Plant molecular phylogeography in China and adjacent regions: tracing the genetic imprints of Quaternary climate and environmental change in the world's most …

YX Qiu, CX Fu, HP Comes - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2011 - Elsevier
The Sino-Japanese Floristic Region (SJFR) of East Asia harbors the most diverse of the
world's temperate flora, and was the most important glacial refuge for its Tertiary …

Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography

DG Gavin, MC Fitzpatrick, PF Gugger… - New …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Climate refugia, locations where taxa survive periods of regionally adverse climate, are
thought to be critical for maintaining biodiversity through the glacial–interglacial climate …

Evolutionary diversifications of plants on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

J Wen, JQ Zhang, ZL Nie, Y Zhong, H Sun - Frontiers in genetics, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is the highest and one of the most extensive plateaus in
the world. Phylogenetic, phylogeographic, and ecological studies support plant …

[HTML][HTML] The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands–Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem: Kobresia …

G Miehe, PM Schleuss, E Seeber, W Babel… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract With 450,000 km 2 Kobresia (syn. Carex) pygmaea dominated pastures in the
eastern Tibetan highlands are the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem forming a …

Evolutionary origin of species diversity on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

KS Mao, Y Wang, JQ Liu - Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) sensu lato (sl) houses an exceptional species
diversity in Asia. To develop a comprehensive understanding of species diversity in this …

[HTML][HTML] Origins and evolution of plant diversity in the Hengduan Mountains, China

H Sun, J Zhang, T Deng, DE Boufford - Plant Diversity, 2017 - Elsevier
The Hengduan Mountains region (HDM) in southwest China, one of the earth's 34
biodiversity hotspots, is characterized by its unique geology, dramatic topography, a climate …

Mountains as evolutionary arenas: patterns, emerging approaches, paradigm shifts, and their implications for plant phylogeographic research in the Tibeto-Himalayan …

AN Muellner-Riehl - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recently, the “mountain-geobiodiversity hypothesis”(MGH) was proposed as a key concept
for explaining the high levels of biodiversity found in mountain systems of the Tibeto …

Phylogeographic studies of plants in China: advances in the past and directions in the future

JQ LIU, YS SUN, XJ GE, LM GAO… - Journal of Systematics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogeography has been one major focus of evolutionary biology in recent years, with
many important advances in Chinese species. In this issue, we collected 11 …

History and evolution of alpine plants endemic to the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau: Aconitum gymnandrum (Ranunculaceae)

L Wang, RJ Abbott, WEI Zheng, P Chen… - Molecular …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
How Quaternary climatic oscillations affected range distributions and intraspecific
divergence of alpine plants on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau (QTP) remains largely unknown …

Evolutionary history and underlying adaptation of alpine plants on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

JQ LIU, YW DUAN, G Hao, XJ GE… - Journal of Systematics …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
As the highest and largest plateau in the world, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, with its numerous
endemic species, is one of the important alpine biodiversity hotspots. Only recently have the …