During recent field surveys in south-eastern Yunnan Province, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) collected an unknown Lauraceae species with very large fruits. After careful morphological studies, they confirmed it belonged to the genus Endiandra and was a species new to science. They named it as Endiandra macrocarpa to refer to its very large fruits compared to the other species within the genus Endiandra. The new species was published in PhytoKeys.

To understand how adaptive strategies promote plant fitness under N deposition, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) evaluated the responses of leaf functional traits, their plasticity, and integration in dominant seedling species in a subtropical montane forest in Yunnan.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) recently presented the first study systematically investigating basic biological characteristics in a classic conspicuous masquerader.

In a study published in Global Ecology and Conservation, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their collaborators developed a combined market and environment payment system to simulate the reconversion dynamics of forested rubber plantations as stimulated by economic benefits.

In a study published in Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and Research Center for EcoEnvironmental Sciences evaluated the effects of canopy height, neighbors’ species richness and composition and leaf traits on leaf herbivory in a tropical rainforest.

In a study published in PNAS, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Freie Universit？t Berlin and Rutgers University showed that the dance of the returning honeybee forager conveys the direction and distance of the food source from the hive to the honeycomb surface, a kind of map—a representation of where the food source is.

In a study published in Entomologia Generalis, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to identify the signals used by undertakers to detect death in honey bees.

Young honey bees follow dances of older bees to improve performance In a study published in Science, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California San Diego have shown that honey bees use social signal learning to improve their ability to waggle dance.

In a study published in The Plant Cell, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) used molecular and genetic approaches to reveal the biological functions of PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE1 (PHR1) in the jasmonate signaling pathway and to clarify how Pi deficiency cooperates with endogenous jasmonate signaling to mediate physiological processes in plants.

In a study published in Global Ecology and Conservation, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their collaborators present the first systematic analysis of the diversity and distribution patterns of orchids along elevation gradients on Mt. Victoria, Myanmar.

In a study published in Ecology and Evolution, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and University of Notre Dame addressed the degree to which commonly measured functional traits predict tree architecture in a tropical forest. Specifically, they tested whether conservative functional trait values (i.e., dense wood, heavy seeds, slow leaf economics) are related to trees that are shorter in stature with larger crowns at a given stem diameter.