Glacial expansion of cold-tolerant species in low latitudes: megafossil evidence and species distribution modelling

Luliang Huang; Shufeng Li; Weiye Huang; Helanlin Xiang; Jianhua Jin; Alexei A Oskolski

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwad038

Glacial expansion of cold-tolerant species in low latitudes: megafossil evidence and species distribution modelling

Natl Sci Rev. 2023 Feb 15;10(4):nwad038. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwad038. eCollection 2023 Apr.

Authors

Luliang Huang^{1

2}, Shufeng Li³, Weiye Huang¹, Helanlin Xiang¹, Jianhua Jin¹, Alexei A Oskolski^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences/School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
³ CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
⁴ Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁵ Botanical Museum, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.

Abstract

Fossil wood of Chinese white pine (Pinus armandii Franch.) from the Late Pleistocene deposits of Maoming Basin of South China provides the first megafossil evidence for glacial expansion of the range of a cold-tolerant species in low latitudes.