Research Group of Plant Systematics & Evolutionary Biology

Research Areas

Phylogeny, biogeography, and conservation biology (mainly focus on Fagaceae and relict species).

Current research topics

1. Phylogeny, biogeography, and conservation biology of Fagaceae and Juglandaceae.

2. The conservation biogeography of relict species, focus on Eastern Asia versus Western Asia/Southern Europe disjunct pattern.

3. Biodiversity of Mountain Cloud Forests (MCF).

4. How environment driven plant functional traits and species evolution?

Team Members

Principal Investigator (Adjunct Professor)  Gregor Kozlowski, Ph.D. Phone: +41 26 300 88 42 Lab: +86-021-37792288 ext. 512 E-mail: gregor.kozlowski@unifr.ch  Address: (1) Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, 3888 Chenhua Road, Songjiang, Shanghai, 201602, China; (2) Department of Biology and Botanic Garden, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musee 10, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.

Education Background

Habilitation: 2009, Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

PhD: 1997, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

MSc: 1991, Biology, University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland
Experience
2020-Current: Director, Botanic Garden of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

2005-Current: Principal Investigator, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

2002-Current: Herbarium Curator, Natural History Museum Fribourg (NHMF), Switzerland.

1998-2004: Principal Investigator, Institute of Evolutionary Botany, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

1992–1997: Research Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Swiss webpage: https://www.zelkova.ch/

Education Background

Ph.D.: 2020.1, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

MSc: 2012.7, Biology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Bachelor: 2009.7, Biology, Ludong University, China.

Experience

2012-Current: Research assistant, Associate Professor, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, China.

2018.7-2018.12: Junior Researcher, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Staffs

	Si-Si Zheng (MS) Lab Technician Tel: 021-37792288-512 Speciality: Laboratory Technique Email: zhengsisi1228@163.com		Yu Li (MS) Research Assistant Tel: 021-37792288-915 Speciality: Genome Email: liyu980625@163.com
	Liang-Hai Yang (MS) Research Assistant Tel: 021-37792288-915 Speciality: Seeds Email: 15150595752@163.com

Current Masters

The class of 2024: Hui-Xia Li (co-culture with Shanghai Normal University)

The class of 2023: Si-Di Liang (co-culture with Shanghai Normal University), Shan-Shan Wang (co-culture Shanghai Institute of Technology)

The class of 2022: Shi-Yi Zhu (co-culture with Shanghai Normal University), Ling-Ling Wang (co-culture Shanghai Institute of Technology), Yu-Ren Zhou (co-culture with Zhejiang A&F University), Pei-Han Huang (co-culture with Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Graduated Masters

The class of 2021: Zi-Jia Lu (co-culture with Shanghai Normal University)

The class of 2020: Yu Li (co-culture with Zhejiang A&F University)

The class of 2019: Yi-Xin Kang (co-culture with Beijing Forestry University), Quan Yuan (co-culture with Shanghai Normal University)

The class of 2018: Xi-Qing Sun (co-culture with Shanghai Normal University)

> Major publications in the past decade (†co-first author，*correspondence)

23. Fragnière Y, Champoud L, Küffer N, Braillard L, Jutzi M, Wohlgemuth T, Kozlowski G*, (2024). Cliff-edge forests: Xerothermic hotspots of local biodiversity and models for future climate change. Global Change Biology, 30, e17196.

22. Yousefzadeh H, Walas L, Amirchakhmaghi N, Alipour S, Pouramin M, Song YG, Kozlowski G*, (2024). Potential effects of climate change on future distribution of an endangered tree species, Acer mazandaranicum, in the Hyrcanian forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 555, 121654.

21. Huang PH, Wang TR, Li M, Fang OY, Su RP, Meng HH*, Song YG*, Li J* (2024). Different reference genomes determine different results: Comparing SNP calling in RAD-seq of Engelhardia roxburghiana using different reference genomes. Plant Science, 344, 112109.

20. Lu ZJ†, Wang TR†, Zheng SS†, Meng HH, Cao JG*, Song YG*, Kozlowski G (2024). Contributions of biological traits and environmental factors to phylogeography of Cenozoic relict species, Pterocarya hupehensis (Juglandaceae). Forestry Research, 4, e008. 

19. 孟宏虎, 宋以刚* (2023). 东南亚生物地理格局：回溯与思考. 生物多样性, 31, 23261.

18. Jin DM†,*, Yuan Q†, Dai XL, Kozlowski G, Song YG* (2023). Enhanced precipitation drove the evolution of subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests in eastern China since the early Miocene: Evidence from ring-cupped oaks. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, doi: 10.1111/jse.13022.

17. Wang TR, Meng HH, Wang N, Zheng SS, Jiang Y, Lin DQ, Song YG*, Kozlowski G, (2023). Adaptive divergence and genetic vulnerability of relict species under climate change: a case study of Pterocarya macroptera. Annals of Botany, 132, 241–254. (Cover paper)

16. Song YG†*, Wang TR†, Lu ZJ, Ge BJ, Zhong X, Li XC, Jin DM, Yuan Q, Li Y, Kang YX, Ning X, Zheng SS, Yi LT, Dai XL, Cao JG, Lee JH, Kozlowski G (2023). Population Survey Combined with Genomic-Wide Genetic Variation Unravels the Endangered Status of Quercus gilva. Diversity, 15, 230.

15. Li Y, Wang TR, Kozlowski G, Liu MH, Yi LT*, Song YG*, (2022). Complete Chloroplast Genome of an Endangered Species Quercus litseoides, and Its Comparative, Evolutionary, and Phylogenetic Study with Other Quercus Section Cyclobalanopsis Species, Genes, 13, 1184.

14. Zheng SS, Jiang XL, Huang QJ, Deng M* (2021). Historical Dynamics of Semi-Humid Evergreen Forests in the Southeast Himalaya Biodiversity Hotspot: A Case Study of the Quercus franchetii Complex (Fagaceae). Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 774232.

13. Song YG, Walas Ł, Pietras M, Sâm HV, Yousefzadeh H, Ok T, Farzaliyev V, Worobiec G, Worobiec E, Stachowicz‑Rybka R. Boratyński A, Boratyńska K, Kozlowski G, Jasińska AK* (2021). Past, present and future suitable areas for the relict tree Pterocarya fraxinifolia (Juglandaceae): Integrating fossil records, niche modeling, and phylogeography for conservation. European Journal of Forest Research, 140, 1323–1339.

12. Sun XQ, Song YG*, Ge BJ, Dai XL*, Kozlowski G (2021). Intermediate Epicotyl Physiological Dormancy in the Recalcitrant Seed of Quercus chungii F.P.Metcalf with the Elongated Cotyledonary Petiole. Forests, 12, 263. (Feature paper)

11. Fazan L, Ghosn D, Remoundou I, Gotsiou P, Thanos C, Pasta S, Garfì G, Kozlowski G* (2021). Free behind bars: Effects of browsing exclusion on the growth and regeneration of Zelkova abelicea. Forest Ecology and Management, 488, 118967.

10. Song YG#*, Li Y#, Meng HH, Fragnière Y, Ge BJ, Sakio H, Yousefzadeh H, Bétrisey S, Kozlowski G* (2020). Phylogeny, taxonomy, and biogeography of Pterocarya (Juglandaceae). Plants, 9, 1524.

9. Fazan L, Song YG, Kozlowski G* (2020). The woody planet: from past triumph to manmade decline. Plants, 9, 1593.

8. Certini D, Fazan L, Nakayama N, Viola IM, Kozlowski G* (2020). Velocity of the falling dispersal units in Zelkova abelicea: remarkable evolutionary conservation within the relict tree genus. American Journal of Botany, 107, 1–8.

7. Song YG, Fragnière Y, Meng HH, Li Y, Bétrisey S, Corrales A, Manchester S, Deng M, Jasinska A, Van Sam H, Kozlowski G* (2020). Global biogeographic synthesis and priority conservation regions of the relict tree family Juglandaceae. Journal of Biogeography, 47, 643–657.

6. Bétrisey S, Arrigo N, Graf L, Bilat J, Gerber E, Kozlowski G* (2020). Glacial relicts in the Alps: the decline and conservation strategy for Nuphar pumila (Nymphaeaceae). Alpine Botany, 130, 89–99.

5. Song YG, Petipierre B, Deng M*, Wu JP, Kozlowski G (2019). Predicting climate change impacts on the threatened Quercus arbutifolia in montane cloud forests in southern China and Vietnam: Conservation implications. Forest Ecology and Management, 444, 269–279.

4. Xu J, Song YG, Deng M*, Jiang XL, Zheng SS, Li Y (2019). Seed germination schedule and environmental context shaped the population genetic structure of subtropical evergreen oaks on the Yun-Gui Plateau, Southwest China. Heredity, 124, 499–513.

3. Frey D, Arrigo N, Granereau G, Sarr A, Felber F, Kozlowski G* (2016). Parallel declines in species and genetic diversity driven by anthropogenic disturbance: a multispecies approach in a French Atlantic dune system. Evolutionary Applications, 9: 479–488.

2. Fragnière Y, Bétrisey S, Cardinaux L, Kozlowski G* (2015). Fighting their last stand? A global analysis of the distribution and conservation status of gymnosperms. Journal of Biogeography, 42, 809–820.

1. Song YG, Deng M*, Hipp A, Li QS (2015). Leaf morphological evidence of natural hybridization between two oak species (Quercus austrocochinchinensis and Q. kerrii) and its implications for conservation management. European Journal of Forest Research, 134, 139–151.

> Academic monograph

1. Kozlowski G, Bétrisey S, Song YG (2018). Wingnuts (Pterocarya) and walnut family. Relict trees: linking the past, present and future. Natural History Museum Fribourg, Switzerland (book) pp. 128.

2. Kozlowski G, Bétrisey S, Song YG, Fazan L, Garfi G (2018). The Red List of Zelkova. Natural History Museum Fribourg, Switzerland (book) pp. 32.

3. Carrero C, Jerome D, Beckman E, Byrne, A, Coombes AJ, Deng M, González-Rodríguez A, Hoang VS, Khoo E, Nguyen N, Robiansyah I, Correa HR, Sang J, Song YG, Strijk J, Sugau J, Sun W, Valencia-Avalos S, Westwood M (2020). The Red List of Oaks 2020; The Morton Arboretum: Lisle, IL, USA, pp. 52.