Ecological Evolution Group 生态进化组
Posted in Chuck's Blog on Apr 19th, 2010
The storm last night knocked a lot of branches and leaves out of the trees. Walking home at lunch, the kids and I passed through the scattered remains of a large ant nest that had fallen out of a mango tree. They create these impressive structures up in the tips of the branches by pulling [...]
Posted in Chuck's Blog on Apr 18th, 2010
Planted tomato and pepper plants today in pots. They were volunteers in our backyard, where we throw the cuttings from dinner prep. It was very fun. Gardening is a wonderful way to connect with the soil. In finding pots, we emptied several old ginger plants onto the ground and they were incredibly pot-bound. Must have [...]
Posted in Announcements on Apr 10th, 2010
LIU Song, MSc student in the EcoEvo group, attended held at Tech Building of Yunnan University from 4-9 April, jointly held by Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Yunnan University (YU). 40 students attended the AEPEW, 6 from XTBG, over half from YU and the rest from KIB. The workshop was [...]
Posted in Chuck's Blog on Apr 8th, 2010
First Flight We were out on our evening walk the other way, to see the peacocks on the far side of the garden. Near the dirt road leading down to the peacock house, we encountered a cloud of flying termites and a host of bats swooping around to catch them. The termites were pouring out [...]
Posted in Announcements, News on Apr 6th, 2010
Thanks to the organization of Dr. Rhett Harrison and the support of the leaders of XTBG, Dr. Ferry Slik gave the first seminar this afternoon (April 6) in the new weekly seminar series to be hosted at XTBG. His seminar was entitled: “What can tropical tree diversity, composition and biomass modelling tell us about possible [...]
Posted in Chuck's Blog on Apr 2nd, 2010
It’s April. Quana’s 6 years old. I have three months here in the garden with little travel or distraction. It is the ‘write time’and I have a long list of things that I want to finish. Too many projects. I have changed the set up in my office to try and get the most of [...]
