Nie Zelong
Associate Professor
Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography
Kunming Institute of Botany
China
Biography
Nie Zelong, Associate Professor of Botany. Major research has been focused on molecular systematics and intercontinental disjunctions of flowering plants in the Northern Hemisphere as well as cytogeography on the alpine flora and plants in the Hengduan Mountains and the Himalayan regions. Taxa studied related to molecular systematics and biogeographic disjunctions in the Northern Hemisphere include Symplocarpus and Lysichiton (Araceae), Sassafras (Lauraceae), Kelloggia, Mitchella and Paederia (Rubiaceae), Phryma (Phrymaceae), Toxicodendron (Anacardiaceae), Anaphalis (Asteraceae), Parthenocissus and Ampelopsis (Vitaceae), and Magnoliaceae. I have been conducting cytogeographic studies on the Hengduan Mountains, with the case study of Tibetia, Leontopodium, Anaphalis from this area.
Research Interest
Eastern Asian – North American Disjunction, Global Biogeography, Polyploidy in the Hengduan Moutains and Tibetan Plateau
Publications
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Liu XL, Wen J, Nie ZL, Johnson G, Liang ZS, Chang ZY. Polyphyly of the Padus group of Prunus (Rosaceae) and the evolution of biogeographic disjunctions between eastern Asia and eastern North America. Journal of plant research. 2013 May 1;126(3):351-61.
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Nie ZL, Funk V, Sun H, Deng T, Meng Y, Wen J. Molecular phylogeny of Anaphalis (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) with biogeographic implications in the Northern Hemisphere. Journal of plant research. 2013 Jan 1;126(1):17-32.
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Nie ZL, Deng T, Meng Y, Sun H, Wen J. Post-Boreotropical dispersals explain the pantropical disjunction in Paederia (Rubiaceae). Annals of botany. 2013 Mar 10;111(5):873-86.
