Yunpeng Liu
Junior Editors, Plant Diversity
Institute of Botany, CAS, Beijing, China
Area of expertise: Forest Ecology, Biological Invasion, Biodiversity Conservation
Institute of Botany, CAS, Beijing, China
Area of expertise: Forest Ecology, Biological Invasion, Biodiversity Conservation
Title: professor
Email: yunpeng.liu@ibcas.ac.cn
Selected publications (no more than 15):
Liu, Yunpeng*, Samuel M. Scheiner, J. Aaron Hogan, Matthew B. Thomas, Pamela S. Soltis, Robert P. Guralnick, Douglas E. Soltis*, and Jeremy W. Lichstein. Nonnative tree invaders lead to declines in native tree species richness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122, no. 17 (2025): e2424908122.
Liu, Yunpeng*, Hogan, J Aaron; Lichstein, Jeremy W; Guralnick, Robert P; Soltis, Douglas E; Soltis*, Pamela S; Scheiner, Samuel M; (2024) Biodiversity and productivity in eastern US forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(14): e2314231121
Liu, Yunpeng, Xu, Xiaoting; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Rahbek, Carsten*; Wang, Zhiheng*; (2024) Reply to: Reassessing data quality underlying the recently updated floristic map of the world. Nature communications, 15(1): 3673
Liu, Yunpeng, Xu, Xiaoting; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Pellissier, Loic; Borregaard, Michael K; Shrestha, Nawal; Su, Xiangyan; Luo, Ao; Zimmermann, Niklaus E; Rahbek, Carsten*; Wang, Zhiheng*; (2023) An updated floristic map of the world. Nature Communications, 14(1): 2990
Liu, Yunpeng*, John J. Wiens, Ao Luo, Xiaoting Xu, Dimitar Dimitrov, Xiangyan Su, Yichao Li et al. Global Patterns of Climatic Niche Evolution in Angiosperms. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34, no. 5 (2025): e70049.
Liu, Yunpeng*; Heberling, J Mason; Wang, Zhiheng; Soltis, Douglas E; Soltis, Pamela S; (2023) Niche unfilling dominates the naturalization of species from intercontinentally disjunct genera. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(11): 1977-1990
Liu, Y.*, John T. Kartesz, Misako Nishino, Diane J. E. Sturgeon1, Matthew B. Thomas. (2025) An Updated Environmental Resistance Model for Predicting the Spread of Invasive Species. Journal of Biogeography, 0:1-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15089
Liu, Yunpeng; Su, Xiangyan; Shrestha, Nawal; Xu, Xiaoting; Wang, Siyang; Li, Yaoqi; Wang, Qinggang; Sandanov, Denis; Wang, Zhiheng*; (2019) Effects of contemporary environment and Quaternary climate change on drylands plant diversity differ between growth forms. Ecography, 42(2): 334-345
Liu, Yunpeng; Shen, Zehao; Wang, Qinggang; Su, Xiangyan; Zhang, Wanjun; Shrestha, Nawal; Xu, Xiaoting; Wang, Zhiheng*; (2017) Determinants of richness patterns differ between rare and common species: implications for Gesneriaceae conservation in China. Diversity and Distributions, 23(3): 235-246
Zhang, Qian; Liu, Yun-Peng (co-first); Luo, Fang-Li; Dong, Bi-Cheng; Yu, Fei-Hai; (2019) Does species richness affect the growth and water quality of submerged macrophyte assemblages?. Aquatic botany, 153: 51-57