Prof. Xing Yaowu, director of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), headed up a delegation to Madagascar from October 9 to 16. The visit helped XTBG forge partnerships with University of Vakinankaratra and University of Antananarivo, with signing memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with them respectively to enhance tropical biodiversity studies.
Oct 20, 2026
More than 700 scientists, conservation practitioners, and early-career researchers from over 60 countries and regions assembled on June 28 in Xishuangbanna, a biodiverse prefecture in southwest China known for its tropical rainforests, for the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC).
Jun 29, 2026
Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators revealed that plant community turnover and nematode body width play fundamental roles in shaping soil nematode diversity across different spatial scales. Their findings highlight that protecting the variety of plant species is essential for preserving nematode diversity and that a nematode’s body width largely determines how it spreads across the environment.
