Xuecong Liu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Address: No. 19A Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China

Email: xuecongliu@ucas.ac.cn

Tel: 86-10-88256162

Research Areas

Primate Behavioral Ecology

Biodiversity Conservation

Education

Aug 2011-May 2012, M.S. in Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California

Aug 2004-May 2012, Ph.D. in Integrative and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California

Sep 2001-Jul 2004, M.S. in Animal Ecology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sep 1997-Jul 2001, B.S. in Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University

Experience

   
Work Experience

Nov 2016-present, Associate Professor, College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sep 2013-Nov 2016, Assistant Professor, College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Aug 2012-May 2013, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California

Aug 2009-May 2012, Teaching Assistant, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California

Jan 2005-May 2008, Teaching Assistant, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California

Courses

Conservation Biology

Biostatistics

Basic Methods in Biostatistics and Application of SPSS

Publications

Penglai Fan#, Ruoshuang Liu, Cyril C. Grueter, Fang Li, Feng Wu, Tianpeng Huang, Hui Yao, Dingzhen Liu*, Xuecong Liu*. 2019. Individuality in coo calls of adult male golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) living in a multilevel society. Animal Cognition 22: 71-79.
Penglai Fan#, Yiming Li, Craig B. Stanford, Fang Li, Zetian Liu, Kaihua Yang, Xuecong Liu*. 2019. Home range variation of two different-sized groups of golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia, China: implications for feeding competition. Zoological research 40: 121-128.  
Penglai Fan#, Xuecong Liu#*, Ruoshuang Liu, Fang Li, Tianpeng Huang, Feng Wu, Hui Yao, Dingzhen Liu*. 2018. Vocal repertoire of free-ranging adult golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana). American Journal of Primatology 80: e22869.
Xuecong Liu#, Penglai Fan#, Rongxiao Che, Huan Li, Lina Yi, Na Zhao, Paul A. Garber, Fang Li*, Zhigang Jiang*. 2018. Fecal bacterial diversity of wild Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana). American Journal of Primatology 80: e22753.
Xuecong Liu#, Fang Li, Jun Jiang, Xiaoju Wang, Yiming Li*. 2016. Age-sex analysis for the diet of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, China. Primates 57: 479-487.
Xuecong Liu#, Craig B. Stanford, Jingyuan Yang, Hui Yao, Yiming Li*. 2013. Foods eaten by the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, China, in relation to nutritional chemistry. American Journal of Primatology 75: 860-871.
Xuecong Liu#, Craig B. Stanford, Yiming Li*. 2013. Effect of group size on time budgets of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, China. International Journal of Primatology 34: 349-360.
Hui Yao#, Xuecong Liu*, Craig B. Stanford, Jingyuan Yang, Tianpeng Huang, Feng Wu, Yiming Li. 2011. Male dispersal in a provisioned multilevel group of Rhinopithecus roxellana in Shennongjia Nature Reserve, China. American Journal of Primatology 73: 1280-1288.
Yiming Li#*, Xuecong Liu, Mingyao Liao, Jingyuan Yang, Craig B. Stanford. 2009. Characteristics of a group of Hubei golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana hubeiensis) before and after major snow storms. American Journal of Primatology 71: 523-526.