Lingfeng Mao

Title:  Professor

Selected publications:

*corresponding author

Limin Lu, Lingfeng Mao（co-first author）, 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. Evolutionary history of the angiosperm flora of China. Nature. 2018. 554: 234-238.

Aiying Zhang, Donghao Wu, Zhonghan Wang, Mingjian Yu, Lingfeng Mao*. Intraspecific trait variation and whole-plant economics spectrum drive the abundance distributions of woody plants in island communities. Journal of Ecology. 2025. .

Yan He,Yu Xia, Zhaogang Liu, Rui Yang, Jiangshan Lai, Lingfeng Mao*. Plant trait multilayer networks: a new framework for understanding multidimensional plant trait coordination. New Phytologist. 2025. http://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70785.

Yuheng Chen, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Yann Hautier, Dongfan Xu, Yao Li, Yuran Dong, Lingfeng Mao*. Identifying divergence time and paleoclimate change hotspots for better conservation under future climate change. Biological Conservation. 2025. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111499.

Yiqiu Lu, Yuran Dong, Min Zhang, Lingfeng Mao*. Genome and metagenome skimming: future sequencing methods for environmental DNA (eDNA) studies. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2025. e14095.

Yuheng Chen, Yao Li, Yuran Dong, Min Zhang, Yong Yang, Richard B. Primack, Kathryn E. Barry, Lingfeng Mao*. More than just pandas: Urgent research needed on China's native plant biodiversity. Biological Conservation. 2024. 289.1-6.

Nan Yang, Jiangbao Zhang, Jiani Hua, Baohan Song, Tianyi Wang, Wei Xing, Guobing Wang, Lingfeng Mao*, Honghua Ruan. Differentiation of fungal trophic guilds to long-term nitrogen addition in a poplar plantation. Forest Ecology and Management. 2024. 555.

Xuetong Zhang, Yuran Dong, Yuying Li, Xiuping Wu, Siyu Chen, Mingyuan Wang, Yao Li, Zhiwei Ge, Min Zhang, Lingfeng Mao*. The evolutionary adaptation of wood‐decay macrofungi to host gymnosperms differs from that to host angiosperms. Ecology and Evolution. 2024.14: e70019.

Yuheng Chen,Yongbing Wu, Yuran Dong, Yao Li, Zhiwei Ge, George Oduro, Gang Feng,  Mao*. Extinction risk of Chinese angiosperms varies between woody and herbaceous species. Diversity and Distributions.2022. 29: 232-243.

Gang Feng, Yingjie Xiong, Huayu Wei, Yao Li, Lingfeng Mao*. Endemic medicinal plant distribution correlated with stable climate, precipitation, and cultural diversity. Plant Diversity. 2023. 45: 479-484.

Yao Li, Xingwang Zhang, Lu Wang, Victoria L Sork, Lingfeng Mao*, Yanming Fang*. Influence of Pliocene and Pleistocene climates on hybridization patterns between two closely related oak species in China. Annals of Botany. 2022. 129:231-245.

Jianfei Ye, Limin Lu, Bing Liu, Tuo Yang, Jinlong Zhang, Haihua Hu, Rong Li, Anming Lu, Huiyuan Liu, Lingfeng Mao*, Zhiduan Chen*. Phylogenetic delineation of regional biota: A case study of the Chinese flora. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2019. 135:222-229.

Lingfeng Mao*, Jacqueline Dennett, Christopher W. Bater, Piotr Tompalski, Nicholas C. Coops, Dan Farr, Monica Kohler, Barry White, Scott E. Nielsen. Using airborne laser scanning to predict plant species richness and assess conservation threats in the oil sands region of Alberta's boreal forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 2018. 409:29-37.

Gang Feng, Ziyu Ma, Blas M. Benito, Signe Normand, Alejandro Ordonez, Lingfeng Mao*, Jens-Christian Svenning. Phylogenetic age differences in tree assemblages across the Northern Hemisphere increase with long-term climate stability in unstable regions. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2017, 26:1035-1042.

Gang Feng, Lingfeng Mao*, Brody Sandel, Nathan G. Swenson, Jens-Christian Svenning. High plant endemism in China is partially linked to reduced glacial-interglacial climate change. Journal of Biogeography. 2016, 43: 145-154.