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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.

19921997: Research Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

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

 

Person in ChargeYi-Gang SongPh.D.

Associate Professor

Phone: +86 021-37792288-915
Lab: +86-021-37792288 ext. 512
E-mail: cherish-faith@163.com / ygsong@cemps.ac.cn
Address: (1) Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, 3888 Chenhua Road, Songjiang, Shanghai, 201602, China

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 (in alphabetical order) 

 

Dong-Mei Jin (Ph.D.)
Associate Professor 
Tel021-37792288-915

Speciality:  Functional Ecology
Emailjindongmei@csnbgsh.cn

 

Tian-Rui Wang (MD)

Research Assistant

Tel021-37792288-915

Speciality: Landscape Genomics

EmailWtianrui@163.com





 

Si-Si Zheng (BS)

Lab Technician

Tel:021-37792288 ext. 512

Speciality: Laboratory Technique

Email: zhengsisi1228@163.com

 


Current Masters

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

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

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

Graduated Masters

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

Recent Publications (* corresponding author)

1. 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(3), 263. (Feature paper)

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

5. Jiang XL, Su ZH, Xu GB, Deng M* (2020). Genomic signals reveal past evolutionary dynamics of Quercus schottkyana and its response to future climate change. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, DOI: 10.1111/jse.12703.

6. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. Jiang XL, Gardner EM, Meng HH, Deng M*, Xu GB (2019). Land bridges in the Pleistocene contributed to flora assembly on the continental islands of South China: Insights from the evolutionary history of Quercus championii. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 132, 36-45.

12. Jiang XL, Hipp AL, Deng M*, Su T, Zhou ZK, Yan MX (2019). East Asian origins of European holly oaks (Quercus section Ilex Loudon) via the Tibet-Himalaya. Journal of Biogeography, 46: 2203-2214.

13. Yan MX, Liu RB, Li Y, Hipp AL, Deng M, Xiong YS (2019). Ancient events and climate adaptive capacity shaped distinct chloroplast genetic structure in the oak lineages. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19: 202.

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

15. 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.

16. Deng M*, Jiang XL, Hipp AL, Manos PS, Hahn M (2018). Phylogeny and biogeography of East Asian evergreen oaks (Quercus section Cyclobalanopsis; Fagaceae): Insights into the Cenozoic history of evergreen broad-leaved forests in subtropical Asia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 119: 170-181.

17. Jiang XL, An M, Zheng SS, Deng M* (2018). Geographical isolation and environmental heterogeneity contribute to the spatial genetic patterns of Quercus kerrii (Fagaceae). Heredity, 120: 219-233.

18. An M, Deng M*, Zheng SS, Jiang XL, Song YG (2017). Introgression threatens the genetic diversity of Quercus austrocochinchinensis (Fagaceae), an endangered oak: a case inferred by molecular markers. Frontiers In Plant Science,8: 229. 

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.