Yadong Zhou
Junior Editors, Plant Diversity
Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy, phylogeny, biodiversity, and macroecology
Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy, phylogeny, biodiversity, and macroecology
Title: Dr./Associate Professor
Email: ydzhou@ncu.edu.cn
Web-link of Research Group: http://bio.ncu.edu.cn/szdw/zzjs/jslb/40ec0571d8ca4c858987841da8fd28e8.htm https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhou-Yadong-2
Selected publications (no more than 15):
Yangyang Liu, Hong Qian, Yadong Zhou*. 2025. Environmental variables shape the deviation of phylogenetic relatedness between terrestrial and aquatic herbaceous angiosperms across China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 18: rtaf034. (Corresponding author)
Yangyang Liu, Hong Qian, Yadong Zhou*. 2025. Inconsistent geographical patterns of phylogenetic relatedness among different plant growth forms: A case study in woody and herbaceous angiosperms of China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 63(3): 767–777. (Corresponding author)
Zhihao Fu, Qinghua Zhan, Jonathan Lenoir, Shengwei Wang, Hong Qian, Jiongming Yang, Wenxuan Sun, Yuvenalis Morara Mbuni, Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau, Guangwan Hu, Xue Yan, Qingfeng Wang, Si-Chong Chen,*, Yadong Zhou*. 2024. Climate change drives plant diversity attrition at the summit of Mount Kenya. New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20344. (Co-corresponding author)
Yigang Li, Fan Liu, Yadong Zhou*, Xing Liu, Qingfeng Wang. 2024. Geographic patterns and environmental correlates of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional β-diversity of wetland plants in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Ecological Indicators, 160: 111889. (Corresponding author)
Yadong Zhou*, Hong Qian, Yi Jin, Keyan Xiao, Xue Yan, Qingfeng Wang*. 2023. Geographic patterns of taxonomic and phylogenetic β-diversity of aquatic angiosperms in China. Plant Diversity, 45(2): 177-184. (First author and co-corresponding author)
Yadong Zhou, Hong Qian, Keyan Xiao, Qingfeng Wang, Xue Yan*. 2023. Geographic patterns and environmental correlates of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of aquatic plants in China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 61(6): 979-989. (First author)
Yadong Zhou, Qinghua Zhang, Keyan Xiao, Xue Yan*. 2022. Latitudinal gradients of α- and β-diversity of aquatic plant communities across eastern China: Helophytes and hydrophytes show inconsistent patterns. Ecological Indicators, 144: 109457. (First author)
Yadong Zhou#, Keyan Xiao#, Sichong Chen, Xing Liu, Qingfeng Wang*, Xue Yan*. 2022. Altitudinal diversity of aquatic plants in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Freshwater Biology, 67: 709–719. (Co-first author)
Waigwa A. Njogu, Brian Njoroge Mwangi, Gituru R. Wahiti, Fred Omengo, Yadong Zhou*, Qingfeng Wang. 2021. Variation of morphological and leaf stoichiometric traits of two endemic species along the elevation gradient of Mount Kenya, East Africa. Journal of Plant Ecology, 13: 785–792. (Corresponding author)
Yadong Zhou#, Biyansa Hirpo Boru#, Shengwei Wang#, Qingfeng Wang*. 2021. Species richness and phylogenetic diversity of different growth forms of angiosperms across a biodiversity hotspot in the horn of Africa. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 59(1): 141–150. (Co-first author)
Junnan Wan, Ndungu J. Mbari, Shengwei Wang, Bing Liu, Brian N. Mwangi, Jean R.E. Rasoarahona, Haiping Xin, Yadong Zhou*, Qingfeng Wang*. 2021. Modeling impacts of climate change on the potential distribution of six endemic baobab species in Madagascar. Plant Diversity, 43: 117–124. (Co-corresponding author)
Shengwei Wang, Yadong Zhou*, Paul Mutuku Musili, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. Inventory incompleteness and collecting priority on the plant diversity in tropical East Africa. Biological Conservation, 241: 108313. (Corresponding author)
Shengwei Wang, Biyansa Hirpo Boru, Antony Waigwa Njogu, Anne Christine Ochola, Guangwan Hu, Yadong Zhou*, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. Floristic composition and endemism pattern of vascular plants in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 58: 33–42. (Corresponding author)