In a study published in Journal of Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to identify the key axes of variation that contribute to the high local diversity of trees in a single plant family (Euphorbiaceae) in a local community.

It is very rare for two groups of different species of monkeys to live without any conflict in the same tree when that tree is not in its fruiting stage, according to Deng Xiaobao, a professor-level senior engineer with the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Jose Ahimsa Campos Arceiz, a Spanish professor at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, spoke highly of China’s efforts in handling the elephants. “China has done a very meaningful job in protecting wild elephants. The root cause of elephant-human conflicts is that human beings and elephants share similarities in ecology, which means there is competition between the two for land, food and water. Promoting coexistence between human beings and elephants is an important step China has to take in order to properly protect wild Asian elephants, and efforts are required to reduce the impacts of ecological competition on both human beings and elephants. This is a challenge for China’s efforts in wildlife protection. However, the country has continued walking in the right direction,” he said.

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden in southwest China's Yunnan Province has welcomed another wave of flowering plants as summer unfolds.

In a study published in New Phytologist, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) present that hemiepiphytic figs benefit from lessening phosphorus (P) competition by killing their hosts in the P-deficient tropics, and hemiepiphytic figs can adapt to changing habitats via functional trait trade-offs during the host-killing process.