Call for papers - Plant Diversity in Asia: From Past to Present
Guest Editors: Prof. Shufeng Li, Prof. Min Deng, Dr. Yongjiang Huang
We invite contributions exploring the assembly and transformation of Asian flora across spatio-temporal scales.
This issue focuses on integrating paleobotanical data (macrofossils and palynomorphs), molecular phylogeny,
and ecological studies to understand the evolutionary resilience of Asian ecosystems. We aim to provide essential
context for predicting how biodiversity will respond to ongoing environmental shifts.
More information you can find on the Earth History and Biodiversity Website.
--> Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts at any time before the submission deadline 31 Oct 2026.
Please select “VSI: Plant Diversity in Asia” as your article type.
For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact
Prof. Shufeng Li.
New Special Issue - NECLIME contributions to cenozoic plant diversity in Eurasia - ⚠️ deadline extended!
Guest Editors: Manu Casas Gallego, Marianna Kovacova, Martina Stebich, and Torsten Utescher
The initiative for a new special issue to present some of our current and recent research in the Elsevier journal
Earth History and Biodiversity (HISBIO) is ongoing, with two manuscripts already published.
The aims and scope of the journal widely overlap with the NECLIME scientific topics, which makes it a perfect option to publish
NECLIME related content. During an initial phase, the journal will be sponsored by Elsevier and all
successful submissions before end of 2026 will be published free of charge.
More information you can find on the Earth History and Biodiversity Website.
--> If you are interested in submitting a manuscript and have not done so, please contact
Manu Casas Gallego.
Deadline has been extended to 31 July 2026!
We encourage the NECLIME community to consider submission of their respective research to
HISBIO, also beyond this special issue.
Editor-in-chief Tao Su, Associate Editors José Carrion and Angela Bruch
NECLIME Newsletter 2025
This year's newsletter provides a brief overview of the main activities and achievements of NECLIME over
the past year for your information. We also invite you to take a look at the job announcements and share this information
with colleagues who may be interested.
The past year has been busy for the NECLIME community. We had an outstanding annual meeting in
Croatia, and we hope anyone who attended enjoyed it. The next annual conference will take place in
Xishuangbanna, China, and we are looking forward to seeing you there and enjoying stimulating
scientific exchanges.
You can find the newsletter here.
⇒ If you are aware of any relevant events, open positions or funding opportunities for NECLIME,
please contact the coordination team so we can share this via our mailing list.
New member in the NECLIME coordination team
This year Prof. Shufeng Li from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) joined us as a new
member of our coordination team. Many of you already know him as an outstanding scientist and
active member of our community. We are grateful that he is ready to support our community with
his experience and energy!
Job opportunities
Visiting Fellowship
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences, is looking for
postdoctoral researchers in paleobotany, paleoclimate, and vegetation modeling as well as visiting
scholars and graduate students (MS/PhD) in the fields of "Cenozoic evolution of plant diversity,
vegetation, and climate changes" and "Numeric climate modeling, vegetation and plant diversity
modeling". See details at the newsletter or directly contact Prof. Shufeng Li.
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China
(Location of the NECLIME annual conference 2026)
