Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Location Xishuangbanna, China
Coordinates 21°55′N 101°15′E / 21.917°N 101.250°E / 21.917; 101.250Coordinates: 21°55′N 101°15′E / 21.917°N 101.250°E / 21.917; 101.250
Opened 1959
Operated by Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Traditional Chinese 中國科學院西雙版納熱帶植物園
Simplified Chinese 中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园
Literal meaning Chinese Academy of Sciences Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), founded in 1959, is located in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna at 21º55' N, 101º15'E, covering an area of 1125 ha. Over 13,000 species of tropical plants are preserved in its 35 living collections.[1]

Organization

XTBG is a comprehensive research institution engaged in biodiversity conservation and sustainable uses of plant resources, focusing on forest ecosystem ecology, conservation biology and resource plant development. Facilities available for scientific research include two national field research stations (Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest Ecosystem Station, and Ailaoshan Station for Forest Ecosystem Studies); laboratories for Biogeochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Plant Phylogenetics & Conservation Biology, Physiological Ecology; a Germplasm Bank for Rare & Endangered Plants; and a Herbarium of Tropical Plants, etc. Aside from the headquarters in Xishuangbanna, an important division has been set up in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province.

Staff

XTBG has some 260 staff members, including 164 scientific researchers and technical personnel. There are 47 senior researchers, 161 postgraduate students (47 of them are doctoral candidates) and postdoctoral or visiting scientists .

Research

Since its establishment, XTBG has accomplished 698 scientific research projects; 13 important achievements were awarded ministerial or provincial prizes. Since the implementation of Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 17 monographs and 829 scientific papers have been published, 91 of them were published on internationally peer-reviewed journals; national patents were awarded to 11 scientific innovations.

Collaboration

International collaborations have been established with botanical gardens, universities, academic research institutions in more than 50 countries and regions and international organizations, and more than 20 agreements on various kinds of cooperative activities have been signed with collaborators. In recent years, XTBG has organized and hosted a series of important international conferences. More than 10 well-known experts and scholars in the world have become XTBG’s honorary professors.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden". Chinese Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
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