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Name:
SU Tao
Education:
Ph.D
Positions:
 
Academic title:
Professor
Postal Code:
666303
Subject categories:
Paleobotany,Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology
Mailing Address:
XTBG, Menglun, Mengla, 666303, Yunnan, China
E-mail:
sutao@xtbg.org.cn

Resume:
 

  Sex: Male  

  Birth Date: July, 1982  

  Birth Place: Jianyang, Sichuan  

  EDUCATION  

  2005/9 - 2011/1 Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D., Botany,   

  2001/9 - 2005/7 Sichuan Agriculture University, Bachelor Degree, Biology  

  ROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE   

  2014/01 -: Associate Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences  

  2013/08 -2014/01: Visiting Scholar, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University  

   2011/03 - 2013.12: Research Assistant, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

  Research and Interests: 

I use plant fossils to understand the biodiversity in reponse to paleoclimatic changes throughout Cenozoic. Currently, I am studying several Neogene floras in SW China, e.g., Yunnan, and Tibet. I believe plant fossils can tell us many interesting stories about life in deep time. 

Direction:
  Paleobotany, Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology

Achievements:
 

Article:
 

  

1.Zhang XW, Gelin U, Spicer RA, Wu FX, Farnsworth A, Chen PR, Del Rio C, Li SF, Liu J, Huang J et al: Rapid Eocene diversification of spiny plants in subtropical woodlands of central Tibet. Nature Communications 2022, 13(1). 

2.Su T, Spicer RA, Wu FX, Farnsworth A, Huang J, Del Rio C, Deng T, Ding L, Deng WYD, Huang YJ et al: A Middle Eocene lowland humid subtropical "Shangri-La" ecosystem in central Tibet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020, 117(52):32989-32995. 

3.Su T, Spicer RA, Li SH, Xu H, Huang J, Sherlock S, Huang YJ, Li SF, Wang L, Jia LB et al: Uplift, climate and biotic changes at the Eocene-Oligocene transition in south-eastern Tibet. National Science Review 2019, 6(3):495-504. 

4.Su T, Farnsworth A, Spicer RA, Huang J, Wus FX, Liu J, Li SF, Xing YW, Huang YJ, Deng WYD et al: No high Tibetan Plateau until the Neogene. Science Advances 2019, 5(3). 

5.Jia LB, Su T, Huang YJ, Wu FX, Deng T, Zhou ZK: First fossil record of Cedrelospermum (Ulmaceae) from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Implications for morphological evolution and biogeography. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2019, 57(2):94-104. 

6.Su T, Li SF, Tang H, Huang YJ, Li SH, Deng CL, Zhou ZK: Hemitrapa Miki (Lythraceae) from the earliest Oligocene of southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its phytogeographic implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 2018, 257:57-63. 

7.Linnemann U, Su T, Kunzmann L, Spicer RA, Ding WN, Spicer TEV, Zieger J, Hofmann M, Moraweck K, Gartner A et al: New U-Pb dates show a Paleogene origin for the modern Asian biodiversity hot spots. Geology 2018, 46(1):3-6. 

8.Ding WN, Kunzmann L, Su T, Huang J, Zhou ZK: A new fossil species of Cryptomeria (Cupressaceae) from the Rupelian of the Luhe Basin, Yunnan, East Asia: Implications for palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 2018, 248:41-51. 

9.Su T, Huang YJ, Meng J, Zhang ST, Huang J, Zhou ZK: A Miocene leaf fossil record of Rosa (R-fortuita n. sp.) from its modern diversity center in SW China. Palaeoworld 2016, 25(1):104-115. 

10.Su T, Wilf P, Huang YJ, Zhang ST, Zhou ZK: Peaches Preceded Humans: Fossil Evidence from SW China. Scientific Reports 2015, 5. 

11.Su T, Adams JM, Wappler T, Huang YJ, Jacques FMB, Liu YS, Zhou ZK: Resilience of plant-insect interactions in an oak lineage through Quaternary climate change. Paleobiology 2015, 41(1):174-186. 

12.Su T, Wilf P, Xu H, Zhou ZK: MIOCENE LEAVES OF ELAEAGNUS (ELAEAGNACEAE) FROM THE QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU, ITS MODERN CENTER OF DIVERSITY AND ENDEMISM. American Journal of Botany 2014, 101(8):1350-1361. 

13.Su T, Spicer RA, Liu YS, Huang YJ, Xing YW, Jacques FMB, Chen WY, Zhou ZK: Regional constraints on leaf physiognomy and precipitation regression models: a case study from China. Bulletin of Geosciences 2013, 88(3):595-608. 

14.Su T, Liu YS, Jacques FMB, Huang YJ, Xing YW, Zhou ZK: The intensification of the East Asian winter monsoon contributed to the disappearance of Cedrus (Pinaceae) in southwestern China. Quaternary Research 2013, 80(2):316-325. 

15.Su T, Jacques FMB, Spicer RA, Liu YS, Huang YJ, Xing YW, Zhou ZK: Post-Pliocene establishment of the present monsoonal climate in SW China: evidence from the late Pliocene Longmen megaflora. Climate of the Past 2013, 9(4):1911-1920. 

16.Su T, Jacques FMB, Ma HJ, Zhou ZK: Fossil fruits of Ailanthus confucii from the Upper Miocene of Wenshan, Yunnan Province, southwestern China. Palaeoworld 2013, 22(3-4):153-158. 

17.Su T, Jacques FMB, Liu YS, Xiang JY, Xing YW, Huang YJ, Zhou ZK: A new Drynaria (Polypodiaceae) from the Upper Pliocene of Southwest China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 2011, 164(1-2):132-142. 

  

  

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