1996-2000  Lanzhou University, BSc, Physical Geography
2004-2005  University of London, Royal Holloway & University College London, MSc Quaternary Science
2000-2006  Lanzhou University, PhD, Physical Geography

Late Quaternary Palaeoclimate and Environment Change,  Palynology,  Human-Environment interactions

2007.2-2008.5  Lecturer in College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
2008.12-2019.12  Postdoc in Archéorient of CNRS, France
2012.12     Visiting at Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Norway
2013.7-2014.7  Visiting Scholar at Illinois State Museum & UIUC, USA
2008.5-2018.6  Associate Professor, Lanzhou University
2018.7      Professor, Lanzhou University

1.  Teaching  <Physical Geography>, <Regional Geography>，<Global Environmental Change and Culture Evolution> for undergraduates
2.  Teaching with others <Progress of Physical Geography> for graduates

N/A

1) Ealry human impacts on ecosystem in the middle to late Holocene
2) Early Holocene dry climate in central Asia and high temperature in central Asia in late middle Holocene
3) Holocene vegetation evolution and climate dynamics in the Altai Mountains
4) Climate change and its impact on human activities during the late Quaternary period and especially during the middle to late Holocene
5) Modern dispersal processes of pollen grains and its relationship with climate and human activities   

1)	NSFC key project: Historical Background of Anthropocene, CNY 4,480,000 2020-2024, PI

	Xiaozhong Huang’s publication list (*corresponding author)

2023
1.	Xiang, L., Huang, X.*, Sun, M., Panizzo, V.N.*, Huang, C., Zheng, M., Chen, X. Chen, F. 2023. Prehistoric population expansion in Central Asia promoted by the Altai Holocene Climatic Optimum. Nature Communications. 14, 3102.（Top journal, NI）
2.	Huang, X.*, Huang, C., Xu, Y., Zheng, M., Ren, X., Chen, X., Hu, Y., Wang, T., Xiang, L., Zhang, J., Chen, F. 2023. Body size of fossil Pediastrum in lake sediments as an indicator of temperature variation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 625, 111687.（Top journal）
3.	Zhang, J., Liu, S., Qiang, M., Chen, Y., Zhang, S., Cheng, B., Pan, X., Li, Y., Huang, X.* 2023. Moisture changes in a mountain–basin system since the last deglaciation revealed by the pollen record of Genggahai Lake, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Catena. 225, 107046.（Top journal）
4.	Hu, Y., Huang, X.*, Demberel, O., Zhang, J., Xiang, L., Gundegmaa, V., Huang, C., Zheng, M., Zhang, J., Qiang, M., Xiao, J., and Chen F. 2023. Quantitative Reconstruction of Precipitation Changes in the Mongolian Altai Mountains since 13.7 ka. Catena. 107536（Top journal）
5.	Wang, T., Huang, X.*, Zhang, J.*, Luo, D., Zheng, M., Xiang, L., Sun, M., Ren, X., Sun, Y., and Zhang, S. 2023. Vegetation cover dynamics on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau since late Marine Isotope Stage 3. Quaternary Science Reviews, 318, 108292.（Top journal）
6.	Cao H., Huang X.*, Xiang, L., 2023. Soil erosion caused the increasing Holocene radiocarbon reservoir effect of Lake Kanas in the Altai Mountains. Radiocarbon. 65, 343-356.
7.	Ayyamperumal, R.*, Kumari, K., Gandhi, M.S., Huang, X., Chengjun, Z., Nazir, N., Li, F., Das, P. 2023. Environmental hazard assessment and metal contamination in coastal sediments. Chemosphere, 338, 139434. （SCI-2）
8.	Chellaiah, G., Ayyamperumal, R.*, Rengaraj, B., Gopalakrishnan, G., Senapathi, V., Chengjun, Z., Huang, X. 2023. Combined tactic of seasonal changes and ionic processes of groundwater in Tamirabarani river basin, India. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-26449-9
9.	Li, F.*, Gaillard, M.-J., Cao, X., Herzschuh, U., Sugita, S., Ni, J., Zhao, Y., An, C., Huang, X., Li, Y., Liu, H., Sun, A., Yao, Y. 2023. Gridded pollen-based Holocene regional plant cover in temperate and northern subtropical China suitable for climate modelling. Earth System Science Data, 15, 95-112. （Top journal）
10.	Zhang, D.*, Blyakharchuk, T.A., Bezrukova, E.V., Huang, X., An, C., Su, C., Li, Y. 2023. Holocene rates of vegetation composition change differ between high and middle-to-low elevations in the Central Arid Zone of Asia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 618, 111526. （Top journal）
2022
11.	Zhang, J., Huang X.*, Qiang, M., Demberel, O., Wang, W., Zheng, M., Xiang, L., Hu, Y., Xiao, J., 2022. Increasing spring insolation in the late Holocene intensified aeolian activity in dryland Asia. Geophysical Research Letters, 17589412, DOI: 10.1029/2022GL101777. (Top journal, Nature Index,) 
12.	Ren, X., Huang, X.*, Huang, C., Wang, T., Shen, Z., Zhang, X., Ding, G., Ayyamperumal, R., Zhang, J., Chen, X., 2022. Effects of human activities on mountain forest in northern China during the middle Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews. 288, 107580.（Top journal）
13.	Chen, X.*, Huang, X.*, Wu, D.*, Chen, J., Zhang, J., Zhou, A., Dodson J., Atun, Z., Geraldine, J., Yu, J., Wu, Q., Chen, F., 2022. Late Holocene land use evolution and vegetation response to climate change in the watershed of Xingyun Lake, SW China. Catena. 211(3):105973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105973. (Top journal)
14.	Li, Y., Huang, X.*, Xiang, L., Zhang, J., Xu, Y., Tian, L., Jin, Y., Jin, X., Zhao, Y., Ren, N., Zhao, H.* 2022. Holocene hydroclimatic change in the Altai Mountains and its impact on human migration. Catena. 219, 106617, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106617. (Top journal)
15.	Zhang, J., Huang X.-Z.*, Wang, J.L., Bradshaw, R.H.W., Wang, T., Xiang, L.X., Luo, D.R., Chen, F.H.*, 2022. An inverse relationship between moisture and grazing intensity in an arid mountain-basin system. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment. 46(2): 310-322. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333211060000.
16.	Li, Y.*, Huang, X.*, Xiang, L., Zhang, J., Xu, Y., Jeppesen, E., 2022. Influence of Lateglacial meltwater influx from alpine glaciers on the aquatic ecosystem of Kanas Lake in the Altai Mountains, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 604(15):  111214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111214 (Top journal)
17.	Zhang, D., Huang, X., Liu, Q., Chen, X., Feng Z. 2022. Holocene fire records and their drivers in the westerlies-dominated Central Asia. Science of The Total Environment. 833(5):155153 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155153. (Top journal)
18.	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 (Top journal)
19.	Balasubramanian, M., Sridhar, S.G.D., Ayyamperumal, R.*, Karuppannan, S., Gopalakrishnan, G., Chakraborty, M., Huang, X. 2022. Isotopic signatures, hydrochemical and multivariate statistical analysis of seawater intrusion in the coastal aquifers of Chennai and Tiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu, India. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 174: 113232.
20.	Dong, G-H, Lu, Y, Zhang, S., Huang, X-Z., Ma, M., 2022. Spatiotemporal variation in human settlements and their interaction with living environments in Neolithic and Bronze Age China. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment. DOI: 10.1177/03091333221087992.
21.	Zhao, Y., Miao, Y.*, Huang, X., Chen, C., Zhao, J., Li, Y., Fang, Y., Wang, X., An, C. 2022. Holocene hydroclimate changes revealed by multiple proxies from an alpine lake in the central Tianshan Mountains, Northwest China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111004. (Top journal)
22.	Cao, X.*, Chen, J., Tian, F., Xu, Q., Herzschuh, U., Telford, R., Huang, X., Zheng, Z., Shen, C. 2022. Long-distance modern analogues bias results in pollen-based precipitation reconstructions. Science Bulletin. DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2022.01.003 (Top journal)
23.	Fontana, L., Ferreira, P.A., Benassi, R.F., Baldovi, A.A., Figueira, R.C.L., Tambosi, L.R., Calaboni, A., Tavares, D.A., Huang, X., Benassi, S.F., de Souza, J.E., de Jesus, T.A., 2022. Sedimentation rate inferred from 210Pb and 137Cs dating of three sediment cores at Itaipu reservoir (Paraná State, Brazil) the world’s second largest hydroelectricity producer. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. DOI: 10.1007/s10967-022-08380-4
24.	Ayyamperumal, R., Huang, X., Li, F., Zhang, C., Chellaiah, G., Gopalakrishnan, G., Senapathi, V., Perumal, R., Antony, J.K., 2022. Investigation of microplastic contamination in the sediments of Noyyal River- Southern India, Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, 8, 100198 
2021
25.	Huang, X.*, Zhang, J., Ren, L., Zhang, S., Chen, F. 2021. Intensification and driving forces of pastoralism in Northern China 5.7 ka ago. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7), GRL62146. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092288 (Top journal)
26.	Huang, X.*, Xiang, L., Lei, G.*, Sun, M., Qiu, M., Storozum, M., Huang, C., Munkhbayar, C., Demberel, O., Zhang, J., Zhang, J., Chen, X., Chen, J., Chen, F. 2021. Sedimentary Pediastrum record of middle–late Holocene temperature change and its impacts on early human culture in the desert-oasis area of northwestern China. Quaternary Science Reviews. 265, 107054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107054 (Top journal). 
27.	Huang, X. *, Ren, X., Chen, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, X., Shen, Z., Hu, Y., Chen, F. 2021. Anthropogenic mountain forest degradation and soil erosion recorded in the sediments of Mayinghai Lake in northern China. Catena. 207, 105597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105597 (Top journal).
28.	Zhang, J., Huang, X.*, Zhang, S., Ren, X., Xiao, Y., Wang, J., Xiang, L., Xu, Q., Birks, H.J.B. 2021. Cycles of grazing and agricultural activity during the historical period and its relationship with climatic and societal changes in northern China. Land Degradation & Development. 32(11): 3315-3325. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4007 (Top journal, featured cover)
29.	Peng, W., Huang, X.*, Storozum, M.J., Fan, Y., Zhang, H*. 2021. An updated chronology and paleoenvironmental background for the Paleolithic Loufangzi site, North China. Journal of Human Evolution. 152, 102948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102948. (Top journal)
30.	Xiang, L., Chen, X., Huang, C., Sun, M., Xiao, Y., Hu, Y., Huang, X.*, 2021. Divergent patterns of Holocene hydro-climatic evolution in arid central Asia and the Asian summer monsoon margin indicated by Pediastrum records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 582, 110662. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110662. (Top journal)
31.	Xiang, L., Huang, X.*, Huang, C., Chen, X.*, Wang H., Chen J., Hu Y., Sun M., Xiao, Y. 2021. Pediastrum (Chlorophyceae) assemblages in surface lake sediments in China and western Mongolia and their environmental significance, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 289, 104396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104396.
32.	Xie, H., Liang, J., Vachula, R.S., Russell, J.M., Chen, C., Guo, M., Wang, X., Huang, X.*, Chen, F. 2021. Changes in the hydrodynamic intensity of Bosten Lake and its impact on early human settlement in the northeastern Tarim Basin, Arid Central Asia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 576, 110499. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110499. (Top journal)
33.	Xiao, Y.1, Xiang, L.1, Huang, X.*, Mills K., Zhang, J., Chen, X., Li, Y. 2021. Moisture changes in the northern Xinjiang basin over the past 2,400 years as documented in pollen records of Jili Lake. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9, 741992. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.741992. (1 equal contribution)
34.	Li, Y., Qiang, M.*, Huang, X., Zhao, Y., Leppänen, J., Weckström, J., Väliranta, M. 2021, Lateglacial and Holocene climate change in the NE Tibetan Plateau: Reconciling divergent proxies of Asian summer monsoon variability. Catena. 199, 105089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2020.105089. (Top journal)
35.	Lv, F., Chen, J.*, Zhou, A., Cao, X., Zhang, X., Wang, Z., Wu, D., Chen, X., Yan, J., Wang, H., Dong, G., Xu, Q., Huang, X., Chen, F. 2021. Vegetation history and precipitation changes in the NE Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau: a 7,900-yr pollen record from Caodalian Lake. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 36(4), e2020PA004126. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004126 (Top journal)
36.	Wang, X., Sun, J., Longstaffe, F.J., Gu, X., Du, S.*, Cui, L., Huang, X., Ding, Z. 2021. Climatic quantification and seasonality of the late MIS 3 in North China: A perspective from carbon and oxygen isotopes of fossil mammal teeth. Quaternary Science Reviews. 272(15): 107222. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107222. (Top journal)
37.	Li, Y. *, Hu, L., Wang, H., Zhao, Y., Huang, X., Chen, G., Leppänen, J. J., Fontana, L., Ren, L., Shi, Z., Liu, B., Zhao, H.*, 2021. Meltwater-driven water-level fluctuations of Bosten Lake in arid China over the past 2,000 years. Geophysical Research Letters. 48, 2020GL090988. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090988. (Top journal)
38.	Ayyamperumal, R.*, Karuppasamy, M.B., Gopalakrishnan, G., Huang, X. 2021. Characteristics of Atmospheric Total Gaseous Mercury Concentrations (TGM) and Meteorological Parameters Observed in Chennai Metropolis, South India. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 14(1424): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-07803-y.
2020年
39.	Huang, X.*, Sun, M., Xiang, L., Zhang, E., Zhang, J., Grimm, E. 2020. The effect of diatoms on the grain size of lake sediments: a case study of the sediments of Lake Kanas. Journal of Paleolimnology, 63, 101-111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-019-00104-1. (SCI-3)
40.	Huang, X.1*, Zhang J.1, Storozum M., Liu, S., Gill, J.L., Xiang, L., Ren, X., Wang, J., Qiang, M., Chen, F., Grimm, E.C. 2020. Long-term herbivore population dynamics in the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its implications for early human impacts. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 275. 104171. (3-years most cited paper of the journal RPP-2020-2023)
41.	Chen, X.*, Wu, D., Huang, X.*, Lv, F., Brenner, M., Chen, F. 2020. Response of vegetation in subtropical southwest China to rapid climate change during the Younger Dryas. Earth-Science Reviews, 201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103080. (Top journal)
42.	Wang J., Huang, X.*, Zhang, J., Xiang, L., Xiao, Y., Fontana, L., Ren, X., Wang, Z*. 2020. Pollen record of humidity changes in the arid western Qilian Mountains over the past 300 years and comparison with tree-ring reconstructions. Frontiers in Earth Science. 8, DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.562426.
43.	Li, F., Gaillard, M.-J., Cao, X., Herzschuh, U., Sugita, S., Tarasov, P.E., Wagner, M., Xu, Q., Ni, J., Wang, W., Zhao, Y., An, C., Beusen, A.H.W., Chen, F., Feng, Z., Goldewijk, C.G.M.K., Huang, X., Li, Y., Li, Y., Liu, H., Sun, A., Yao, Y., Zheng, Z., Jia, X., 2020. Towards quantification of Holocene anthropogenic land-cover change in temperate China: A review in the light of pollen-based REVEALS reconstructions of regional plant cover. Earth-Science Reviews. 203, 103119. Doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103119. (Top journal)
2019
44.	Peng, W., Huang, X.*, Zhang, D.J., Storozum, M.J., Chen, F.H., 2019. In-site pollen record from Dadiwan archaeological site and human-environment relationship during Marine Isotope Stage 3. Quaternary Research. 91, 289-300. doi:10.1017/qua.2018.72
45.	Fontana, L., Sun, M., Huang, X. *, Xiang, L., 2019. The impact of climate change and human activity on the ecological status of Bosten Lake, NW China, revealed by a diatom record for the last 2000 years. The Holocene. 2019, 29(12): 1871–1884 DOI: 10.1177/0959683619865586.
46.	Chen, F., Chen, J., Huang, W., Chen, S., Huang, X., Jin, L., Jia, J., Zhang, X., An, C., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y., Yu Z., Zhang, R., Liu, J., Zhou, A., Feng, S., 2019. Westerlies Asia and monsoonal Asia: Spatiotemporal differences in climate change and possible mechanisms on decadal to sub-orbital timescales. Earth-Science Reviews. 192, 337-354.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.03.005. (Top journal, SCI-1, ESI 1%)
47.	Huang X.*, Xiang L., Zhang E., Sun M., 2019. Mid-Holocene cold event at ca.7 ka and its impact on vegetation ecology in Northern China. Quaternary Sciences, 39(3): 687-700. (in Chinese with English abstract)
48.	Zhou G., Huang X.*, Wang Z., Zhang J., Xie H., 2019. Eolian activity history reconstructed by Bosten Lake grain size data over the past~2000 years. Journal of Desert Research, 39(2): 86-95. (in Chinese with English abstract)
49.	Huang X., Gou X., 2019. Discussion on the designing and teaching of the open course of " Regional geography: the world and China". Higher Education of Sciences, 145: 108-119. (in Chinese with English abstract)
2018
50.	Huang X.Z.*, Peng W., Rudaya N., Grimm E.C., Chen X.M., Cao X.Y., Zhang J., Pan X.D., Liu S.S., Chen C.Z., Chen F.H. 2018. Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics in the Altai Mountains and surrounding areas. Geophysical Research Letters. 45, 6628-6636. DOI: 10.1029/2018GL078028. (SCI-1，Top journal; ESI 5%)
51.	Huang, X.*, Chen, X., Du, X., 2018. Modern pollen assemblages from human-influenced vegetation in northwestern China and their relationship with vegetation and climate. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 27(6): 767-780. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-018-0672-0.
52.	Zhang, J., Huang, X.*, Wang, Z., Yan, T., Zhang, E. 2018. A late-Holocene pollen record from the western Qilian Mountains and its implications for climate change and human activity along the Silk Road, Northwestern China. The Holocene. 28(7), 1141-1150. DOI: 10.1177/0959683618761548.
53.	Lin, X., Rioual, P.*, Peng, W., Yang, H., Huang, X.* 2018. Impact of recent climate change on Lake Kanas, Altai Mountains (N.W. China) inferred from diatom and geochemical evidence. Journal of Paleolimnology. 59(4), 461-477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-018-0019-y.
54.	Zhang, J., Xia, Z.*, Zhang, X., Storozum, M.J., Huang, X.*, Han, J., Xu, H., Zhao, H., Cui, Y., Dodson, J., Dong, G. 2018. Early-middle Holocene ecological change and its influence on human subsistence strategies in the Luoyang Basin, north-central China. Quaternary Research. 89(2), 446-458. DOI:10.1017/qua.2017.104.
55.	Xie, H., Zhang, H., Ma, J., Li, G., Wang Q, Rao, Z., Huang, W., Huang, X., Chen, F. 2018. Trends of increasing Holocene summer precipitation in arid central Asia: evidence from an organic carbon isotopic record from LJW10 loess section in Xinjiang, NW China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 509, 24-32. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.04.006.
56.	Lin X., Patrick Rioual., Bai Z., Peng W., Sun M., Huang X.*, 2018. The recent diatom flora in Lake Kanas, Xinjiang: unusual species and new records in China. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 42(3): 641-654. (in Chinese with English abstract)
57.	Shu J., Huang X., Xu D., Chen W., Song B., Cui A., Eric Grimm., 2018. The latest Tilia software: Chinese manual and practice skills. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 57(2): 260-272. (in Chinese with English abstract)
58.	Chen J., Lv Y., Huang X., Birks HJB., Telford RJ., Zhang S., Xu Q., Zhao Y., Zhou A., Wei G., 2018. A novel procedure for pollen-based quantitative paleoclimate reconstructions and its application in China. Science China Earth Sciences, 60: 2059-2066. (in Chinese)
59.	Duan F., An C., Zhao Y., Zhang X., Zhou A., Huang X., Li G., Xia D., Chen F.,2018. A preliminary study on the climate change since the last interglaciation based on lake sediments from Xinjiang, Northwest China. Quaternary Sciences, 38(5): 1156-1165. (in Chinese with English abstract)
60.	Yan T., Wang Z., He J., Huang X., Xia D., Wang Z., 2018. A 3500 year environmental changes recorded by sediment of Tian'E Lake, central part of the Qilian Mountains, China. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 36(3): 521-530. (in Chinese with English abstract)
Before 2018 
61.	Huang, X.Z.*, Liu, S.S., Dong, G.H., Qiang, M.R., Zhao, Y., Chen, F.H. 2017. Early human impacts on vegetation on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau during the middle to late Holocene. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment. 41(3), 286-301. DOI: 10.1177/0309133317703035. (SCI-2)
62.	Chen, X.M., Huang, X.Z.*, Wu, D., Zhang, X, Dodson, J, Zhou, A, Chen, FH. 2017. Modern pollen assemblages in topsoil and surface sediments of the Xingyun lake catchment, central Yunnan Plateau, China, and their implications for interpretation of the fossil pollen record. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 241, 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.01.003.
63.	Chen, J., Lv F., Huang, X.Z., Birks, H.J.B., Telford, R.J., Zhang, S., Xu, Q., Zhao, Y., Wang, H., Zhou, A., Huang, W., Liu, J., Wei, G., 2017. A novel procedure for pollen-based quantitative paleoclimate reconstructions and its application in China. Science China Earth Sciences. 60 (11), 2059-2066. doi: 10.1007/s11430-017-9095-1. 
64.	Li, Y., Qiang, M., Zhang, J., Huang, X.Z., Zhou, A., Chen, J., Wang, G., Zhao, Y., 2017. Hydroclimatic changes over the past 900 years documented by the sediments of Tiewaike Lake, Altai Mountains, Northwestern China. Quaternary International. 452: 91-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.07.053 
65.	Fan, Y.X., Wang, Y.D., Mou, X.S., Zhao, H., Zhang, F., Zhang, F., Liu, W.H., Zhao, H., Huang X.Z., Ma, J. 2017. Environmental status of Jilantai Basin, North China, on the northwestern margin of the modern Asian summer monsoon domain during MIS3. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 147, 178-192. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.07.012. (SCI-2)
66.	Li, G., Duan, Y., Huang, X., Buylaert, J.P., Peng, W., Madsen, D.B., Rao, Z., Chen, J., Chen, F. 2017. The luminescence dating chronology of a deep core from Bosten Lake (NW China) in arid central Asia reveals lake evolution over the last 220 ka. Boreas. 46 (2), 264-281. 
67.	Wang Y., Huang X.*, Peng W., Zhou G., Zhang J., Du X., 2017. Temperature variations over the past 600 years documented by a  13C record from terrestrial plant remains from Kanas Lake, Altai Mountains, Northwestern China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 62: 2829-2839. (in Chinese with English abstract)
68.	Xie H., Wei H., Wang Q., Huang X., Peng W., Chen F., 2017. Relationship between magnetic minerals and there sedimentary environment of Holocene sediments from Bosten Lake, Xinjiang. Arid Land Geography ,40(3): 512-522(in Chinese with English abstract)
69.	Chen, F., Wu, D., Chen, J., Zhou, A., Yu, J., Shen, J., Wang, S., Huang, X.Z., 2016. Holocene moisture and East Asian summer monsoon evolution in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau recorded by Lake Qinghai and its environs: A review of conflicting proxies. Quaternary Science Reviews. 154, 111-129. (SCI-1; Top journal)
70.	Zhang, J.W., Ma, X., Qiang, M., Huang, X.Z., Li, S., Guo, X., Henderson, A.C.G., Holmes, J.A., Chen, F. 2016. Developing inorganic carbon-based radiocarbon chronologies for Holocene lake sediments in arid NW China. Quaternary Science Reviews. 144: 66-82. (SCI-1; Top journal)
71.	Chen X., Huang X.*, Tang L., Chen F., 2016. A preliminary investigation of relationship between modern Pediastrum and the level of Xingyun Lake, central Yunnan, and its implications for the interpretation of the fossil record (in Chinese). Chinese Science Bulletin, 61: 2395–2408. (in Chinese with English abstract)
72.	Liu S., Huang X.*, Qiang M., Lin X., Bai Z., Peng W., 2016. Vegetation and climate change during the Mid-Late Holocene reflection by the pollen record from Lake Genggahai, Northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Sciences, 36(2): 247-256. (in Chinese with English abstract)
73.	Peng W., Lin X., Huang X.*, Liu S., Jia W., 2016. Preliminary study on assemblages characteristics of waterborne pollen and accumulated pollen from the Yellow River at Lanzhou station. Journal of Palaeogeography, 18(4): 691-698. (in Chinese with English abstract)
74.	Huang, X.Z. *, Chen, C.Z., Jia, W.N., An, C.B., Zhou, A.F., Zhang, J.W., Jin, M., Xia, D.S., Chen, F.H., Grimm, E.C. 2015, Vegetation and climate history reconstructed from an alpine lake in central Tienshan Mountains since 8.5 ka BP. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 432, 36-48. 
75.	Chen, F.H., Xu, Q.H., Chen, J.H., Birks, H.J.B., Liu, J.B., Zhang, S.R., Jin, L.Y., An, C.B., Telford, R.J., Cao, X.Y., Wang, Z.L., Zhang, X.J., Selvaraj, K., Lu, H.Y., Li, Y.C., Zheng, Z., Wang, H.P., Zhou, A.F., Dong, G.H., Zhang, J.W., Huang, X.Z., Bloemendal, J., Rao, Z.G. 2015. East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/srep11186.  (Top 1% highly cited)
76.	Jia W., Huang X.*, Fan Y., Peng W., Liu S., Chen F., 2015. Lake status and palaeoclimate in Jilantai Salt Lake area during the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Desert Research, 35(3): 602-609. (in Chinese with English abstract) 
77.	Chen, J., Zhang, E., Brooks, S.J., Huang, X., Wang, H., Liu, J., Chen, F. 2014. Relationships between chironomids and water depth in Bosten Lake, Xinjiang, northwest China. Journal of Paleolimnology. 51(2), 313-323. 
78.	Chen, F., Chen, X., Chen, J. Zhou, A., Wu, D., Tang, L., Zhang, X., Huang, X., Yu, J. 2014. Holocene vegetation history, precipitation changes and Indian Summer Monsoon evolution documented from sediments of Xingyun Lake, south-west China. Journal of Quaternary Science, 29(7): 661-674. 
79.	Chen, X., Chen, F.*, Zhou, A., Huang, X., Tang, L., Wu, D., Zhang, X., Yu, J. 2014. Vegetation history, climatic changes and Indian summer monsoon evolution during the Last Glaciation (36400-13400 cal yr BP) documented by Xingyun Lake, Yunnan, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 410: 179-189.
80.	Chen X., Li G., Huang X., Zhao H., 2013. The Vegetation changes in Ulan Buh Desert since the Last Glacial: pollen evidence from core WL10ZK-1. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 33(4): 169-174. (in Chinese with English abstract)
81.	Zhao, Y., Liu, H., Li, F., Huang, X., Sun, J., Zhao, W., Herzschuh, U., Tang, Y., 2012. Application and limitations of the Artemisia/Chenopodiaceae pollen ratio in arid and semi-arid China. Holocene, 22 (12): 1385-1392. 
82.	Chen C., Huang X.*, Peng W., Zhao W., 2012. Study of the Surface Sporo-pollen in the Small Yourdusi Basin on the Southern Slopes of the Tianshan Mountains. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, 34(6): 1526-1534. (in Chinese with English abstract)
83.	Xiao S., Zhou A., Huang X., Jin M., Sun D., Chen F., 2012. Grain-size Weibull composition of surface dust deposits and atmospheric dustfall, and their environmental implications in Qaidam Basin, China. Journal of Desert Research, 32(5): 1193-1200. (in Chinese with English abstract)
84.	Huang X., Chen X., Chen C., 2011. Surface pollen assemblage characters of farmland from different altitudes in upper and middle reaches of the Heihe river，arid north-western China. Journal of Lanzhou University (Natural Sciences), 47(2): 14-23. (in Chinese with English abstract)
85.	Zhang J., Wang J., Guo X., Li S., He J., Chen S., Huang X., Chen F., 2010. Paleoclimatic significance of oxygen isotope composition of carbonates from a sediment core at Bosten Lake, Xinjiang, China. Quaternary Sciences, 30(6): 1078-1087. (in Chinese with English abstract)
86.	Huang, X.Z.*, Zhou, G., Ma, Y.L., Xu, Q.H., Chen, F.H., 2010. Pollen distribution in large freshwater lake of arid region: a case study on the surface sediments from Bosten Lake, Xinjiang, China. Frontiers of Earth Science. 4(2): 174-180. 
87.	Huang, X.Z.,* Chen, F.H., Fan, Y.X., Yang, M.L. 2009. Dry late-glacial and early Holocene climate in arid central Asia indicated by lithological and palynological evidence from Bosten Lake, China. Quaternary International. 194(1-2): 19-27. 
88.	Ma Y., Xu Q., Huang X.*, Zhang L., Tao S., Sun H., 2009. Pollen assemblage characters of human disturbed vegetation in arid area in northwestern China. Journal of Palaeogeography, 11(5): 542-550. (in Chinese with English abstract)
89.	Zhao, Y., Xu, Q.H., Huang, X., Guo, X.L., Tao, S., 2009. Differences of modern pollen assemblages from lake sediments and surface soils in arid and semi-arid China and their significance for pollen-based quantitative climate reconstruction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 156: 519-524.
90.	Huang X.*, Chen F., Xiao S., Lv Y., Zhou A., Chen J., 2008. Primary study on the environmental significances of grain-size changes of the Lake Bosten sediments. Journal of Lake Sciences, 20(3): 291-297. (in Chinese with English abstract)
91.	Pan, X.D., Nakamura, H., Nozaki T., Huang, X.Z. 2008. A GIS-based landslide hazard assessment by multivariate analysis. Journal of the Japan Landslide Society. 45(3): 187-195.
92.	Chen, F.H., Yu, Z.C., Yang, M.L., Ito, E., Wang, S.M., Madsen, D., Huang, X.Z., Zhao, Y., Sato, T., Birks, H.J.B., Boomer, I., Chen, J.H., An, C.B., Wünnemann, B., 2008. Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history. Quaternary Science Reviews. 27(3-4): 351-364. (Top journal，high citation)
93.	Chen F.*, Huang X., Zhang J., J.A. Holmes, Chen J., 2007. Humid little ice age in arid central 
Asia documented by Bosten Lake, Xinjiang. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences, 37(1): 77-85. (in Chinese)
94.	Fan Y., Zhao H., Chen F., Huang X., Yang M., 2007. OSL dating of lacustrine sediments from lake Bosten. Quaternary Sciences, 27(4): 568-575. (in Chinese with English abstract)
95.	Chen F.*, Huang X., Yang M., Yang X., Fan Y., Zhao H., 2006. Westerly dominated Holocene climate model in arid central Asia – Case study on Bosten Lake, Xinjiang, China. Quaternary Sciences, 26(6): 881-887. (in Chinese with English abstract)
96.	Chen F.*, Huang, X., Zhang, J., Holmes, J.A., Chen, J., 2006. Humid Little Ice Age in arid central Asia documented by Bosten Lake, Xinjiang, China. Science in China (Ser D). 49(12): 1280-1290. 
97.	Liu P., Chen F., Gou X., Peng J., Huang X., 2005. Establishment of tree-ring chronology and response analysis in past 100 years for Ejin Banner，Inner Mongolia. Journal of Desert Research, 25(5): 764-768. (in Chinese with English abstract)
98.	Chen J., Chen F., Zhao Y., Huang X., 2004. A powerful indicator for quantitative reconstruction of paleotemperature— advances in the study of subfossil chironomid in lake sediment. Advances in Earth Science, 19(5): 782-788. (in Chinese with English abstract)
99.	Cheng B., Zhu Y., Chen F., Zhang J., Huang X., Yang M., 2004. Relationship between the surface pollen and vegetation in Shiyang River drainage, Northwest China. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology 26(1): 81-88. (in Chinese with English abstract)
100.	Huang X., Zhao Y.*, Cheng B., Xu J., 2004. Modern pollen analysis of the surface sediments from the Bosten Lake, Xinjiang, China. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, 26(1): 81-88. (in Chinese with English abstract)
101.	Zhu Y., Chen F., Liu H., Cheng B., Huang X., 2003. Preliminary studies on the air-borne pollen in the Shiyang river drainage, arid China. Journal of Lanzhou University (Natural Sciences), 39(2): 100-105. (in Chinese with English abstract)

	Published Books
1.	Qinghai Xu, Xiaozhong Huang, Tao Wang, 2022. Study of the Pollen Morphology of Common Plant Species in the Mountains of Northern China—Exploration of Precise Identification Under an Optical Microscope. Science Press. Beijing, Page 1-410
2.	Ayyamperumal R., Xiaozhong Huang, Mohamed Khalith S.B, Natchimuthu Karmegam, Kantha Deivi Arunachalam, Diksha Sharma, Manikanda Bharath Karuppasamy, Gnachandrasamy Gopala Krishnan and Balasubramanian Ravindran., 2023. “Environmental Evidence and Behaviour of Mercury Emissions, Biogeochemical Cycle, and remediation in the Earth Systems”. Bioremediation of Toxic Metal(loid)., Taylor & Francis Press. (Book chapter)
3.	Xu Q., Chief Editor, 2015, Pollen Morphology of Common Cultivated Plants in China: Reference for Human Traces in Strata. Science Press, Beijing, Editorial Board Member.
4.	Gou X., Chief Editor, 2022, Scientific investigation report on ecosystem change in the Qilian Mountains, Science Press, Beijing, Editorial Board Member.

Guest editor, Special issue of “Environmental Research” (2023) (SCI-2 journal)
Guest editor, Special issue in “Advance in Earth Sciences” (2023) (Chinese key journal)