Proposed Symposium Title: RELICT PLANT VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Abstract: Relict plants are those that remain from a group largely extinct, identified by both phylogenetic analysis and the fossil record. They were once abundanct in a large area but now only occurs at one or a few small areas. Thus, most relict plants are evalated as red-list species calling for conservation efforts. Also, relict plants are particularly useful systems to test the hypotheses of evolutionary stasis , population stability in long-term refugia and evolutionary footprints of a cold relic in a rapidly warming world, etc. Those are welcome to this symposium who are interested in relict plants' response to climate changes using genomics, occurrence and fossil data to address key questions of ecology, evolution and conservation of relict plants.
Speaker 1: Yongchuan Yang
Chongqing Universiy
ycyang@cqu.edu.cn
Local belief as a conservation driver of golden larch (Pseudolarix amabilis) in China
Speaker 2: Gongle Shi
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Science
glshi@nigpas.ac.cn
morphological stasis of relict plants evidenced in Jurassic fossils
Speaker 3: Wenhao Li
Zhejiang University
wenhao_li@zju.edu.cn
Genomic vulnerability to rapid climate warming in relict plants of China
Topics (Up to three): Global Change Ecology
Topic 2: Conservation Biology
Topic 3: Population Genetics
Justification: 1. Relict plants are a group of unique plants arracting interests from both public and academic.
2. They are particularly useful to address central questions of extinction, competition and adaptation.
3. discussion on future researches is needed based on the summary of the current progresses
