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Lu Houyuan
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Education and Appointments:
Dr. Houyuan LU, born in September 9, 1960, is the professor of Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Professional Service: Panel member of Palynology, Palynology Association of China Panel member of The China Society on Tibet Plateau Panel member of The Quaternary Research Association of China

Education:
B. S., University of Tongji University, Shanghai, 1978-1982
M. S., University of Tongji University, Shanghai, 1984-1987
Ph. D., Inastitute of Geology, CAS, Beijing, 1995-1998

Research Interests:
Public Services:

Honors:
The Quaternary Young Scientist Award, The Quaternary Research Association of China, 1999
Award for outstanding young scientist, State Oceanic Administration, 1994
Science and Technology Prize for excellent young scientist, Shandong Province, 1994
Scientific Prize for excellent young scientist, National Administrations of China, 1993
Science and Technology Prize for excellent young scientist, Qingdao City, 1993
Science and Technology Award for young scientist, State Oceanic Administration, 1993

Supported Projects:

Publications:
2019
  1. Wang Can*, Lu Houyuan*, Gu Wanfa, Wu Naiqin, Zhang Jianping, Zuo Xinxin, Li Fengjiang, Wang Daojing, Dong Yajie, Wang Songzhi, Liu Yanfeng, Bao Yingjian, Hu Yayi. The development of Yangshao agriculture and its interaction with social dynamics in the middle Yellow River region, China. The Holocene, 2019, 29(1), 173–180. doi: 10.1177/0959683618804640
  2. Deng Zhenhua, Fuller Dorian Q.*, Chu Xiaolong, Cao Yanpeng, Jiang Yuchao, Wang Lizhi, Lu Houyuan*. Assessing the occurrence and status of wheat in late Neolithic central China: the importance of direct AMS radiocarbon dates from Xiazhai. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2019, doi: 10.1007/s00334-019-00732-7
  3. Dong Yajie*, Wu Naiqin*, Li Fengjiang, Chen Xiaoyun, Zhang Dan, Zhang Yueting, Huang Linpei, Wu Bin, Lu Houyuan, Influence of monsoonal water-energy dynamics on terrestrial mollusk species-diversity gradients in northern China. Science of The Total Environment, 2019, 676, 206-214, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.292.
  4. 张健平*, 吕厚远, 葛勇, 邵孔兰. 粟类作物稃片植硅体形态研究回顾与展望. 第四纪研究, 2019, 39(1): 1-11
  5. 王灿*, 吕厚远, 顾万发, 吴乃琴, 张健平, 左昕昕, 李丰江, 汪道京, 董亚杰, 汪松枝, 刘彦锋, 鲍颖建, 胡亚毅. 全新世中期郑州地区古代农业的时空演变及其影响因素. 第四纪研究, 2019, 39(1): 108-122.
2018
  1. Zuo Xinxin*, Lu Houyuan*, Huan Xiujia, Jiang Leping, Wang Can. Influence of different extraction methods on prehistoric phytolith radiocarbon dating. Quaternary International, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.12.002.
  2. Zhang Jianping*, Lu Houyuan*, Liu Minxuan, Diao Xianmin, Shao Konglan Shao, Wu Naiqin. Phytolith analysis for differentiating between broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) and its weed/feral type (Panicum ruderale), Scientific Reports, 2018, 8: 13022, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31467-6
  3. Huan Xiujia, Lu Houyuan*, Zhang Jianping, Wang Can. Phytolith assemblage analysis for the identification of rice paddy. Scientific Reports, 2018, 8:10932, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-29172-5
  4. Wang Can*, Lu Houyuan*, Gu Wanfa, Zuo Xinxin, Zhang Jianping, Liu Yanfeng, Bao Yingjian, Hu Yayi. Temporal changes of mixed millet and rice agriculture in Neolithic-Bronze Age Central Plain, China: Archaeobotanical evidence from the Zhuzhai site. The Holocene, 2018, 28 (5), 738-754
  5. He Keyang*, Lu Houyuan*, Zheng Yunfei, Zhang Jianping, Xu Deke, Huan Xiujia, Wang Jiehua, Lei Shao. Middle-Holocene sea-level fluctuations interrupted the developing Hemudu culture in the lower Yangtze River, China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018, 188, 90-103
  6. Ge Yong*, Lu Houyuan*, Zhang Jianping, Wang Can, He Keyang, Huan Xiujia. Phytolith analysis for the identification of barnyard millet (Echinochloa sp.) and its implications. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 2018, 10(1), 61-73
  7. Wen Changhui*, Lu Houyuan*, Zuo Xinxin, Ge Yong. Advance of research on modern soil phytolith. Science China Earth Sciences, 2018, 61: 1169–1182
  8. Ma Yongchao, Yang Xiaoyan*, Huan Xiujia, Gao Yu, Wang Weiwei, Li Zhao, Ma Zhikun, Perry Linda, Sun Guoping, Jiang Leping, Jin Guiyun, Lu Houyuan. Multiple indicators of rice remains and the process of rice domestication: A case study in the lower Yangtze River region, China. PLOS ONE, 2018, 13(12): e0208104. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208104
  9. Deng Zhenhua*, Hung Hsiao-chun, Fan Xuechun, Huang Yunming, Lu Houyuan. The ancient dispersal of millets in southern China: New archaeological evidence. The Holocene, 2018, 28(1), 34–43, doi: 10.1177/0959683617714603
  10. Deng Zhenhua*, Hung Hsiao-chun, Carson Mike T., Bellwood Peter, Yang Shu-ling, Lu Houyuan. The first discovery of Neolithic rice remains in eastern Taiwan: phytolith evidence from the Chaolaiqiao site. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2018, 10(6), 1477–1484, doi: 10.1007/s12520-017-0471-z
  11. Zou Yafei, Wang Luo*, Zhang Lizhou, Liu Yuan, Li Peng, Peng Zhiyuan,Yan Yao, Zhang Jiaoyang, Lu Houyuan. Seasonal diatom variability of Yunlong Lake, southwest China – a case study based on sediment trap records, Diatom Research, 2018, 33(3), 381-396, doi: 10.1080/0269249X.2018.1541823
  12. Li Kangkang, Qin Xiaoguang*, Zhang Lei, Gu Zhaoyan, Xu Bing, Jia Hongjuan*, Mu Guijin, Lin Yongchong, Wei Dong, Wang Chunxue, Wu Yong, Tian Xiaohong, Lu Houyuan, Wu Naiqin, Jiao Yinxin. Hydrological change and human activity during Yuan–Ming Dynasties in the Loulan area, northwestern China. The Holocene, 2018, 28(8), 1266–1275.
  13. 吕厚远*. 中国史前农业起源演化研究新方法与新进展. 中国科学:地球科学, 2018, 48(2), 181-199
  14. 温昌辉*, 吕厚远*, 左昕昕, 葛勇. 表土植硅体研究进展. 中国科学:地球科学, 2018, 48(9),1125-1140, doi: 10.1360/N072017-00428
  15. 左昕昕, 吕厚远, 蒋乐平, 张健平, 杨晓燕, 郇秀佳, 贺可洋, 王灿, 吴乃琴. 植硅体 AMS 14 C 测年确定水稻驯化开始于一万年前. 上山文化论集》,浦江博物馆编, 北京:中国文史出版社. 2018, 67-83
2017
  1. Lu Houyuan*. New methods and progress in research on the origins and evolution of prehistoric agriculture in China. Science China Earth Sciences, 2017, 60(12), 2141-2159
  2. Zuo Xinxin, Lu Houyuan*, Jiang Leping, Zhang Jianping*, Yang Xiaoyan, Huan Xiujia, He Keyang, Wang Can, Wu Naiqin. Dating rice remains through phytolith carbon-14 study reveals domestication at the beginning of the Holocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2017, 114(25), 6486-6491
  3. Wang Can*, Lu Houyuan*, Gu Wanfa, Wu Naiqin, Zhang Jianping, Zuo Xinxin, Li Fengjiang, Wang Daojing, Dong Yajie, et al., The spatial pattern of farming and factors influencing it during the Peiligang culture period in the middle Yellow River valley, China. Science Bulletin, 2017, 62(23), 1565-1568
  4. He Keyang*, Lu Houyuan*, Zhang Jianping, Wang Can, Huan Xiujia. Prehistoric evolution of the dualistic structure mixed rice and millet farming in China. The Holocene, 2017, 27(12), 1885-1898
  5. Song Bing*, Zhen Li Zhen*, Lu Houyuan, Mao Limi, Saito Yoshiki, Yi Sangheon, Lim  Jaesoo, Lu Anqing, Sha Longbing, Zhou Rui, Zuo Xinxin, Pospelova Vera. Pollen record of the centennial climate changes during 9–7 cal ka BP in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River Delta plain, China. Quaternary Research, 2017, 87 (2), 275-287
  6. Zhang Jianping*, Lu Houyuan, Jia Peter Weiming, Flad Rowan, Wu Naiqin, Betts Alison.  Cultivation strategies at the ancient Luanzagangzi settlement on the easternmost Eurasian steppe during the late Bronze Age. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2017, 26(5), 505-512

2016

  1. Zuo Xinxin*, Lu Houyuan*, Li Zhen, Song Bing, Xu Deke, Zou Yafei, Wang Can, Huan Xiujia, He Keyang. Phytolith and diatom evidence for rice exploitation and environmental changes during the early mid-Holocene in the Yangtze Delta. Quaternary Research, 201686, 304-315
  2. Zuo Xinxin*, Lu Houyuan, Zhang Jianping, Wang Can, Sun Guoping, Zheng Yunfei. Radiocarbon dating of prehistoric phytoliths: a preliminary study of archaeological sites in China. Scientific reports, 2016, 6: 26769, doi: 10.1038/srep26769
  3. Lu Houyuan*, Zhang Jianping, Yang Yimin, Yang Xiaoyan, Xu Baiqing, Yang Wuzhan, Tong Tao, Jin Shubo, Shen Caiming, Rao Huiyun, Li Xingguo, Lu Hongliang, Fuller Dorian Q., Wang Luo, Wang Can, Xu Deke, Wu Naiqin. Earliest tea as evidence for one branch of the Silk Road across the Tibetan Plateau. Scientific reports, 2016, 6, 18955, doi: 10.1038/srep18955
  4. Wang Can*, Lu Houyuan*, Zhang Jianping, He Keyang, Huan Xiujia. Macro-Process of Past Plant Subsistence from the Upper Paleolithic to Middle Neolithic in China: A Quantitative Analysis of Multi-Archaeobotanical Data. PLoS ONE, 2016, 11(2): e0148136, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148136
  5. Ball Terry, Chandler-Ezell Karol, Dickau Ruth, Duncan Neil, Hart Thomas C., Iriarte Jose, Lentfer Carol, Logan Amanda, Lu Houyuan, Madella Marco, Pearsall Deborah M., Piperno Dolores R.*, Rosen Arlene M., Vrydaghs Luc, Weisskopf Alison, Zhang Jianping. Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world, Journal of Archaeological Science, 2016, 68, 32-45.
  6. Ma Yongchao, Yang Xiaoyan*, Huan Xiujia, Wang Weiwei, Ma Zhikun, Li Zhao, Sun Guoping, Jiang Leping, Zhuang Yijie, Lu Houyuan. Rice bulliform phytoliths reveal the process of rice domestication in the Neolithic Lower Yangtze River region, Quaternary International, 2016, 426, 126-132.
  7. Li Quan*, Lu Houyuan, Shen Caiming, Zhao Yan, Ge Quansheng. Vegetation successions in response to Holocene climate changes in the central Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Arid Environments, 2016, 125:136-144
  8. Zhang Jianping*, Lu Houyuan, Sun Guoping, Flad Rowan, Wu Naiqin, Huan Xiujia, He Keyang, Wang Yonglei. Phytoliths reveal the earliest fine reedy textile in China at the Tianluoshan site, Scientific Reports, 2016, 6, 18664, doi: 10.1038/srep18664
  9. Li Jianyong, Ilvonen Liisa, Xu Qinghai*, Ni Jian, Jin Liya, Holmstr?m Lasse, Zheng Zhuo, Lu Houyuan, Luo Yunli, Li Yuecong, Li Chunhai, Zhang Xiaojian, Sepp? Heikki. East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variations in China over the last 9500?years: A comparison of pollen-based reconstructions and model simulations. The Holocene, 2016, 26(4): 592 - 602
  10. 郭正堂, 任小波, 吕厚远, 高星, 刘武, 吴海斌, 张健平. 过去2万年以来气候变化的影响与人类适应——中国科学院战略性先导科技专项应对气候变化的碳收支认证及相关问题之影响与适应任务群研究进展. 中国科学院院刊, 2016, 1, 142-151
  11. 李丰江*, 吴乃琴, 董亚杰, 吕厚远, 陈晓云, 张丹, 张月婷, 黄林培, 伍斌. 黄土高原及周边地区间齿螺(Metodontia)种类的数量分布及其温度和降水量最适范围的定量估算. 第四纪研究, 2016, 36(3): 564-574
  12. 吕厚远. 1800年前丝绸之路穿越青藏高原的茶叶证据. 中国西藏, 2016, 2, 68-71

2015 

  1. Xiujia Huan, Houyuan Lu*, Can Wang, Xiangan Tang, Xinxin Zuo, Yong Ge, Keyang He. Bulliform phytolith research in wild and domesticated rice paddy soil in south China. PLoS ONE, 2015, 10(10), e014125. 
  2. Yang Xiaoyan, Fuller Dorian Q., Huan Xiujia, Perry Linda, Li Quan, Li Zhao, Zhang Jianping, Ma Zhikun, Zhuang Yijie, Jiang Leping, Ge Yong, Lu Houyuan*. Barnyard grasses were processed with rice around 10000 years ago, Scientific Reports, 2015, 5, 16251. 
  3. An Xiaohong, Lu Houyuan* and Chu Guoqiang. Surface soil phytoliths as vegetation and altitude indicators: a study from the southern Himalaya. Scientific Reports 2015, 5: 15523. 
  4. Fahu Chen, Qinghai Xu, Jianhui Chen, H. John B. Birks, Jianbao Liu, Shengrui Zhang, Liya Jin, Chengbang An, Richard J. Telford, Xianyong Cao, Zongli Wang, Xiaojian Zhang, Kandasamy Selvaraj, Houyuan Lu, Yuecong Li, Zhuo Zheng, Haipeng Wang, Aifeng Zhou, Guanghui Dong, Jiawu Zhang, Xiaozhong Huang, Jan Bloemendal, Zhiguo Rao. East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation. Scientific Reports, 2015, 5: 11186 
  5. Jianyong Li, Qinghai Xu, Zhuo Zheng, Houyuan Lu, Yunli Luo, Yuecong Li, Chunhai Lii, Heikki Sepp?. Assessing the importance of climate variables for the spatial distribution of modern pollen data in China. Quaternary Research, 2016, 83(2):287-297 

2014 

  1. Lu Houyuan*, Yang Yimin, Li YuMei, Zhang JianPing, Yang, XiaoYan, Ye, MaoLin, Li Quan, Wang Can, Wu NaiQing. Component and simulation of the 4,000-year-old noodles excavated from the archaeological site of Lajia in Qinghai, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2014, 59 (35), 5136–5152 
  2. Wang Can, Lu Houyuan*, Zhang Jianping, Gu Zhaoyan, He Keyang, 2014. Prehistoric demographic fluctuations in China inferred from radiocarbon data and their linkage with climate change over the past 50,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 98, 45-59 
  3. Xu DeKe, Lu Houyuan, Chu Guoqiang, Wu Naiqing, Shen Caiming, Wang Can, Mao Limi. 500-year climate cycles stacking of recent centennial warming documented in an East Asian pollen record. Scientific Reports, 2014, 4, 3611 
  4. Zhang Jianping, Lu Houyuan, Huang Linpei. Calciphytoliths (calcium oxalate crystals) analysis for the identification of decayed tea plants (Camellia sinensis L.). Scientific Reports, 2014, 4, 6703 
  5. Zuo Xinxin, Lu Houyuan*, Gu Zhaoyan. Distribution of soil phytolith occluded carbon in Chinese Loess Plateau and its implications for carbon-silica cycles. Plant and Soil, 2014: 374(1-2): 223-232. 
  6. Jianyong Li, Yan Zhao, Qinghai Xu, Zhuo Zheng, Houyuan Lu, Yunli Luo, Yuecong Li, Chunhai Li, Heikki Sepp?. Human influence as a potential source of bias in pollen-based quantitative climate reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014, 99:112-121 
  7. Zhuo Zheng, Jinhui Wei, Kangyou Huang, Qinghai Xu, Houyuan Lu, Pavel Tarasov, Chuanxiu Luo, Celia Beaudouin, Yun Deng, Anding Pan, Yanwei Zheng, Yunli Luo, Takeshi Nakagawa, Chunhai Li, Shixiong Yang, Huanhuan Peng, Rachid Cheddadi. East Asian pollen database: modern pollen distribution and its quantitative relationship with vegetation and climate. Journal of Biogeography, 2014,41(10):1819-1832 
  8. Cong Long, YunJiang Min, XiuXia Zhao, ChunLei Yany, Hang Sun, HouYuan Lu, LingYu Tang, ZhongZe Zhou. Origin area and migration route: Chloroplast DNA diversity in the arctic-alpine plant Koenigia islandica. Science China Earth Sciences, 2014, 57(8):1760-1770 

2013 

  1. Deke Xu, Houyuan Lu*, Naiqin Wu, Zhenxia Liu, Tiegang Li, Caiming Shen, and Luo Wang.   (2013).Asynchronous marine-terrestrial signals of the last deglacial warming in East Asia associated with low- and high-latitude climate changes. PNAS, 110, 24: 9657–9662.  

  2. XinXin Zuo, HouYuan Lu*, ZhaoYan Gu.(2013). Distribution of soil phytolith-occluded carbon in the Chinese Loess Plateau and its implications for silica–carbon cycles. Plant Soil. 2013. DOI 10.1007/s11104-013-1850-6. 

  3. Jianping Zhang, Houyuan Lu, Naiqin Wu, Xiaoguang Qin, and Luo Wang.(2013).Palaeoenvironment and agriculture of ancient Loulan and Milan on the Silk Road. The Holocene, 23: 208217. 

  4. Li F, Wu N, Lu H, Zhang J, Wang W, et al. (2013) Mid-Neolithic Exploitation of Mollusks in the Guanzhong Basin of Northwestern China: Preliminary Results. PLoS ONE , 8(3): e58999. doi:10.1371.   

2012  

  1. Wang, S., Lu, H., Han, J.,Chu, G., Liu, J., Negendank, J., (2012), Palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate in low-latitude southern China during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary International, 248: 79–85. 

  2. Zhang J, Lu H, Gu W, Wu N, Zhou K, et al. (2012) Early Mixed Farming of Millet and Rice 7800 Years Ago in the Middle Yellow River Region, China. PLoS ONE 7(12): e52146. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052146.  

  3. Luo Wang, Jingjing Li, Houyuan Lu, Zhaoyan Gu, Patrick Rioual, Qingzhen Hao, Anson W. Mackay, Wenying Jiang, Binggui Cai, Bing Xu, Jingtai Han, Guoqiang Chu.(2012). The East Asian winter monsoon over the last 15,000 years: its links to high-latitudes and tropical climate systems and complex correlation to the summer monsoon. Quaternary Science Reviews, 32, 16 : 131142  

  4. Luo P, Peng P A, Lü H Y, Zhuo Z, Wang X.(2012). Latitudinal variations of CPI values of long-chain n-alkanes in surface soils: Evidence for CPI as a proxy of aridity. Sci China Earth Sci, 55,7: 11341146.   

  5. Guoqiao Xiao, Zhengtang Guo, Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, Houyuan Lu, Naiqin Wu, Junyi Ge,Qingzhen Hao, Shuzhen Peng, Fengjiang Li, Hemmo A. Abels, Kexin Zhang .(2012). Evidence for northeastern Tibetan Plateau uplift between 25 and 20 Ma in the sedimentary archive of the Xining Basin, Northwestern China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 317-318:185–195.  

  6. Xiaoyan Yang, Jianping Zhang, Linda Perry, Zhikun Ma, Zhiwei Wan, Mingqi Li, Xianmin Diao, Houyuan Lu (2012). From the modern to the archaeological: starch grains from millets and their wild relatives in China. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39:247–254. 

  7. Xiaoyan Yang, Zhiwei Wan, Linda Perry, Houyuan Lu, Qiang Wang, Chaohong Zhao, Jun Li, Fei Xie, Jincheng Yu, Tianxing Cui, Tao Wang, Mingqi Li, and Quansheng Ge.(2012).Early millet use in northern China. PNAS .109 (10) 3726–3730 . 

  8. Luo Wang, Patrick Rioual, Virginia N. Panizzo, Houyuan Lu, Zhaoyan Gu, Guoqiang Chu, Deguang Yang, Jingtai Han, Jiaqi Liu, Anson W. Mackay.(2012). A 1000-yr record of environmental change in NE China indicated by diatom assemblages from maar lake Erlongwan. Quaternary Research, 78 , 2434.  

2011 

  1. Houyuan Lu, Naiqin Wu, Kam-biu Liu, Liping Zhu, Xiangdong Yang, Tandong Yao, Luo Wang, Quan Li, Xingqi Liu, Caiming Shen, Xiaoqiang Li, Guobang Tong, Hui Jiang. (2011). Modern pollen distributions in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the development of transfer functions for reconstructing Holocene environmental changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(7-8):947–966. 

  2. Zuo X X, Lü H Y. (2011)  Carbon sequestration within millet phytoliths from dry-farming of crops in China. Chinese Sci Bull, 56: 3451?3456, doi:10.1007/s11434-011-4674-x.  

  3. Li, Q., Lu, H.Y., Zhu, L.P., Wu, N.Q., Wang, J.B., Lu, X.M. (2011). Pollen-inferred climate changes and vertical shifts of alpine vegetation belts on the northern slope of the Nyainqentanglha Mountains (central Tibetan Plateau) since 8.4 kyr BP. The Holocene, 21, 939–950.  

  4. Zhang J, Lu H, Wu N, Yang X, Diao X, (2011)  Phytolith Analysis for Differentiating between Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica) and Green Foxtail (Setaria viridis). PLoS ONE, 6(5): e19726. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019726.  

  5. Xiaoguang Qin, Jiaqi Liu, Hongjuan Jia, Houyuan Lu, Xuncheng Xia, Liping Zhou, Guijin Mu, Qinghai Xu and Yinxin Jiao.(2011). New evidence of agricultural activity and environmental change associated with the ancient Loulan kingdom, China, around 1500 years ago. The Holocene, 22(1) 53–61.  
  6. Sun, Q., G. Chu, M. Liu, M. Xie, S. Li, Y. Ling, X. Wang, L. Shi, G. Jia, and H. Lu (2011), Distributions and temperature dependence of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in recent lacustrine sediments from China and Nepal. J. Geophys. Res., 116, G01008, doi:10.1029/2010JG001365. 

2010 

  1. Lu HouYuan, XIA XunCheng, LIU JiaQi, QIN XiaoGuang, WANG FuBao, Abuduresule, ZHOU LiPing, MU GuiJin, JIAO YingXin6 & LI JingZhi. (2010). A preliminary study of chronology for a newly-discovered ancient city and five archaeological sites in Lop Nor, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 55: 63–71, doi: 10.1007/s11434-009-0586-4. 

  2. Lu Houyuan. (2010).Role of new Archaeobotanical methods in dating the origin of dry farming in East Asia: phytolith analysis for earliest domestication of millets. BCAS (Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences), 24 (3): 185–187.

  3. Zhang, J., Lu, H., Wu, N., Li, F., Yang, X., Wang, W., Ma, M. & Zhang, X.(2010) Phytolith evidence for rice cultivation and spread in Mid-Late Neolithic archaeological sites in central North China. Boreas, 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00145.x. ISSN 300-9483.

  4. Deke Xu, Houyuan Lu, Naiqin Wu, Zhenxia Liu(2010). 30 000-Year vegetation and climate change around the East China Sea shelf inferred from a high-resolution pollen record. Quaternary International, 227:53–60.

  5. Lu H, Zhang J, Wu N, Liu K-b, Xu D, Li Q. (2009) Phytoliths Analysis for the Discrimination of Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica) and Common Millet(Panicum miliaceum). PLoS ONE, 4(2): e4448. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004448.  PDF
  6. Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Kam-biu Liu, Naiqin Wu, Yumei Li, Kunshu Zhou, Maolin Ye, Tianyu Zhang, Haijiang Zhang, Xiaoyan Yang, Licheng Shen, Deke Xu , Quan Li(2009)Earliest domestication of common millet (Panicum miliaceum) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years ago.   PNAS  (2009)106(18)7367-7372 PDF
  7. Lu, H.Y., Wu, N.Q., Yang, X. D., Shen, C.M., Zhu, L.P., Wang, L., Li, Q., Xu, D.K., Tong, G..B. & Sun, X. J. (2008) Spatial pattern of Abies and Picea pollen distribution along the elevation gradient in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and Xinjiang, China. Boreas, Vol. 37, pp. 254–262. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00019.x.  PDF
  8. Wang, L., H. Lu, J. Liu, Z. Gu, J. Mingram, G. Chu, J. Li, P. Rioual, J. F. W. Negendank, J. Han, and T. Liu. (2008), Diatom-based inference of variations in the strength of Asian winter monsoon winds between 17500 and 6000 calendar years B.P., J. Geophys. Res., 113: D21101, doi:10.1029/2008JD010145. PDF
  9. Kam-biu Liu, Houyuan Lu, Caiming Shen. (2008) A 1200-year proxy record of hurricanes and fires from the Gulf of Mexico coast: Testing the hypothesis of hurricane–fire interactions. Quaternary Research, 69: 29–41. PDF
  10. Hou-yuan Lu, Nai-qin Wu, Kam-biu Liu, Hui Jiang, Tung-sheng Liu. (2007) Phytoliths as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in China II: Palaeo-environmental reconstruction in the Loess Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26:759–772.  PDF
  11. Wang Shuyun, Lu Houyuan, Liu Jiaqi & J?rg F. W. Negendank. (2007) The early Holocene optimum inferred from a high-resolution pollen record of Huguangyan Maar Lake in southern China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 52(20): 2829-2836. PDF
  12. Hou-Yuan Lu, Nai-Qin Wu, Xiang-Dong Yang, Hui Jiangd, Kam-biu Liu, Tung-Sheng Liu. (2006) Phytoliths as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in China I: phytolith-based transfer functions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25: 945–959.  PDF
  13. L. Wang, H.Y. Lu, N.Q. Wu, J. Li, Y.P. Pei, G.B. Tong, S.Z. Peng. (2006) Palynological evidence for Late Miocene–Pliocene vegetation evolution recorded in the red clay sequence of the central Chinese Loess Plateau and implication for palaeoenvironmental change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 241: 118–128. PDF
  14. Naiqin Wu, Yunpeng Pei, Houyuan Lu, Zhengtang Guo, Fengjiang Li, Tungsheng Liu. (2006) Marked ecological shifts during 6.2–2.4 Ma revealed by a terrestrial molluscan record from the Chinese Red Clay Formation and implication for palaeoclimatic evolution. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 233 (3-4): 287-299.  PDF
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