Zhi-Yong Zhang,^1,2,*,** Feng-Chun Yang,^3,*** Dong-Mei Cheng,^1,**** David K. Ferguson,^4,***** Wan Hu,^1,****** Yue-Zhuo Li,^5,******* Cheng-Sen Li<sup>2,********

1</sup>aLushan Botanical Garden Jiangxi Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiangxi, Jiujiang, China
²b State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy o
³cCollege of Life Science and Technology, Honghe University, Yunnan, Mengzi, China
⁴dDepartment of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
⁵eQian-Dao-Hu Museum of Natural History, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China

^*CONTACT Zhi-Yong Zhang zzyzwx@126.com Poyang Lake Botanical Garden, Weijia Town, Lianxi District, Jiangxi 332900, China.
^**Zhi-Yong Zhang is an assistant professor at Lushan Botanical Garden, Jiangxi Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Most of his works focus on the modern pollen-vegetation-climate relationships on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. He also works on the modern processes of the proxies of paleovegetation and paleoclimate reconstructions.
^***Feng-Chun Yang got his Ph.D. at Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand. Most of his works focus on global change, especially pollen-vegetation-climate relationships in Quaternary. He also works on the taxonomy of pteridophytes and biodiversity of tropical forest.
^****Dong-Mei Cheng is an assistant professor at Lushan Botanical Garden, Jiangxi Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences. She mainly works on the relationships between woody plant and environments, especially the photosynthetic response of evergreen species to low temperature.
^*****David K. Ferguson is an emeritus professor at the Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Austria. In recent years, he had a Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and continues to collaborate with many Chinese paleobotanists and paleoecologists.
^******Wan Hu completed her master degree from Jiangxi Agricultural University in 2016. She is presently a research assistant at herbarium of Lushan Botanical Garden, Jiangxi Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences.
^*******Yue-Zhuo Li is a director of Qian-Dao-Hu Museum of Natural History.
^********Cheng-Sen Li is a professor, as a paleobotanist, at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main interests are in the plant evolution and environment change.