This work was supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2014CB954100), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31590822 and 31270268), the US National Science Foundation (Grant DEB-1208428), the Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists (2011T1S24), State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany (LSEB2011-10), and National Science & Technology Infra- structure - National Specimen Information Infrastructure (Grant No. 2005DKA21400).
Rosidae, a clade of approximately 90 000 species of angiosperms, exhibits remarkable morphological diversity and extraordinary heterogeneity in habitats and life forms. Resolving phylogenetic relationships within Rosi...
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31590822, 31500175, 31270268 and 40830209), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2014CB954100), Chinese Academy of Sciences International Institution Development Program (No. SAJC201315), Chinese Academy of Sciences External Cooperation Program of the Bureau of Interna- tional Co-operation (No. GJHZ201321), Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship to Douglas E. Soltis as a senior international scientist (Grant No. 2011T1S24), and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity (Grant No. SSTLAB-2014-04).
There has been increasing interest in integrating a regional tree of life with community assembly rules in the ecological research. This raises questions regarding the impacts of taxon sampling strategies at the regio...
This research was supported by The Scientific Research Fund of Fairylake Botanical Garden (the study of deep relationships in Apocynaceae phylogeny), Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity (Grant No. SSTLAB-2o14- o4), National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2014CB954100), Chinese Academy of Sciences International Institution Development Program (Grant No. SAJC201315), the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Council Fund (Grant No. KQC 201105310009A), Chinese Academy of Sciences External Cooperation Program of BIC (Grant No. GJHZ201321), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31500175).
Gentianales consist of Apocynaceae, Gelsemiaceae, Gentianaceae, Loganiaceae, and Rubiaceae, of which the majority are woody plants in tropical and subtropical areas. Despite extensive efforts in reconstructing the phy...
This study was financially supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31270237, 31570204, 31070167, 30670148, and J1310002), S & T Basic Work (Grant Nos. 2013FY112100, 2014FY210300), the National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2014CB954100), the Chinese Academy of Sciences Interna- tional Institution Development Program (Grant No. SAJC2O1315), the Chinese Academy of Sciences External Cooperation Program of BIC (Grant No. GJHZ201321), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists (Grant No. 2011TIS24), awarded to Prof. Zhi-Duan Chen et al. We would like to thank Drs. Jun Wen, Zhi-Duan Chen, Wei Wang, and Cai-Fei Zhang for critical and valuable comments on the improvement of our manu- script, and Yan-Chao Bi and Yu Han for data collection.
The sunflower family (Asteraceae) is the largest and the most diverse flowering plant family, comprising 24 000-30 000 species and 1600-1700 genera, in China, Asteraceae are also the largest family, with approximate...
The Analytic Network Process (ANP) is a multicriteria theory of measurement used to derive relative priority scales of absolute numbers from individual judgments (or from actual measurements normalized to a relative f...