Soil microbes play key roles in ecosystems and many mediate ecological processes that are central to ecosystem functioning, including nutrient cycling, litter decomposition and the regulation and maintenance of plant biodiversity. Previous studies have indicated that microbial processes, communit...

Environmental pollution has caused soil, water and air quality to degradate and plant diversity to decline in terrestrial ecosystems. According to previous studies, the response strategy and degree of toxicity to environmental pollutions are different among plant species but the exact toxicity me...

On July 5, the 2009-2010 Academic Committee Conference of Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, CAS was held at South China Botanical Garden (SCBG). Most members of the Academic Committee of the Laboratory, including Prof. SUN Hang, the deputy director of Kun...

The 4th Woon-young Chun Lecture Series was held at South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) on July 2, with ca.100 graduates and researchers from universities and research institutions in Guangzhou as well as SCBG attending the Lecture Series. Deputy director of SCBG Prof. FU Shenglei hosted and addre...

Elevated nitrogen (N) deposition, one of the most important problems on global changes, has shown to have a variety of effects on terrestrial systems in temperate Europe and North American. Currently, many results about the reactions of ecosystem to N deposition, including biodiversity, primary p...