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Peer Reviewed Publications
2021
Yu-Han Shi, Zong-Xin Ren, Yan-Hui Zhao, Hong Wang. 2021. Effect of climate change on the distribution and phenology of plants, insect pollinators, and their interactions. Biodiversity Science. 29(4): 495-506. doi: 10.17520/biods.2020196. (In Chinese with English abstract)
Yu-Han Shi, Zong-Xin Ren, Xin Xu, Wei-Jia Wang, Jie Liu, Yan-Hui Zhao, Hong Wang. 2021. Predicting the spatial distribution of three Astragalus species and their pollinating bumblebees in Chinese-Himalayas. Biodiversity Science. 29 (6): 759-769. doi: 10.17520/biods.2020268. (In Chinese with English abstract)
Xing-Hui Chen, Shao-Lin Tan, Yue-Long Liang, Lang Huang, Han-Wen Xiao, Huo-Lin Luo, Dong-Jin Xiong, Bo-Yun Yang*, Zong-Xin Ren*. 2021. The Pollination of Habenaria rhodocheila (Orchidaceae) in South China: When butterflies take sides. Ecology and Evolution. 11: 2849-2861. doi: 10.1002/ece3.7242.
Yan-Hui Zhao, Jane Memmott, Ian P. Vaughan, Hai-Dong Li, Zong-Xin Ren, Amparo Lázaro, Wei Zhou, Xin Xu, Wei-Jia Wang, Huan Liang, De-Zhu Li, Hong Wang. 2021. The impact of a native dominant plant, Euphorbia jolkini, on plant-flower visitor networks and plant reproductive success in sub-alpine meadows of Shangri-La, SW China. Journal of Ecology. 109: 2107-2120. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13624
Joseph Millard, Charlotte L. Outhwaite, Robyn Kinnersley, Robin Freeman, Richard D. Gregory, Opeyemi Adedoja, Sabrina Gavini, Esther Kioko, Michael Kuhlmann, Jeff Ollerton, Zong-Xin Ren, Tim Newbold. 2021. Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity. Nature Communications. 12: 2902. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23228-3.
Judith Trunschke, Klaus Lunau, Graham Pyke, Zong-Xin Ren*, Hong Wang*. 2021. Flower colour evolution and the evidence of pollinator-mediated selection. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12: 617851. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.617851
Huan Liang, Yan-Hui Zhao, Nicole E. Rafferty, Zong-Xin Ren, Li Zhong, Hai-Dong Li, De-Zhu Li, Hong Wang. 2021. Evolutionary and ecological factors structure a plant-bumblebee network in a biodiversity hotspot, the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains. Functional Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13886
Xin Xu, Zong-Xin Ren*, Judith Trunschke, Jonas Kuppler, Yan-Hui Zhao, Eva Knop, Hong Wang*. 2021. Bimodal activity of diurnal flower visitors under extreme conditions at high elevation. Ecology and Evolution. 11: 13487–13500. doi: 10.1002/ece3.8074
Yan-Hui Zhao, Amparo Lazaro, Hai-Dong Li, Zhi-Bin Tao, Huan Liang, Wei Zhou, Zong-Xin Ren, Kun Xu, De-Zhu Li, Hong Wang. 2021. Morphological trait matching in plant-Hymenoptera and plant-Diptera mutualisms across an elevation gradient. Journal of Animal Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13614.
Kit Prendergast, Jair E. Garcia, Scarlett Howard, Zong-Xin Ren, Stuart McFarlane, Adrian Dyer. 2021. Bee representations in human art and culture through the ages. Art & Perception. DOI: 10.1163/22134913-bja10031 (All authors contributed equally to this article.)
Kai-Qin Li, Zong-Xin Ren*, Qiang Li*. 2021. Diversity of flowre visiting beetles at higher elevations on the Yulong Snow Mountain (Yunnan, China). Diversity. 13: 604.
Michael C. Orr, Zong-Xin Ren, Jin Ge, Li Tian, Jiandong An, Jiaxing Huang, Chao-Dong Zhu, Paul Williams. 2021. The rising threat of an invasive bumblebee highlights the need for sales restrictions and domestication of unique local biodiversity in Asia. Entomologia Generalis. Accepted.
2020
Graham H. Pyke*, Zong-Xin Ren*, Judith Trunschke, Klaus Lunau, Hong Wang. 2020. Changes in floral nectar are unlikely adaptive responses to pollinator flight sound. Ecology Letters. 23: 1421-1422. DOI:10.1111/ele.13403.
Mani Shrestha, Adrian G. Dyer, Alan Dorin, Zong-Xin Ren, Martin Burd. 2020. Rewardlessness in orchids: how frequent and how rewardless? Plant Biology, 22: 555-561.
Klaus Lunau*, Zong-Xin Ren*, Xiao-Qing Fan, Graham H. Pyke, Judith Trunschke, Hong Wang. 2020. Nectar mimicry: a new phenomenon. Scientific Reports, 10: 7039. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63997-3.
Paul H. Williams, Dorjsuren Altanchimeg, Alexandr Byvaltsev, Roland Dejonghe, Saleem Jaffar, George Japoshvili, Sih Kahono, Huan Liang, Maurizio Mei, Alireza Monfared, Tshering Nidup, Rifat Raina, Zong-Xin Ren, Chawatat Thanoosing, Yan-Hui Zhao, Michael C. Orr. 2020. Monograph: Widespread polytypic species or complexes of local species? Revising bumblebees of the subgenus Melanobombus world-wide (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus). European Journal of Taxonomy. 719: 1-120.
Zong-Xin Ren, Wendy Grimm, Brian Towle, Qi Qiao, Peter Bernhardt. 2020. Comparative floral traits in Corunastylis (Diurideae; Orchidaceae) with novel applications: do some species bleed or blink? Muelleria. 39: 27-38.
Graham H. Pyke*, Zong-Xin Ren*, Judith Trunschke, Klaus Lunau, Hong Wang. 2020. Salvage of floral resources through re-absorption before flower abscission. Scientific Reports. 10: 15960. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-72994-5.
Retha Edens-Meier, Michael Arduser, Gerardo R. Camilo, Peter Bernhardt, Zong-Xin Ren. 2020. Breeding systems and pollination ecology of Uvularia grandiflora Smith (Colchicaceae). The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 147: 38-48. Doi 10.3159/TORREY-D-19-00015.1
Huolin Luo, Yuelong Liang, Hanwen Xiao, Nannan Liu, Yanru Chen, Wu Wang, Jiang Tang, Dongjin Xiong, Boyun Yang, Zong-Xin Ren. 2020. Deceptive pollination of Calanthe by skippers that commonly act as nectar thieves. Entomological Science, 23: 3-9.
2019
Hui Tang, Michael E. Hood, Zong-Xin Ren, De-Zhu Li, Hai-Dong Li, Lorne M. Wolfe, Hong Wang. 2019. Specificity and seasonal prevalence of anther-smut disease Microbotryum on sympatric Himalayan Silene species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32: 451-462.
Yan-Hui Zhao, Amparo Lázaro, Zong-Xin Ren, Wei Zhou, Hai-Dong Li, Zhi-Bin Tao, Kun Xu, Zhi-Kun Wu, Lorne M. Wolfe, De-Zhu Li, Hong Wang*. 2019. The topological differences between visitation and pollen transport networks: a comparison in species rich communities of the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains. Oikos. 128: 551-562.
Jeff Ollerton, Sigrid Lide-Schumann, Mary Endress, Ulrich Meve, Andre Rodrigo Rech, Adam Shuttleworth, Héctor A Keller, Kayna Agostini, Leonardo Osvaldo Alvarado-Cárdenas, Felipe Amorim, Peter Bernhardt, Ferhat Celep, Yolanda Chirango, Fidel Chiriboga-Arroyo, Laure Civeyrel, Andrea Cocucci, Louise Cranmer, Inara Carolina da Silva-Batista, Linde de Jager, Mariana Scaramussa Deprá, Arthur Domingos-Melo, Courtney Dvorsky, Mark Fishbein, Leandro Freitas, Maria Cristina Gaglianone, Leo Galetto, Mike Gilbert, Ixchel González-Ramirez, Pablo Gorostiague, David Goyder, Annemarie Heiduk, Aaron Howard, Gretchen Ionta, Sofia C Islas-Hernández, Steve Johnson, Lize Joubert, Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury, Susan Kephart, Aroonrat Kidyoo, Suzanne Koptur, Cristiana Koschnitzke, Ellen Lamborn, Tatyana Livshultz, Isabel Cristina Machado, Salvador Marino, Lumi Mema, Ko Mochizuki, Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Morellato, Chediel K Mrisha, Eva Muiruri, Tarcila Nadia, Naoyuki Nakahama, Viviany Teixeira Nascimento, Clive Nuttman, Paulo Eugenio Oliveira, Craig Peter, Sachin Punekar, Joel Queiroz, Zelma Quirino, Nicole Rafferty, Alessandro Rapini, Zong-Xin Ren, Claudia I Rodríguez-Flores, Liliana Rosero, Shoko Sakai, Marlies Sazima, Sandy-Lynn Steenhuisen, Ching-Wen Tan, Carolina Torres, Kristian Trøjelsgaard, Atushi Ushimaru, Milene Faria Vieira, Ana Pía Wiemer and Tadashi Yamashiro. 2019. The diversity and evolution of pollination systems in large plant clades: Apocynaceae as a case study. Annals of Botany. 123: 311-325.
Zong-Xin Ren, Peter Bernhardt, Retha Edens-Meier, Justin Zweck, Mike Arduser, Hai-Dong Li and Hong Wang. 2019. Comparative pollen-pistil interactions and insect-pollination in two Hypoxis species (Hypoxidaceae) in China and North America. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 305: 115-126.
2018
Zhi-Bin Tao, Zong-Xin Ren*, Peter Bernhardt, Huan Liang, Hai-Dong Li, Yan-Hui Zhao, Hong Wang, De-Zhu Li. 2018. Does reproductive isolation reflect the segregation of color forms in the Spiranthes sinensis (Pers.) Ames complex (Orchidaceae) in the Chinese Himalayas? Ecology and Evolution. 8: 5455-5469.
Zhi-Bin Tao, Zong-Xin Ren*, Wei-Jia Wang, Peter Bernhardt, Hai-Dong Li, Hong Wang. 2018. Nocturnal hawkmoth and moth pollination of Habenaria limprichtii Schltr. (Orchidaceae) in sub-alpine meadows of the Yulong Snow Mountain (Yunnan, China). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 187: 483-498.
Huan Liang, Zong-Xin Ren*, Zhi-Bin Tao, Yan-Hui Zhao, Peter Bernhardt, Hong Wang. 2018. Impact of pre- and post-pollination barriers on pollen transfer and reproductive isolation among three sympatric Pedicularis species. Plant Biology. 20: 662-673.
Hai-Dong Li, Zong-Xin Ren, Wei Zhou, Peter Bernhardt, Zhi-Kun Wu, Hong Wang. 2018. Comparative intra- and inter-specific sexual organ reciprocity in four distylous Primula species in the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains. Plant Biology. 20: 643-653.
Christian Verhoeven, Zong-Xin Ren, Klaus Lunau. 2018. False colour photography: A novel digital approach to visualize the bee view of flowers. Journal of Pollination Ecology. 23: 102-118.
Zong-Xin Ren, Yan-Hui Zhao, Huan Liang, Zhi-Bin Tao, Hui Tang, Hai-Ping Zhang and Hong Wang. 2018. Pollination ecology in China from 1977 to 2017. Plant Diversity. 40: 172-180.
2017
Klaus Lunau, Sabine Konzmann, Lena Winter, Vanessa Kamphausen, Zong-Xin Ren. 2017. Pollen and stamen mimicry: the alpine flora as a study case. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 11(3): 427-447.
Hai-Dong Li, Yan-Hui Zhao, Zong-Xin Ren, Zhi-Kun Wu, Lorne M Wolfe, Peter Bernhardt, Hong Wang. 2017. Fitness-related selection on floral traits in the distylous plant Primula poissonii (Primulaceae). Journal of Plant Ecology. 10(3): 559-568.
Peter Bernhardt, Eetha Edens-Meier, Wendy Grimm, Zong-Xin Ren, Brian Towle. 2017. Global Collaborative Research on the Pollination Biology of Rare and Threatened Orchid Species (Orchidaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 102(2): 364-376.
2016
Yan-Hui Zhao, Zong-Xin Ren, Amparo Lázaro, Hong Wang, Peter Bernhardt, Hai-Dong Li, De-Zhu Li. 2016. Floral traits influence pollen vectors' choices in higher elevation communities in the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains. BMC Ecology. 16: 26.
Ze-Qing Niu, Zong-Xin Ren, Chao-DongZhu. 2016. Discovery of the male of Colletes yanruae from Yunnan, China (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae). Zoological Systematics. 41(3): 286-293.
Peter Bernhardt, Retha Edens-Meier, Dowen Jocson, Justin Zweck, Zong-Xin Ren, Gerardo R. Camilo, Michael Arduser. 2016. Comparative floral ecology of bicolorr and concolour morphs of Viola pedata L. (Violaceae) following controlled burns. Journal of Pollination Ecology. 19(9): 57-70.
2015
Shan Chen, Zong-Xin Ren, Hong Wang, Ding Wu. 2015. The classification and functional significance of staminodes in angiosperms. Plant Diversity and Resources. 37:683-692.
Yuan Huang, Nai-Wei Li, Zong-Xin Ren, Gao Chen, Zhi-Kun Wu, Yong-Peng Ma. 2015. Reproductive biology of Primula beesiana (Primulaceae), an alpine species endemic to southwest China. Plant Ecology and Evolution. 148: 289-296.
Hai-Dong Li, Zong-Xin Ren, Zhi-Kun Wu, Hong Wang. 2015. Variation in floral traits of Primula poissonii (Primulaceae) along elevation gradients. Biodiversity Science. Biodiversity Science. 23:747-758.
2014
Zong-Xin Ren, Hong Wang, Peter Bernhardt, De-Zhu Li. 2014. Insect pollination and self-incompatibility in edible and/or medicinal crops in southwestern China, a global hotspot of biodiversity. American Journal of Botany, 101: 1700-1710.
Zong-Xin Ren, Hong Wang, Peter Bernhardt, Gerardo Camilo, De-Zhu Li. 2014. Which food-mimic floral traits and environmental factors influence fecundity in a rare orchid, Calanthe yaoshanensis? Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 176: 421-433.
Xiao-Hua Jin, Zong-Xin Ren, Song-Zhi Xu, Hong Wang, De-Zhu Li, Zheng-Yu Li. 2014. The evolution of floral deception in Epipactis veratrifolia (Orchidaceae): from indirect defense to pollination. BMC Plant Biology, 14: 63.
2012
Zong-Xin Ren, Hong Wang, Yi-Bo Luo. 2012. Deceptive pollination of orchids. Biodiversity Science, 20: 270-279. (In Chinese with English abstract)
Xiao-Hua Jin, De-Zhu Li, Zong-Xin Ren, Xiao-Guo Xiang. 2012. A generalized deceptive pollination system of Doritis pulcherrima (Aeridinae: Orchidaceae) with non-reconfigured pollinaria. BMC Plant Biology, 12: 67.
Feng-Ping Zhang, Xiang-Hai Cai, Hong Wang, Zong-Xin Ren, Zachary Larson-Rabin, De-Zhu Li. 2012. Dark purple nectar as a foraging signal in a bird-pollinated Himalayan plant. New Phytologist, 193: 188-195.
2011
Zong-Xin Ren, Hong Wang, Jin-Xiao Hua, De-Zhu Li. 2011. Calanthe yaoshanensis sp. nov. (Orchidaceae) from northeasternYunnan, China. Nordic Journal of Botany, 29: 54-56.
Zong-Xin Ren, De-Zhu Li, Peter Bernhardt, Hong Wang. 2011. Flowers of Cypripedium fargesii (Orchidaceae) fool flat-footed flies (Platypezidae) by faking fungus-infected foliage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108: 7478-7480.
2007
Zong-Xin Ren, Hong Wang. 2007. Morphological comparison of floral nectaries in Musaceae, with reference to its pollinators. Biodiversity Science, 15: 652-657. (In English with Chinese abstract)
Photos contributed to popular articles
1) Peter Bernhardt. 2016a. Surviving a decade of drought? Some Cypripedium species of Lijiang, Yunnan. Orchids, February 122 - 125. (Contribute photos)
2) Peter Bernhardt. 2016b. A natural history of orchids in Yunnan: Bad times for Cypripediums in Shangri-la. Orchids, March, 206 - 209. (Contribute photos)
3) Peter Bernhardt. 2016. A natural history of pollination at a Shrine. Orchids, October, 764-767. (Contribute photos)
Interviews
Chinese crops and native flora hit by ongoing environmental changes, "The Science Show," ABC radio (Sydney, Australia),
Link: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/chinese-crops-and-native-flora-hit-by-ongoing-environmental-cha/7330268
