Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, (CAS)
中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园

The Advanced Field-course in Ecology and Conservation – Xishuangbanna 2010 was officially opened on Nov 23 in the lecture hall in the new research facility at XTBG.  The Executive Dean of Life Sciences at the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Ding Wenjun offered his opening remarks and extended his support of [...]

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In the October 29, 2010 issue of Science magazine, a group of twenty-five tropical biologists published a brief letter to the editor about the recent occurrence of a general fruiting event in the rainforests on the island of Borneo.  The letter states the importance of these events to the future of forest restoration efforts in [...]

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