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Jason R. Ali is affiliated with the Museum of Zoology at Senckenberg Dresden in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields including Paleontology, Ecology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work covers several main topics such as Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Collaborations have been frequent with several researchers including Uwe Fritz, S. Blair Hedges, Julian A. Pearce, P. Fryer, and Laura B. Stokking, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement within their areas of expertise.

Jason R. Ali has published multiple papers in notable venues. Key publications include:

  • "Colonizing the Caribbean: New geological data and an updated land-vertebrate colonization record challenge the GAARlandia land-bridge hypothesis" (2021, Journal of Biogeography)
  • "Wallace's line, Wallacea, and associated divides and areas: history of a tortuous tangle of ideas and labels" (2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • "A review of geological evidence bearing on proposed Cenozoic land connections between Madagascar and Africa and its relevance to biogeography" (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Redrawing Wallace's Line based on the fauna of Christmas Island, eastern Indian Ocean" (2020, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society)
  • "Ancient DNA elucidates the lost world of western Indian Ocean giant tortoises and reveals a new extinct species from Madagascar" (2023, Science Advances)

Their research has been disseminated across multiple journals with repeated contributions to venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Journal of Biogeography, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and Earth-Science Reviews.

Best Publications

  • When and where did India and Asia collide

    Jonathan C Aitchison;Jason R Ali;Aileen M Davis

  • Gondwana to Asia: plate tectonics, paleogeography and the biological connectivity of the Indian sub-continent from the Middle Jurassic through latest Eocene (166-35 Ma)

    Jason R. Ali;Jonathan C. Aitchison

  • Volcanism, mass extinction, and carbon isotope fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China.

    Paul B. Wignall;Yadong Sun;David P. G. Bond;Gareth Izon

  • Emeishan large igneous province, SW China

    Jason R. Ali;Gary M. Thompson;Mei-Fu Zhou;Xieyan Song

  • Origin and motion history of the Philippine Sea Plate

    Robert Hall;Jason R. Ali;Charles D. Anderson;Simon J. Baker

  • Mammalian biodiversity on Madagascar controlled by ocean currents

    Jason R. Ali;Matthew Huber

  • Aspects of the Tectonic Evolution of China

    J. Malpas;C. J. N. Fletcher;J. R. Ali;J. C. Aitchison

  • The Global Standard Stratotype-section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Eocene Series in the Dababiya section (Egypt)

    Marie-Pierre Aubry;Khaled Ouda;Christian Dupuis;William A. Berggren

  • Dating the onset and nature of the Middle Permian Emeishan large igneous province eruptions in SW China using conodont biostratigraphy and its bearing on mantle plume uplift models

    Yadong Sun;Xulong Lai;Paul B. Wignall;Mike Widdowson

  • The Middle Permian (Capitanian) mass extinction on land and in the oceans

    David P.G. Bond;Jason Hilton;Paul B. Wignall;Jason R. Ali

  • Detrital zircon U-Pb ages along the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet: Implications for oblique convergence and collision between India and Asia

    Jonathan C. Aitchison;Xiaoping Xia;Alan T. Baxter;Jason R. Ali

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  • Spatial and temporal arrival patterns of Madagascar's vertebrate fauna explained by distance, ocean currents, and ancestor type

    Karen E. Samonds;Laurie R. Godfrey;Jason R. Ali;Steven M. Goodman

  • Emeishan Basalts (SW China) and the ‘end-Guadalupian’ crisis: magnetobiostratigraphic constraints

    Jason R. Ali;Gary M. Thompson;Gary M. Thompson;Xieyan Song;Xieyan Song;Yunliang Wang

  • Emeishan large igneous province (SW China) and the mantle-plume up-doming hypothesis

    Jason R. Ali;J.Godfrey Fitton;Claude Herzberg

  • Exploring the combined role of eustasy and oceanic island thermal subsidence in shaping biodiversity on the Galápagos

    Jason R. Ali;Jonathan C. Aitchison

  • Paleomagnetism of Borneo

    Mike Fuller;Jason R Ali;Steve J Moss;Gina Marie Frost

  • The Philippine Sea Plate: Magnetism and Reconstructions

    Robert Hall;Michael Fuller;Jason R. Ali;Charles D. Anderson

  • Facies analysis and sea-level change at the Guadalupian–Lopingian Global Stratotype (Laibin, South China), and its bearing on the end-Guadalupian mass extinction

    P.B. Wignall;S. Védrine;D.P.G. Bond;W. Wang

  • Late Cretaceous bioconnections between Indo‐Madagascar and Antarctica: refutation of the Gunnerus Ridge causeway hypothesis

    Jason R. Ali;David W. Krause

  • Colonizing the Caribbean: is the GAARlandia land-bridge hypothesis gaining a foothold?

    Jason R. Ali

  • Reply to comment by Eduardo Garzanti on "When and where did India and Asia collide?"

    Jonathan C. Aitchison;Jason R. Ali;Aileen M. Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan C. Aitchison
Jonathan C. Aitchison University of Queensland
Robert Hall
Robert Hall Royal Holloway University of London
Paul B. Wignall
Paul B. Wignall University of Leeds
Yadong Sun
Yadong Sun University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Xie-Yan Song
Xie-Yan Song Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Ward
David Ward Kent State University
Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Manuel Pubellier
Manuel Pubellier École Normale Supérieure
Marie-Pierre Aubry
Marie-Pierre Aubry Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Xulong Lai
Xulong Lai China University of Geosciences

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