In contrasted to the viewpoint published in Nature that alder (Alnus) fires trigger rice cultivation in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, East China, our new, finer-detailed pollen-phytolith-microscopic charcoal record reveals that local woods dominated by oak (Quercus) and pine (Pinus) were targeted for burning by early cultivators before the start of rice agriculture. Furthermore, the traditional agriculture practice “Burning-and-Slash” popular in Europe and America is probably not suitable for rice farming in the low coastal plains, east China.   

A new sedimentary pollen record from the Aso Caldera, central Kyushu Island, SW Japan advance understanding of the changes in vegetation changes, climate variability, and fire regimes since the last deglacial. Human-induced vegetation and fire dynamic is also discussed.  

A unique of Fagus (beech)-abundant pollen flora from the Yangtze Delta Plain suggests the coastal lowland may have been an important refugium for the last survival of Fagus during the glacial period in the Middle Pleistocene.  

Pollen analysis of the oil-bearing formation from the Bohai Sea area, North China, reveals an Early Miocene pollen flora in response to the initiation of the climate optimum.   

1) Post-doc fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2010; 

2) Excellent Ph.D. thesis Award, Jiangsu Education Ministry, May, 2008; 

3) President Excellent Scholarship of CAS, Graduate University of CAS, June, 2007; 

4) Excellent Graduate Student of CAS, Graduate University of CAS, June, 2007; 

5) First-Class Prize for Essay Competition on the 5th Culture & Arts Festival of Graduate University of CAS, Graduate University of CAS, July, 2006; 

6) “All-round developed Student” Prize, Graduate University of CAS, June, 2006; 

7) Excellent Paper Award for students submitted to the 7th National Palynological Congress, Palynological Society of China, July, 2005. 

[in English]

　　1. Junwu Shu, Naoko Sasaki, Hikaru Takahara, Yoshitaka Hase, 2013. Vegetation and fire history with their implication for climatic change and fire events since the last deglacial in the Aso Valley, central Kyushu, southwestern Japan: new pollen and charcoal data. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 22:285-298. 

　　2. Junwu Shu, Weiming Wang, 2013. A Miocene pollen flora from the petroliferous deposits in the Bohai Bay Basin, North China, and its palaeoclimatic and stratigraphic significance Palaeoworld 22:109–118. 

　　3. Junwu Shu, Weiming Wang, Leping Jiang, 2012. Is alder (Alnus) fires trigger rice cultivation in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, East China? Palaeoworld, 21:69-73. 

　　4. Junwu Shu, Weiming Wang, 2012. A unique Middle Pleistocene beech (Fagus)-rich deciduous broadleaved forest in the Yangtze Delta Plain, East China: its climatic and stratigraphic implication. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 56: 180-190. 

　　5. Junwu Shu, Weiming Wang, Leping Jiang, Hikaru Takahara, 2010. Early Neolithic vegetation history, fire regime and human activity at Kuahuqiao, Zhejiang Province, East China: a new and improved insight. Quaternary International, 227: 10-21. 

　　6. Junwu Shu, Weiming Wang, Leopold E. B., Jinshan Wang, Deshun Yin. 2008. Pollen stratigraphy of coal-bearing deposits in the Neogene Jidong Basin, Heilongjiang Province, NE China: New insights on palaeoenvironment and age. Review of Palaeonbotany and Palynology, 148: 163-183. 

　　7. Weiming Wang, Junwu Shu, 2013. Cenozoic xeromorphic vegetation in China and its spatial and temporal development in connection with global changes.Palaeoworld, 22: 86–92. 

　　8. Weiming Wang, Jinlong Ding, Junwu Shu, Wei Chen, 2010. Exploration of early rice farming in China. Quaternary International, 227: 22-28.  

　　9. Ji, Li-ming, Meng, Fan-wei, Schiffbauer, James D., Xu, Jin-li, Yan, Kui, Shu, Jun-wu, 2008. Correlation between highly abundant oil-prone leiosphaerid acritarchs and hydrocarbon source rocks from the Triassic Yanchang Formation, eastern Gansu Province, Northwestern China. Gondwana Research, 14(3): 554-560. 

[in Chinese] 

　　10. Shu Jun-Wu, Jiang Le-Ping,Pollen analysis of the Tashan archaeological site, Xianshan county, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, 2014. In: Jiang Le-Ping (editor),Tashan-An archaeological report (in Chinese, in press)  

　　11. Shu Jun-Wu, Jiang Le-Ping, Qin Ji-wei, 2014. Preliminary analysis of wood remains at Tashan archaeological site, Xianshan county, Zhejiang Province. In: Jiang Le-Ping (editor),Tashan-An archaeological report (in Chinese, in press)  

　　12. Shu Jun-Wu, 2012.Pollen analysis of moss polsters from beech forests (Fagus crenata) in Hirakamidake, Northern Honshu, Japan with remarks on the representation of Fagus pollen. Acata Micropalaeontologica Sinica 29(3): 213-225(in Chinese with English abstract).   

　　13. Shu Jun-Wu, 2012. Ancient Biwa Lake-A visit to Biwa Lake Museum to learn late Cenozoic palaeontology, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Evolution of Life, 22:59-63(in Chinese).  

　　14. Shu Jun-wu, Wang Xi-hua, Qin Ji-wei and Wang Wei-ming, 2010. Preliminary pollen analysis of surface samples from the tiantongshan national forest park in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, east China. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 27: 253- 262 (in Chinese with English abstract). 

　　15. Shu Jun-Wu, Wang Wei-ming and Chen Ye, 2008. Sedimentary characteristics of the palaeochannel and environment evolution during the Holocene in the NW Taihu Lake Plain, Yangtze River Delta. Journal of Stratigraphy, 32(2): 146-152 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

　　16. Shu Jun-Wu, Wang Wei-Ming, Yin De-Shun and Wang Jin-Shan, 2007. Lake and vegetation history in the middle Miocene Jidong Basin, Heilongjiang Province, NE China. Journal of Stratigraphy, 31(3): 247-254 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

　　17. Shu Jun-Wu, Wang Wei-Ming and Chen Wei, 2007. Holocene vegetation and environment changes in the NW Taihu plain, Jiangsu Province, East China. Acta Mrcropaleontologica Sinica, 24(2): 210-221(in Chinese with English abstract).  

　　18. Shu Jun-wu, Wang Wei-Ming and Wang Ai-Gen, 2007. Preliminary study on surface pollen flora in the Longchi Mountain nature reserve, Yixing, Jiangsu Province. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 46(3): 340 -346 (in Chinese with English abstract).   

　　19. Wang Wei-Ming, Shu Jun-Wu, Chen Wei, 2011. Pollen flora and palaeoenvironment study at Chuodun archaeological site. In: Suzhou Institute of Archaeology (editor), Chuodun archaeological site in Kunshan, Cultural Relics Publishing House,pp 343-355.  

　　20. Wang Weiming, Shu Junwu, Chen Wei, Ding Jinglong, 2010.  Holocene Environmental Changes and Human Impact in the Yangtze River Delta Area, East China. Quaternary Research, 30: 233-244 (in Chinese with English abstract). 

　　21. Wang Wei-ming, Shu Jun-wu, Deng Tao, 2009. Neogene Pollen Floras in China with regional orientation and environment response. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 48(2): 175-184 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

　　22. Wang Wei-Ming, Chen Wei and Shu Jun-Wu, 2006. Evolution and Development of Some Representative Angiospermous Xerophytes in the Cenozoic of China. In: Rong Jia-Yu (ed.), Originations, Radiations and Biodiversity Changes- Evidences from the Chinese Fossil Record. Beijing: Science Press. pp769-782 (in Chinese) and pp 955-957(in English).  

　　23. Wang Wei-Ming, Shu Jun-Wu and Chen Wei, 2004. Some Proposals to Redefine the Quaternary. Journal of Stratigraphy, 28(4): 319-325 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

　　24. Wang Wei-Ming and Shu Jun-Wu, 2004. Late Cenozoic Palynofloras from Qujing Basin, Yunnan, China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 43(2): 254-261 (in Chinese with English abstract).