Kuiling Zu
Junior Editors, Plant Diversity
Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
Area of expertise: Plant diversity, Biodiversity conservation; Plant ecology
Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
Area of expertise: Plant diversity, Biodiversity conservation; Plant ecology
Title: Associate Professor
Email: kuiling010@163.com
Web-link of Research Group: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kuiling-Zu?ev=hdr_xprf
Selected publications (no more than 15):
Kuiling Zu, Zhiheng Wang, Fuseng Chen, Jonathan Lenoir, et al. (2025). Climate-Driven Variability in Flowering Phenology Changes Across Subtropical Mountains: Traits, Elevation Shifts, and Biogeographic Patterns. 2025Global Change Biology 31(9), 31:e70516.(12/Q1,一区)
Dongmin Shi, Kuiling Zu*, Jiahui Nong, et al. (2025). How new plant species have been discovered in China: collection gaps and preferences over the past century. Frontiers in Plant Science, 16, 1605431. (4.4/Q1,二区)
Kuiling Zu, Fuseng Chen, Yaoqi Li, Nawal Shrestha, Xiangmin Fang, Shahid Ahmad, Ghulam Nabi, Zhiheng Wang. (2024). Climate change impacts flowering phenology in Gongga Mountains, Southwest China. Plant Diversity. 46, 774-782.（4.8/Q1，一区）
Kuiling Zu, Fuseng Chen*, Chao Huang, Yuanqiu Liu, Fangchao Wang, Guojin Zhu, Wensheng Bu, Xiangmin Fang, Liping Guo (2024). The elevational distribution patterns of plant diversity and phylogenetic structure vary geographically across eight subtropical mountains. Ecology and Evolution. 14: e70722.（4.0/Q1，二区）
Kuiling Zu, Nawal Shrestha, Yong Jiang, Guoqing Jia, Shijia Peng, Xiangyun Zhu, Zhiheng Wang. (2023) Phylogenetic conservatism in threatened species responses to climate change differ between functional types in the Gongga Mountains of China. Journal of Mountain Science. 20(12): 3568-3581.（2.5/Q1，三区）
Kuiling Zu, Jonathan Lenoir, Jingyun Fang, Zhiyao Tang, Zehao Shen, Chengjun Ji, Chengyang Zheng, Ao Luo, Wenqi Song, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Loïc Pellissier, Zhiheng Wang* (2023). Elevation shift in seed plant distribution in China's mountains over the last 70 years. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32, 1098-1112.（6.9/Q1，一区top）
Kuiling Zu*, Cancan Zhang, Fusheng Chen, Zhiyong Zhang, Shahid Ahmad, Ghulam Nabi. (2023). Latitudinal gradients of angiosperm plant diversity and phylogenetic structure in China’s nature reserves. Global Ecology and Conservation. 42, e02403.（4.0/Q1，二区）
Kuiling Zu, Zhiheng Wang*, Jonathan Lenoir, Zehao Shen, Fusheng Chen, Nawal Shrestha (2022). Different range shifts and determinations of elevational redistributions of native and non-native plant species in Jinfo Mountain of subtropical China. Ecological Indicators, 145, 109678. （6.0/Q1，二区）
Kuiling Zu, Zhiheng Wang*, Xiangyun Zhu, Jonathan Lenoir, Nawal Shrestha, et al. (2021). Upward shift and elevational range contractions of subtropical mountain plants in response to climate change, Science of The Total Environment, 783, 146896. （8/Q1，一区top）
Kuiling Zu, Ao Luo, Nawal Shrestha, Bo Liu, Zhiheng Wang*, Xiangyun Zhu*. (2019). Altitudinal biodiversity patterns of seed plants along Gongga Mountain in the southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Ecology and Evolution, 9:9586-9596. （4.0/Q1，二区）