{"id":1565,"date":"2026-03-02T13:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:50:55","slug":"jiaze-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/jiaze-li\/","title":{"rendered":"Jiaze Li"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Jiaze Li<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Post-Doctoral Research Assistant<\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Ji<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1566 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/03\/jiaze_profilepc-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/03\/jiaze_profilepc-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/03\/jiaze_profilepc-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/03\/jiaze_profilepc-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/03\/jiaze_profilepc-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/03\/jiaze_profilepc-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/>aze is a PDRA at the University of Reading working on functional biodiversity. Her research focuses on how deep-time climate shapes global plant diversity, how plant functional traits relate to each other and to climate, and the deep-time history of plant biogeography. She integrates palaeoclimate simulations, large-scale species distribution data, functional trait databases, and phylogenetic methods to explore the climatic and evolutionary drivers of plant diversity across geological timescales. She has also developed a series of original global datasets, including the most comprehensive global maps of vascular plant diversity to date, the first global C4 species list with corresponding diversity maps, and a global dataset of plant growth forms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jiaze.li@reading.ac.uk\">Email<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0247-363X\">ORCID ID<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Jiaze-Li-13\">Research Gate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jiaze Li Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Jiaze is a PDRA at the University of Reading working on functional biodiversity. 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