Deng Tao, Professor, Ph.D.

Curator of Herbarium (KUN), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Tel: +86-871-65223110; Fax: +86-871-65239856

Email: dengtao@mail.kib.ac.cn

Dr. Deng’s research fields include plant taxonomy, molecular phylogeny and biogeography at the evolutionary and ecological time scales. In my research I am using living and fossil plants and apply various methods to acquire and analyze morphological, DNA sequence, and habitat data. He specific skills include generating and processing nucleotide sequences, light and SEM microscopy, basic histology, performing herbarium and field research, and ecological niche modeling. He has a broad knowledge of plant taxonomy with a particular interest in tribes Urticeae (Urticaceae), Theligonum and Kelloggia (Rubiaceae), Meehania (Lamiaceae), Mazaceae, Carpesium, Adenocaulon and Saussurea (Asteraceae). He is interested in tackling broad questions of biogeography and plant evolution.

PUBLICATIONS (^#co-first authors, *Corresponding authors)

2022

Li LJ^#, Xu XT^#, Qian H, Huang XH, Liu PJ, Landis JB, Sun L, Wang HC*, Sun H*, Deng T*. 2022. Elevational patterns of phylogenetic structure of angiosperms in a biodiversity hotspot in eastern Himalaya. Diversity and Distributions http://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13513.
Chen JT^#, Kuang TH^#, Huang XH, Zhang XJ, Sun H*, Deng, T*. 2022. Taxonomic identity of Corydalis lidenii (Papaveraceae). PhytoKeys 190:35-45.
Zhang XJ^#, Kuang TH^#, Chen JT, Li LJ, Peng JY, Guan KL, Huang XH, Wang HC, Deng T*. 2022. Saxifraga sunhangiana (Saxifragaceae), a new species from Gansu, China. Taiwania 67:195-200.
Qian H*, Leprieur F, Jin Y, Wang XL, Deng T*. 2022. Influence of phylogenetic scale on the relationships of taxonomic and phylogenetic turnovers with environment for angiosperms in China. Ecology and Evolution 12: e8544.
Fei WQ, Deng, T, Wang L*. 2022. Ligularia uniflora (Asteraceae, Senecioneae), a remarkable new species from Hubei, China. Phytotaxa 189:51-60.
Qian H*, Deng T*, Ricklefs ER. 2022. Evolutionary assembly of the Arctic flora. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31:396-404.
Lv ZY^#, Yusupov Z^#, Zhang DG^#, Zhang YZ, Zhang XS, Lin N, Tojibaev K, Sun H*, Deng T*. 2022. Oreocharis xieyongii, an unusual new species of Gesneriaceae from west Hunan, China. Plant Diversity https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2021.11.008

2021
Tiamiyu BB, Ngarega BK, Zhang X, Zhang HJ, Kuang TH, Deng T*, Wang HC*. 2021. Estimating the potential impact of climate change on the spatial distribution of Garuga forrestii W.W.Sm an endemic species in China. Forests 12:1708.
Zhang X^#, Landis JB^#, Sun YX, Zhang HJ, Lin N, Bashir, TB, Huang XH, Deng T*, Wang HC*, Sun H*. 2021. Macroevolutionary pattern of Saussurea (Asteraceae) provides insights into the drivers of radiating diversification.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288: 20211575.
Zhang XJ, Chen JT, Li LJ, Luo PR, Peng JY, Huang XH, Sun H*, Deng T*. 2021. Saxifraga viridiflorum, an unusual new species from Guangxi, China. PhytoKeys 184: 19-26.
Fu, QS^#, Huang XH^#, Lv ZY, Chen JT, Liu PJ, Wang HC, Chen JH, Jiang XL, Jin Y*, Sun H*, Deng T*. 2021. Extinction risk in vascular plants and vertebrates is negatively correlated with family size. Global Ecology and Conservation 30:e01781.
Liu Q, Huang GY, Zhang DG, Zhang JW, Deng T*, Li ZM*. 2021. Youngia hangii (Asteraceae, Crepidinae), a new species from Hubei, China. PhytoKeys 182: 27-38.
Sun H*, Li ZM, Landis BJ, Qian LS, Deng T*. 2021. Effects of drainage reorganization on phytogeographic pattern inSino-Himalaya. Alpine Botany online.
Qian H*, Deng T*. 2021. Geographic patterns and climate correlates of the deviation between phylogenetic and taxonomic diversity for angiosperms in China. Biological Conservation 262:109291.
Zhang XJ^#, Chen JT^#, Al-Shehbaz I. A, Liu Q, Li LJ, Liu PJ, Huang XH, Deng T*. 2021. Smelowskia sunhangii(Brassicaceae), a new species from China, with a re-evaluation of the S. tibetica complex. PhytoKeys 178: 179-191.
Lin N, Landis JB, Sun YX, Huang XH, Zhang X, Liu Q, Li ZM, Zhang HJ, Sun H*, Wang HC*, Deng T*. 2021. Demographic history and local adaptation of Myripnois dioica (Asteraceae) provide insight on plant evolution in northern China flora. Ecology and Evolution 11: 8000-8013.
Huang XH^#, Deng T^#, Chen ST^#, Lin N, Yang Y, Hu, GW, Zhou Z, Wang YH, Landis JB, Wang HC*, Tojibaev K*, Sun H*. 2021. Western Tethys Origin, tropical Asia and tropical America disjunction in Berchemia (Rhamneae, Rhamnaceae). Taxon 70:515-525.
Zhang HJ^#, Zhang DG^#, Feng T, Liu Q, Yang JY, Chen L, Wang HC*, Deng T*. 2021. A new species of Potentilla(Potentilleae, Rosaceae) from central China, with reference to molecular and morphological evidence. Phytotaxa480:185-194.
Liu Q^#, Lin N^#, Zhang DG^#, Huang XH, Wang HC, Yang JY, Tojibaev KJ, Lv ZY, Deng T*, Li ZM*. 2021. Trichosanthes sunhangii (Cucurbitaceae), a new species from Hubei, China. Phytotaxa 479: 287-294.
Qian H^#,*, Jin Y^#, Leprieur F, Wang X, Deng T*. 2021. Patterns of phylogenetic beta diversity measured at deep evolutionary histories across geographic and ecological spaces for angiosperms in China. Journal of Biogeography48:773-784.
Zhang YZ^#, Deng T^#, Sun L^#, Landis JB^#, Moore MJ, Wang HC, Wang YH, Hao, XJ, Chen JJ, Li SH, Xu MN, Raven, P*, Sun H*. 2021. Phylogenetic patterns suggest frequent multiple origins of secondary metabolites across the seed-plant ‘tree of life’. National Sciences Review 8:nwaa105.
2020
Chen JT, Huang XH, Lv ZY, Kuang TH, Luo J, Deng YF*, Deng T*. 2020. Strobilanthes sunhangii (Acanthaceae), a new species from Tibet, China. PhytoKeys 166:117-127.
Qian LS^#, Chen JH^#, Deng T*, Sun H*. 2020. Plant diversity of Yunnan: Current situation and future. Plant Diversity42:281-291.
Sun J^#, Zhang DG^#, Lv ZY, Huang XH, Tojibaev KJ, Yang JY, Wang HC*, Deng T*. 2020. Primula sunhangii(Primulaceae), a new species from Hubei, central China. Phytokeys 156:103-112.
Qian H^#, Jin Y^#, Leprieur F, Wang X, Deng T*. 2020. Geographic patterns and environmental correlates of taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity for large-scale angiosperm assemblages in China. Ecography 43:1706-1716.
Lv ZY^#, Zhang DG^#, Huang XH, Yang JY, Tojibaev KJ, Deng T*, Li ZM*. 2020. Geum sunhangii (Rosaceae), an unusual new species from Hubei Province, China. Phytokeys 156:113-124.
Fu, QS, Huang XH, Shen SK, Deng T*, Sun H*. 2020. Current status and application of plant functional traits database based on bibliometric analysis. Chinese Journal of Applied & Environmental Biology. online. (in Chinese)
Sun YX^#, Deng T^#, Zhang AD^#, Moore MJ, Landis JB, Lin N, Zhang HJ, Zhang X, Huang JL, Zhang XJ*, Sun H*, Wang HC*. 2020. Genome Sequencing of the Endangered Kingdonia uniflora (Circaeasteraceae, Ranunculales) Reveals Potential Mechanisms of Evolutionary Specialization. iScience 23:101124
Chen JT^#, Zhang DG^#, Lv ZY, Huang XH, Liu PJ, Yang JN, Yang JY, Tojibaev KJ, Deng T*, Sun H*. 2020. Oxytropis shennongjiaensis (Fabaceae), a new species from Hubei, central China. PhytoKeys 149:117-128.
Sun L^#, Luo J^#, Qian LS, Deng T*, Sun H*. 2020. The relationship between elevation and seed-plant species richness in the Mt. Namjagbarwa region (Eastern Himalayas) and its underlying determinants. Global Ecology and Conservation 23: e01053.
2019
Deng T^#, Lin N^#, Huang XH, Wang HC, Kim, C, Zhang DG, Zhu, WD, Yusupov Z, Tojibaev KS*, Sun H*. 2019. Phylogenetics of Mazaceae (Lamiales), with special reference to intrageneric relationships within Mazus. Taxon 68:1037-1047
Volis S*, Deng T*. 2019. Importance of a single population demographic census as a first step of threatened species conservation planning. Biodiversity & Conservation 29:527-543.
Zhang HJ^#, Feng T^#, Landis JB, Zhang X, Meng AP, Deng T, Sun H*, Wang HC*. 2019. Circumscription of the Sibbaldia procumbens complex (Potentilleae: Rosaceae) in China based on evidence from simple sequence repeat markers and morphology. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 191: 305-314. 
 Qian H^#, Deng T^#, Jin Y^#, Mao L, Zhao D, Ricklefs RE*. 2019. Phylogenetic dispersion and diversity in regional assemblages of seed plants in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America46:23191-23201.
Lin N^#, Zhang DG^#, Huang XH, Zhang JW, Yang JY, Tojibaev K, Wang HC*, Deng T*. 2019. Silene sunhangii(Caryophyllaceae), a new species from China. Phytokeys 135:59-69.
Zhang X^#, Deng T^#, Moore MJ, Lin N, Meng AP, Wang HC, Sun YX, Sun H*. 2019. Plastome sequencing and phylogenomic analysis of Saussurea (Asteraceae: Cardueae). BMC Plant Biology. 19:290.
Lv ZY^#, Huang XH^#, Zhang X, Yusupov Z, Wang HC, Tojibaev KJ, Deng T*, Li ZM*. 2019. Cornus sunhangii(Cornaceae), a new species from Tibet (China). Phytotaxa. 409:273-282.
Huang XH, Lin N, Wang YH*, Deng T*, Sun H*. 2019. Complete chloroplast genome sequences of Poikilospermum lanceolatum (Urticeae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 4:22131-2132.
 Huang XH^#, Deng T^#,*, Moore M.J, Wang HC, Li ZM, Lin N, Yusupov Z, Tojibaev KS, Wang YH*, Sun H*. 2019. Tropical Asian origin, boreotropical migration and long-distance dispersal in the Nettles (Urticaceae, tribe Urticeae).Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 137:190-199
 Qian H^#,*, Sandel B^#, Deng T*, Vetaas OR. 2019. Geophysical, evolutionary and ecological processes interact to drive phylogenetic dispersion in angiosperm assemblages along the longest elevational gradient in the world. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 190:333-344.
Deng T, Abbott RJ, Li WQ, Sun H*, Volis S*. 2019. Genetic diversity hotspots and refugia identified by mapping multi-plant species haplotype diversity in China. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 66:136-151.
Zhang XS^#, Jiang ZL^#, Yusupov Z^#, Zhang MH, Zhang DG, Meng Y*, Deng T*. 2019. Prunus sunhangii, A new species of Rosaceae from Central China. Plant Diversity 42(1):19-25.
Qian H^#,*, Deng T^#,*, Sun H. 2019. Global and regional tree species diversity. Journal of Plant Ecology 12:210-215.
2018
Qian H^#, Deng T^#, Beck J, Ma KP, Sun H, Xiao C, Jin Y. 2018. Incomplete species lists derived from global and regional specimen-record databases affect macroecological analyses: a case study on the vascular plants of China. Journal of Biogeography. 45(12): 2718-2729.
 Zhang YZ^#, Deng T^#, Li YB, Qian H, Tojibaev SK, Zhang JW*, Sun H*. 2018. Taxonomic revision of Carpesiumlinearibracteatum (Asteraceae: Inulinae) from China. Phytotaxa 371: 111-118.
 Lin N^#, Deng T^#, Moore MJ, Sun YX, Huang XH, Sun WG, Luo D, Wang HC*, Zhang JW*, Sun H*. 2018. Phylogeography of Parasyncalathium souliei (Asteraceae) and its potential application in delimiting phylogeoregions in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) - Hengduan Mountains (HDM) hotspot. Frontiers in Genetics. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00171
Chen YS^#, Deng T^#, Zhou Z, Sun H*. 2018. Is the East Asian flora ancient or not? National Science Review 5: 920-932.
Deng T^#, Chen YS^#, Wang HC, Zhang XS, Volis S, Yusupov Z, Qian H, Sun H*. 2018. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of Adenocaulon highlight the biogeographic Links between new and old world. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5: 162.