On Apr. 7th-9th, Mr.Andreas Krug and Ms. Christian Grossheim, the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN), companied by Prof. ZHAO Shidong and Prof. Dr. YU Xiubo of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academ...

Phytoremediation is a promising clean-up technology, which is to remedy soil heavy metal pollution with plants. The key to success of this technique is to find hyperaccumulators which can accumulate uniquely high quantities of heavy metals, for example, more than 1000 mg kg-1 for As, Pb, Cu, Ni, ...

From Feb. 26th – Mar. 15th, Prof. Susanne S. Renner, academician of Germany Academy of Sciences, Danish Academy of Sciences and Bavarian Academy of Sciences, president of Systematic Botany of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, director of the Nymphenburg Botanical Garden, and Prof. Robert E. ...

According to the report of http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc, there five papers written by Prof. JIANG Yueming and his research team of the Fruit & Vegetable Postharvest Biology Group, South China Botanical Garden collaborating with colleagues at home and abroad, which have attracted much atten...

A key topic of ecological research involves predicting how human-induced losses of species and functional groups from real ecosystems influence ecosystem properties and functioning. When particular plant functional groups are deliberately removed from the ecosystem, it will cause apparent consequ...