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Research interests
Plant taxonomy, systematics and evolution; Pollination Ecology; Conservation Biology.
Education
Sep. 2012–Jan. 2019. Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. PhD in Biology.
Sep. 2008–Jun. 2012. Jishou University. B.S. in Biological Sciences.
Work Experience
2024–Now. School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University. Associate Professor.
2019–2024. School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University. Lecturer.
Courses Taught
Botany, Plant Physiology, and Plant Resources
Projects
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). (Grant number: 31901078; Project duration: 2020-2022).
2. Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation. (Grant number: 20242BAB25339; Project duration: 2024-2027)
Academic Services
Serving as a peer reviewer for numerous international journals, such as Plant Diversity, Plant Biology, Journal of Biogeography, Global Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Evolution, and American Journal of Botany.
Selected Publications
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Liu XD, Twyford AD, Hollingsworth PM, Luo YH, Ming SP, Yang BY, Gao LM, Tan SL*. 2025. A chromosome-level genome assembly of the alpine medicinal plant Bergenia purpurascens (Saxifragaceae). Scientific Data, 12, 121.
4. Tan SL*, Fu QL, Mo ZQ, Sun YN, Fang Y, Yang YB. 2024. Triplostegia alpina (Caprifoliaceae): a new species from Southwest China. Phytotaxa, 640(3): 284-292.
5. Qiu L, Fu QL, Jacquemyn H, Burgess KS, Cheng JJ, Mo ZQ, Tang XD, Yang BY, 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.
6. Yang SS, Gong HY, Tan SL*, Zhou YD*, 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. Qiu L, Jacquemyn H, Burgess KS, Zhang LG, Zhou YD, Yang BY, Tan SL*. 2023. Contrasting range changes of terrestrial orchids under future climate change in China. Science of the Total Environment, 895, 165128.
8. Fu QL, Mo ZQ, Xiang XG, Milne R, Burgess KS, Jacquemyn H, Sun YN, Yan H, Qiu L, Yang BY, 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.
9. Tan SL, Chen XH, Liao HH, Huang L, Xiao HW, Luo HL, Xiong DJ, Yang BY*, Ren ZX*. 2023. Swallowtail butterflies and hawkmoths contribute equally to the pollination of Habenaria dentata (Orchidaceae). Flora, 300, 152230.
10. Chen XH, Tan SL, Liang YL, Huang L, Xiao HW, Luo HL, Xiong DJ, Yang BY*, Ren ZX*. 2021. The pollination of Habenaria rhodocheila (Orchidaceae) in South China: When butterflies take sides. Ecology and Evolution, 11(6), 2849-2861.
11. Tan SL, Hollingsworth PM, Qin HT, Ye LJ, Zou JY, Gao LM*. 2019. Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers for tree peony Paeonia delavayi (Paeoniaceae) using ddRAD-seq data. Molecular Biology Reports, 46, 4605-4610.
12. Tan SL, Luo YH, Hollingsworth PM, Burgess WK, Xu K, Li DZ*, 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.
Academic Profiles
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shao-Lin-Tan
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9977-7773
Educational Experience
- September 2012-Janurary 2019 Postgraduate Education
- September, 2008-June, 2012 Undergraduate Education