Yongjiang Huang
Editors, Plant Diversity
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Cenozoic palaeobotany and palaeoenvironment, archaeobotany
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Cenozoic palaeobotany and palaeoenvironment, archaeobotany
Title: Associate
Email: huangyongjiang@mail.kib.ac.cn
Selected publications:
Huang Y-J*, Ji X-P*, Jablonski NG, Liu J-H, Yang Q, Zou Z-N, Yang J, Ji Y-H*, 2025. Archaeobotanical study of the Tangzigou site reveals wild plant exploitation in the terminal Paleolithic of southwest China. Quaternary International 748: 109980.
Huang Y-J*, Zong, H-R, Zhang S-T, Momohara A, Hu J-J, Jia L-B, Ji Y-H, Zhou Z-K, 2024. Higher palaeoelevation in the Baoshan Basin: Implications for landscape evolution at the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Palaeogeography 13(3): 563-580.
Huang Y-J*, Momohara A, Li S-F, Ji X-P, Qiu J, Jia L-B, Hu J-J, Ji Y-H, Zhou Z-K, 2023. Wildfire associated with a deciduous broadleaved forest from the Neogene Baoshan Basin at the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Palaeogeoraphy 12(3): 448-462.
Huang Y-J*, Zhu H, Hu J-J, Jia L-B, Zhou Z-K, 2023. New fossil evidence from the late Pliocene of Yunnan, South China, sheds light on the distribution and diversification of Sambucus L. (Adoxaceae) in the northern low latitudes. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 103: 43-56.
Huang Y-J*, Zhu H, Su T, Spicer RA, Hu J-J, Jia L-B, Zhou Z-K, 2022. Rise of herbaceous diversity at the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: First insight from fossils. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 60: 1109-1123.
Huang Y-J*, Shen H, Jia L-B, Li S-F, Su T, Nam G-S, Zhu H, Zhou Z-K, 2021. Macroscopic fossil charcoals as proxy of a local fire linked to conifer-rich forest from the late Pliocene of northwestern Yunnan, Southwest China. Palaeoworld 30: 551-561.
Huang Y-J*, Jia L-B, Su T, Zhu H, Momohara A, Gu Z-J, Zhou Z-K*, 2020. A warm-temperate forest of mixed coniferous type from the upper Pliocene Sanying Formation (southeastern edge of Tibetan Plateau) and its implications for palaeoecology and palaeoaltimetry. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 538: 109486.
Huang Y-J*, Zhu H, Momohara A, Jia L-B, Zhou Z-K*, 2019. Fruit fossils of Rosoideae (Rosaceae) from the late Pliocene of northwestern Yunnan, Southwest China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 57: 180-189.
Huang Y-J, Momohara A*, Wang Y-Q, 2018. Selective extinction within a Tertiary relict genus in the Japanese Pleistocene explained by climate cooling and species-specific cold tolerance. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 258: 1-12.
Huang Y-J*, Ji X-P, Su T, Deng C-L, Ferguson DK, Yu T-S, Yang X, Sun H, Zhou Z-K, 2017. Habitat, climate and potential plant food resources for the late Miocene Shuitangba hominoid in Southwest China: Insights from carpological remains. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 470: 63-71.