Research Focus:
Plant Taxonomy, Systematics & Evolution, and Spatiotemporal Patterns of Plant Diversity

Education:
(1) Sep 2014 – Jun 2017, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Botany, Ph.D.
(2) Sep 2009 – Dec 2011, Wuhan University, Botany, M.S.
(3) Sep 2007 – Jun 2009, Wuhan University, Life Sciences, Bachelor (Minor)
(4) Sep 2005 – Jun 2009, Wuhan University of Technology, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor

Work Experience:
(1) Dec 2025 – Present, Nanchang University, School of Life Sciences, Professor
(2) Mar 2022 – Nov 2025, Nanchang University, School of Life Sciences, Associate Researcher / Associate Professor
(3) Sep 2019 – Feb 2022, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Researcher
(4) Jul 2017 – Aug 2019, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Researcher
(5) Jan 2013 – Aug 2014, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Assistant

Courses Taught:
Botany, Botany Laboratory, Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology Laboratory, Comprehensive Biology Field Practice, etc.

Academic Monographs:
(1) Yadong Zhou, Caifei Zhang, Guangwan Hu, Geoffrey Mwachala. 2023. Flora of Kenya (23): Rubiaceae. Hubei Science & Technology Press and Nature Kenya.
(2) Yadong Zhou, Guangwan Hu, Geoffrey Mwachala, Qingfeng Wang. 2018. Field Guide to Wild Plants of Africa: Mt. Kenya. Hubei Science & Technology Press.

Representative Academic Papers:
(1) Yangyang Liu, Hong Qian, Yadong Zhou. 2025. Environmental variables shape the deviation of phylogenetic relatedness between terrestrial and aquatic herbaceous angiosperms across China. Journal of Plant Ecology, 18: rtaf034.
(2) Yangyang Liu, Hong Qian, and Yadong Zhou. 2025. Inconsistent geographical patterns of phylogenetic relatedness among different plant growth forms: A case study in woody and herbaceous angiosperms of China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 63(3): 767–777.
(3) Sirui Song, Yadong Zhou. 2025. Anthropogenic and climatic variables jointly shape the global geographical pattern of hybrid plant diversity. Ecology and Evolution, 15: e71512.
(4) Yigang Li, Fan Liu, Yadong Zhou, Xing Liu, Qingfeng Wang. 2024. Large-scale geographic patterns and environmental and anthropogenic drivers of wetland plant diversity in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 24: 74.
(5) Yigang Li, Fan Liu, Yadong Zhou*, Xing Liu, Qingfeng Wang. 2024. Geographic patterns and environmental correlates of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional β-diversity of wetland plants in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Ecological Indicators, 160: 111889.
(6) Yadong Zhou*, Hong Qian, Yi Jin, Keyan Xiao, Xue Yan, Qingfeng Wang*. 2023. Geographic patterns of taxonomic and phylogenetic β-diversity of aquatic angiosperms in China. Plant Diversity, 45(2): 177–184.
(7) Yadong Zhou, Hong Qian, Keyan Xiao, Qingfeng Wang, Xue Yan*. 2023. Geographic patterns and environmental correlates of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of aquatic plants in China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 61(6): 979–989.
(8) Yadong Zhou, Qinghua Zhang, Keyan Xiao, Xue Yan*. 2022. Latitudinal gradients of α- and β-diversity of aquatic plant communities across eastern China: Helophytes and hydrophytes show inconsistent patterns. Ecological Indicators, 144: 109457.
(9) Yadong Zhou#, Keyan Xiao#, Sichong Chen, Xing Liu, Qingfeng Wang*, Xue Yan*. 2022. Altitudinal diversity of aquatic plants in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Freshwater Biology, 67: 709–719.
(10) Sara Getachew Amenu, Neng Wei, Lei Wu, Oyetola Oyebanji, Guangwan Hu, Yadong Zhou*, Qingfeng Wang. 2022. Phylogenomic and comparative analyses of Coffeeae alliance (Rubiaceae): Deep insights into phylogenetic relationships and plastome evolution. BMC Plant Biology, 22: 88.
(11) Waigwa A. Njogu, Brian Njoroge Mwangi, Gituru R. Wahiti, Fred Omengo, Yadong Zhou, Qingfeng Wang. 2021. Variation of morphological and leaf stoichiometric traits of two endemic species along the elevation gradient of Mount Kenya, East Africa. Journal of Plant Ecology, 13: 785–792.
(12) Yadong Zhou#, Biyansa Hirpo Boru#, Shengwei Wang#, Qingfeng Wang. 2021. Species richness and phylogenetic diversity of different growth forms of angiosperms across a biodiversity hotspot in the horn of Africa. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 59(1): 141–150.
(13) Junnan Wan, Ndungu J. Mbari, Shengwei Wang, Bing Liu, Brian N. Mwangi, Jean R.E. Rasoarahona, Haiping Xin, Yadong Zhou, Qingfeng Wang. 2021. Modeling impacts of climate change on the potential distribution of six endemic baobab species in Madagascar. Plant Diversity, 43: 117–124.
(14) Shengwei Wang, Yadong Zhou, Paul Mutuku Musili, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. Inventory incompleteness and collecting priority on the plant diversity in tropical East Africa. Biological Conservation, 241: 108313.
(15) Shengwei Wang, Biyansa Hirpo Boru, Antony Waigwa Njogu, Anne Christine Ochola, Guangwan Hu, Yadong Zhou*, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. Floristic composition and endemism pattern of vascular plants in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 58: 33–42.

For a complete list of published academic papers, please visit:
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhou-Yadong-zhouyadong
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6886-0662