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Genomic insights into alpine plant adaptation. 高山植物适应的基因组见解。
IF 5.9 1区 生物学
Plant Diversity Pub Date : 2025-12-26 eCollection Date: 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.012
Xu Zhang, Tao Deng, Hengchang Wang, Hang Sun
{"title":"Genomic insights into alpine plant adaptation.","authors":"Xu Zhang, Tao Deng, Hengchang Wang, Hang Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alpine plants persist in some of the harshest terrestrial environments, where low temperatures, high ultraviolet radiation, and short growing seasons impose strong selective pressures. Recent advances in genome sequencing and comparative genomics are unraveling the multifaceted mechanisms that enable their adaptation and diversification under these conditions. In this review, we synthesize current progress on how genetic variation at different levels, including single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), structural variants, whole-genome duplication, gene family evolution, and transposable elements, contribute to high-elevation adaptations in alpine plants. SNP-based studies have provided critical insights into adaptive differentiation along environmental gradients as well as molecular convergence underlying high-elevation adaptation, while analyses of structural variations and transposable elements reveal their potential roles in shaping phenotypic diversity and environmental responsiveness. Despite these advances, major challenges remain in linking genomic variation to functional adaptation, reflecting limitations in sampling, comparative frameworks, and functional validation. This review emphasizes the promise of integrative multi-omics, pangenome reconstruction, and functional assays to bridge these gaps, and highlights how genomic insights can guide the conservation of alpine biodiversity under accelerating climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"48 3","pages":"439-450"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13250297/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148227442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Diversification of liverworts across spatial and climatic gradients in the world. 世界苔类植物在空间和气候梯度上的多样性。
IF 5.9 1区 生物学
Plant Diversity Pub Date : 2025-12-23 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.010
Hong Qian, Michael Kessler, Shenhua Qian
{"title":"Diversification of liverworts across spatial and climatic gradients in the world.","authors":"Hong Qian, Michael Kessler, Shenhua Qian","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Liverworts are an important component of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. They have adapted to and diversified in a wide variety of environments. Investigating variation in net diversification rate is a major goal of biogeographers and ecologists but such investigation is lacking for liverworts at a global scale. Here, we explore global geographic patterns of mean diversification rate (MDR) within genera of liverworts, which are one of the earliest lineages of the extant land plants, and its relationship with latitude, climatic conditions, and regional species richness. We collated species lists of liverworts for each of 390 geographic units (primarily countries, provinces or states) across the world. We related MDR to geographic and current and historical climatic variables, assessed the relative importance of different sets of climatic variables on MDR, and explored the effect of MDR on species richness after accounting for major climatic factors. We analyzed the data with correlation and regression analyses, and structural equation modeling approach. We find that MDR peaks at tropical latitudes and in humid and hot environments, and that at a global scale current climate, temperature-related variables, and climatic seasonality explained more variation in MDR than Quaternary climate change, precipitation-related variables, and climatic extremes, respectively. In addition, we find a positive relationship between MDR and liverwort species richness, with the latter being directly influenced more strongly by climate than by MDR. Most importantly, we find that tropical regions of high liverwort diversity also have high current diversification rates, suggesting ongoing niche occupation. The above-described patterns are similar between the New World and Old World and between the eastern and western parts of the Old World. Our study highlights that tip diversification rates provide a complementary aspect to understand the evolution of liverwort diversity to that recovered by studying phylogenetic diversity and species richness.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"48 2","pages":"320-329"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13071452/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147691859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Tamarindus indica telomere-to-telomere genome reveals tartaric acid accumulation in fruit. 柽柳端粒到端粒基因组揭示了酒石酸在果实中的积累。
IF 5.9 1区 生物学
Plant Diversity Pub Date : 2025-12-22 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.011
Zhidong Li, Shenghao Wang, Shuling Wang, Chong Wang, Hongbin Zhang, Fei Chen, Wenquan Wang
{"title":"<i>Tamarindus indica</i> telomere-to-telomere genome reveals tartaric acid accumulation in fruit.","authors":"Zhidong Li, Shenghao Wang, Shuling Wang, Chong Wang, Hongbin Zhang, Fei Chen, Wenquan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>•First telomere-to-telomere genome of <i>Tamarindus indica.</i>•Fruit sourness is likely driven by duplication of tartaric acid biosynthesis genes during lineage-specific WGD.•Development of Tamarind Multi-Omics Database, a multi-omics database empowering breeding.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"48 2","pages":"429-432"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13071445/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147691835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Influence of divergent sampling intensity across plant growth forms on estimating elevational richness patterns and their drivers. 不同植物生长形态取样强度差异对海拔丰富度格局估算及其驱动因素的影响
IF 5.9 1区 生物学
Plant Diversity Pub Date : 2025-12-22 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.006
Hongrui Ling, Jianqiang Yang, Yannan He, Pengwan Zhang, Jiangci Nongbu, Sina Laoding, Zhenyu Fan, Aoxiang Chang, Hang Sun, Shuang Zhang, Zihan Jiang
{"title":"Influence of divergent sampling intensity across plant growth forms on estimating elevational richness patterns and their drivers.","authors":"Hongrui Ling, Jianqiang Yang, Yannan He, Pengwan Zhang, Jiangci Nongbu, Sina Laoding, Zhenyu Fan, Aoxiang Chang, Hang Sun, Shuang Zhang, Zihan Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Numerous studies have demonstrated that sampling intensity can significantly influence the detection of richness patterns and the assessment of the importance of driving factors. However, existing research has primarily focused on comparing the influence of sampling intensity across different locations or community types, with less attention paid to its influence across growth forms. Through field surveys on Baima Snow Mountain and bootstrap resampling analyses, we quantified the influence of sampling intensity on plant elevational richness patterns across growth forms (trees, shrubs, and herbs). Our results revealed that with increasing sampling intensity, the error in assessing elevational richness patterns decreased rapidly then stabilized for all growth forms. A similar trend was observed in the estimation of climatic drivers. However, significant variations emerged across different growth forms. The suitable sampling intensity was higher for trees and shrubs than for herbaceous plants. Furthermore, estimation errors for tree richness patterns declined significantly faster with increasing sampling intensity than those for shrubs and herbs. Similarly, the relationship between sampling intensity and error in estimating richness-climate relationships showed significant differences across growth forms. However, these differences were subject to the climate drivers selected. These findings demonstrate that growth-form differences must be considered in elevation-richness surveys. However, our meta-analysis revealed that no current study accounted for this factor in their protocols. Our findings provide empirical evidence for developing growth form-specific sampling protocols, offering practical solutions to improve the accuracy of mountain richness studies and enhance cross-study comparability in elevational gradient research.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"48 2","pages":"330-339"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13071457/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147691491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The context dependency of nitrogen deposition impacts on the compositional coupling between aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank. 氮沉降的环境依赖性对地上植被与土壤种子库组成耦合的影响。
IF 5.9 1区 生物学
Plant Diversity Pub Date : 2025-12-18 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.009
Niwu Te, Wen-Tao Luo, Péter Török, Xiao-Ru Zhang, Xiao-Sa Liang, Yuan-Xiu Wu, Xiao-Jing Zhang, Anke Jentsch, Xiao-Tao Lü
{"title":"The context dependency of nitrogen deposition impacts on the compositional coupling between aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank.","authors":"Niwu Te, Wen-Tao Luo, Péter Török, Xiao-Ru Zhang, Xiao-Sa Liang, Yuan-Xiu Wu, Xiao-Jing Zhang, Anke Jentsch, Xiao-Tao Lü","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The compositional coupling between aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank is critical for community stability and successional trajectories, but such relationships are highly sensitive to environmental changes. Although nitrogen (N) deposition has been reported to decouple the associations between aboveground vegetation and the soil seed bank in grasslands, it remains unclear whether and how grassland management practices, such as mowing, mediate N deposition effects. We evaluated the impacts of N input and mowing on the diversity and composition of the aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank, as well as their compositional coupling in a decadal grassland experiment. N addition increased the compositional dissimilarity between the soil seed bank and aboveground vegetation by increasing abundance gradient, but only in unmown plots. N addition did not affect the compositional dissimilarity between aboveground vegetation and the soil seed bank in mown plots. Mowing increased the graminoid abundance in the aboveground vegetation, but increased the forb abundance in the soil seed bank, and thus increased the compositional dissimilarity between aboveground vegetation and the soil seed bank by promoting balanced variation in abundance. Our results reveal the importance of context dependence in the consequences of N inputs on the compositional coupling between aboveground vegetation and the soil seed bank in grasslands. The land-use context should be fully considered when evaluating the impacts of global change drivers on grassland community dynamics and succession.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"48 2","pages":"373-380"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13071441/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147691779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Elevational patterns of multidimensional plant diversity and community structure in a subtropical karst mountain system. 亚热带喀斯特山地系统多维植物多样性和群落结构的海拔格局
IF 5.9 1区 生物学
Plant Diversity Pub Date : 2025-12-17 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.007
Lihua Zhou, Yuxiao Long, Siwei Hu, Min Luo, Wenbo Mou, Jingwen Deng, Lisha Jing, Mingyue Pang, Li Huang, Yongchuan Yang
{"title":"Elevational patterns of multidimensional plant diversity and community structure in a subtropical karst mountain system.","authors":"Lihua Zhou, Yuxiao Long, Siwei Hu, Min Luo, Wenbo Mou, Jingwen Deng, Lisha Jing, Mingyue Pang, Li Huang, Yongchuan Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding the mechanisms driving species assembly along elevational gradients in mountains is crucial for biodiversity conservation. However, no consensus has yet been reached on how these mechanisms work. This knowledge gap is particularly pronounced in biodiversity-rich subtropical karst mountains. Integrating multidimensional biodiversity information into research in karst systems will provide new insights into community assembly. Thus, we explored multidimensional forest diversity along an elevational gradient at Jinfo mountain, a karst mountain site, assessing the relative importance of distinct ecological processes in shaping patterns of community diversity and structure. Our results show that different dimensional diversities exhibit similar elevational patterns, with higher diversity observed at low-to-mid elevations than at high elevations. The multidimensional diversity and structure were primarily controlled by climate stress and topographic filtering and were further modulated by soil nutrient limitation and interspecific competition. However, the explanatory weights of these ecological processes were inconsistent among the different dimensions of diversity. The phylogenetic structure was clustered at low and middle elevations, with over-dispersion at high elevations. This indicates that community assembly shifted from being dominated by environmental filtering to being dominated by competitive exclusion as elevation increased. In conclusion, our results demonstrate that combining multidimensional diversity and multiple ecological processes related to community assembly can enhance the understanding of diversity patterns along elevational gradients and the underlying mechanisms maintaining them in subtropical karst mountains.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"48 2","pages":"351-362"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13071454/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147691832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Root structural remodeling under soil compaction for herbaceous plants. 土壤压实条件下草本植物根系结构的重塑。
IF 5.9 1区 生物学
Plant Diversity Pub Date : 2025-12-17 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.008
Qinwen Han, Qingpei Yang, Binglin Guo, Tino Colombi, Junjian Wang, Huifang Wu, Zhipei Feng, Zhi Zheng, Zhenjiang Li, Yue Zhang, Meixu Han, Qiang Li, Junxiang Ding, Xitian Yang, Hannah M Schneider, Ying Zhao, Deliang Kong
{"title":"Root structural remodeling under soil compaction for herbaceous plants.","authors":"Qinwen Han, Qingpei Yang, Binglin Guo, Tino Colombi, Junjian Wang, Huifang Wu, Zhipei Feng, Zhi Zheng, Zhenjiang Li, Yue Zhang, Meixu Han, Qiang Li, Junxiang Ding, Xitian Yang, Hannah M Schneider, Ying Zhao, Deliang Kong","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Soil compaction often imposes stress on root development and plant survival. However, root anatomical responses that enable persistent root growth and functioning under soil compaction remain unclear. We grew 10 herbaceous species differing substantially in lateral root diameter, in soils with low (1.0 g cm<sup>-3</sup>) and high (1.4 g cm<sup>-3</sup>) bulk density, and assessed root traits including root biomass, anatomical structures, and respiration rates. Greater root thickening upon soil compaction was found in species with thicker first-order lateral roots, mainly due to larger cortical cell size. Both xylem vessel diameter and wall thickness increased more in compacted soils in these species. Despite these anatomical shifts, root respiration rate responded little to soil compaction across most species, likely due to the opposite investment in cortical cells and xylem vessels. Notably, root biomass, independent of root respiration rate and anatomical structures, determined whole-plant growth under soil compaction. Our study reveals two independent strategies of root response to soil compaction: anatomical remodeling for mechanical and metabolic maintenance, and root biomass investment for resource acquisition. These findings offer new insights for breeding and selecting species tolerant to soil compaction and highlight multidimensional strategies of plant adaptation to physical stress.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"48 1","pages":"128-139"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12919300/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147271846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A robust phylogenomic framework supports a revised intrafamilial classification of Urticaceae. 一个健全的系统基因组框架支持修订的荨麻科家族内分类。
IF 5.9 1区 生物学
Plant Diversity Pub Date : 2025-12-17 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.003
Xiao-Gang Fu, Jie Liu, Richard I Milne, Alex K Monro, Shui-Yin Liu, Qin Tian, Gregory W Stull, Amos Kipkoech, Ting-Shuang Yi, De-Zhu Li, Zeng-Yuan Wu
{"title":"A robust phylogenomic framework supports a revised intrafamilial classification of Urticaceae.","authors":"Xiao-Gang Fu, Jie Liu, Richard I Milne, Alex K Monro, Shui-Yin Liu, Qin Tian, Gregory W Stull, Amos Kipkoech, Ting-Shuang Yi, De-Zhu Li, Zeng-Yuan Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Over the past decade, phylogenomics has significantly enhanced our understanding of relationships among numerous angiosperm lineages. However, comprehensive phylogenetic studies combining broad sampling of both genomic sequences and taxa within the nettle family (Urticaceae) are still lacking. Here, we reconstructed the phylogeny of Urticaceae (345 species across 89% of accepted genera) using concatenated and coalescent analyses from plastome and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences. Different plastid datasets and tree inference methods yielded a consistent phylogenetic backbone, with 98% of nodes achieving > 90% bootstrap support - a significant improvement compared to 54% of nodes in the latest published phylogenetic study of Urticaceae. Plastid and nuclear phylogenetic relationships were largely congruent, with several exceptions that warrant further study. In the context of the updated phylogenetic relationships, we propose dividing the family into seven tribes that correspond to seven major clades or subclades, including a newly established tribe, Sarcochlamydeae <i>stat. nov</i>. Our phylogenetic analysis indicates that <i>Debregeasia</i> and <i>Phenax</i> are non-monophyletic. By combing morphological, molecular and distributional evidence, we describe a new genus <i>Chiajuia gen</i>. <i>nov</i>. Additionally, we propose synonymizing the following genera: <i>Cypholophus</i> (to <i>Boehmeria</i>), <i>Haroldiella</i> (to <i>Pilea</i>), <i>Hemistylus</i>, <i>Neodistemon</i>, <i>Rousselia</i> (all to <i>Pouzolzia</i>), <i>Hesperocnide</i> (to <i>Urtica</i>), and <i>Pellionia</i> (to <i>Elatostema</i>), while recognizing <i>Elatostematoides</i>, <i>Gonostegia</i>, <i>Leptocnide</i>, <i>Margarocarpus</i>, <i>Scepocarpus</i>, and <i>Sceptrocnide</i> as distinct genera. This robust phylogenomic framework and revised classification lays a foundation for future studies on the evolution and ecology of Urticaceae. The approach applied here may also serve as an important reference for other large plant families in angiosperms.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"48 2","pages":"289-306"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13071455/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147691865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Tree structural diversity mediates vegetation carbon storage in dry-hot valley savannas along an elevational gradient. 干热河谷稀树草原树木结构多样性沿海拔梯度调节植被碳储量。
IF 5.9 1区 生物学
Plant Diversity Pub Date : 2025-12-16 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.005
Wan-Chen Li, Qin Huang, Ru-Jing Yang, Zhi-Yan Peng, Qiong Cai, Wen-Jing Fang, Wen-Jun Liu, Su-Hui Ma, Ya-Jun Chen, Zhi-Ming Zhang
{"title":"Tree structural diversity mediates vegetation carbon storage in dry-hot valley savannas along an elevational gradient.","authors":"Wan-Chen Li, Qin Huang, Ru-Jing Yang, Zhi-Yan Peng, Qiong Cai, Wen-Jing Fang, Wen-Jun Liu, Su-Hui Ma, Ya-Jun Chen, Zhi-Ming Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding the factors that drive distributional variation in terrestrial vegetation carbon pools (VCPs) is crucial for assessing the potential of carbon sequestration and mitigating climate change. Although previous studies have extensively examined elevational patterns of VCPs and their abiotic drivers, the biotic mechanisms that drive VCPs remain poorly understood, especially in savanna ecosystems. Characterized by a unique \"tree-shrub-grass\" plant composition, the savannas in the dry-hot valleys have high productivity and carbon storage capacity. In this study, we investigated VCP distribution and the factors that drive these distributions along an elevational gradient (400-1700 m) in the dry-hot valleys of Southwest China. We found no significant elevational pattern in the total VCP, whereas tree and shrub VCPs exhibited divergent distributional patterns. We also found that VCP distribution was more strongly affected by structural diversity than by species diversity, indicating that structural diversity mediates the relationship between species diversity and VCP distribution. These findings suggest that optimized spatial resource use enhances carbon storage. Notably, the total VCP was more influenced by tree structural diversity than by shrub structural diversity, highlighting the dominant role of trees in savanna carbon sequestration. Furthermore, elevation shaped the VCP patterns by regulating both soil and biotic factors. These findings provide valuable insights for carbon-oriented conservation and restoration practices in dryland ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"48 2","pages":"399-408"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13071442/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147691800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Decoding the genomic basis of adaptive capacity and vulnerability in the high-altitude Saussurea obvallata complex. 破译高山高山雪莲复合体适应能力和脆弱性的基因组基础。
IF 5.9 1区 生物学
Plant Diversity Pub Date : 2025-12-16 eCollection Date: 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.004
Hum Kala Rana, Santosh Kumar Rana, Jacob B Landis, Hang Sun, Dong Luo
{"title":"Decoding the genomic basis of adaptive capacity and vulnerability in the high-altitude <i>Saussurea obvallata</i> complex.","authors":"Hum Kala Rana, Santosh Kumar Rana, Jacob B Landis, Hang Sun, Dong Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pld.2025.12.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Decoding how adaptation and vulnerability are distributed across rugged landscape is essential for anticipating biodiversity responses to climatic change. We investigated the <i>Saussurea obvallata</i> complex, a group of closely related lineages distributed across the Himalayan-Hengduan Mountains (HHM), to ask how climatic heterogeneity and historical isolation shape genomic variation, ecological divergence, and the speciation continuum. To address these questions, we integrated plastome and RAD-seq based nuclear SNPs with genotype-environment association (GEA) analyses, gradient forest (GF), generalized dissimilarity modeling (GDM), and ensemble species distribution models (SDMs). Projected genomic offset under future climate scenarios (2070) and ensemble SDMs were used to map genomic vulnerability and forecast habitat shifts. Nuclear SNPs resolve shallow divergence and cytonuclear discordance consistent with incomplete lineages sorting and episodic introgression. After formally accounting for background population structure and spatial effects, the pure environmental fraction remains modest but significant, with within-population label-permutation nulls falling well below observed values. Concordant signals across partial redundancy analysis, latent factor mixed model (notably June cloud metrics), and GF/GDM (temperature seasonality, slope/elevation, cloud regime) indicate a genuine environment-linked component of allele-frequency turnover, while acknowledging that reduced-representation data may under detect polygenic architecture. Genomic offset maps highlight vulnerability hotspots along the southern Western and Eastern Himalayas and parts of the Hengduan Mountains, whereas the central HHM shows lower offset and potential refugial stability. Together, results support a speciation continuum shaped by both isolation and environmental selection and motivate a dual conservation strategy: safeguard diversity-rich, low-offset refugia while mitigating risk in high-offset peripheral regions through enhanced connectivity, microrefugia, and genomic monitoring.</p>","PeriodicalId":20224,"journal":{"name":"Plant Diversity","volume":"48 3","pages":"474-486"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13250314/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148227475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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