Shengxiang YU
Associate Professor
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, P. R. of China.
Email: yushengxiang@ibcas.ac.cn
EDUCATION
2003-2008 Ph.D. in Botany Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1999-2003 B.S. in Biology School of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University
RESEARCH FOCUS
My current research interests are taxonomics and systematics of Balsaminaceae and Rosaceae, Hydrangeaceae and other important flowering plants, including reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships using a range of experimental approaches, particularly DNA and morphological data, and investigation of temporal and spatial patterns of the diversification by using an integration of phylogenetic, biogeographic and molecular dating methods. Meanwhile, my current research work includes exploring the geographical distribution patterns and conservation priorities of plant diversity in China, as well as evaluation of invasion risk and early warning analysis of invasive alien plants.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Xudong Yang, Bo Liu, Rainer W. Bussmann, Xiao Guan, Weibin Xu, Tiantian Xue, Changying Xia, Jin Li, Hong Jiang, Lei Wu, Shengxiang Yu*. Integrated plant diversity hotspots and long-term stable conservation strategies in the unique karst area of southern China under global climate change. Forest Ecology and Management, 498: 119540.
2. Lian Lian, Jianyong Shen, Rosa Del C. Ortiz, Shengxiang Yu, Zhiduan Chen, Wei Wang. 2021. Phylogenetic analyses and modelling distributions guide conservation of a critically endangered liana species, Eleutharrhena macrocarpa (Menispermaceae). Taxon, 00: 1–15.
3. Shengxiang Yu*, Xiaohong Fan, Sudhindra R. Gadagkar, Thomas P. Albright, Jin Li, Tiantian Xue, Han Xu, Ying Huang, Xiuling Shao, Wei Ding, Minghua Zhou, Changsong Hu, Zhenyu Li. 2020. Global ore trade is an important gateway for non-native species: A case study of alien plants in Chinese ports. Diversity and Distributions, 26: 1409–1420.
4. Tian-Tian Xue, Changying Xia, Magnus Lidén, Weibin Xu, Zhao-Cen Lu, Hailing Chen, Shuwan Li, Shengxiang Yu*. 2020. Ignored Biodiversity in Acid Soil Islands in Karst Areas, South China: Impatiens longlinensis (Balsaminaceae), a New Critically Endangered Species. Systematic Botany, 45: 891–899.
5. Ying Qin, Changying Xia, Xudong Yang, Pramote Triboun, Hoang Thanh Son, Xuexue Wu, Zixin Pei, Shengxiang Yu*. Impatiens macrantha (Balsaminaceae) sp. nov., a new species from limestone areas in Guangxi, China. Nordic Journal of Botany, e02784.
6. Changying Xia, R. Gadagkar Sudhindra, Xinlei Zhao, Truong Van Do, Xiangyun Zhu, Ying Qin, Hongping Deng, Shengxiang Yu*. Impatiens maculifera sp. nov. (Balsaminaceae) Yunnan, China. Nordic Journal of Botany, 37: e02422.
7. Changying Xia, Sudhindra R Gadagkar, Jin Li, Hongping Deng, Shengxiang Yu*. 2019. Impatiens damingensis (Balsaminaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China. Phytotaxa, 399(3): 239.
8. Bo Liu, Mei Zhang, W. Rainer Bussmann, Huiming Liu, Yingying Liu, Yude Peng, KuilingZu, Yimin Zhao, Zhengbo Liu, Shengxiang Yu*. 2018. Species richness and conservation gap analysis of karst areas:A case study of vascular plants from Guizhou, China. Global Ecology and Conservation, 16: e00460.
9. Shengxiang Yu*, Sudhindra R. Gadagkar, Daniel Potter, Dongxian Xu, Mei Zhang, Zhenyu Li. 2018. Phylogeny of Spiraea (Rosaceae) based on plastid and nuclear molecular data: Implications for morphological character evolution and systematics. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 34: 109–119.
10.Shengdan Wu, Linjing Zhang*, Lin Li, Shengxiang Yu, Zhiduan Chen,Wei Wang*. 2018. Insights into the historical assembly of global dryland floras: the diversification of Zygophyllaceae. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18: 166.
11. Shengxiang Yu, Steven B. Janssens, Xiangyun Zhu, Magnus Liden, Tiangang Gao and Wei Wang*. 2016. Phylogeny of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae): integrating molecular and morphological evidence into a new classification. Cladistics, 32: 179–197.
12. Andrey S. Erst, Wang Wei, Shengxiang Yu, Kunli Xiang, Dmitry N. Shaulo, Sergey Smirnov, Maria Kushunina, Alexander Sukhorukov, Marcin Nobis. 2017. Two new species and four new records of Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) from China. Phytotaxa, 316 (2): 121–137.
13. Kunli Xiang, Liang Zhao, Andrey S. Erst, Shengxiang Yu, Florian Jabbour, Wei Wang. 2017. Amolecular phylogeny of Dichocarpum (Ranunculaceae): Implications foreastern Asian biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107: 594–604.
14. Wei Wang*, Rosa Del C. Ortiz, Frederic M. B. Jacques, Shih Wen Chung, Yang Liu, Xiaoguo Xiang, Shengxiang Yu, Chen Zhiduan. 2017. New insights into the phylogeny of Burasaieae (Menispermaceae) with the recognition of a new genus and emphasis on the southern Taiwanese and mainland Chinese disjunction. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 109: 11–20.
15. Kunli Xiang, Liang Zhao, Andrey S.Erst, Shengxiang Yu, Florian Jabbour, Wei Wang*. 2017. A molecular phylogeny of Dichocarpum (Ranunculaceae): Implications for eastern Asian biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107: 594–604.
16. Hui Guo, Caifei Zhang, Linjing Zhang, Shengxiang Yu*. 2016. Impatiens guiqingensis (Balsaminaceae), a new species from Gansu, China. Phytotaxa, 247(3): 229–233.
17. Bo Ding, Sudhindra R. Gadagkar, Jiacai Wang, Mei Zhang, Hui Guo, Shengxiang Yu*. 2016. Impatiens wawuensis (Balsaminaceae): a new species from Sichuan, China. Phytotaxa, 273(4): 293–298.
18. Hui Guo, Lai Wei, Jiachen Hao, Yufen Du, Linjing Zhang, Shengxiang Yu*. 2016. Impatiens occultans (Balsaminaceae), a newly recorded species from Xizang, China, and its phylogenetic position. Phytotaxa, 275(1): 062–068.
19.Wei Wang*, Li Lin, Xiaoguo Xiang, Rosa Del C. Ortiz, Yang Liu, Kunli Xiang, Shengxiang Yu, Yaowu Xing, Zhiduan Chen*. 2016. The rise of angiosperm-dominated herbaceous floras: Insights from Ranunculaceae. Scientific Reports, 6: 27259.
20. Kunli Xiang, Shengdan Wu, Shengxiang Yu, Yang Liu, Florian Jabbour, Andrey S. Erst, Liang Zhao, Wei Wang*, Zhiduan Chen. 2016. The first comprehensive phylogeny of Coptis (Ranunculaceae) and its implications for character evolution and classification. PLoS One, 11: e0153127.
21. Yunhong Tan, Yannan Liu, Hong Jiang, Xinxin Zhu, Jun Zhang, Shengxiang Yu*. 2015. Impatiens pandurata (Balsaminaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China. Botanical Studies, 56: 29.
22. Lei Zeng, Yannan Liu, Rajib Gogoi, Linjing Zhang*, ShengXiang Yu*. 2015. Impatiens tianlinensis (Balsaminaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China. Phytotaxa, 227(3): 253–260.
23. Shengdan Wu, Li Lin, Honglei Li, Shengxiang Yu, Linjing Zhang*, Wei Wang*. 2015. Evolution of Asian interior arid-zone biota: Evidence from the diversification of Asian Zygophyllum (Zygophyllaceae). PLoS One, 10: e013869.
24. Lirong Zhang, Zhixiang Zhang, Rui Meng, Shengxiang Yu*. 2014. Impatiens pterocaulis sp nov (Balsaminaceae) from Guangxi, China. Nordic Journal of Botany, 32(1): 64–69.
25.Wei Wang, Yang Liu, Shengxiang Yu, Tianggang Gao, ZhiDuan Chen. 2013. Gymnaconitum, a new genus of Ranunculaceae endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Taxon, 62, 713–722.
26. Shengxiang Yu*, Magnus Leden, Baocai Han, Xiaoxia Zhang. 2013. Impatiens lixianensis, a new species of Balsaminaceae from Sichuan, China. Phytotaxa, 115: 25–30.
27. Yuantong Hou, Xiuren Zhou, Shengxiang Yu*. 2011. Impatiens parvisepala, a new species of Balsaminaceae from Guangxi, China. Annales Botanici Fennici, 48: 98-102.
28. Shengxiang Yu, Xiuren Zhou*, Guifang Xu, Li Meng, Haiyan Bi. 2010. Floral development in Impatiens chishuiensis (Balsaminaceae): formation of two well-developed anterolateral sepals and four carpels. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 286: 21–26.
29. Haiyan Bi, Yuantong Hou, Xiuren Zhou, Shengxiang Yu*. 2010. Impatiens pingxiangensis (Balsaminaceae), a new species from the limestone areas in Guangxi, China. Nordic Journal of Botany, 28: 1–5.
30. Wei Wang, Hao Hu, Xiaoguo Xiang, Shengxiang Yu, Zhiduan Chen. 2010. Phylogenetic placements of Calathodes and Megaleranthis (Ranunculaceae): Evidence from molecular and morphological data. Taxon, 59: 1712–1720.
31. Shengxiang Yu, Xiuren Zhou, Yilin Chen, Haining Qin*.2009. Impatiens cornutisepala (Balsaminaceae), a New Species from Guangxi, China. Novon. 19: 562–566.
32. Shengxiang Yu, Yuantong Hou, Yilin Chen, Haining Qin*. 2009. Impatiens lobulifera (Balsaminaceae), a new species from limestone areas in Guangxi, China. Botanical Studies, 50: 365–370.
33. Haiyan Bi, Yuantong Hou, Xiuren Zhou, Shengxiang Yu*. 2009. Impatiens chashanensis sp. nov.（Balsaminaceae）from Sichuan, China. Nordic Journal of Botany, 27: 372–375.