Selected publications

12. Zhao YH^#, Jiang LM^#, Qiu L, Fu QL, Tan SL*. 2025. Climate-driven "nowhere to go" for alpine plants: Impact of climate change on the geographic distribution of Dipsacoideae species in China. Global Ecology and Conservation, 63, e03892.

11. Tan SL^#, Chen XH^#, Liao HH^#, Cheng WX, Xiao HW, Huang L, Luo HL, Nunes CEP, Ren ZX*, Yang BY*. 2025. Pre‑pollination isolation by pollinator specificity: settling moth versus hawkmoth pollination in two sympatric Habenaria species (Orchidaceae). BMC Plant Biology, 25, 421.

10. Liu XD, Twyford AD, Hollingsworth PM, Luo YH, Ming SP, Yang BY, Gao LM, and Tan SL*. 2025. A chromosome-level genome assembly of the alpine medicinal plant Bergenia purpurascens (Saxifragaceae). Scientific Data, 12:121.

9. Qiu L^#, Fu QL^#, Jacquemyn H, Burgess KS, Cheng JJ, Mo ZQ, Tang XD, Yang BY, and Tan SL*. 2024. Contrasting range changes of Bergenia (Saxifragaceae) species under future climate change in the Himalaya and Hengduan Mountains Region. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 155:1927–1939.

8. Yang SS^#, Gong HY^#, Tan SL*, Zhou YD*, and Yang BY. 2024. Comparison of leaf size of common plants between field measurements and scientific flora records. Pakistan Journal of Botany,  56, 577-584.

7. Tan SL*, Fu QL, Mo ZQ, Sun YN, Fang Y, and Yang BY. 2024. Triplostegia alpina (Caprifoliaceae): a new species from Southwest China. Phytotaxa, 640:284–292.

6. Fu QL^#, Mo ZQ^#, Xiang XG, Milne R, Burgess KS, Jacquemyn H, Sun YN, Yan H, Qiu L, Yang BY, and Tan SL*. 2023. Plastome phylogenomics and morphological traits analyses provide new insights into the phylogenetic position, species delimitation and speciation of Triplostegia (Caprifoliaceae). BMC Plant Biology, 23:645.

5. Qiu L, Jacquemyn H, Burgess KS, Zhang LG, Zhou YD, Yang BY, and Tan SL*. 2023. Contrasting range changes of terrestrial orchids under future climate change in China. Science of the Total Environment, 895:165128.

4. Tan SL^#, Chen XH^#, Liao HH^#, Huang L, Xiao HW, Luo HL, Xiong DJ, Yang, BY*, and Ren, ZX*. 2023. Swallowtail butterflies and hawkmoths contribute equally to the pollination of Habenaria dentata (Orchidaceae). Flora, 300:152230.

3. Chen XH^#, Tan SL^#, Liang YL, Huang L, Xiao HW, Luo HL, Xiong DJ, Yang BY*, and Ren ZX*. 2021. The pollination of Habenaria rhodocheila (Orchidaceae) in South China: When butterflies take sides. Ecology and Evolution, 11:2849–2861.

2. Tan SL, Hollingsworth PM, Qin HT, Ye LJ, Zou JY, and Gao LM*. 2019. Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers for tree peony Paeonia delavayi (Paeoniaceae) using ddRAD-seq data. Molecular Biology Reports, 46:4605–4610.

1. Tan SL, Luo YH, Hollingsworth PM, Burgess KS, Xu K, Li DZ*, and Gao LM*. 2018. DNA barcoding herbaceous and woody plant species at a subalpine forest dynamics plot in Southwest China. Ecology and Evolution, 8:7195–7205.