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Anchun Li is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans a broad range of topics with a focus on geology, paleoclimatology, and environmental processes.

Li's notable research areas include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Their work has been published predominantly in several major scientific journals. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Marine Geology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Recent significant publications include:

  • "Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of fire in the Yangtze River Basin since 3.0 ka BP," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Birth of the Pearl River at 30 Ma: Evidence from sedimentary records in the northern South China Sea," 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Environmental evolution of the East China Sea inner shelf and its constraints on pyrite sulfur contents and isotopes since the last deglaciation," 2020, Marine Geology
  • "Depositional control on carbon and sulfur preservation onshore and offshore the Oujiang Estuary: Implications for the C/S ratio as a salinity indicator," 2021, Continental Shelf Research
  • "Expansion of C4 plants in South China and evolution of East Asian monsoon since 35 Ma: Black carbon records in the northern South China Sea," 2023, Global and Planetary Change

Li collaborates frequently with several co-authors, indicating ongoing research partnerships and interdisciplinary approaches. Regular collaborators include:

  • Shiming Wan
  • Debo Zhao
  • Xuefa Shi
  • Peter D. Clift
  • Xiting Liu

Their scientific contributions cover a diverse set of subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, and Ecology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding environmental and geological phenomena.

Best Publications

  • Flux and fate of Yangtze River sediment delivered to the East China Sea

    J. P. Liu;K. H. Xu;A. C. Li;J. D. Milliman

  • Sedimentary features of the Yangtze River-derived along-shelf clinoform deposit in the East China Sea

    J.P. Liu;A.C. Li;K.H. Xu;D.M. Velozzi

  • Development of the East Asian monsoon: Mineralogical and sedimentologic records in the northern South China Sea since 20 Ma

    Shiming Wan;Anchun Li;Peter D. Clift;Jan Berend W. Stuut

  • Yangtze- and Taiwan-derived sediments on the inner shelf of East China Sea

    Kehui Xu;John D. Milliman;Anchun Li;J. Paul Liu

  • Provenance, structure, and formation of the mud wedge along inner continental shelf of the East China Sea: A synthesis of the Yangtze dispersal system

    Kehui Xu;Anchun Li;J. Paul Liu;John D. Milliman

  • Coherence between solar activity and the East Asian winter monsoon variability in the past 8000 years from Yangtze River-derived mud in the East China Sea

    Shangbin Xiao;Anchun Li;J. Paul Liu;Muhong Chen

  • Development of the East Asian summer monsoon: Evidence from the sediment record in the South China Sea since 8.5 Ma

    Shiming Wan;Anchun Li;Peter D. Clift;Hengyi Jiang

  • Distribution, enrichment and sources of heavy metals in surface sediments of the North Yellow Sea

    Peng Huang;Tie-gang Li;An-chun Li;Xin-ke Yu

  • Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of weathering and erosion in southwest China

    Shiming Wan;Samuel Toucanne;Peter D. Clift;Debo Zhao

  • Increased contribution of terrigenous supply from Taiwan to the northern South China Sea since 3 Ma

    Shiming Wan;Anchun Li;Peter D. Clift;Shiguo Wu

  • Enhanced silicate weathering of tropical shelf sediments exposed during glacial lowstands: A sink for atmospheric CO2

    Shiming Wan;Shiming Wan;Peter D. Clift;Peter D. Clift;Debo Zhao;Niels Hovius

  • History of Asian eolian input to the West Philippine Sea over the last one million years

    Shiming Wan;Shiming Wan;Zhaojie Yu;Peter D. Clift;Hanjie Sun

  • Trace metals in the surface sediments of the intertidal Jiaozhou Bay, China: Sources and contamination assessment.

    Fangjian Xu;Longwei Qiu;Yingchang Cao;Jingli Huang

  • Sensitive grain-size records of Holocene East Asian summer monsoon in sediments of northern South China Sea slope

    Jie Huang;Anchun Li;Shiming Wan

  • Extreme weathering/erosion during the Miocene Climatic Optimum: Evidence from sediment record in the South China Sea

    Shiming Wan;Wolfram M. Kürschner;Peter D. Clift;Anchun Li

  • History of Yellow River and Yangtze River delivering sediment to the Yellow Sea since 3.5 Ma: Tectonic or climate forcing?

    Jin Zhang;Shiming Wan;Shiming Wan;Peter D. Clift;Jie Huang

  • Pyrite sulfur isotopes constrained by sedimentation rates: Evidence from sediments on the East China Sea inner shelf since the late Pleistocene

    Xiting Liu;David Fike;Anchun Li;Jiang Dong

  • Evolution and variability of the East Asian summer monsoon during the Pliocene: Evidence from clay mineral records of the South China Sea

    Shiming Wan;Jun Tian;Stephan Steinke;Anchun Li

  • Synchronicity of Kuroshio Current and climate system variability since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Xufeng Zheng;Anchun Li;ShuhJi Kao;Xun Gong

  • Event-driven sediment flux in Hueneme and Mugu submarine canyons, southern California

    J. P. Xu;Peter W. Swarzenski;Marlene Noble;An-Chun Li

  • ITCZ and ENSO pacing on East Asian winter monsoon variation during the Holocene: Sedimentological evidence from the Okinawa Trough

    Xufeng Zheng;Anchun Li;Shiming Wan;Fuqing Jiang

  • Clay mineral and grain size studies of sediment provenances and paleoenvironment evolution in the middle Okinawa Trough since 17 ka

    Jiaze Wang;Jiaze Wang;Anchun Li;Kehui Xu;Xufeng Zheng

  • History of Asian eolian input to the Sea of Japan since 15 Ma: Links to Tibetan uplift or global cooling?

    Xingyan Shen;Shiming Wan;Shiming Wan;Christian France-Lanord;Peter D. Clift

  • ENHANCED SILICATE WEATHERING OF TROPICAL SHELF SEDIMENTS EXPOSED DURING GLACIAL LOWSTANDS: A SINK FOR ATMOSPHERIC CO2

    Peter D. Clift;Shiming Wan;Debo Zhao;Niels Hovius

Frequent Co-Authors

Shiming Wan
Shiming Wan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tiegang Li
Tiegang Li Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Peter D. Clift
Peter D. Clift University College London
Jian Lu
Jian Lu Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Kehui Xu
Kehui Xu Louisiana State University
Xuefa Shi
Xuefa Shi First Institute of Oceanography
Christophe Colin
Christophe Colin University of Paris-Saclay
Zuosheng Yang
Zuosheng Yang Ocean University of China
Ryuji Tada
Ryuji Tada University of Tokyo
Shuh-Ji Kao
Shuh-Ji Kao Hainan University

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