2005-09--2010-11 PhD: Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2001-09--2005-07 Bachelor's Degree: School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University
2015-01~Present - Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Associate Researcher
2013-02~2014-02 - Saint Louis University, USA - Visiting Scholar
2011-01~2014-12 - Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Assistant Researcher
2016: First Prize, Provincial Level - New Discoveries in Plant Pollination Mechanisms and Reproductive Adaptation Functions
2011: Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Award, Ministerial Level
2011: First Prize, Provincial Level - 10th Yunnan Province Excellent Scientific Paper Award
Research
Pollination Ecology Plant Reproductive Ecology
Flowering phenology differs among wet and dry sub-alpine meadows in southwestern China., Shristhi Nepal, Judith Trunschke, ZongXin Ren, Kevin S Burgess, Hong Wang, 2024
Ethnobotanical study on medicinal plants used by the Yi people in Xiaoliangshan, Yunnan Province, SW China., YiWon Addi, ZongXin Ren, Susan Rutherford, XiaoYong Ding, ChangAn Guo, Xiong Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Heping Liao, Yuhua Wang, 2024
The adaptation of bumblebees to extremely high elevation associated with their gut microbiota., JiuHong Dong, Xin Xu, ZongXin Ren, YanHui Zhao, Yaran Zhang, Li Chen, You Wu, Guotao Chen, Ruiqing Cao, Qi Wu, Hong Wang, 2024
Community-wide patterns in pollen and ovule production, their ratio (P/O), and other floral traits along an elevation gradient in southwestern China., Shristhi Nepal, Judith Trunschke, ZongXin Ren, Kevin S Burgess, Hong Wang, 2023
Comparative pollination ecology, fruit and seed set in Corunastylis species (Orchidaceae)., Ren, ZongXin, Grimm, Wendy, Towle, Brian, Qiao, Qi, Bickel, Daniel J, Outim, Soraya K M, Bernhardt, Peter, 2023
Swallowtail butterflies and hawkmoths contribute equally to the pollination of Habenaria dentata (Orchidaceae)., Tan, ShaoLin, Chen, Xing Hui, Liao, Hai Hong, Huang, Lang, Xiao, HanWen, Luo, HuoLin, Xiong, DongJin, Yang, BoYun, Ren, ZongXin, 2023
Agricultural pesticide regulatory environment for pollinator protection across geographical regions., Phan, Ngoc T, Rajotte, Edwin G, Smagghe, Guy, Ren, ZongXin, Biddinger, David J, Joshi, Neelendra K, 2023
Pollination crisis Down-Under: Has Australasia dodged the bullet?., Pyke, Graham H, Prendergast, Kit S, Ren, ZongXin, 2023
Opportunities and challenges in Asian bee research and conservation., Natapot Warrit, John Ascher, Parthib Basu, Vasuki Belavadi, Axel Brockmann, Damayanti Buchori, James B Dorey, Alice Hughes, Smitha Krishnan, Hien T Ngo, Paul Williams, ChaoDong Zhu, Dharam Abrol, Kamal Bawa, Chet Bhatta, Renee M Borges, Silas Bossert, Cleofas Cervancia, Nontawat Chatthanabun, Douglas Chesters, Phung Huu Chinh, Kedar Devkota, Hanh Pham Duc, Rafael Ferrari, Lucas Garibaldi, Jin Ge, Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Dunyuan Huang, Chuleui Jung, AlexandraMaria Klein, Jonathan Berenguer Uhuad Koch, Erin Krichilsky, Krushnamegh Kunte, Tial C Ling, Shanlin Liu, Xiuwei Liu, Arong Luo, Shiqi Luo, Junpeng Mu, Tshering Nidup, ZeQing Niu, A Mustafa NurZati, Shannon B Olsson, Gard W Otis, Fang Ouyang, YanQiong Peng, Windra Priawandiputra, Maxim Proshchalykin, Rika Raffiudin, Anandhan Rameshkumar, Zongxin Ren, Azhagarraja Suruliraj, Sanjay Sane, Xiaoyu Shi, Palatty Allesh Sinu, Deborah R Smith, Zestin WW Soh, Hema Somananthan, Tuanjit Sritongchuay, Alyssa B Stewart, Cheng Sun, Min Tang, Chawatat Th, 2023
Floral nectar reabsorption and a sugar concentration gradient in two long-spurred Habenaria species (Orchidaceae)., Zhang, HaiPing, Wen, ShiJia, Wang, Hong, Ren, ZongXin, 2023
Floral nectar production: what cost to a plant?., Pyke, Graham H, Ren, ZongXin, 2023
斯勒卷瓣兰，中国云南南部兰科一新种., 韩周东, 任宗昕, 蒋宏, 王红, 2023
The rising threat of an invasive bumblebee highlights the need for sales restrictions and domestication of unique local biodiversity in Asia., ORR MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER, 任宗昕, Ge Jin, Tian Li, An Jiandong, 黄家兴, Zhu Chaodong, Williams, Paul H, 2022
Reproductive Isolation Among Three Nocturnal Moth-Pollinated Sympatric Habenaria Species (Orchidaceae)., Zhang, HaiPing, Tao, ZhiBin, Trunschke, Judith, Shrestha, Mani, Scaccabarozzi, Daniela, Wang, Hong, Ren, ZongXin, 2022
Bumblebees of the hypnorum- complex world-wide including two new near-cryptic species (Hymenoptera: Apidae)., Williams, Paul H, Dorji, Phurpa, Ren, Zongxin, Xie, Zhenghua, Orr, Michael, 2022
When did bumblebees reach South America? Unexpectedly old montane species may be explained by Mexican stopover (Hymenoptera: Apidae)., Williams, Paul H, Francoso, Elaine, Martinet, Baptiste, Orr, Michael C, Ren, Zongxin, Santos Junior, Jose, Thanoosing, Chawatat, Vandame, Remy, 2022
Bee representations in human art and culture through the ages., Kit S. Prendergast, Jair E. Garcia, Scarlett R. Howard, Ren Zongxin, Stuart J. McFarlane, Adrian G. Dyer, 2022
Morphological trait matching in plant-Hymenoptera and plant-Diptera mutualisms across an elevation gradient., Zhao Yanhui, Amparo Lázaro, Li Haidong, Tao Zhibin, Liang Huan, Zhou Wei, Ren Zongxin, Xu Kun, Dezhu Li, Wang Hong, 2022
A joint call for actions to advance taxonomy in China., Chaodong Zhu, Arong Luo, Ming Bai, Michael COrr, Zhonge Hou, Siqin Ge, Jun Chen, Yibo Hu, Xuming Zhou, Gexia Qiao, Hongzhi Kong, Limin Lu, Xiaohua Jin, Lei Cai, Xinli Wei, Ruilin Zhao, Wei Miao, Qingfeng Wang, Zhongli Sha, Qiang Lin, Meng Qu, Jianping Jiang, Jiatang Li, Jing Che, Xuelong Jiang, Xiaoyong Chen, Lianming Gao, Zongxin Ren, Chunlei Xiang, Shixiao Luo, Donghui Wu, Dong Liu, Yanqiong Peng, Tao Su, Chenyang Cai, Tianqi Zhu, Wanzhi Cai, Xingyue Liu, Hu Li, Huaijun Xue, Zhen Ye, Xuexin Chen, Pu Tang, Shujun Wei, Hong Pang, Qiang Xie, Feng Zhang, Feng Zhang, Xianjin Peng, Aibing Zhang, Taiping Gao, Changfa Zhou, Chen Shao, Libin Ma, Zhaoming Wei, Yunxia Luan, Ziwei Yin, Wu Dai, Cong Wei, Xiaolei Huang, Jingxian Liu, Xiangsheng Chen, Tianci Yi, Zhisheng Zhang, Zhulidezi Aishan, Qin Li, Hongying Hu, 2022
Flower visitors have a taste for salt, but this may have little relevance to nectar evolution: a comment on Finkelstein et al. 2022., Graham H Pyke, ZongXin Ren, 2022
Did pollination exist before plants?., Ollerton, Jeff, Ren, ZongXin, 2022
Observations on the pollination and breeding systems of two Corybas species (Diurideae; Orchidaceae) by fungus gnats (Mycetophilidae) in southwestern Yunnan, China., ZhouDong Han, You Wu, Peter Bernhardt, Hong Wang, ZongXin Ren, 2022
Yunnan mushroom Summers., Peter Bernhardt, 任宗昕, 2022
Diversity of flowre visiting beetles at higher elevations on the Yulong Snow Mountain (Yunnan, China)., Li Kaiqin, Ren Zongxin, Li Qiang, 2021
The pollination of Habenaria rhodocheila (Orchidaceae) in South China: When butterflies take sides., Chen, XingHui, Tan, ShaoLin, Liang, YueLong, Huang, Lang, Xiao, HanWen, Luo, HuoLin, Xiong, DongJin, Yang, BoYun, Ren, ZongXin, 2021
Bimodal activity of diurnal flower visitation at high elevation., Xu, Xin, Ren, ZongXin, Trunschke, Judith, Kuppler, Jonas, Zhao, YanHui, Knop, Eva, Wang, Hong, 2021
Evolutionary and ecological factors structure a plant-bumblebee network in a biodiversity hotspot, the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains., Liang, Huan, Zhao, YanHui, Rafferty, Nicole E, Ren, ZongXin, Zhong, Li, Li, HaiDong, Li, DeZhu, Wang, Hong, 2021
Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity., Millard, Joseph, Outhwaite, Charlotte L, Kinnersley, Robyn, Freeman, Robin, Gregory, Richard D, Adedoja, O
