Wenna Ding
Editors, Plant Diversity
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Mountain biodiversity, biogeography, diversification, paleoecology
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Mountain biodiversity, biogeography, diversification, paleoecology
Email: dingwenna@xtbg.ac.cn
Selected publications:
Ding WN*, Ree RH*, May MR, Brun P, Skeels A, Pellissier L, Xing YW*, Zimmermann NE. 2025. The asynchronous rise of Northern Hemisphere alpine floras reveals general responses of biotic assembly to orogeny and climate change. Science Advances.11, eadz1888.
Ding WN*, Silvestro D, Onstein RE, Wu MX, Zhou ZK, Xing YW*. 2025. The stepwise rise of angiosperm-dominated terrestrial ecosystems. Biological Reviews. 100: 2131–2149.
Lu CQ #, Ding WN #, Xu W #, Li Q, He SW, Wu F, Dong WJ, Jin JQ, Dong F, Jiang XL, Wang K, Guo P, Murphy RW, Zhang YP*, Che J*. 2025. Contrasting evolutionary trajectories of terrestrial vertebrates in the Hengduan Mountains hotspot. National Science Review. 12: nwaf157
Yuan ZL, Yang GC, Ding WN, Brun P, Skeels A, Pellissier L, Zimmermann NE. 2025. The geography of connectivity shapes plant endemism hotspots. Ecography. 2025: e07514.
Sun X*, Ding WN*, Kuiper KF, Tian Y, Zhang Z, Guo R, Wijbrans JR. 2024. New early Oligocene age for the Mouding basin, southwestern China: Source and paleoenvironment. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 636: 111983.
Zhao J, Li S, Huang J, Ding W, Wu M, Su T, Farnsworth A, Valdes PJ, Chen L, Xing Y, et al. 2024. Heterogeneous occurrence of evergreen broad-leaved forests in East Asia: Evidence from plant fossils. Plant Diversity.
Silvestro D*, Bacon CD, Ding W, Zhang Q, Donoghue P, Antonelli A, Xing Y, 2021. Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plant. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5: 449–457.
Ding WN, Ree RH*, Spicer RA, Xing YW*. 2020. Ancient orogenic and monsoon-driven assembly of the world’s richest temperate alpine flora. Science 369: 578–581.
Ding WN, Huang J, Su T, Xing YW*, Zhou ZK*. 2018. An early Oligocene occurrence of the palaeoendemic genus Dipteronia (Sapindaceae) from Southwest China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 249: 16–23.
Ding WN, Kunzmann L, Su T*, Huang J, Zhou ZK*. 2018. A new fossil species of Cryptomeria (Cupressaceae) from the Rupelian of the Lühe Basin, Yunnan, East Asia: Implications for palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 248: 41–51.
Linnemann U, Su T, Kunzmann L, Spicer RA, Ding WN, Spicer TEV, Zieger J, Hofmann M, Moraweck K, Gärtner A, Gerdes A, Marko L, Zhang ST, Li SF, Tang H, Huang J, Mulch A, Mosbrugger V*,Zhou ZK*. 2018. New U–Pb dates show a Paleogene origin for the modern Asian biodiversity hot spots. Geology 46:3–6.
Zhou ZK*, Huang J, Ding WN, 2017. The impact of major geological events on Chinese flora (in Chinese). Biodiversity Science 25: 123-125.