supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB26000000);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y2021082)to Gong-Le Shi;the German Research Foundation (DFG,Grant No.423862824)to Eva-Maria Sadowski。
Parrotia C.A.Meyer(Hamamelidaceae)is a relictual genus with only two extant species disjunctly distributed in the subtropical forests of East China and temperate forests of North Iran.Fossil records suggest that Parro...
The Southeast Asian rainforest region is extremely complex and biodiverse.Fossils have shown that paleo-Antarctic rainforest lineages(PARLs)now extant in Asia tracked the ever-wet conditions needed to survive and dive...
Many studies are based on the premise that, on a local scale, diversity is the result of ecological processes, whereas on a regional scale factors such as the topography, geology, hydrology, and historical and evoluti...