Five Representative Publications 

(1) Ma, Jiao; Wang, Shiqi; Deng, Tao; When the woolly rhinoceroses roamed East Asia: a review of isotopic paleoecology of the genus Coelodonta from the Tibetan Plateau to northern Eurasia, Frontiers In Ecology And Evolution, 2024, 12: 1377000

(2) Jiao Ma*; Boyang Sun; Hervé Bocherens; Tao Deng*; Dietary niche reconstruction of Pliocene and Pleistocene Equidae from the Linxia Basin of northwestern China based on stable isotope analysis, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2023, 614: 111416

(3) Jiao, Ma; Yuan, Wang; Gennady F., Baryshnikov; Dorothee G., Drucker; Krista, McGrath; Hanwen, Zhang; Herve, Bocherens*; Yaowu, Hu*; The Mammuthus-Coelodonta Faunal Complex at its southeastern limit: A biogeochemical paleoecology investigation in Northeast Asia, Quaternary International, 2021, 591: 93-106 

(4) Jiao Ma; Yuan Wang; Changzhu Jin; Yaowu Hu*; Hervé Bocherens*; Ecological flexibility and differential survival of Pleistocene Stegodon orientalis and Elephas maximus in mainland southeast Asia revealed by stable isotope (C, O) analysis, Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019, 212: 33-44 

(5) Jiao Ma; Yuan Wang; Changzhu Jin; Yaling Yan; Yating Qu; Yaowu Hu; Isotopic evidence of foraging ecology of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in South China during the Late Pleistocene, Quaternary International, 2017, 443: 160-167 

Research Interests and Expertise: 

Stable Isotope Paleoecology, Cenozoic Mammals, Quaternary Environment and the Evolution of Mammals and Hominins

Science Foundation (Last 5 Years):

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Key Program, 42430207, Research on Pliocene Mammalian Biostratigraphy and Climatic Environmental Changes in the Yushe Basin, 2025-01-01 to 2029-12-31, 2.29 million CNY, Ongoing, Participant
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund 42002005, Paleoecological Study of the Rise and Fall of Late Cenozoic Equidae in the Linxia Basin, 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31, 240,000 CNY, Completed, Principal Investigator
3. Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 223119, Dating and Paleoecological Study of the Late Pleistocene Mammuthus-Coelodonta Fauna in Northeast China, 2022-09 to 2025-08, 60,000 CNY, Ongoing, Principal Investigator
4. Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2022070, Member of the CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association, 2022-03 to 2025-02, 800,000 CNY, Ongoing, Principal Investigator