Nian Wang
Junior Editors, Plant Diversity
Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, China
Area of expertise: Biogeography, Phylogenomics, Hybridization and Introgression, Polyploid evolution
Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, China
Area of expertise: Biogeography, Phylogenomics, Hybridization and Introgression, Polyploid evolution
Title: Professor
Email: nian.wang@sdau.edu.cn
Selected publications (no more than 15):
Liu L, Borrell JS, Pironon S, Wang N. 2026. Contrasting drivers of genetic diversity in plants across previously glaciated Northern hemisphere landscapes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 35: e70247.
Yan F, Liu L, Ding J, Fan K, Buggs RJA, Wang N. 2025. Impacts of climatic niche breadth, phylogeny, traits and ploidy on geographical ranges of Betula species. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 63: 939–951.
Nocchi G, Wang J, Yang L, Ding J, Gao Y, Buggs RJA, Wang N. 2023. Genomic signals of local adaptation and hybridization in Asian white birch. Molecular Ecology 32: 595–612.
Wang L, Ding J, Borrell JS, Cheek M, McAllister HA, Wang F, Liu L, Zhang H, Zhang Q, Wang Y, Wang N. 2022. Molecular and morphological analyses clarify species delimitation in section Costatae and reveal Betula buggsii sp. nov. (sect. Costatae, Betulaceae) in China. Annals of Botany 129: 415–428.
Wang N, Kelly LJ, McAllister HA, Zohren J, Buggs RJA. 2021. Resolving phylogeny and polyploid parentage using genus-wide genome-wide sequence data from birch trees. Molecular Phylogentics and Evolution 160: 107126.
Ding J, Hua D, Borrell JS, Buggs RJA, Wang L, Wang F, Li Z, Wang N. 2021. Introgression between Betula tianshanica and Betula microphylla and its implications for conservation. Plants People Planet 3: 363–374.
Wang N, Borrell JS, Bodles WJA, Kuttapitiya A, Nichols RA, Buggs RJA. 2014. Molecular footprints of the Holocene retreat of dwarf birch in Britain. Molecular Ecology 23: 2771–2782.
Wang N, Thomson M, Bodles WJA, Crawford RMM, Hunt HV, Featherstone AW, Pellicer J, Buggs RJA. 2013. Genome sequence of dwarf birch (Betula nana) and cross-species RAD markers. Molecular Ecology 11: 3098–3111.