EDUCATION

BA, Soil & Water Conservation and Desertification Combating, Beijing Forestry University, 2013

PhD, Physical Geography, Beijing Normal University, 2018

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Aeolian geomorphology, Holocene Climate Change, Paleolimnology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Xiaokang Liu, Ruijie Lu, Jing Du, et al. (2018). Evolution of peatlands in the Mu Us Desert, Northern China, since the last deglaciation[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 123(2): 252-261.

2. Xiaokang Liu, Ruijie Lu, Feifei Jia, et al. (2018). Holocene water-level changes inferred from a section of fluvio-lacustrine sediments in the southeastern Mu Us Desert. China[J]. Quaternary International, 469: 58-67.

3. Xiaokang Liu, Ruijie Lu ing Du, et al. (2018). Holocene resistant substrate and their roles in ecological safety of the Mu Us sandy land, Northern China[J]. Catena, 165: 92-99.

4. Xiaokang Liu, Ruijie Lu, Zhiqiang Lü, et al. (2017). Magnetic susceptibility of surface soils in the Mu Us Desert and its environmental significance[J]. Aeolian Research, 25: 127-134.

5. Ruijie Lu, Xiaokang Liu, Zhiqiang Lü, et al. (2018). A new find of macrofossils of Picea crassifolia Kom. in early-middle Holocene sediments of the Qinghai Lake basin and its paleoenvironmental significance[J]. Quaternary Research, 90(2): 310-320.

6. Feifei Jia, Ruijie Lu, Xiaokang Liu, et al. (2018). Palaeoenvironmental implications of a Holocene sequence of lacustrine-peat sediments in the desert-loess transition in Northern China[J]. Journal of Asian Earth Science, 156: 167-173.

7. Feifei Jia, Ruijie Lu, Shangyu Gao, Jinfeng Li, Xiaokang Liu. (2015). Holocene aeolian activities in the southeastern Mu Us Desert, China[J]. Aeolian Research, 19: 267-274.