Research Interests

·   Interglacial vegetation dynamics surrounding the South China Sea and Holocene anthropogenic impacts recorded in marine sediments

·   Tropical vegetation responses to the glacial-interglacial climate change in southeast Asia

Publications

·   Cheng, Z.J., Weng, C.Y., Guo, J.Q., Dai, L., Zhou, Z.Z. (2018) Vegetation responses to late Quaternary climate change in a biodiversity hotspot, the Three Parallel Rivers region in southwestern China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 491, 10-20.

·  Cheng, Z.J., Weng, C.Y., Steinke, S., Mohtadi, M. (2018) Anthropogenic modification of vegetated landscapes in southern China from 6,000 years ago. Nature geoscience, 11, 939-943.