Bo Liu
Lecturer, Ph. D (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Postal address:College of Life and Environmental Sciences,Minzu University of China,27 Zhongguancun South Avenue, Haidian district, Beijing 100081,P. R. China
Phone: +86-10-6893 6070
E-mail: liubo.leo@gmail.com
Teaching
Ethnobotany, Plant Resources, Ethnoecology
Research Interests
1.Ethnobotanical investigation and documentation, and evaluation of traditional botanical knowledge
Integrated investigation, documentation and digitization of traditional botanical knowledge, through multidisciplinary approaches including ethnobotany, cultural anthropology, taxonomy, ecology, participatory rural appraisal (PRA); Scientific evaluation for traditional botanical knowledge, traditional genetic resources and ethnotaxa, through the approaches of phytochemistry, molecular biology, spectroscopy, pharmacology etc.; and impacts of human dimension on plant diversity.
2. Taxonomy of Symplocaceae
By integrating multidiscipline evidences, including Morphological character, Leaf epidermal micro-morphology, Palynology, Numerical taxonomy and Molecular systematic, to make species delimitation in Symplocaceae, and discuss the infrafamilial and infrageneric classification.
Representative papers
1. Bo Liu, Hai ning Qin. Taxonomic Revision of theSymplocos nakaharae(Hayata) Masam. complex (Symplocaceae) with special reference to fruit morphology.Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 51 (1): 94-114 (2013). (SCI, IF=1.851).
2. Yan Ju, Jing xian Zhuo,Bo Liuand Chun lin Long. Eating from the wild: diversity of wild edible plants used by Tibetans in Shangri-la region, Yunnan, China.Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 9 (1): 28(2013). (SCI, IF=2.420).
3. Committee of Red List. Red List of Biodiversity in China——Higher plants. Beijing: Science Press (2013).
4. Hai ning Qin, Sheng xiang Yu, Yan Liu, Hong Jiang, Chao yi Deng, Bin Zhou,Bo Liu. Important plant resources in Karst Region of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi. Beijing: Science Press (2013).
5. Ce ming Tan,Bo Liu. A common Latin-Chinese taxonomic dictionary (In press).
6. Bo Liu.Bretschneidera sinensisHemsl. In IUCN Red List eds. Species on the Edge of Survival. Harpercollins. 87 (2012).
7. Bo Liu, Zhen yu Li, Bing Liu, Qin wen Lin. The index of higher plants in Zhoukoudian Site. Lei Shi, Zhen yu Li, Qi Wang (eds.): Plants of Zhou Koudian site. Beijing: Beijing Publishing House, 25–168 (2012).
8. Bo Liu, Rui Cao. Population drastically declines inCistanche deserticola Ma. Science World, 6: 027 (2007).
