I am a Paleozoic palynologist. My current work focuses on the impacts of the Late Palaeozoic climatic turnover on the evolution of terrestrial palynology and vegetation. I am particularly interested in the short-term effects of marine mass extinction on land vegetation dynamics specifically, whether the killing mechanism during marine mass extinction has a comparative effect on the terrestrial ecosystem.

Paleozoic palynology and associated Palaeoecology

Palynofacies and mesofossils

“Chu Yuet Wah Scholarship” in Chinese Academy of Sciences

CAS President Award for Outstanding Students” in Chinese Academy of Sciences

Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association in Chinese Academy of Sciences

Humboldt Research Fellowship

CI The National Key Research and Development Program of China. Sedimentary patterns and paleogeographic reconstruction during the Silurian-Carboniferous period in China. 0800200. 2022-2027. ￥3.90M.

PI National Science Foundation of China. Palynofloral evolution around Permian-Triassic boundary in southern Tibet and its paleoenvironmental background. 42172023. 2022-2025. ￥600K.

PI China National Petroleum Corporation. The correlation and division of Jiamuhe Formation in the northwest margin of Xinjiang Provine. 2019-2022. ￥750K.

Monograph:

Ouyang, S., Lu, L.C., Zhu, H.C., Liu F. (2017): The Late Palaeozoic spores and pollen of China. Hefei. University of science and technology of China press. 1036pp.

Further publications:

Publications with peer review process

Liu, F.*, Peng, H.P., Marshall, E.A.J., Lomax, B.H., Bomfleur, B., Kent, M.S., Fraser, W.T., Jardine, P.E.* , 2023, Dying in the Sun: Direct evidence for elevated UV-B radiation at the end-Permian mass extinction. Science Advances 9, eabo6102. 

H. Peng, W. Qie, J. E. A. Marshall, H. Zhu, W. Guo, J. Song, F. Liu（Corresponding author）, 2022, Reinvestigation of Devonian-Carboniferous palynostratigraphy in Yalai village, Nyalam County, southern Tibet, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.304, p. 104702.

B. Shen, S. Shen, Q. Wu, S. Zhang, B. Zhang, X. Wang, Z. Hou, D. Yuan, Y. Zhang, F. Liu, J. Liu, H. Zhang, Y. Shi, J. Wang, Z. Feng, 2022, Carboniferous and Permian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of North China Block. Science China Earth Sciences, v.65, p. 983-1011.

Xu, H.-H., Yang, N., Bai, J., Wang, Y., Liu, F., and Ouyang, S., 2022, Palynological assemblage of the Lower Devonian of Hezhang, Guizhou, southwestern China: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 297, p. 104561.

Guo, X.-W., Zhang, X.-H., Cai, L.-X., Xu, H.-H., Yang, N., Lu, H.-N., Ouyang, S., Marshall, J. E. A., Peng, H.-P., and Liu, F. (Corresponding author), 2021, Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous palynology of the CSDP-2 Borehole in the southern Yellow Sea, China: Palaeoworld, v. 222, p. 103741. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103741.

Shi, T., Li, Q., Amuti, A., Xiao, J., Liu, F., Yang, W., Li, Q., Zhang, H., Lü, Z., and Peng, H., 2021, Bashkirian taeniate bisaccate pollen-dominated palynological assemblage from northwestern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang Province, China: Geological Journal, v. 56, no. 12, p. 6031-6042.

Wan, M., Sun, W., Bek, J., Liu, F., Hill, C., and Wang, J., 2021, Scolecopteris minuta sp. nov., a marattialean fern from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora of Inner Mongolia, China: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 294, p. 104246.

Wu, Q., Ramezani, J., Zhang, H., Wang, J., Zeng, F., Zhang, Y., Liu, F., Chen, J., Cai, Y., Hou, Z., Liu, C., Yang, W., Henderson, C. M., and Shen, S.-z., 2021, High-precision U-Pb age constraints on the Permian floral turnovers, paleoclimate change, and tectonics of the North China block: Geology, v. 49, no. 6, p. 877-681.

Yang, W., Wan, M., Crowley, J. L., Wang, J., Luo, X., Tabor, N., Angielczyk, K. D., Gastaldo, R., Geissman, J., Liu, F., Roopnarine, P., and Sidor, C. A., 2021, Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic evolution and cyclo- and chrono-stratigraphy of upper Permian–Lower Triassic fluvial-lacustrine deposits in Bogda Mountains, NW China — Implications for diachronous plant evolution across the Permian–Triassic boundary: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 222, p. 103741.

Liu, F., Peng, H., Bomfleur, B., Kerp, H., Zhu, H., and Shen, S., 2020, Palynology and vegetation dynamics across the Permian–Triassic boundary in southern Tibet: Earth-Science Reviews, p. 103278.

Bomfleur, B., M？rs, T., Unverf？rth, J., Liu, F., L？ufer, A., Castillo, P., Oh, C., Park, T.-Y. S., Woo, J., and Crispini, L., 2020, Uncharted Permian to Jurassic continental deposits in the far north of Victoria Land, East Antarctica: Journal of the Geological Society, v. 178, no. 1.

Liu, F., Bomfleur, B., Peng, H.P., Li, Q., Kerp, H. Zhu, H.C., S. 2018. 280-million-year old fossil starch reveals early plant-animal mutualism. Geology, 46(5), 423-426.

Liu, F., Kerp, H., Peng, H.P., Zhu, H.C., Peng, J.G., 2018. Palynostratigraphy of the Devonian–Carboniferous transition in the Tulong section in South Tibet: a Hangenberg Event sequence analogue in the Himalaya-Tethys zone. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, , 531, Part A, 108704.

Ji L.X., Liu F.*, Luo W., Ouyang, S. (2017): Spores-pollen from Early Triassic deposits in Qinghai province and their stratigraphic significance. Journal of Stratigraphy, 39, 450-466.

Peng, H.P., Liu F.^* （Corresponding author）, Zhu, H.C (2016): Morphology and ultrastructure of Middle Devonian dispersed megaspores from Qujing, Yunnan, Southwest China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 234. 110-124.

Liu, F., Wang Y., Zhu, H.C., Ouyang, S. (2016): Palynomorphs From Massive Metamorphosed Rocks in Lvchun, Yunnan, Southwest China: Evidence From the Ludlow Age and Its Geological Implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 233. 146-160.

Neregato, R., D'Apolito, C., Glasspool, I.J., Wang, S.J., Liu, F., Windslow, P., Lu, J., Shao, L., Hilton, J., 2016. Palynological constraints on the provenance and stratigraphic range of a Lopingian (Late Permian) inter-extinction floral lagerst？tte from the Xuanwei Formation, Guizhou Province, China. International Journal of Coal Geology 162, 139-150.

Zhang, H., Cao, C.-q., Liu, X.l., Mu, L., Zheng, Q.f., Liu, F., Xiang, L., Liu, L.j., Shen, S.Z. (2016): The terrestrial end-Permian mass extinction in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 448, 108-124.

Peng, H.P., Liu, F. ^* （Corresponding author）, Zhu H.C., 2016. Discussions on the Lower and Middle Devonian Lithostratigraphic Units in Qujing and Zhanyi, Eastern Yunnan, China. Journal of stratigraphy 112, 23-50 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Liu, F., Wang Y., Zhu, H.C., Ouyang, S. (2016): Palynomorphs From Massive Metamorphosed Rocks in Lvchun, Yunnan, Southwest China: Evidence From the Ludlow Age and Its Geological Implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.02.003.

Liu, F., Zhu, H.C., Ouyang, S. 2015. Late Pennsylvanian to Wuchiapingian palynostratigraphy of the Baode section in the Ordos Basin, North China. Journal of Asia Earth Science, 111, 528-552.

Luo W., Ji L.X., Liu F.*, Ouyang, S. (2015): Upper Triassic palynological assemblages from the Nanying'er Formation in Northern Qilian Mountain, Qinghai. Journal of Stratigraphy, 39, 455-467 (in Chinese with English Abstract).

Luo W., Ji L.X., Liu F.*, Ouyang, S. (2015): Triassic Spores-Pollen and Acritarchs of the Northern Qilian Mountain Ranges in Qinghai Province and Their Stratigraphical Significance. Journal of Stratigraphy, 39, 474-486.

Zhu, H.C., Liu, F. (2013): Palynological techniques-processing. In: The training guidebook for fieldwork in South China, Eds. Chen, X., Yuan, X.L. (Hefei: China Science and Technology University Press), 338-341 (in Chinese).

Liu, F., Zhu, H.C., Ouyang, S. (2011): Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Pennsylvanian to Late Permian megaspores from Shanxi, North China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 165, 135-153.

Liu, F., Zhu, H.C., Ouyang, S. (2008): Late Carboniferous-Early Permian palynology of Baode (Pao-te-chou) in Shanxi Province, North China. Geological Journal, 43, 487-510.

Tian J.J., Zhu H.C., Huang M., Liu F. (2011): Late Silurian to Early Devonian Palynomorphs from Qujing, Southwest China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 85(3), 559-568.

Liu, F., Zhu, H.C., Ouyang, S. (2007): The fluctuation of the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian miospores abundance in Baode, Shanxi and its implication on palaeoecology. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 24, 393-406 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Liu F.*, Zhu H.C., (2007): Late Carboniferous-Early Permian miospores from North China and their correlation with Europe and North America. Journal of Stratigraphy, 31: 26-29.