In a study published in Animal Cognition, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) assessed the conspecific aggressiveness plasticity in response to the social environment (social living, isolation and resocialization) of Toxeus magnus. They further examined the proximate mechanism underlying the reversal to low aggression during resocialization.

In a study published in Geoderma, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to estimate the potential response of soil aggregates of different particle sizes to splash erosion under natural rainfall conditions by comparing two land-use regimes, primary tropical rainforest (TR) and managed rubber plantation (RP) in Xishuangbanna.

In a study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and Yunnan Normal University tried to explore the belowground competition dynamics among plant species from pairwise interactions to high-order interactions.

In a study published in Dendrochronologia, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) studied climate sensitivity and the growth of Toona ciliata, a long-lived broad-leaved tree species that grows in a wide range of environmental conditions throughout Asia, to the changing environment. They constructed tree-ring chronologies of T. ciliata from three tropical/subtropical forest stands in Yunnan, southwestern China.

In a study published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) reconstructed the temporal history of Engelhardia, deciduous or evergreen trees in the walnut family. They aimed to investigate whether the transformation of subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests (EBLFs) in East Asia occurred from tropical elements, and the subtropical EBLFs were associated with the proposed dynamics of the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) since the Eocene.

In a study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to explore the growth-climate sensitivity of pine species and its spatial heterogeneity across temperature and moisture gradients in Southwest China. They wanted to know what the predominant climatic factors limited tree radial growth and how growth-climate sensitivity of pine species changed along temperature and moisture gradients in Southwest China?

In a study published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica found that the EtOAc-soluble fraction (AHE) of the A. hainanensis rhizome ethanol extract could ameliorate dextran sulfate sodium-induced ulcerative colitis (UC).