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2009-10-28Progress Made on Emergy Evaluation of Estuary Wetland Ecological Economic SystemsRecently, researchers from the Vegetation and Landscape Ecology Research Group of the South China Botanical garden (SCBG), CAS and Atlantic Ecological Division (AED), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have jointly done an integrated emergy- economics study on Spartina marsh, aquacultural and agricultural land use patterns in estuary areas. Th...Read More
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2009-10-24HUANG Hongwen attends Celebration of Kew's 250th Anniversary and Gives a Keynote AddressOn October 12-16, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's 250th anniversary celebration was held at the Wakehurst Place, London. There were over 200 people from all over the world, including directors of many botanical gardens and research institutions, well-known botanists, officials and representatives of civil society organizations, attended this ce...Read More
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2009-10-22Sara Oldfield Sends Congratulatory Letter for SCBG's 80th Anniversary CelebrationOn October 21, Ms. Sara Oldfield, the Secretary General of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) sent a congratulatory letter to Prof. HUANG Hongwen, the director of South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), CAS to warmly celebrate SCBG's 80th anniversary.Read More
In this letter, she first expresses her enthusiastic congratulation to Huang an... -
2009-10-21Delegation from Australia Visits SCBGOn October 12, a scientific delegation from Australia, led by Dr. Kurt Lambeck, the president of Australian Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Peter Laver, vice president of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, visited South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Read More
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2009-09-22International Botanical Expert Delegation Visits SCBGOn September 16, twelve botanists, from Britain, France, Czech Republic, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and other countries, visited South China Botanical Garden (SCBG). The expert delegation was invited by the Field of Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of SCBG, and was warmly welcomed by Professor HUANG Hongwen, director of S...Read More
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2009-09-08Recent Findings from “Responses of Subtropical Forest Ecosystems to Nitrogen Deposition”There is an increasing concern over how elevated nitrogen (N) can affect ecosystem processes in tropical and subtropical forests. To better understand the risks and consequences of N deposition in the subtropical forests in southern China, a N addition experiment has been conducted in three forests in Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong prov...Read More
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2009-09-08Progress Made on Understanding the Phylogeographical Pattern of Myricaria Plants in ChinaMountain range, especially those in the tropics and in more temperate regions, are regarded as particularly important drivers of plant evolutionary divergence and speciation. The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) together with adjacent regions in western China is a complex mountain system that shows large altitudinal changes and heterogeneous ecolog...Read More
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2009-08-31SCBG Wins First Prize of 2008’ Guangdong Science & Technology AwardOn August 25, CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and Guangdong Provincial People's Government held the 2008' annual meeting of Guangdong Provincial Science & Technology Award in Guangzhou city. The member of Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee WANG Yang, vice secretary of CPC Guangdon...Read More