Prof. Dr. Cao Min, deputy director and chief of the Forest Ecosystem Research Center of XTBG, has been recently appointed as member of the editorial board of Ecological Research.He is responsible for reviewing and recommendating research papers worldwide on vegetation science, biodiversity and tropical forest.

  Ecological Research has been published in English by the Ecological Society of Japan since 1986. Its publisher is Springer-Verlag Tokyo Inc. Ecological Research publishes original research papers, reviews, technical reports of notes and comments covering all aspects of ecology and ecological sciences. In 2004, the impact factor of Ecological Research is 1.037.