Wei Wang
Editors, Plant Diversity
Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Phylogeny, biogeography, morphology
Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Phylogeny, biogeography, morphology
Title: Professor
Email: wangwei1127@ibcas.ac.cn
Web-link of Research Group: http://www.lseb.cn/rcpy/dsjj/bd/ww/
Selected publications:
Cao GL, Li XQ, Xiang KL, Erst AS, Jabbour F, Oritz RDC, Yang J*, Wang W*. 2025. Formation of the three great Asian plateaus, climate change, and biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 40: 970-982. (Cover Article)
Cao GL, Li XQ, Zhang J, Peng HW, Li HL, Erst AS, Jabbour F, Ortiz RDC, Soltis PS, Soltis DE, Wang W*. 2025. Cenozoic geoclimatic changes drove the evolutionary dynamics of floristic endemism on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. PNAS 122: e2426017122. (Commented by Yang and Wang, 2025. Spatiotemporal decoupling of floristic endemism in response to Qinghai–Tibet Plateau uplift. PNAS 122: e2513876122)
Peng HW, Ling YY, Xiang KL, Erst AS, Li XQ, Lian L, Liu B, Erst TV, Rosa del C. Ortiz RDC, Jabbour F, Wang W*. 2025. Repeated evolution of storage root and invasions of alpine biome drove replicated radiations of the megadiverse Corydalis (Papaveraceae) in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Systematic Biology 74: 359-372.
Peng HW, Lian L, Xiang KL, Erst AS, Ortiz RDC, Jabbour F, Wang W*. 2025. The historical connection of the Arctic and Qinghai–Tibet Plateau floras and their asynchronous diversification in response to Cenozoic climate cooling. Evolution 79: 1007-1019.
Li XQ, Peng HW, Xiang XG, Xiang KL, Jabbour F, Ortiz RDC, Solits PS*, Soltis DE*, Wang W*. 2024. Phylogenetic evidence clarifies the history of the extrusion of Indochina. PNAS 121: e2322527121.
Xiang KL, Wu SD, Lian L, He WC, Peng D, Peng HW, Zhang XN, Li HL, Xue JY, Shan HY, Xu GX, Liu Y, Wu ZQ*, Wang W*. 2024. Genomic data and ecological niche modeling reveal the unusually slow rate of molecular evolution in the Cretaceous Eupteleaceae. Science China Life Sciences 67: 803–816.
Lian L, Peng HW, Erst AS, Ortiz RDC*, Jabbour F*, Chen ZD, Wang W*. 2024. Bayesian tip-dated phylogeny and biogeography of Cissampelideae (Menispermaceae): Mitigating the effects of homoplastic morphological characters. Cladistics 40: 391-410.
Wu SD, Peng HW, Lian L, Ortiz RDC, Erst AS, Jabbour F, Wang W*. 2024. Drylands act as cradles and museums of Nitrariaceae diversification in Eurasia. Journal of Biogeography 51: 1387–1399.
Zhang J, Li XQ, Peng HW, Hai L, Erst AS, Jabbour F, Ortiz RDC, Xia FC*, Solits PS*, Soltis DE*, Wang W*. 2023. Evolutionary history of the Arctic flora. Nature Communications 14: 4021.
Li XQ, Xiang XG, Jabbour F, Hagen O, Ortiz RDC, Soltis PS, Soltis DE, Wang W*. 2022. Biotic colonization of subtropical East Asian caves through time. PNAS 119: e2207199119.
Hai LS, Li XQ, Zhang JB, Xiang XG, Li RQ, Jabbour F, Ortiz RDC, Lu AM, Chen ZD*, Wang W*. 2022. Assembly dynamics of East Asian subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests: New insights from the dominant Fagaceae trees. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 64: 2126–2134.
Li XQ, Xiang XG*, Zhang Q, Jabbour F, Ortiz RDC, Erst AS, Li ZY, Wang W*. 2022. Immigration dynamics of tropical and subtropical Southeast Asian limestone karst floras. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289: 20211308.
Xiang KL, Erst AS, Yang J, Peng HW, Ortiz RDC, Jabbour F, Erst TV, Wang W*. 2021, Biogeographic diversification of Eranthis (Ranunculaceae) reflects the geological history of the three great Asian plateaus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288: 20210281.