The 16th Annual Meeting of Neogene Climate Evolution in Eurasia (NECLIME) was held in at the Geominero Museum at the Geological Survey of Spain (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España) from October 14-16. The meeting brought together over 40 representatives from Spain, Germany, China, and France. Prof. Zhou Zhekun and some his team members (Su Tao and Huang Jian) of XTBG presented at the meeting.

  The participants discussed such topics as “Evolution of climate and vegetation on the Iberian Peninsula (based on plant and vertebrate fossil evidence)”, “The evolution  of the Mediterranean floras since the Pliocene”, “Palaeobiodiversity: species richness and ecological diversity through time”, and other NECLIME topics.

  XTBG participants presented their research as following:

 Zhou Zhekun  Plant biodiversity shaped by paleoenvironmental changes in Yunnan, SW China

Su Tao  Plant-Insect interactions in oak forests under Quaternary climate changes

Huang Jian  Molecular flora and climate of Wenshan, SW China and their ecological implications

  After the meeting, XTBG participants visited Royal Botanical Garden, an important research institution which was declared Artistic Garden the last Century.

Participants pose a group photo

Communication

Look at fossils