陆地生态系统与地球环境协调演变是地球科学和生命科学研究的热点和重点,从志留纪有颌类的演化,新疆泥盆纪最早森林的出现,白垩纪缅甸琥珀中昆虫的多样性,始新世—渐新世转换期灵长类的演变以及碳同位素、硫同位素、四醚膜类脂物(GDGTs)等地球化学,甘肃临夏盆地的早更新世龙担动物群及青藏高原及其邻区所特有的裂腹鱼类,伍氏献文鱼全身粗壮的骨骼与柴达木盆地干旱的相关性研究,亚洲季风对生物多样性影响,西藏芒康新生代植物群,沉积环境对化石保存的影响,利用古地磁,哺乳动物等手段构建高精度的地层系列等多项研究报道了这一领域的最新研究进展。
Coevolution between terrestrial ecosystem and Earth environment is a hot research topic in both bi- ology and geology. Last progresses in these field are reported from following research subjects: evolution of jawed vertebrates(gnathostomata) from Silurian; occurrence of earliest forests from Devonian of Xinjiang; biodiversity of insects in amber from Cretaceous of Myanmar; Evolution of primates and geochemistry studies from Eocene/Oligo- cene; studies of Longdan fauna from Lingxia basin, Gansu Province of earlier Pleistocene and endemic cloven- breast fishes from Pliocene Tibet; the correlations thick-boned fish, Hsianwenia wui, and the aridification of the Qaidam Basin; monsoon climate and its impact on biodiversity; study on the flora from Mankang, Tibet of Miocene and its palaeoclimate ; depositional environment and its impact on the preservation of fossils ; contraction of high res- olution Stratigraphic series by using data of paleomagnetism and mammal fossils.