Researchers from the Institute of Zoology and the Field Museum of Natural History have investigated the range evolutionary history of 3,114 mammal species across Asia and adjacent continents to reveal how and when its rich biodiversity assembled across the continent's regions and the montane hotspots flanking the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
Chinese researchers have unveiled the earliest flower bud fossil from the Early Cretaceous (1.25 million years ago), which was found in the Yixian Formation of Lingyuan City, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, according to Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology on Monday.
To determine the underlying causes of the variations of species diversity in the temperate forest, Dr. HE Rui, supervised by Prof. DANG Haishan from the Wuhan Botanical Garden, applied multivariate linear regression analysis to test the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on alpha- diversity, Local Contribution to Beta Diversity and Species Contribution to Beta Diversity.
In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) have investigated the importance of riparian areas for biodiversity conservation management by identifying climatic refugia for threatened woody plant species.
Chinese researchers have discovered a total of three new plant species of Impatiens and published the relevant findings in the international journal Phytotaxa.
In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their collaborators attempted to determine whether variations in light, microclimatic conditions and host tree size affect the variation in species composition and phylogenetic structure of epiphytic bryophyte communities.
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