Research Focus:
Plant Taxonomy, Systematics & Evolution, and 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) Zhihao Fu†, Qinghua Zhan†, Jonathan Lenoir†, Shengwei Wang, Hong Qian, Jiongming Yang, Wenxuan Sun, Yuvenalis Morara Mbuni, Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau, Guangwan Hu, Xue Yan, Qingfeng Wang, Si-Chong Chen*, Yadong Zhou*. 2026. Climate change drives plant diversity attrition at the summit of Mount Kenya. New Phytologist, 251: 610–616.

(2) 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.

(3) Yangyang Liu, Hong Qian, 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.

(4) Sirui Song, Yadong Zhou*. 2025. Anthropogenic and climatic variables jointly shape the global geographical pattern of hybrid plant diversity. Ecology and Evolution, 15: e71512.

(5) 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.

(6) 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.

(7) 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.

(8) 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.

(9) 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.

(10) 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.

(11) Sara Getachew Amenu, Neng Wei, Lei Wu, Oyetola Oyebanji, Guangwan Hu, Yadong Zhou*, Qingfeng Wang*. 2022. Phylogenomic and comparative analysesof Coffeeae alliance (Rubiaceae): Deep insights into phylogenetic relationships and plastome evolution. BMC Plant Biology, 22: 88.

(12) 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.

(13) 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.

(14) 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.

(15) 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.

(16) 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