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. Dillon Erin M., Pier Jaleigh Q., Smith Jansen A., Raja Nussaïbah B., Dimitrijević Danijela, Austin Elizabeth L., Cybulski Jonathan D., De Entrambasaguas Julia, Durham Stephen R., Grether Carolin M., Haldar Himadri Sekhar, Kocáková Kristína, Lin Chien-Hsiang, Mazzini Ilaria, Mychajliw Alexis M., Ollendorf Amy L., Pimiento Catalina, Regalado Fernández Omar R., Smith Isaiah E., Dietl Gregory P., 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%)
2. Lin Chia-Yen, Lin Chien-Hsiang*, Shimada Kenshu, 2022, “A previously overlooked, highly diverse early Pleistocene elasmobranch assemblage from southern Taiwan”, PeerJ, 10, e14190. (SCIE) (IF: 3.061; SCI ranking: 44.6%)
3. HO HSUAN-CHING, LIN CHIEN-HSIANG*, 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%)
4. Lin, C.-H.*, Ou, H.-Y., Lin, C.-Y., Chen, H.-M., 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%)
5. Lin, Chien-Hsiang*, Wang, Yen-Chun, Ribas-Deulofeu, Lauriane, Chang, Chih-Wei, Li, Kuang-Ti, 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%)
6. Lin, Chien-Hsiang*, Chien, Chi-Wei, 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%)
7. Lin Chien-Hsiang*, Nolf Dirk, 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%)
8. Lin, Jih-Pai*, Lin, Chien-Hsiang, Chu, Wei-Chia, Chang, Chun-Hsiang, 2021, “Introduction to the special issue on new advances on stratigraphy and paleontology in Taiwan”, TERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES, 32(6), 1047-1050. (SCIE) (IF: 0.963; SCI ranking: 94.1%,94.7%,83.3%)
9. Ribas-Deulofeu, Lauriane, Wang, Yen-Chun, Lin, Chien-Hsiang*, 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%)
10. Lin, Chien-Hsiang*, Chien, Chi-Wei, Lee, Shih-Wei, Chang, Chih-Wei*, 2021, “Fish fossils of Taiwan: a review and prospection”, Historical Biology, 33(9), 1362-1372. (SCIE) (IF: 1.942; SCI ranking: 44.4%)
11. Kang, Jia-Cih, Lin, Chien-Hsiang*, Chang, Chun-Hsiang*, 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%)
12. Heard, Joseph, Tung, Wei-Chen, Pei, Yu-De, Lin, Tzu-Hao, Lin, Chien-Hsiang, Akamatsu, Tomonari, Wen, Colin K.-C.*, 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.
13. Mitsui, Shota*, Taru, Hajime, Ohe, Fumio, Lin, Chien-Hsiang, Strüssmann, C.A., 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%)
14. Lin, Chien-Hsiang, Lin, Jing-Siang, Chen, Kuo-Shu, Chen, Meng-Hsien, Chen, Chiee-Young, Chang, Chih-Wei*, 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%)
15. Lin, Chien-Hsiang*, De Gracia, B., Pierotti, M.E.R., Andrews, A.H., Griswold, K., O’Dea, A., 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%)
16. Lin, Chien-Hsiang, Wang, L.-C., Wang, C.-H., Chang, C.-W.*, 2018, “Common early Pleistocene fish otoliths from Niubu in Chia-Yi County, southwestern Taiwan”, Journal of the National Taiwan Museum, 71(3), 47–68. (Others)
17. Lin, Chien-Hsiang*, Chiang, Yun-Peng, Tuset, Víctor Manuel, Lombarte, Antoni, Girone, Angela, 2018, “Late Quaternary to Recent diversity of fish otoliths from the Red Sea, central Mediterranean, and NE Atlantic sea bottoms”, Geobios, 51(4), 335-358. (SCIE) (IF: 2.115; SCI ranking: 31.5%)