Name: Junling Dong

Title: Associate Researcher, Master's Supervisor

Email: dongjunling19@cdut.edu.cn

 

Dong Junling is a female member of the Communist Party of China, holding a Ph.D. in Paleobiology and Stratigraphy. She is affiliated with the International Research Center for Paleoecology at the Sedimentary Geology Research Institute. Her long-term research interests focus on paleobotany, paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, and paleoecology, particularly the Cenozoic era onwards.

Academic and Work Background:

My primary research fields:

The evolutionary history and mechanisms of plant diversity in the Hengduan Mountains;

The response mechanisms of plant functional traits to paleoclimatic environmental changes;

The evolution of Quaternary paleoclimatic environments.

 

Awards and Honors:

2019: Outstanding Thesis Award, Gansu Province

2019: Outstanding Thesis Award, Lanzhou University

 

Research Projects Hosted/Participated in:

Special Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, titled "Science Communication: The Practice of Integrating University Paleontology Courses into Primary and Secondary School Education", with the approval number 42342019, funded from January 2024 to December 2024, as the principal investigator.

Open Fund Project of the State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, titled "Study on the Chronology and Sedimentary Characteristics of Paleolake Dams in the Xiaojinchuan River Basin on the Eastern Edge of the Tibetan Plateau", with the approval number SKLGP2023K030, funded from January 2023 to December 2025, as the principal investigator.

Open Fund Project of the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, titled "Plant Fossils and Paleoclimate during the Pliocene-Pleistocene Transition in Panxi, Sichuan", with the approval number 203103, funded from April 2020 to April 2022, as the principal investigator.

Open Fund Project of the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, titled "Mid-Miocene Angiosperm Fossils and CO₂ Concentration Reconstruction in Fujian", with the approval number PLC2020046, funded from January 2020 to December 2022, as the principal investigator.

 

Main Academic Part-time Positions:

Member of the National Expert Committee on Paleontological Fossils; Director of the Education Committee of the Paleontological Society of China; Young Editorial Board Member of "Mineral Exploration"; Reviewer for journals such as "Mycologia", "Historical Biology", "Biology", and "Atmosphere".

 

Representative Publications:

Zheng, Q.D., Dong J.L.*, Zheng, D.Y., Sun B.N. A new species of Trigonostemon Blume (Euphorbiaceae) from the middle Miocene of Fujian, Southeast China and its paleoclimatic and paleoecological significance, Acta Palaeontology Sinica, 2023, 62(3): 398–409 (in Chinese with English abstract)

Dong J.L., Li Z., Gao J.X., Wang Q., Sun B.N. A New Fossil Species of Nothotsuga from the Mula Basin, Litang County, Sichuan Province and Its Paleoclimate and Paleoecology Significance. Biology 2023, 12, 46.

Jin P.H., Zhang M.Z., Lei X.T., Du B.X., Dong J.L., Sun B.N. Testing multiple pCO₂ proxies from the Lower Cretaceous of the Laiyang Basin, eastern China. Cretaceous Research. 2023, 141, 105352.

Dong J.L., Li Z., Sun B.N., Gao J.X. Hemitrapa Miki (Lythraceae) from the middle Miocene tropical lowland rainforest of southern China, Palaeoworld. 2022. doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2022.11.005.

Dong J.L., Li Z., Li Z., Sun B.N., He Y.L. Ficus leaves within the Ficus subgenus Urostigma (Moraceae) from the middle Miocene in South China and their biogeography implications, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2022, 302: 1-14.

Dong J.L., Gao J.X., Li Z., Sun B.N. A tropical lotus from the middle Miocene tropical rainforest flora of South China, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2022, 299

Dong J.L., Sun B.N., Li A.J., Chen, H. The diversity of Smilax (Smilacaceae) leaves from the Middle Miocene in southeastern China, Geological Journal, 2021, 56(1): doi: 10.1002/gj.3882.

Ling, C.C., Ma, F.J., Dong, J.L., Zhou, G.H.; Wang Q.J., Sun B.N. 2021. A mid-altitude area in southwestern China experienced a humid subtropical climate with subtle monsoon signatures during the early Oligocene: Evidence from the Ningming flora of Guangxi. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 579: 110601.

Dong J.L., Sun B.N., Mao T., Jin P.H., Wang Z.X., 2018. Two samaras of Rhamnaceae from the middle Miocene of southeast China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 259: 112–122.

Dong J.L., Sun B.N., Mao T., Yan D.F., Liu C.H., Wang Z.X., Jin P.H., 2018. Liquidambar (Altingiaceae) and associated insect herbivory from the Miocene of southeastern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 497: 11–24.

Dong J.L., Sun B.N., Mao T., Liu C.H., Wang X.L., Sun M.X., Ma F.J., Wang Q.J., 2018. The occurrence of Burretiodendron from the Oligocene of South China and its geographic analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 512: 95–105.

Jin P.H., Dong J.L., Wang Z.X., Yuan X.C., Du B.X., Sun B.N., 2017. A new species of Elatides from the Lower Cretaceous in Shangdong province, Eastern China and its geographic significance. Cretaceous Research. 8: 109–127.

Sun B.N., Wang Q.J., Konrad W., Ma F.J., Dong J.L., Wang Z.X., 2017. Reconstruction of atmospheric CO₂ during the Oligocene based on leaf fossils from the Ningming Formation in Guangxi, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.09.015.

Dong J.L., Wang W.J., Deng P., Wang J., Ma F.J., Wang Q.J., Yang Y., Sun B.N., 2016. New material of Palaeocarya from the Oligocene of Ningming, Guangxi, South China. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 90(2): 399–412.

Dong J.L., Sun B.N., Ma F.J., Wang Q.J., Jin P.H., Wang W.J., Deng P., Yang Y., Li X.J., 2015. Paliurus fruits from the Oligocene of South China and their phytogeographic implications. Plos One. 10(11): 1–12.