support was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41871041).
Disjunct distribution is a key issue in biogeography and ecology,but it is often difficult to determine the relative roles of dispersal vs.vicariance in disjunctions.We studied the phylogeographic pattern of the monot...
grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Yunnan joint fund to support key projects(U1802232);the Major Program of NSFC(31590823);NSFC(32170215);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(2019382);the Young Academic and Technical Leader Raising Foundation of Yunnan Province(2019HB039);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(2019QZKK0502);the CAS"Light of West China"Program。
A new species,Oreocharis xieyongii T.Deng,D.G.Zhang&H.Sun,from Hunan Province,central China,is described.The combination of purple zygomorphic corolla with longer adaxial lobes and exserted stamens defines the species...
This work was supported by grants from the Backbone Talents Project of Wuhan Botanical Garden,CAS(Y655301M01);from the Si no-Africa Joint Research Center,CAS(SAJC201614)。
Streptocarpus ionanthus(Gesneriaceae)is endemic to Tanzania and Kenya,distributed in Tanga,Morogoro,and Kilifi regions.The species houses nine subspecies characterized by complex morphotypes and poorly understood evol...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Guangdong Natural Science Foundation Joint Project (U1501211) and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(DB31010000).
The karst landform in southern China is renowned for its high levels of species diversity and endemism.Clobally,karst ecosystems are under threat from unsustainable anthropogenic disturbance and climate changes and ar...
STS Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KFJ-3W-No1-22);Guangxi Natural Science Foundation(2017GXNSFAA198006);National Natural Science Foundation(31860047);Foundation of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain(19-050-6);Guilin Science&Technology Foundation(20180107-6);the Basal Research Fund of GXIB(Guizhiye20009);21st Talent project of“Ten-Hundred-Thousand”in Guangxi and the Key Science&Technology Research and Development Project of Guangxi(Guike AB16380053).
A new species of Gesneriaceae,Primulina titan,is described and photographed from northern Guangxi,China.It resembles P.hunanensis,but can be distinguished by combined morphological characters of leaf,bract,corolla,sta...
This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31530003 and 31170198).
A widely held hypothesis in evolution is that adaptive specialization constrains the potential direction of future evolutionary change and thus may be irreversible, also known as Dollo's law. However, this hypothesis ...