Mapping spatial variation of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) at national or regional scale is important for estimating carbon emissions and removals and contributing to global stocktake and balancing the carbon budget. With the implementation of national ecological restoration projects, the...

Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) has published a landmark State of the World’s Trees report on 1st September 2021. The report, compiling work led by the Global Tree Assessment (GTA), is the culmination of five years of research to identify major gaps in tree conservation efforts...

Under the guidance of Ren Hai, a researcher at the Ecological and Environmental Science Research Center of the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in cooperation with Wei Xiao, a researcher at the the Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Province and the Chinese Academy...

　　Mountain systems harbor a substantial fraction of global biodiversity and provide excellent opportunities to study rapid diversification and to understand the historical processes underlying the assembly of biodiversity hotspots. The rich biodiversity in mountains is widely regarded as havin...

Under the instruction of Prof. Hou Xingliang, Dr. Yang Yuhua and associate Prof. Liu Xu at the Agricultural and Biotechnology Research Center of South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed a novel mechanism in regulation of endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced cell death i...