Evolutionary diversifications of plants on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

J Wen, JQ Zhang, ZL Nie, Y Zhong, H Sun - Frontiers in genetics, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is the highest and one of the most extensive plateaus in
the world. Phylogenetic, phylogeographic, and ecological studies support plant …

Mountains as evolutionary arenas: patterns, emerging approaches, paradigm shifts, and their implications for plant phylogeographic research in the Tibeto-Himalayan …

AN Muellner-Riehl - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recently, the “mountain-geobiodiversity hypothesis”(MGH) was proposed as a key concept
for explaining the high levels of biodiversity found in mountain systems of the Tibeto …

Evolutionary history and underlying adaptation of alpine plants on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

JQ LIU, YW DUAN, G Hao, XJ GE… - Journal of Systematics …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
As the highest and largest plateau in the world, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, with its numerous
endemic species, is one of the important alpine biodiversity hotspots. Only recently have the …

Response to climate change of montane herbaceous plants in the genus Rhodiola predicted by ecological niche modelling

J You, X Qin, S Ranjitkar, SC Lougheed, M Wang… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Climate change profoundly influences species distributions. These effects are evident in
poleward latitudinal range shifts for many taxa, and upward altitudinal range shifts for alpine …

Phylogeography of Quercus aquifolioides provides novel insights into the Neogene history of a major global hotspot of plant diversity in south‐west China

FK Du, M Hou, W Wang, K Mao… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Hotspots of biodiversity are often associated with areas that have undergone orogenic
activity during recent geological history. Mountain uplifts are known to catalyse species …

Warm–cold colonization: response of oaks to uplift of the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains

HH Meng, T Su, XY Gao, J Li, XL Jiang… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Clarifying the relationship between distribution patterns of organisms and geological events
is critical to understanding the impact of environmental changes on organismal evolution …

Existence of biogeographic barriers for the long-term Neogene–Quaternary divergence and differentiation of Koenigia forrestii in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains

HK Rana, SK Rana, D Luo, H Sun - Botanical Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The prolonged interplay between orographic and climatic changes creates biogeographic
barriers, resulting in the allopatric differentiation of plants in the Himalaya–Hengduan …

Range wide molecular data and niche modeling revealed the Pleistocene history of a global invader (Halyomorpha halys)

GP Zhu, Z Ye, J Du, DL Zhang, Y Zhen, C Zheng… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Invasive species' Pleistocene history contains much information on its present population
structure, dispersability and adaptability. In this study, the Pleistocene history of a global …

Population genomic analysis reveals that homoploid hybrid speciation can be a lengthy process

D Ru, Y Sun, D Wang, Y Chen, T Wang, Q Hu… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
An increasing number of species are thought to have originated by homoploid hybrid
speciation (HHS), but in only a handful of cases are details of the process known. A previous …

Impact of Past and Future Climate Change on the Potential Distribution of an Endangered Montane Shrub Lonicera oblata and Its Conservation Implications

YM Wu, XL Shen, L Tong, FW Lei, XY Mu, ZX Zhang - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change is an important driver of biodiversity patterns and species distributions,
understanding how organisms respond to climate change will shed light on the conservation …