supported by grants from the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(31570211);the Natural Sciences Foundation of Hunan Province(2019JJ40232);the Smithsonian Institution Barcode Network(SIBN);supported by the Natural History Research Experience(NHRE)Internship Program(REU Site,EAR-1062692,OCE-1560088)at the National Museum of Natural History。
Panax(Araliaceae)is a small genus containing several well known medicinally important species.It has a disjunct distribution between Eastern Asia and Eastern North America,with most species from eastern Asia,especiall...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Key International[regional]Cooperative Research Project)(31720103903);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB31000000);the Science and Technology Basic Resources Investigation Program of China(2019FY100900);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31270274 and 32270247);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2020M683391);Yunnan Postdoctoral Orientation Training Grant(E133021261 and E231740261);Chinese Academy of Sciences-The World Academy of Sciences(CAS-TWAS,2017)President's Fellowship for International PhD students.
The Millettioid/Phaseoloid (or the Millettioid) clade is a major lineage of the subfamily Papilionoideae (Fabaceae) that is poorly understood in terms of its diversification and biogeographic history. To fill this gap...
supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFF0702004);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32270436);Natural Science Foundation of the Hubei Province(2023AFA015).
The most significant driver of adaptive radiation in the New World leaf-nosed bats(Phyllostomidae)is their remarkably diverse feeding habits,yet there remains a notable scarcity of studies addressing the genetic under...
Funding support from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion(Projects CGL2015-66703-PMINECO/FEDER,UEand PID2019-105583GB-C21);the Catalan government("Ajuts a grups consolidats"2017-SGR116 and 2021-SGR00315)is also gratefully acknowledged.
Understanding the richness and diversification processes in the Mediterranean basin requires both knowledge of the current environmental complexity and paleogeographic and paleoclimate events and information from stud...
support from the SYNTHESYS Project(http://www.synthesys.info/),which is financed by the European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7“Capacities”Program to J.E.C.O.,from an IAPT Research Grant to J.E.C.O.,the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst(DAAD project no.9169087o);J.E.C.0.and A.N.M.-R.,and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research(BMBF project no.16GWo12oK)to A.N.M.-R.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
The general dynamic model(GDM)of oceanic island biogeography views oceanic islands predominantly as sinks rather than sources of dispersing lineages.To test this,we conducted a biogeographic analysis of a highly succe...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30830011,31461123001,31400194).
Geographical variation in species richness in plant groups is determined by the interplay between historical,evolutionary,and ecological processes.However,the processes underlying the striking disparity in species ric...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31825005);Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Guangzhou,GML2019ZDo408);the Institution of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences(ISEE2020YBo1).
Leaf water storage capacity and osmotic strength are important traits enabling species to adapt to environments that are often moisture limited.However,whether these drought tolerance traits are correlated with the sp...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31825005 and 32001108);the Institution of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences(ISEE2020YB01).
Diversification rates are critically important for understanding patterns of species richness among clades.However,the effects of climatic niche width on plant diversification rates remain to be elucidated.Based on th...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(grant XDB31000000);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(grant 2019QZKK0502)and further by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grants 31590821 and 91731301);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(grants YJ201936,SCU2019D013,and 2020SCUNL20).
Many species of the subfamily Polygonoideae are economically important.However,phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic treatments of these species remain disputed.In this study,we used highly orthologous nuclear gene...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31961133027,31800376,42050410324,31971486);Natural Science Foundation from Science and Technology Department of Liaoning Province(2020-BS-021);the Top-notch young talents project of Liaoning Province“Xing Liao Talents"Project(XLYC1907177);Mat-thew K.Lau was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative(PIFI,2019PC0036)。
Functional traits impact species interactions,community composition,and ecosystem functioning.However,few studies have focused on the diversification and phylogenetic correlation of multiple functional traits over geo...