of the grape family (Vitaceae). Cladistics 34: 57-77.
Lu Limin, Lingfeng Mao, Tuo Yang, Jianfei Ye, Bing Liu, Honglei Li, Miao Sun, Joseph T. Miller, Sarah Mathews, Haihua Hu, Yanting Niu, Danxiao Peng, Youhua Chen, Stephen A. Smith, Min Chen, Kunli Xiang, Chi Toan Le, Viet Cuong Dang, Anming Lu, Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Jianhua Li, Zhiduan Chen. 2018. Evolutionary history of the angiosperm flora of China. Nature 554: 234-238.