Climate change drives plant diversity attrition at the summit of Mount Kenya

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

doi:10.1111/nph.20344

Climate change drives plant diversity attrition at the summit of Mount Kenya

New Phytol. 2024 Dec 17. doi: 10.1111/nph.20344. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Zhihao Fu^#¹, Qinghua Zhan^#¹, Jonathan Lenoir^#², Shengwei Wang^{3

4}, Hong Qian⁵, Jiongming Yang¹, Wenxuan Sun¹, Yuvenalis Morara Mbuni⁶, Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau⁶, Guangwan Hu^{3

4

7}, Xue Yan^{3

4}, Qingfeng Wang^{3

4}, Si-Chong Chen^{3

8}, Yadong Zhou¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031, Jiangxi, China.
² UMR CNRS 7058, Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés (EDYSAN), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, 1 Rue des Louvels, 80000, France.
³ State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China.
⁴ Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China.
⁵ Research and Collections Center, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, 62703, IL, USA.
⁶ East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, PO Box 45166 00100, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁷ Hubei Jiangxia Laboratory, Wuhan, 430200, Hubei, China.
⁸ Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Wakehurst, RH17 6TN, UK.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 39690499
DOI: 10.1111/nph.20344

No abstract available

Keywords: Africa; biodiversity redistribution; climate change; elevational range dynamics; plant specimens; species migration; species range shifts; tropical mountains.

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