Tao Su
Editors, Plant Diversity
Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China
Area of expertise: Paleobotany, Plant Evolution, Paleoecology
Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China
Area of expertise: Paleobotany, Plant Evolution, Paleoecology
Title: Professor
Email: sutao@cdut.edu.cn
Web-link of Research Group: https://icpr.cdut.edu.cn
Selected publications:
Gao, Y., Song, A., Cai, W.-J., Spicer, R.A., Zhang, R., Liu, J., Srivastava, G., Yao, X.-R., Qin, X.-Y., Tang, H., Li, S.-F.*, Su, T.*, 2025. Tibetan Plateau palm fossils prove the Kohistan-Ladakh Island Arc is a floristic steppingstone between Gondwana and Laurasia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 334, 105255.
Zhang, X.-W.*, Liu, J., Spicer, R.A., Gao, Y., Yao, X.-R., Qin, X.-Y., Zhou, Z.-K., Su, T.*, 2025. Vegetation history of the central Tibetan region during the late Oligocene–Early Miocene. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 63, 39–52.
Zhao, Y., Wappler, T., Labandeira, C., Huang, J., Song, A., Xie, S., Jia, L., Deng, W., Su, T.*, 2024. Cenozoic Dalbergia (Fabaceae) plant fossils from Southwest China: Biogeographic implications and plant-insect interactions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 647, 112260.
苏涛*, 刘佳, 陈琳琳, 黄健, 张馨文, 吴飞翔, 倪喜军, 邓涛, 周浙昆, 2024. 希夏邦马峰高山栎类化石的再发现及其意义. 岩石学报 40, 1382–1393.
Gao, Y., Song, A., Deng, W.-Y.-D., Chen, L.-L., Liu, J., Li, W.-C., Srivastava, G., Spicer, R.A., Zhou, Z.-K., Su, T.*, 2023. The oldest fossil record of Bauhinia s.s. (Fabaceae) from the Tibetan Plateau sheds light on its evolutionary and biogeographic implications. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 21, 2244495.
Zhang, X.-W., Gélin, U., Spicer, R.A., Wu, F.-X., Farnsworth, A., Chen, P., Del Rio, C., Li, S.-F., Liu, J., Huang, J., Spicer, T.E.V., Tomlinson, K.W., Valdes, P.J., Xu, X.-T., Zhang, S.-T., Deng, T., Zhou, Z.-K., Su, T.*, 2022. Rapid Eocene diversification of spiny plants in subtropical woodlands of central Tibet. Nature Communications 13, 3787.
Su, T.*, Farnsworth, A., Spicer, R.A., Huang, J., Wu, F.-X., Liu, J., Li, S.-F., Xing, Y.-W., Huang, Y.-J., Deng, W.-Y.-D., Tang, H., Xu, C.-L., Zhao, F., Srivastava, G., Valdes, P.J., Deng, T., Zhou, Z.-K.*, 2019. No high Tibetan Plateau until the Neogene. Science Advances 5, eaav2189.
Su, T.*, Spicer, R.A., Li, S.-H., Xu, H., Huang, J., Sherlock, S., Huang, Y.-J., Li, S.-F., Wang, L., Jia, L.-B., Deng, W.-Y.-D., Liu, J., Deng, C.-L., Zhang, S.-T., Valdes, P.J., Zhou, Z.-K., 2019*. Uplift, climate and biotic changes at the Eocene-Oligocene transition in south-eastern Tibet. National Science Review 6, 495–504.
Su, T.*, Spicer, R.A., Wu, F.-X., Farnsworth, A., Huang, J., Del Rio, C., Deng, T., Ding, L., Deng, W.-Y.-D., Huang, Y.-J., Hughes, A., Jia, L.-B., Jin, J.-H., Li, S.-F., Liang, S.-Q., Liu, J., Liu, X.-Y., Sherlock, S., Spicer, T., Srivastava, G., Tang, H., Valdes, P., Wang, T.-X., Widdowson, M., Wu, M.-X., Xing, Y.-W., Xu, C.-L., Yang, J., Zhang, C., Zhang, S.-T., Zhang, X.-W., Zhao, F., Zhou, Z.-K.*, 2020. A Middle Eocene lowland humid subtropical “Shangri-La” ecosystem in central Tibet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 32989–32995.