supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41888101,41790455,41772008);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2652017215);the Funds of State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy,Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(173127);SLB’s work on Qianzhousaurus was funded by National Science Foundation(NSF)Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants(DEB 1110357);the American Museum of Natural History Division of Paleontology,and Columbia University
A large number of Upper Cretaceous(Maastrichtian)dinosaur skeletal fossils have been found in the Nanxiong Basin and adjacent Ganzhou area,including those of theropods,sauropods and hadrosaurids.However,known dinosaur...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1402232,41472022,41272027);the Department of Science and Technology,Yunnan Province(2015HA045);the Bureau of Geology and Mineral Exploration and Development,Yunnan Province(2015JJ05)
A superarmoured lobopodian Collinsium sp.from the Cambrian(Stage 4) Wulongqing Formation in Kunming clearly exhibits dorsal sets of sclerotized spines,suspension feeding appendages with spiniform setae,and annulated w...
supported by the State Basic Research Program of China (2012CB822003);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41272010,40972008);the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-154);the Team Program of Scientific Innovation and Interdisciplinary Cooperation of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Investigations of major marine and non-marine geologic and biotic events across the Triassic-Jurassic transition rely predominantly on detailed stratigraphic frameworks and biodiversity analyses. The alternating seque...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB417201;2009CB421401);the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China(2009BAC51B02);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41375055);the China Meteorological Administration Special Public Welfare Research Fund(GYHY201106015)
This study objectively defined an extreme precipitation event(EPE)over southern China and investigated the associated typical circulation pattern on the intraseasonal time scale.The occurrence of the EPE resulted from...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30830062)
We investigated 13940 (6735 male, 7250 female) adult head and facial physical attributes from 19 different Han ethnic groups in 10 southern-China provinces, and calculated 12 head and facial indexes. Indexes were used...
Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007 CB411402);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40773034 and 40873014);"West Light" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,and Opening Foun-dation of State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics (Northwest University)
Over the past decade, as one of nontraditional stable isotopes, Mo isotope has developed rapidly and now become an important geochemical proxy to trace paleo-oceanic and atmospheric evolution through geological histor...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40730423 and 40221301);Project of China Geological Survey (Grant No.1212010632100)
The Qitianling calc-alkaline granite in Hunan Province (South China) has attracted much attention since the discovery of the Furong super-large tin deposit. The present study provides new mineralogical data to address...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40602004);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2004CB720200)
We report the results of a comparative study of n-alkane biomarkers and pollens in lacustrine and peat deposits at Dingnan, Jiangxi Province in southern China, and discuss the likely causes for the dis-crepancy in the...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Youth Scholar (Grant No. 40325002);the Key Research Project of the Knowledge Innovation Program of CAS (Grant Nos. KZCX3-SW-145 and KZCX2-YW-117);the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2005CB422002-2);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40331011)
A high-resolution pollen record of the past 13000 a from Huguangyan Maar Lake reveals the vegetation and environment changes in southern China during the Holocene. It shows that (i) pollen percentage of trees and shru...
Supported by National Outstanding Youth Fund (Grant No. 40125016);Major Grant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40490000);Innova-tion Project of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (Grant No. LYQY200301);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40076012);Guang-dong Provincial Project (Grant No. 2002A3050103).
Solar ultraviolet radiation B (UVB) is known to have inhibitive effects on phytoplankton photosynthesis. UVB light decreases rapidly with increasing depth in the water column and exerts different degrees of UVB inhibi...