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Profile - Xuecong Liu
Xuecong Liu
Contact Information
E-mail: xuecongl@usc.edu
Mail Code: 0371
Started at USC: Fall 2004
Education:
2004 – present
Ph.D. Candidate, Integrative & Evolutionary Biology
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2001 – 2004
M.A., Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology
Thesis: “The Preliminary research on Nonrandom Loss of Mammal Diversity in China”
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institue of Zoology, Beijing
1997 – 2001
B.A., Biological Sciences
Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong
Faculty Advisor(s):
Dr. Craig Stanford, Anthropology
Collaboration(s):
Biodiversity and Spatial Ecology Group (led by Prof. Yiming Li)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Beijing
Research Topics: primate behavioral ecology, Rhinopithecus roxellana (Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys)
Research Description:
My research is about primate behavioral ecology. My specific research subject is Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana). R. roxellana has an unusual social organization; hundreds of individuals live in large groups, each of which contains several one-male reproductive units. R. roxellana is endemic in the high mountains of central China, and experiences long snowy winters. The primary objective of my Ph.D. project will be to investigate the key ecological factors that influence the unusual social organization of this primate species. It is hypothesized that lichens would be unusual, but abundant food sources, and lichen-eating would be the key factors influencing the evolution of ranging and grouping patterns of R. roxellana.
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