Ecology, Evolution and Diversity of Plants
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 126603
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant evolution; plant biogeography; biodiversity and conservation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleasure to announce that a forthcoming Special Issue focuses on the topic, Ecology, Evolution and Diversity of Plants, will be published on the journal Diversity. This wide-scope Special Issue welcomes various aspects of plant studies from tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions.
The globally distributed plants occupy a large proportion of the biodiversity on our planet, and the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that determine plant diversity are incredibly successful. We are now living in times of dramatic environmental changes triggered by human activities and climate changes. Increased pressure from both humans and the environment is accelerating biodiversity loss and changing biodiversity patterns. In this context, work aiming to understand the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that drive plant diversity is important and interesting.
Factors affecting plant diversity are various, but can be mainly discussed from two perspectives—that is, ecological factors from the external environment as well as evolutionary mechanisms as internal factors. Thus, this Special Issue provides an exciting opportunity to combine and synthesize recent research in ecology and evolution to understand plant diversity. This Special Issue is gathering all types of articles (original research papers, reviews, methods papers, opinions, etc.). It focuses on the following topics: 1) plant ecology (e.g., the impacts of humans, climate, plants, animals, topography, and microorganisms on plant diversity); 2) plant evolution (e.g., the impacts of genetic evolution and functional trait evolution on plant diversity); and 3) biodiversity (e.g., diversity and distribution spanning various spatial-temporal scales, the conservation of threatened taxa and the related management).
The Guest Editors and Diversity’s Editorial Office cordially invite you to submit a manuscript focused on any of the above topics. Although specific case studies with broad implications are welcome, we encourage authors to submit large-scale and/or multi-specific studies as well as synthesis works to this Special Issue. Review articles and multidisciplinary studies are particularly encouraged. If you are interested in this opportunity or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Dr. Hong-Hu Meng
Dr. Yi-Gang Song
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- distribution
- plant ecology
- plant evolution
- biogeography
- phylogeography
- conservation
- population genetics/genomics
- plant systematics, taxonomy and phylogeny
- paleontology
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