Zhekun Zhou
Editors, Plant Diversity
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Paleobotany, paleoecology, plant community ecology, plant biodiversity
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Paleobotany, paleoecology, plant community ecology, plant biodiversity
Title: Dr. and Professor
Email: zhouzk@xtbg.ac.cn
Web-link of Research Group: http://xtbg.cas.cn/2022/kywzq/prg/uwkyc/
Selected publications:
Zhao J, Li S，Huang J, Ding W，Wu M， Su T, Farnsworth A， Valdes P, Chen L, Xing Y., Zhou Z*, 2025. Heterogeneous occurrence of evergreen broad-leaved forests in East Asia: Evidence from plant fossils，Plant Diversity, 42:1-12
Zhou Z*, Liu J, Chen L, Spicer R A, Li S, Huang J, Zhang S, Huang Y, Jia L, Hu J, Su T. 2023. Cenozoic plants from Tibet: An extraordinary decade of discovery, understanding and implications. Science China Earth Sciences, 66(2): 205–226
Li, S.-F., Valdes, P.J., Farnsworth A., Barnard T.D., Su T., Lunt D.J., Spicer R.A., Liu J., Deng, W.-Y.-D., Huang, J., Ridgwell H.A., Chen L.-L., Zhou, Z.-K*. 2021. Orographic evolution of northern Tibet shaped vegetation and plant diversity in eastern Asia. Science Advances 7(5), eabc7741
Su, T*., Spicer, R.A., Wu, F.-X., Farnsworth, A., Huang, J., Deng, T., Ding., L., Deng, W.-Y.-D., Huang, Y.-J., Hughes, A., Jia, L.-B., Jin, J.-H., Li, S.-f., Liang, S.-Q., Liu, J., Liu, X.-Y., Sherlock, S., Spicer, T., Srivastava, G., Tang, H., Valdes, P.J., Wang, T.-X., Widdowson, M., Wu, M.-X., Xing, Y.-W., Xu, C.-L., Yang, J., Zhang, S.-T., Zhang, X.-W., Zhao, F., Zhou, Z.-K*. 2020. A middle Eocene lowland humid subtropical ‘Shangri-La’ ecosystem in central Tibet. PNAS, 117（52）：32989-32995
Zhou Z-K* Wang T, Huang J, Liu J, Deng W, Li S, Deng C, Su T. 2020. Fossil leaves of Berhamniphyllum (Rhamnaceae) from Markam, Tibet and their biogeographic implications. Science China Earth Sciences, 63: 24–234
Su T*, Farnsworth A, Spicer RA, Huang J, Wu F-X, Liu J, Li S-F, Xing Y-W, Huang Y-J, Deng W-Y-D, Tang H, Xu C-L, Zhao F, Srivastava G, Valdes PJ, Deng T, Zhou Z-K*, 2019. No high Tibetan Plateau until the Neogene. Science Advances, 5:eaav2189.
Su, T*., Spicer, R.A., Li, S.-H., Xu, H., Huang, J., Sherlock, S., Huang, Y.-J., Li, S.-F., Wang, L., Jia, L.-B., Deng, W.-Y.-D., Liu, J., Deng, C.-L., Zhang, S.-T., Valdes, P.J., Zhou, Z.-K*., 2019. Uplift, climate and biotic changes at the Eocene–Oligocene transition in south-eastern Tibet. National Science Review 6, 495-504.
Zhou Z-K 2013. Origin and Development of the Chinese Flora. In Hong D Y and Blackmore (editors ) Plants of China. Science Press Beijing, 87-102
Zhou Z-K*, Yang Qing-Song, Xia Ke, 2007. Fossils of Quercus sect. Heterobalanus can help explain the uplift of the Himalayas. Chinese Science Bulletin, 52 (2): 238-247
吴征镒、周浙昆、孙航、李德铢、彭华，2006。 中国种子植物区系的起源与演化。云南科技出版社，2006 昆明
Zhou Z-K, M. G. Gilbert, 2003. Moraceae. In Wu Z. Y. and P. Raven (eds.) Flora of China Volume 5: 21-73
Zhou Z-K*, W Crepet, K Nixon, 2001. The earliest fossil evidence of the Hamamelidaceae: Late Cretaceous (Turonian) Inflorescences and fruits of Altingioideae. Am. J. Bot., 88 (5): 753-766.
Zhou Zhe-Kun, M. G. Gilbert, 2003. Moraceae. In Wu Z. Y. and P. Raven (eds.) Flora of China Volume 5: 21-73.
Zhou Zhe-Kun, W Crepet, K Nixon, 2001. The earliest fossil evidence of the Hamamelidaceae: Late Cretaceous (Turonian) Inflorescences and fruits of Altingioideae. Am. J. Bot., 88 (5): 753-766.
Sun Ge, D. Dilcher, Zheng Shao-Lin, Zhou Zhe-Kun, 1998. In Search of the First Flower: A Jurassic Angiosperm, Archaefructus, from Northeast China. Science, 282 (5394): 1601-1695