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• Sino-Europe cooperation project “Biodiversity Ecosystem Functioning Experiment” summarizes the results of the 1st stage

  On May 2-6, 2011, the Sino-Europe cooperation project “Biodiversity Ecosystem Functioning Experiment (BEF-China)” summarized the results for the first phase.

  May 30, 2011
• ZHANG Xianchun elected councilor of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy

  Recently, the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) voted to elect the members of councilor committee. Professor Dr. ZHANG Xianchun from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences was elected as new councilor.

  Apr 07, 2011
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  The 2nd Chinese National Committee for DIVERSITAS and the 5th Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences Established

  The ceremony for establishment of the 2nd Chinese National Committee for DIVERSITAS (CNC-DIVERSITAS) and the 5th Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences (BC-CAS) was held on March 30th, 2011. Sixty-four committee members from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Environmental Protection, National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC), Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture, State Forestry Administration, State Oceanic Administration, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, universities and research institutions attended the ceremony.

  Apr 07, 2011
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  Beijing Botanical Garden of CAS Holds the 5th Tree Peony Culture Exhibition

  Jan 27, 2011
• Paper by CAS Foreign PhD Student Ranked the Most Cited Articles in Main Ecological Journals

  Just recently, Dr Dilip Kumar Biswas, the former PhD Student from Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOB), now the staff from a Canadian Institute of Agriculture Science, received a congratulation letter from Professors Steve Long and Rachel Shekar, the editors of Global Change Biology (GCB), who congratulated Dr Biswas on his contributions to the development of GCB.

  Jan 20, 2011
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  IOB Celebrates the Release of Drupal 7 in China Region

  On 8th January,2011,persons from research institutes,universities and Chinese Drupal Community got together in the Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences to celebrate the release of Drupal 7 in China region.

  Jan 13, 2011
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  The 2nd International Workshop on Flora of Pan-Himalayas was held in Nepal

  The workshop was jointly held by Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tribhuvan University of Nepal as a session of “International Conference on Biodiversity, Livelihood and Climate Change in the Himalayas”.

  Dec 27, 2010
• IOB obtains "Beijing Municipality's Exemplary Scientific Popularization Education Base"

  Dec 20, 2010
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  The fifth Symposium on Asian Pteridology was held at Shenzhen

  The fifth Symposium on Asian Pteridology was held at Shenzhen, China, during 15 – 17 November, 2010. The symposium was organized by China Fern Society, State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (LSEB) in Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Shenzhen Fairylike Botanical Garden (SZBG), China. A total of around 150 participants registered for the symposium covering 15 countries in Asia, Europe, North America and Africa.

  Dec 20, 2010
• The Scientists of Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Headquarter Visit IOB

  On Nov. 15 -17, 2010, deputy director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project (BHL) headquarter, the librarian of the Smithsonian Library of the United States, Mr. Martin Kalfatovic, made a visit to Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences for a 3-day workshop on the Biodiversity Informatics.

  Dec 17, 2010