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Jianxin Yu is affiliated with the China University of Geosciences in China and has a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant work also in Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their subfields of study include Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research mainly addresses topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

Jianxin Yu has contributed papers to several scientific venues, including multiple publications in Nature Communications, Journal of Earth Science, Geological Journal, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, and Geology.

  • Intensified continental chemical weathering and carbon-cycle perturbations linked to volcanism during the Triassic-Jurassic transition, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Mercury fluxes record regional volcanism in the South China craton prior to the end-Permian mass extinction, 2020, Geology
  • Mercury evidence from southern Pangea terrestrial sections for end-Permian global volcanic effects, 2023, Nature Communications
  • End Permian to Middle Triassic plant species richness and abundance patterns in South China: Coevolution of plants and the environment through the Permian-Triassic transition, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Limited change in silicate chemical weathering intensity during the Permian-Triassic transition indicates ineffective climate regulation by weathering feedbacks, 2023, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jianxin Yu include Xiao Shi, Zhen Xu, Jun Shen, Qinglai Feng, and Jean Broutin.

Best Publications

  • Changes in the global carbon cycle occurred as two episodes during the Permian–Triassic crisis

    Shucheng Xie;Richard D. Pancost;Junhua Huang;Paul B. Wignall

  • Marine productivity changes during the end-Permian crisis and Early Triassic recovery

    Jun Shen;Jun Shen;Shane D. Schoepfer;Qinglai Feng;Lian Zhou

  • Mercury in marine Ordovician/Silurian boundary sections of South China is sulfide-hosted and non-volcanic in origin

    Jun Shen;Jun Shen;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Jiubin Chen;Jiubin Chen;Noah J. Planavsky

  • Evidence for a prolonged Permian-Triassic extinction interval from global marine mercury records.

    Jun Shen;Jiubin Chen;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Shengliu Yuan

  • Mercury evidence of intense volcanic effects on land during the Permian-Triassic transition

    Jun Shen;Jun Shen;Jianxin Yu;Jiubin Chen;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo

  • Vegetation changeover across the Permian–Triassic Boundary in Southwest China: Extinction, survival, recovery and palaeoclimate: A critical review

    Jianxin Yu;Jean Broutin;Zhong-Qiang Chen;Xiao Shi

  • Intensified continental chemical weathering and carbon-cycle perturbations linked to volcanism during the Triassic–Jurassic transition

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  • Early Triassic conodont–palynological biostratigraphy of the Meishan D Section in Changxing, Zhejiang Province, South China

    Kexin Zhang;Jinnan Tong;G.R. Shi;G.R. Shi;Xulong Lai

  • Mercury enrichments provide evidence of Early Triassic volcanism following the end-Permian mass extinction

    Jun Shen;Jun Shen;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Noah J. Planavsky;Jianxin Yu

  • Vegetation and fire history of a Chinese site in southern tropical Xishuangbanna derived from phytolith and charcoal records from Holocene sediments

    Yansheng Gu;Deborah M. Pearsall;Shucheng Xie;Jianxin Yu

  • Terrestrial paleoenvironment characterization across the Permian-Triassic boundary in South China

    Antoine Bercovici;Ying Cui;Marie-Béatrice Forel;Jianxin Yu

  • Mercury fluxes record regional volcanism in the South China craton prior to the end-Permian mass extinction

    Jun Shen;Jiubin Chen;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Qinglai Feng

  • Flora of the Late Triassic

    Evelyn Kustatscher;Sidney R. Ash;Eugeny Karasev;Christian Pott

  • Mercury evidence from southern Pangea terrestrial sections for end-Permian global volcanic effects

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  • Paleo-productivity evolution across the Permian-Triassic boundary and quantitative calculation of primary productivity of black rock series from the Dalong Formation, South China

    Jun Shen;Lian Zhou;QingLai Feng;MuHui Zhang

  • Using volcaniclastic rocks to constrain sedimentation ages: To what extent are volcanism and sedimentation synchronous?

    Camille Rossignol;Erwan Hallot;Sylvie Bourquin;Marc Poujol

  • Distribution of aliphatic des-A-triterpenoids in the Dajiuhu peat deposit, southern China

    Xianyu Huang;Shucheng Xie;Chuanlun L. Zhang;Dan Jiao

  • Terrestrial events across the PermianTriassic boundary along the YunnanGuizhou border, SW China

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  • Biostratigraphic correlation and mass extinction during the Permian-Triassic transition in terrestrial-marine siliciclastic settings of South China

    Daoliang Chu;Jianxin Yu;Jinnan Tong;Michael J. Benton

  • An accurately delineated Permian-Triassic Boundary in continental successions

    HongFu Yin;FengQing Yang;JianXin Yu;YuanQiao Peng

  • Lilliput effect in freshwater ostracods during the Permian–Triassic extinction

    Daoliang Chu;Jinnan Tong;Haijun Song;Michael J. Benton

  • Carbon cycle perturbation expressed in terrestrial Permian–Triassic boundary sections in South China

    Ying Cui;Antoine Bercovici;Antoine Bercovici;Jianxin Yu;Lee R. Kump

  • VOLCANIC EFFECTS ON MICROPLANKTON DURING THE PERMIAN–TRIASSIC TRANSITION (SHANGSI AND XINMIN, SOUTH CHINA)

    Jun Shen;Jun Shen;Yong Lei;Yong Lei;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Qinglai Feng

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
Jun Shen
Jun Shen Tongji University
Qinglai Feng
Qinglai Feng China University of Geosciences
Jinnan Tong
Jinnan Tong China University of Geosciences
Jiubin Chen
Jiubin Chen Tianjin University
Shucheng Xie
Shucheng Xie China University of Geosciences
Michael J. Benton
Michael J. Benton University of Bristol
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University
Lian Zhou
Lian Zhou China University of Geosciences
Huyue Song
Huyue Song China University of Geosciences

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