Jian Zhang
Editors, Plant Diversity
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Area of expertise: Biogeography, macroecology, biodiversity, climate change, elevational gradient
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Area of expertise: Biogeography, macroecology, biodiversity, climate change, elevational gradient
Title: Professor
Email: zhangjian6@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Web-link of Research Group: https://ecoinfor.github.io/
Selected publications:
Yang, X., Angert, A.L., Zuidema, P.A., Santos, G.S., Lyu, S., Bialic-Murphy, L., Zhang, J. 2025. Coexistence of tropical forest tree species along the demographic buffering spectrum. Global Change Biology, 31(6):e70310 doi:10.1111/gcb.70310.
Zhang, J., Qian, H. 2024. U.Taxonstand: An R package for standardizing scientific names of plants and animals. Plant Diversity, 45(1): 1-5 doi:10.1016/j.pld.2022.09.001
Yang, X., Angert, A.L., Zuidema, P.A., He, F., Huang, S., Li, S.Z., Li, S.L., Chardon, N.I., Zhang, J. 2022. The role of demographic compensation in stabilizing marginal tree populations in North America. Ecology Letters 25(7):1676-1689 doi:10.1111/ELE.14028
Ma, L., Liu, L., Lu, Y., Chen, L., Zhang, Z., Zhang, H., Wang, X., Shu, L., Yang, Q., Song, Q., Peng, Q., Yu, Z., Zhang, J. 2022. When microclimates meet soil microbes: soil temperature mediates soil microbial diversity along an elevational gradient in subtropical forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 166: 108566
Song, H., Ordonez, A., Svenning, J-C., Qian, H., Yin, X., Mao, L., Deng, T., Zhang, J. 2021. Regional disparity in extinction risk: comparison of disjunct plant genera between eastern Asia and eastern North America. Global Change Biology 27(9): 1904-1914 doi:10.1111/gcb.15525