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Xulong Lai is affiliated with the China University of Geosciences in China. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on paleontology and genetics.

Their main subfields of study include:

  • Paleontology
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Ecology
  • Geophysics

Main research topics addressed by Xulong Lai encompass:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Lions and brown bears colonized North America in multiple synchronous waves of dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge," 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • "Smithian and Spathian (Early Triassic) conodonts from Oman and Croatia and their depth habitat revealed," 2020, Global and Planetary Change
  • "Carbon and nitrogen isotope evidence for widespread presence of anoxic intermediate waters before and during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction," 2021, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • "Ancient mitochondrial genomes from Chinese cave hyenas provide insights into the evolutionary history of the genus Crocuta," 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Genesis of end-Guadalupian bauxite and pyrite deposits in the Youjiang Basin (South China): Insights into the causative link between magmatic events and mass extinction," 2021, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Xulong Lai frequently collaborates with several coauthors in their research efforts, including:

  • Junxia Yuan
  • Guilian Sheng
  • Jiaming Hu
  • Bo Xiao
  • Paul B. Wignall

Their work is often published in key scientific venues such as:

  • Journal of Earth Science
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Genes
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Earth-Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Lethally Hot Temperatures During the Early Triassic Greenhouse

    Yadong Sun;Yadong Sun;Michael M. Joachimski;Paul B. Wignall;Chunbo Yan

  • Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

    Eline D. Lorenzen;David Nogués-Bravo;Ludovic Orlando;Jaco Weinstock

  • Climate warming in the latest Permian and the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

    Michael M. Joachimski;Xulong Lai;Shuzhong Shen;Haishui Jiang

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

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

  • 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

  • The protracted Permo-Triassic crisis and multi-episode extinction around the Permian-Triassic boundary

    Hongfu Yin;Qinglai Feng;Xulong Lai;Aymon Baud

  • Permian ice volume and palaeoclimate history: Oxygen isotope proxies revisited

    Bo Chen;Michael M. Joachimski;Shu zhong Shen;Lance L. Lambert

  • Restudy of conodont zonation and evolution across the P/T boundary at Meishan section, Changxing, Zhejiang, China

    Haishui Jiang;Xulong Lai;Genming Luo;Richard Aldridge

  • Evolution, Systematics, and Phylogeography of Pleistocene Horses in the New World: A Molecular Perspective

    Jaco Weinstock;Eske Willerslev;Andrei Sher;Wenfei Tong

  • Geochemical evidence from bio-apatite for multiple oceanic anoxic events during Permian-Triassic transition and the link with end-Permian extinction and recovery

    Haijun Song;Haijun Song;Paul B. Wignall;Jinnan Tong;David P.G. Bond

  • 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

  • Recovery tempo and pattern of marine ecosystems after the end-Permian mass extinction

    Haijun Song;Haijun Song;Paul B. Wignall;Zhong-Qiang Chen;Jinnan Tong

  • Integrated Sr isotope variations and global environmental changes through the Late Permian to early Late Triassic

    Haijun Song;Paul B. Wignall;Jinnan Tong;Huyue Song

  • Climate warming, euxinia and carbon isotope perturbations during the Carnian (Triassic) Crisis in South China

    Yadong Sun;Yadong Sun;P. B. Wignall;Michael M. Joachimski;David P. G. Bond

  • The mid-Capitanian (Middle Permian) mass extinction and carbon isotope record of South China

    D.P.G. Bond;P.B. Wignall;W. Wang;G. Izon

  • 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

  • Palaeoenvironmental changes across the Permian/Triassic boundary at Shangsi (N. Sichuan, China)

    P.B. Wignall;A. Hallam;Lai Xulong;Yang Fengqing

  • Revised conodont zonation and conodont evolution across the Permian–Triassic boundary at the Shangsi section, Guangyuan, Sichuan, South China

    Haishui Jiang;Xulong Lai;Chunbo Yan;Richard J. Aldridge

  • Carbon and conodont apatite oxygen isotope records of Guadalupian–Lopingian boundary sections: Climatic or sea-level signal?

    Bo Chen;Michael M. Joachimski;Yadong Sun;Shuzhong Shen

  • Palaeoenvironmental change during the end-Guadalupian (Permian) mass extinction in Sichuan, China

    Xulong Lai;Wei Wang;P.B. Wignall;D.P.G. Bond

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul B. Wignall
Paul B. Wignall University of Leeds
Yadong Sun
Yadong Sun University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
David P.G. Bond
David P.G. Bond University of Hull
Michael M. Joachimski
Michael M. Joachimski University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Kexin Zhang
Kexin Zhang Florida State University
Michael Hofreiter
Michael Hofreiter University of Potsdam
Genming Luo
Genming Luo China University of Geosciences
Shucheng Xie
Shucheng Xie China University of Geosciences
Jinnan Tong
Jinnan Tong China University of Geosciences
Haijun Song
Haijun Song China University of Geosciences

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