Research Fields

• Paleontology
• Paleoecology
• Conservation paleobiology
• Marine ecology and conservation
• Ichthyology and taxonomy
• Otolith morphology

Research Directions

Conservation paleobiology: fish community in the youngest fossil record

Despite the growing awareness about human impact on marine ecosystems and marine fish communities, little is known about how specific fish taxa within a fish community responded to such impact. Using fish otoliths in the youngest sediments, we explore how fossils can be useful in helping marine conservation.

Deep time marine fossils

Using marine fossils from various localities, we aim to answer what are the possible drivers shaping the diversity of fish through geological time?

Current research topics:

• Neogene fishes of western Pacific (Japan, Taiwan, Borneo, etc.): diversity, population structure, and faunal analysis
• Global Sciaenidae Conservation Network
• Reef fish community in Caribbean reefs over the last 7000 years
• The hidden diversity of otoliths in Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Eocene otoliths of the US Gulf coast

期刊論文

1. Dominique Mediodia, Chia-Hao Chang, Hsuan-Ching Ho, Tomas Přikryl, Chien-Hsiang Lin*, accepted, “A new cryptic species of splitfin fish from Taiwan with revision of the genus Synagrops (Acropomatiformes: Synagropidae)”, ZOOLOGICAL STUDIES. (SCIE) (IF: 1.904; SCI ranking: 35%)
2. Chien-Hsiang Lin*, Etienne Steurbaut, Dirk Nolf, accepted, “Early Eocene (Ypresian) fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA”, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TAXONOMY. (SCIE) (IF: 1.398; SCI ranking: 59%,69.2%,54.8%)
3. Dominique Mediodia, ..., Chien-Hsiang Lin*, Allan Fernando*, accepted, “Paleoichthyology in the Philippines: A review of Cenozoic fish fossils with insights on its current status and future opportunities”, GEOBIOS. (SCIE) (IF: 2.115; SCI ranking: 31.5%)
4. László Kocsis*, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Emma Bernard, Adibah Johari, 2024, “Late Miocene teleost fish otoliths from Brunei Darussalam (Borneo) and their implications for palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental conditions.”, HISTORICAL BIOLOGY, 10.1080/08912963.2023.2271489, 1. (SCIE) (IF: 1.942; SCI ranking: 44.4%)
5. Siao-Man Wu, Trevor Worthy, Chih-Kai Chuang, Chien-Hsiang Lin*, 2023, “New Pleistocene bird fossils in Taiwan reveal unexpected seabirds in East Asia”, ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA, 68, 613-624. (SCIE) (IF: 2.108; SCI ranking: 33.3%)
6. Hsuan-Ching Ho, Yo Su, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Tah-Wei Chu, 2023, “Record of the Amarsipa fish (Family Amarsipidae) from Pratas Island, South China Sea”, ZOOTAXA, 5380(3), 289-294. (SCIE) (IF: 1.028; SCI ranking: 72.9%)
7. Shing-Lai Ng, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Kwang-Ming Liu, Shoou-Jeng Joung*, accepted, “New records of three mesopelagic fish species from Southwestern Taiwan”, THALASSAS. (SCIE) (IF: 0.951; SCI ranking: 82.3%,84.8%)
8. Yo Su, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Hsuan-Ching Ho*, 2023, “Redescription of the hispidoberycid, Hispidoberyx ambagiosus Kotlyar, 1981 from Taiwan, with comments on its morphology (Beryciformes, Stephanoberycoidei, Hispidoberycidae)”, ZOOKEYS, 1182, 19-34. (SCIE) (IF: 1.496; SCI ranking: 50.3%)
9. Chien-Hsiang Lin*, Siao-Man Wu, Chia-Yen Lin, Chi-Wei Chien, 2023, “Early Pliocene otolith assemblages from the outer-shelf environment reveal the establishment of mesopelagic fish fauna over 3 million years ago in southwestern Taiwan”, SWISS JOURNAL OF PALAEONTOLOGY, 143, 23. (SCIE) (IF: 2.069; SCI ranking: 38.9%)
10. Chien-Hsiang Lin*, Chih-Lin Wei, Sze Ling Ho, Li Lo*, 2023, “Ocean temperature drove changes in the mesopelagic fish community at the edge of the Pacific Warm Pool over the past 460,000 years”, SCIENCE ADVANCES, 9(27), 1-9. (SCIE) (IF: 14.98; SCI ranking: 9.5%)
11. Shota Mitsui*, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Hajime Taru, Kenichiro Shibata, 2023, “Fish otolith record reveals possible tropical-subtropical fish community in temperate Japan during the exceptionally warm Last Interglacial period”, HISTORICAL BIOLOGY, on line, 1-21. (SCIE) (IF: 1.942; SCI ranking: 44.4%)
12. Erin M. Dillon*, Jaleigh Q. Pier, Jansen A. Smith*, Nussaïbah B. Raja, Danijela Dimitrijević, Elizabeth L. Austin, Jonathan D. Cybulski, Julia De Entrambasaguas, Stephen R. Durham, Carolin M. Grether, Himadri Sekhar Haldar, Kristína Kocáková, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Ilaria Mazzini, Alexis M. Mychajliw, Amy L. Ollendorf, Catalina Pimiento, Omar R. Regalado Fernández, Isaiah E. Smith, Gregory P. Dietl, 2022, “What is conservation paleobiology? Tracking 20 years of research and development”, FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 10, 1031483. (SCIE) (IF: 4.496; SCI ranking: 25.9%)
13. Chia-Yen Lin, Chien-Hsiang Lin*#, Kenshu Shimada, 2022, “A previously overlooked, highly diverse early Pleistocene elasmobranch assemblage from southern Taiwan”, PEERJ, 10, e14190. (SCIE) (IF: 3.061; SCI ranking: 44.6%)
14. Hsuan-Ching Ho, Chien-Hsiang Lin*, 2022, “Redescription of Lophiodes lugubris (Alcock, 1894), with the largest record of Lophiodes triradiatus (Lloyd, 1909) from the South China Sea (Lophiiformes: Lophiidae)”, ZOOTAXA, 5189(1), 138-145. (SCIE) (IF: 1.028; SCI ranking: 72.9%)
15. Chien-Hsiang Lin*, Hsin-Yueh Ou, Chia-Yen Lin, Hong-Ming Chen, 2022, “First Skeletal Fossil Record of the Red Seabream Pagrus major (Sparidae, Perciformes) from the Late Pleistocene of Subtropical West Pacific, Southern Taiwan”, ZOOLOGICAL STUDIES, 61: 10, 1-14. (SCIE, Others) (IF: 1.904; SCI ranking: 35%)
16. Chien-Hsiang Lin*, Yen-Chun Wang, Lauriane Ribas-Deulofeu, Chih-Wei Chang, Kuang-Ti Li, 2022, “Changes in marine resource consumption over the past 5000 years in southern Taiwan revealed by fish otoliths”, JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 42, 103400. (SCIE, SSCI, A&HCI) (IF: 3.508; SCI ranking: 39.4%; SSCI ranking: 8.6%)
17. Chien-Hsiang Lin*, Chi-Wei Chien, 2022, “Late Miocene otoliths from northern Taiwan: insights into the rarely known Neogene coastal fish community of the subtropical northwest Pacific”, HISTORICAL BIOLOGY, 34(2), 361-382. (SCIE) (IF: 1.942; SCI ranking: 44.4%)
18. Chien-Hsiang Lin*, Dirk Nolf, 2022, “Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA”, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TAXONOMY, 814, 1-122. (SCIE) (IF: 1.398; SCI ranking: 59%,69.2%,54.8%)
19. Jih-Pai Lin*, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Wei-Chia Chu, Chun-Hsiang Chang, 2021, “Introduction to the special issue on new advances on stratigraphy and paleontology in Taiwan”, TERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES, 32, 1047-1050. (SCIE) (IF: 0.963; SCI ranking: 94.1%,94.7%,83.3%)
20. Lauriane Ribas-Deulofeu, Yen-Chun Wang, Chien-Hsiang Lin*, 2021, “First record of Late Miocene Dendrophyllia de Blainville, 1830 (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) in Taiwan”, TERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES, 32, 1061-1068. (SCIE) (IF: 0.963; SCI ranking: 94.1%,94.7%,83.3%)
21. Chien-Hsiang Lin*, Chi-Wei Chien, Shih-Wei Lee, Chih-Wei Chang*, 2021, “Fish fossils of Taiwan: a review and prospection”, HISTORICAL BIOLOGY, 33(9), 1362-1372. (SCIE) (IF: 1.942; SCI ranking: 44.4%)
22. Jia-Cih Kang, Chien-Hsiang Lin*, Chun-Hsiang Chang*, 2021, “Age and growth of Palaeoloxodon huaihoensis from Penghu Channel, Taiwan: significance of their age distribution based on fossils”, PEERJ, 9, e11236. (SCIE) (IF: 3.061; SCI ranking: 44.6%)
23. Joseph Heard, Wei-Chen Tung, Yu-De Pei, Tzu-Hao Lin, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Tomonari Akamatsu, Colin K.-C. Wen*, 2021, “Coastal development threatens Datan area supporting greatest fish diversity at Taoyuan Algal Reef, northwestern Taiwan”, AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, 31, 590-604.
24. Shota Mitsui*, Hajime Taru, Fumio Ohe, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Carlos Augusto Strüssmann, 2021, “Fossil fish otoliths from the Chibanian Miyata Formation, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, with comments on the paleoenvironment”, GEOBIOS, 64, 47-63. (SCIE) (IF: 2.115; SCI ranking: 31.5%)
25. Chien-Hsiang Lin, Jing-Siang Lin, Kuo-Shu Chen, Meng-Hsien Chen, Chiee-Young Chen, Chih-Wei Chang*, 2020, “Feeding habits of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the western Indian Ocean reveal a size-related shift in its fine-scale piscivorous diet”, FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE, 7, 582571. (SCIE) (IF: 5.247; SCI ranking: 5.3%)
26. Chien-Hsiang Lin*, Brigida De Gracia, Michele E. R. Pierotti, Allen H. Andrews, Katie Griswold, Aaron O’Dea, 2019, “Reconstructing reef fish communities using fish otoliths in coral reef sediments”, PLOS ONE, 14(6), e0218413. (SCIE) (IF: 3.752; SCI ranking: 39.2%)