Convergent Patterns of Karyotype Evolution Underlying Karyotype Uniformity in Conifers.

Karyotype diversity plays an important role in speciation and diversification. However, gymnosperms, particularly conifers, exhibit remarkable karyotype uniformity. To explore the evolutionary processes shaping karyotypes in gymnosperms, the karyotype evolutionary history is reconstructed through comparative genomic analyses.

Niche convergence and biogeographic history shape elevational tree community assembly in a subtropical mountain forest.

Niche convergence or conservatism have been proposed as essential mechanisms underlying elevational plant community assembly in tropical mountain ecosystems. Subtropical mountains, compared to tropical mountains, are likely to be shaped by a mixing of different geographic affinities of species and remain somehow unclear. Here, we used 31 0.

Distributional responses to climate change of two maple species in southern China.

Climate change is a major factor affecting biodiversity and species distribution, particularly of montane species. Species may respond to climate change by shifting their range to higher elevations. The southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and the Hengduan Mountains are considered as global biodiversity hotspots.

Does the critically endangered deserve top priority for conservation?

1.If a threatened plant has the problem of inaccurate species delimitation, its conservation programs that have previously been implemented might be debated.2.

(Ericaceae), a new species from northeastern Yunnan (China), based on morphological and genomic data.

Y.H. Chang, J.

[Plant diversity monitoring: A review].

Plant diversity monitoring is an essential basis for plant conservation and policy making, and is critical to the sustainable use and protection of biological resources. We reviewed the research progress on plant diversity monitoring, and proposed further research direction. Plant diversity monitoring is developing rapidly at a new situation, and enters a new era referring to intelligent, integration of macroscopic and microscopic, networked monitoring, big data, large-scale, multidisciplinary, all-dimensional, from species level to family level, community level or ecosystem level, and even the global level.

Two new species of (Gesneriaceae) from Southeastern Yunnan, China.

Two new species of Gesneriaceae, Lei Cai & Z.L.Dao, and Lei Cai & Z.

(Apocynaceae), a new species from northwestern Yunnan, China.

D.T.Liu & Z.