曹现勇----中国科学院青藏高原研究所

人才详细信息

姓名：曹现勇

性别：男

学历：博士

专家类别：研究员

电话：

传真：010-8409 7079

电子邮箱：xcao@itpcas.ac.cn

职称：研究员

通讯地址：北京市朝阳区林萃路16号院3号楼

简介

个人简介

曹现勇，1981年生，德国古生态学博士，中国科学院青藏高原研究所研究员，中组部国家高层次人才特殊支持计划青年人才（2021）。从事基于孢粉的晚第四纪东亚植被与气候时空格局及人类土地利用定量重建研究。任中国地理学会微体与古环境研究工作组副组长、中国环境科学学会生态环境模型专业委员会副主任、中国生态学学会高寒生态专业委员会委员、中国第四纪科学研究会第十一届气候突变专业委员会委员、Quaternary Science Reviews和地理科学杂志编委，地球科学（Journal of Earth Science）青年编委。以第一或通讯作者在Nature Communications、Global Change Biology、Earth System Science Data、Science Bulletin、Quaternary Science Reviews等杂志发表SCI论文51篇。

教育背景

2002.09 – 2006.06，河北师范大学资源与环境科学学院，学士

2006.09 – 2009.06，河北师范大学资源与环境科学学院，硕士

2009.09 – 2015.06，河北师范大学生命科学学院，博士结业

2010.10 – 2015.02，德国波茨坦大学，博士

工作经历

2015.03–2018.02，德国阿尔弗里德 • 魏格纳极地与海洋研究所，博士后
2018.03–2020.02，中国科学院青藏高原研究所，副研究员
2020.02– 今，中国科学院青藏高原研究所，研究员

研究方向

第四纪孢粉学

职务

社会任职

承担项目

1. 国家重点研发计划“地球系统与全球变化”重点专项：寒区陆地生态系统反转的机制、影响及区域联动（2024–2029），子课题负责人

2. 中德科学中心项目：青藏高原和西伯利亚北部多尺度气候-土壤-生态系统-人类交互作用（2021–2025），主持

3. 国家自然科学基金面上项目：青藏高原东缘花粉及菌孢现代过程和晚全新世人类活动对植被的影响（2019–2022），主持

4. 国家第二次青藏高原综合科学考察研究子专题：碳氮循环的生物学过程（2019–2023），共同负责人

5. 国家自然科学基金重点项目：末次冰期冰盛期以来藏羚羊种群规模对高寒环境的响应、适应与影响（2025–2029），参与

6. 国家自然科学基金重点项目：青藏高原南部史前农业发展与人-环境相互作用（2020–2024），参与

7. 俄罗斯科学基金会项目：Holocene climate variability and biodiversity changes in the Altai Mountains based on the study of high-resolution lacustrine records (2020–2022)，参与

8. 国家自然科学基金重点项目：基于花粉产量定量重建我国6ka以来的土地覆被(1°×1°)变化（2017–2021），参与

9. 德国联邦教育及研究部项目：PalMod计划，参与

获奖及荣誉

2024，国际地理联合会青年奖（IGU Early Career Award）

代表论著

第一作者及通讯作者（下划线代表学生）：

Song, L., Cao, X.*, 2026. Anthropogenic Disturbance to Vegetation during the Holocene: Evidence from Pollen Spectra in China. Science China Earth Sciences. DOI: 10.1007/s11430-025-1727-9.
Wang, Z., Liang, C.*, Chen, K., Cao, X.*, 2026. Permafrost dampens long-term vegetation responses to climate change in northern Siberia: evidence from pollen spectra covering the last 40 kyr. Global and Planetary Change, 257: 105237.
Han, Y., Liu, L., Sun, Z., Hou, J., Cao, X.*, 2026. A synthesis of pollen sequences from the central-western Tibetan Plateau reveals regional aridification since the Middle to Late Holocene. Global and Planetary Change, 256: 105195.
Cao, C., Song, L., Wang, Z., Liu, F., Han, Y., Cao, X.*, 2026. Using modern pollen assemblages in vegetation and climate reconstructions from the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 681: 113389.
Cao, C., Wang, Z., Song, L., Han, Y., Liu, F., Cao, X.*, 2026. Arboreal pollen indicates surrounding forest presence: evidence from the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Earth Science, accepted.
Li, D., Song, L., Li, D.*, Wang, N., Cao, X.*, 2026. Indicative and discriminative potential of soil-surface phytolith assemblages for land-use types on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 344: 105453.
Cao, X.*, 2025. Stability of Holocene pollen assemblages in eastern China disturbed by human activities over the last two millennia. Science Bulletin, 70: 3283–3285.
Cao, X.*, Liao, M., Li, K., Jin, Y., Li, W., Song, L., Wang, Z., Liu, L., Tian, F., Ni, J., 2025. Intraspecific competition might reduce pollen productivity of grassland plants on the Tibetan Plateau. The Innovation Geoscience, 3(4): 100168.
Liu, L., Wang, H., Li, K., Cao, X.*, 2025. Holocene agricultural activities revealed by cereal Poaceae pollen in eastern China. Catena, 261: 109561.
Ma, L., Xu, Q.*, Zhang, S., Li, Y., Miao, Y., Cao, X.*, 2025. Review of relative pollen productivity estimates for the Tibetan Plateau. Science China Earth Sciences, 68(8):2413–2425.
Yi, K., Cao, X.*, 2025. Recent vegetation shifts on the Tibetan Plateau exceed the range of variations seen over past millennia in pollen record. Journal of Earth Science, 36(3): 1348–1350.
Wang, N., Li, W.*, Zhang, Y., Liu, L., Cao, X.*, 2025. Broad-scale valley agriculture reaches back to the Ming Dynasty based on multiproxy records from Guli Lake, northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 352: 109208.
Song, L., Jie, D.*, Xie, F.*, Gao, G., Cao, X.*, 2025. Enhanced human activities have disturbed the vegetation-climate relationship over the last millennium in the Changbai Mountains, north-east China. Global and Planetary Change, 26: 104701.
Hao, S., Duan, Y.*, Chen, J., Cao, X.*, 2025. Was there a “Holocene thermal maximum” in China? Science Bulletin. 70(9): 1394–1397.
Hou, X., Sun, Z., Chen, S., Wang, N., Zang, T., Cao, X.*, Hou, J.*, 2024. Lake sediment record of eolian activity on the eastern Tibetan Plateau since 15 cal ka BP. Global and Planetary Change, 240: 104592.
Neupane, S., Paudayal, K.N., Song, L., Humagain, S., Kaphle, B., Nepal, J., Ullah, A., Li, W., Cao, X.*, 2024. Modern pollen distribution along a Himalayan elevation gradient in Central Nepal. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 331: 105206.
Liu, L., Wang, N., Zhang, Y., Liang, J., Ni, J., Cao, X.*, 2024. Spatial and temporal variations of vegetation cover on the central and eastern Tibetan Plateau since the Last glacial period. Global and Planetary Change. 240: 104536.
Li, W., Cao, X.*, Stoof-Leichsenring, K., Hou, X., Yu, S.-Y., Tian, F., Herzschuh, U.*, 2024. Holocene lake response to glacier and catchment changes on the eastern Tibetan Plateau from quantitative conductivity reconstructions based on sedaDNA-derived macrophyte records. Quaternary Science Reviews, 338: 108806.
Liao, M., Jin, Y., Li, K., Liu, L., Wang, N., Ni, J.*, Cao, X.*, 2024. Modern pollen-plant diversity relationship in open landscapes of Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 641: 112131.
Cao, X., Wang, N., Cao, Y., Liu, L., Zhang, Y., Hou, X., Zhao, W., Li, Y., Tian, F.*, 2023. Hostile climate during the Last Glacial Maximum caused sparse vegetation on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 301: 107916.
Li, W., Wang, N.*, Liang, C., Yu, S., Tian, F., Cao, X.*, 2023. Regional peculiarities in importance of precipitation and temperature on mid-to-late Holocene arboreal degradation in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 229: 104252.
Liu, L., Wang, N., Zhang, Y., Yu, X., Cao, X.*, 2023. Performance of pollen-based vegetation cover reconstruction using lake and soil samples on the Tibetan Plateau. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 32: 157–169.
Su, M., Wang, N.*, Dong, H., Zhang, H., Xu, Q., Liu, J., Cao, X.*, 2023. Influence of human impacts on modern pollen assemblages and an assessment of their reliability in reconstructing climate in eastern China. Quaternary International, 670: 45–54.
Wang, N., Zhang, Y., Liu, L., Li, W., Yu, X., Sun, J., Cao, X.*, 2023. Pollen analysis of middle to late Holocene records shows little evidence for grazing disturbance to alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau until modern times. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 627: 111745.
Wang, N.*, Tian, Y., Cao, X.*, Wei, M., 2023. Palynological data confirm the occurrence of forest on the Loess Plateau of central China during the Middle Quaternary (MIS13). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 613: 111410.
Wang, Y., Cao, C., Zhang, Y., Liu, L., Wang, N., Li, W., Cao, X.*, 2023. Spatial distribution of charcoal in topsoil and its potential determinants on the Tibetan Plateau. Frontier of Earth Science, 17(4): 1059–1069.
Yi, K., Zhang, Y., Chen, M., Zhang, Z.*, Li, C., Li, W., Zhang, L., Wang, N., Cao, X.*, 2023. Vegetation stability characterized the central Tibetan Plateau over the last two millennia but has recently begun to change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 625: 111689.
Zhang, Y., Wang, N., Liu, L., Wang, M., Yu, X., Cao, X.*, 2023. Vegetation stability during the last two centuries on the western Tibetan Plateau: a palynological evidence. Frontier of Earth Science, 17(4): 1049–1058.
Cao, X.*, Tian, F., Herzschuh, U., Ni, J., Xu, Q., Li, W., Zhang, Y., Luo, M., Chen, F., 2022. Human activities have reduced plant diversity in eastern China over the last two millennia. Global Change Biology, 28(16): 4962–4976.
Cao, X.*, Chen, J., Tian, F., Xu, Q., Herzschuh, U., Telford, R., Huang, X., Zheng, Z., Shen, C., Li, W., 2022. Long-distance modern analogues bias results of pollen-based precipitation reconstructions. Science Bulletin, 67: 1115–1117.
Hou, X., Liu, L., Sun, Z., Wang, M., Cao, X.*, Hou, J.*, 2022. Enhanced aridity in the source region of the Yangtze River since 5.8 ka revealed by the sediments of Saiyong Co. Quaternary International, 613: 81–90.
Li, W., Tian, F., Rudaya, N., Herzschuh, U., Cao, X.*, 2022. Pollen-based Holocene thawing-history of permafrost in northern Asia and its potential impacts on climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 894471.
Liu, L., Hou, X., Yu, X., Wang, N., Zhang, Y., Cao, X.*, 2022. Vegetation and environmental changes since the Last Glacial Maximum inferred from a lake core from Saiyong Co, central Tibetan Plateau. The Holocene, 32(6): 543–553.
Wang, N., Liu, L., Hou, X., Zhang, Y., Wei, H., Cao, X.*, 2022. Palynological evidence reveals an arid early Holocene for the north-east Tibetan Plateau. Climate of the Past, 18: 2381–2399.
Wang, N., Liu, L., Zhang, Y., Cao, X.*, 2022. A modern pollen dataset for the forest-meadow-steppe ecotone from the Tibetan Plateau and its potential use in past vegetation reconstruction. Boreas, 51: 847–858.
Zhang, N., Cao, X.*, Xu, Q., Huang, X., Herzschuh, U., Shen, Z., Peng, W., Liu, S., Wu, D., Wang, J., Xia, H., Zhang, D.*, Chen, F., 2022. Vegetation change and human-environment interactions in the Qinghai Lake Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, since the last deglaciation. Catena, 210: 105892.
Zhang, Y., Li, Y., Liu, L., Wang, N., Cao, X.*, 2022. No evidence of human disturbance to vegetation in the Zoige Region (north-eastern Tibetan Plateau) in the last millennium until recent decades. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 589: 110843.
Cao, X.*, Tian, F., Li, K., Ni, J., Yu, X., Liu, L., Wang, N., 2021. Lake surface sediment pollen dataset for the alpine meadow vegetation type from the eastern Tibetan Plateau and its potential in past climate reconstructions. Earth System Science Data, 13: 3525–3537.
Cao, X.*, Tian, F., Andreev, A., Anderson, P.M., Lozhkin, A.V., Bezrukova, E., Ni, J., Rudaya, N., Stobbe, A., Wieczorek, M., Herzschuh, U.*, 2020. A taxonomically harmonized and temporally standardized fossil pollen dataset from Siberia covering the last 40 kyr. Earth System Science Data, 12: 119–135.
Liu, L., Wang, W.*, Chen, D., Niu, Z., Wang, Y., Cao, X.*, Ma, Y., 2020. Soil-surface pollen assemblages and quantitative relationships with vegetation and climate from the Inner Mongolian Plateau and adjacent mountain areas of northern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 543: 109600.
Herzschuh, U.*, Cao, X.*, Laepple, T., Dallmeyer, A., Telford, R., Ni, J., Chen, F., Kong, Z., Liu, G., Liu, K.-B., Liu, X., Stebich, M., Tang, L., Tian, F., Wang, Y., Wischnewski, J., Xu, Q., Yan, S., Yang, Z., Yu, G., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y., Zheng, Z., 2019. Position and orientation of the westerly jet determined Holocene rainfall patterns in China. Nature Communications, 10: 2376.
Cao, X.*, Tian, F., Dallmeyer, A., Herzschuh, U.*, 2019. Northern Hemisphere biome changes (>30°N) since 40 cal ka BP and their driving factors inferred from model-data comparisons. Quaternary Science Reviews, 220: 291–309.
Cao, X.*, Tian, F., Li, F., Gaillard, M.-J., Rudaya, N., Herzschuh, U., 2019. Pollen-based quantitative land-cover reconstruction for northern Asia during the last 40 ka. Climate of the Past, 15: 1503–1536.
Cao, X.*, Tian, F., Ding, W., 2018. Improving the quality of pollen-climate calibration-sets is the primary step for ensuring reliable climate reconstructions. Science Bulletin, 63: 1317–1318.
Cao, X., Tian, F.*, Telford, R., Ni, J., Xu, Q., Chen, F., Liu, X., Stebich, M., Zhao, Y., Herzschuh, U.*, 2017. Impacts of the spatial extent of pollen-climate calibration-set on the absolute values, range and trends of reconstructed Holocene precipitation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 178: 37–53.
Tian, F., Cao, X.*, Dallmeyer, A., Zhao, Y., Ni, J., Herzschuh, U., 2017. Pollen-climate relationships in time (9 ka, 6 ka, 0 ka) and space (upland vs. lowland) in eastern continental Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 156: 1–11.
Tian, F., Cao, X.*, Dallmeyer, A., Ni, J., Zhao, Y., Wang, Y., Herzschuh, U., 2016. Quantitative woody cover reconstructions from eastern continental Asia of the last 22 ka reveal strong regional peculiarities. Quaternary Science Reviews, 137: 33–44.
Cao, X.*, Herzschuh, U., Ni, J., Zhao, Y., Böhmer, T., 2015. Spatial and temporal distributions of major tree taxa in eastern continental Asia during the last 22,000 yr. The Holocene, 25: 79–91.
Cao, X.*, Herzschuh, U., Telford, R.J., Ni, J., 2014. A modern pollen-climate dataset from China and Mongolia: assessing its potential for climate reconstruction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 211, 87–96.
Cao, X., Ni, J.*, Herzschuh, U.*, Wang, Y., Zhao, Y., 2013. A late Quaternary pollen dataset in eastern continental Asia for plant migration study, vegetation and climate reconstructions: set up and evaluation. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 194: 21–37.
Cao, X., Xu, Q.*, Jing, Z., Li, Y., Tian, F., 2010. Holocene climate change and human impacts implied from the pollen records in Anyang, central China. Quaternary International, 227: 3–9.