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Name  
 DONG Yajie
Title  
   Special-term Associate Professor
Highest Education  
   Ph.D.
Subject Categories  
   Geology
Phone  
   010-82998354
Zip Code  
   100029
Fax  
   010-62010846
Email  
   dongyajie[a]mail.iggcas.ac.cn
Office  
   No.19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China

Education and Appointments：
  • 2005.09-2009.07, B.S., Geology, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
  • 2009.09-2013.07, M.S., Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2013.09-2017.01, Ph.D., Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2016.07-2022.01, Postdoctoral research, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2022.01-present, Special-Term Associate Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Interests：
  1. High-resolution quantitative paleoclimate reconstruction using terrestrial mollusks
  2. Ecological response patterns to geological warming events
  3. Quantitative assessment of human activity intensity and environmental archaeology
Public Services：

Honors：

Supported Projects：
  1. Reconstructing the intensity of the influence of human activities from the quantitative land snail records in northern China since the Holocene. Principal investigator. 2023-2026. National Natural Science Foundation of China.
  2. Reconstruction and modeling of paleo-atmospheric circulation and moisture sources in the Cenozoic. Key participant. 2024-2029. National Key R&D Program of China.

Publications：

Quantitative paleoclimate reconstruction:

1.     Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin*, Li, Fengjiang, Zhang, Dan, Zhang, Yueting, Shen, Caiming, Lu, Houyuan. The Holocene temperature conundrum answered by mollusk records from East Asia. Nature Communications, 13, 5153 (2022).

2.     Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin*, Li, Fengjiang*, Lu, Houyuan. Geographical distributions and ecological ranges of the dominant snail species in China and their palaeoclimatic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 640, 112108 (2024).

3.     Wei, Fukang, Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin, Li, Fengjiang, Lu, Houyuan. Assessing the temporal stability of snail-climate relationships since the Last Glacial Maximum: Insights from boosted regression trees and LOESS models. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 662, 112771 (2025).

Ecological responses to climate change:

4.     Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin*, Li, Fengjiang, Huang, Linpei, Lu, Houyuan, Stenseth, Nils Chr. Paleorecords reveal the increased temporal instability of species diversity under biodiversity loss. Quaternary Science Reviews, 269, 107147 (2021).

5.     Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin*, Li, Fengjiang, Chen, Xiaoyun, Zhang, Dan, Zhang, Yueting, Huang, Linpei, Wu, Bin, Lu, Houyuan. Influence of monsoonal water-energy dynamics on terrestrial mollusk species-diversity gradients in northern China. Science of the Total Environment, 676, 206-214 (2019).

6.     Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin*, Jiang, Wenying, Li, Fengjiang, Lu, Houyuan. Cascading response of flora and terrestrial mollusks to last deglacial warming. Global Ecology and Conservation, 24, e01360 (2020).

7.     Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin*, Li, Fengjiang, Lu, Houyuan. Coupled morphologic and demographic responses of Opeas striatissimum (Gastropoda: Subulinidae) to latest Pleistocene to early Holocene climate fluctuations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 562, 110101 (2021).

Quantitative assessment of human activity:

8.     Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin*, Li, Fengjiang, Zhang, Dan, Zhang, Yueting, Huang, Linpei, Chen, Xiaoyun, Wu, Bin, Lu, Houyuan. Anthropogenic modification of soil communities in northern China for at least two millennia: Evidence from a quantitative mollusk approach. Quaternary Science Reviews, 248, 106579 (2020).

9.     Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin*, Li, Fengjiang*, Wei, Fukang, Lu, Houyuan. Compositional changes in land snail assemblages from Chinese loess sequences over the past 20,000 years reveal the unprecedented scale of recent anthropogenic impacts. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 651, 112388 (2024).

10.   Liu, Zeyu*, Dong, Yajie*, Peng, Suping, Cui, Anning, Li, Xian. Intensified human activities-ecology interaction in the Chinese Loess Plateau at least two millennia: Evidence from palynological analysis. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 105334 (2025).

11.   Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin. The history of coal use recorded in the Yaoxian loess section during the late Holocene and its implications for human activity. Quaternary Sciences, 32(3): 565-566, 2012. (in Chinese)

Other publications as first/corresponding author:

12.   Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin*, Li, Fengjiang, Wei, Fukang, Lu, Houyuan. Carbon storage in mollusk shells: An overlooked yet significant carbon sink in terrestrial ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment, 915, 170050 (2024).

13.   Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin*, Li, Fengjiang, Lu, Houyuan. Rapid northwestward extension of the East Asian summer monsoon since the Last Deglaciation: evidence from the mollusk record. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 788738 (2021).

14.   Dong, Yajie*, Wu, Naiqin*, Li, Fengjiang, Huang, Linpei, Wen, Wenwen. Time-transgressive nature of the magnetic susceptibility record across the Chinese Loess Plateau at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. PLoS ONE, 10(7), 1-16 (2015).
 
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