Lixiangchuan Associate professor

• Department: School of Earth Sciences and Resources
• Gender: male
• BirthDate: 1982-01-28
• Career: Associate professor
• Degree: Ph.D
• Academic Credentials: Doctor
• Graduate School: Lanzhou University
• Tel:
• Email: lixch05@chd.edu.cn
• Address School: No. 126 Yanta Road, Xi’an City
• PostCode School: 710054
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• Office Location: Office 212, Resource Building
• Education experience:

  • Ph.D., Lanzhou University, China, 09/2005-06/2010, Palaeontology and stratigraphy.

  • B.Sc., Lanzhou University, China, 09/2001-/062005, Geology.

  
  

07/2010-11/2017  Assistant Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Resources, Chang’an University

·        11/2017-11/2019  Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Resources, Chang’an University

         12/2019-12/2020  Postdoctoral fellow, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

         12/2020-present  Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Resources, Chang’an University

Botanical Society of America member (2020.6 to present)

Deputy Secretary General of Education and Teaching Committee of Paleontology Society of China (2021.7-)

• Systematics and anatomy of Chinese Cenozoic Plants (e.g. Altay, Zeku, Songpan)

• Quantitative paleoclimatic reconstructions (e.g. CLAMP, LMA) based on macrofossil plants

• Paleoecological and paleogeographical patterns and dynamics of fossil and living seed plants (e.g., East Asian endemics, East Asian-Southeast North American disjuncts)

2019-2023 ¥2,290,000-National Natural Science Foundation of China, International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Project (Key Project): Latitudinal migration and its environmental background of plants in paleogene Eurasia (No. 41820104002).

2019-2022 ¥660,000-National Natural Science Foundation of China: Reconstruction of ancient atmospheric CO₂ based on fossil leaf stomata and comparative carbon isotopes (No. 41872017).

2019-2022 ¥80,000-State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS): Paleocene components of the Altay flora and their implication for the paleoenvironment for central Asia (No. 193113).(Principal)

2019-2020  ¥30,000-Natural Science Basic Research Program in Shanxi Province of China: High resolution leaf physiognomic analysis of the Miocene of Songpan and its implication for neotectonic activities in West Qin Mountains (2019JM-401).(Principal)

2018-2020 ¥80,000-State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS): Study on the Neogene plant fossils and stable isotopes of Zhuozi, Inner Mongolia (No. 183125).

2018-2021 ¥720,000-National Natural Science Foundation of China: The Miocene sedimentary records form the Jianza Basin in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and its paleoenvironmental significance (No. 41772167).

2017-2018 ¥150,000-Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central College, Chang’an University: The Neogene flora and tectonic uplift in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (No. 310827172005). (Principal)

2015-2018 ¥110,000-State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS): The Miocene paleocarpologic study and burial analysis in Zeku, Qinghai Province (No. 153108). (Principal)

2014-2015 ¥50,000-Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central College, Chang’an University: Study on Miocene fruit seed fossils and paleoclimate in Xinchang, Zhejiang Province (No. 2014G1271061). (Principal)

2013-2015 ¥250,000-National Natural Science Foundation of China: The Miocene plant fossils from Zeku, Qinghai Province and its paleoclimate indication (No. 41202008). (Principal)

2013-2015 ¥250,000-National Natural Science Foundation of China: Biomolecular characteristics of the Miocene fossil plants from Tiantai county, Zhejiang province and its preservational mechanism (No. 41202009).

2011-2013 ¥40,000-Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central College, Chang’an University: The Miocene flora from Zeku, Qinghai and its paleoclimate (No. CHD2011JC122). (Principal)

·Xiangchuan Li*, Steven R. Manchester*, Julian E. Correa-Narvaez, Patrick S. Herendeen. 2021. An extinct fruit species of Fabaceae from the early Eocene of northwestern Wyoming, USA. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 182(8): 730-746. (SCI)

·Xiang-Chuan Li*, Steven R. Manchester, Liang Xiao, Qin Wang, Yi Hu, Bai-Nian Sun*. 2021. Ormosia (Fabaceae: Faboideae) from the Miocene of southeastern China support historical expansion of the tropical genus in East Asia. Historical Biology, 33(12): 3561–3578.

·Xiang-Chuan Li*, Steven R. Manchester, Qin Wang, Liang Xiao, Tian-Long Qi, Yun-Zhi Yao, Dong Ren, Qiang Yang. 2021. A unique record of Cercis from the late early Miocene of interior Asia and its significance for paleoenvironment and paleophytogeography. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 59(6): 1321-1338.

·Li Xiangchuan*, Ma Fujun*, Xiao Liang, He Wenlong, Sun Bainian*, Quan Cheng, Yao Yunzhi, Ren Dong, Wang Xing, Wang Qin, Xie Sanping. 2019. New records of Podocarpium A. Braun ex Stizenberger (Fabaceae) from the Oligocene to Miocene of China: Reappraisal of the phylogeographical history of the genus. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 260: 38-50.

·Hui Zhengchuang*, Li Xiangchuan, Ma Zhenhua, Xiao Liang, Zhang Jun, Chang Jing. 2018. Miocene pollen assemblages from the Zeku Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, and their palaeoecological and palaeoaltimetric implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 511: 419-432.

·Wenlong He* , Liang Xiao, Xiangchuan Li, Shuangxing Guo. 2018. An ancient example of Platycladus (Cupressceae) from the early Miocene of northern China: origin and biogeographical implications. Historical Biology, 30(8):1123-1131.

·Qiang Yang, Chaofan Shi, Xiangchuan Li, Hong Pang*, Dong Ren*. 2018. The first fossil brown lacewing from the Miocene of the Tibetan Plateau (Neuroptera, Hemerobiidae). ZooKeys, 726: 145–154.

·Li Xiang-chuan*, GUO Zheng-hong, HE Wen-long, XIAO Liang, DAI Jing, SUN Nan, WANG Nan, LI Rui-yun. Quantitative palaeoclimate reconstructions of the Early Miocene megaflora of Jinggu, Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica , 56(4): 549-561

·YI LI, XIAOHUI LIU, DONG REN, XIANGCHUAN LI, YUNZHI YAO*. 2017. First report of Cixiidae insect fossils from the Miocene of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and their palaeoenvironmental implications. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 41 (1): 54-60.

·Xiangchuan Li*, Liang Xiao, Zhicheng Lin, Wenlong He, Qiang Yang, Yunzhi Yao, Dong Ren, Junfeng Guo, Shuangxing Guo. 2016. Fossil fruits of Koelreuteria (Sapindaceae) from the Miocene of northeastern Tibetan Plateau and their palaeoenvironmental, phytogeographic and phylogenetic implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 234: 125–135.

·Xiao Liang*, Yang Hong, He Yuli, He Wenlong, Li Xiangchuan, Guo Junfeng and Hui Kaixuan. 2015. Biomolecular Preservation of Miocene Fossil Liquidambar from Tiantai, China and Clarkia, USA: Implications for Palaeoenvironmental Study. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 2015: 89(4), pp 1076-1087.

·Li Xiangchuan*, Wang Haofei, Leng Qin, Xiao Liang, Guo Junfeng, He Wenlong. 2014. Paliurus (Paliureae, Rhamnaceae) from the Miocene of East China and its Macrofossil-based Phylogenetic and Phytogeographical History. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 88(5), pp 1364-1377.

·LI Xiang-chuan*, SUN Bai-nian, XIAO Liang, DING Su-ting, HE Wen-long, DU Bao-xia. 2014. Stratum characteristics of the Neogene Shengxian Formation in Zhejiang Province and its related fossil studies. Journal of Lanzhou University (Natural Sciences): 50(2), 145-153.

·Li Xiangchuan, Sun Bainian*, Xiao Liang, Wu Jingyu, Lin Zhicheng. 2010. Leaf macrofossils of Ilex protocornuta sp. nov. (Aquifoliaceae) from the Late Miocene, East China: implications for palaeoecology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 161 (1-2):87-103.

·LI Xiang-chuan,* SUN Bai-nian, LIN Zhi-cheng, DING Su-ting, XIAO Liang, WU Jing-yu. 2010. Epidermal anatomy of the genus Ilex and its taxonomic significance. Journal of Lanzhou University (Natural Sciences): 46(4): 9, 13-21.

2010, Second-class Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Gansu Province, China: Geological characteristics and metallogenic rules of the polymetallic deposits in the Jinfosi rock mass of the western section of north Qilian Mountain (2009-J2-036-R6)

• 12/2019-12/2020 Postdoctoral fellow, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida 

• 07/2010-11/2017 Assistant Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Resources, Chang’an University

• 11/2017-present Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Resources, Chang’an University