International Workshop on

Response and Feedback of Forest Ecosystem Carbon, Nitrogen and Water Cycles to Climate Change

October 12^th-15^th, 2017

 Xishuangbanna, China

An international workshop on the response of forest ecosystems to climate change will be held between 12^th– 15^th October 2017 in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. The aims of this workshop are to bring together the world leaders in ecological science for (1) exchanging the most recent cutting-edge studies and ideas on the functions and responses of forest ecosystems to climate change; (2) establishing a new international collaboration network for elucidating the adaption and feedback mechanisms of forest ecosystems to regional and global climate change.

As the host, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) warmly welcomes you to attend the workshop and to share your experiences with leading Chinese as well as international ecological scientists.

Topics

Theme 1: The functions and key processes of carbon, nitrogen and water cycles in forest ecosystems

Theme 2: New techniques and methodologies.

Theme 3: The response, adaptation and feedback of carbon, nitrogen and water cycles of forest ecosystems to climate change.

Theme 4: Modelling and future prediction.

Date

Registration: 12^th Oct. 2017

Workshop: 13^th to14^th Oct. 2017

Field trip: 15^th Oct. 2017 (Ecological Research Stations in Xishuangbanna)

Venue

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Xishuangbanna, China.

Organization

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Host

The key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Committee Chair

John Grace, Professor, University of Edinburgh

CHEN Jin, Director of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, Director of Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, CAS

Organising Committee

John Grace, Professor, University of Edinburgh

CHEN Jin, Director of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, Director of Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, CAS

Naisheng Liang, Senior Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan

Yiping Zhang, Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS

Secretory Office

Dr. Wenjun Zhou (zhouwj@xtbg.ac.cn)

Please fill in and send the registration form attached below to the workshop secretory office (zhouwj@xtbg.ac.cn) before 31^th Aug. 2017.

Registration Fee: 1000 RMB

Registration fee will cover: workshop proceedings; local transportation (between airport and Menglun); garden admission fees and shuttle transfers within the garden. All the other transportation, food and accommodation fee will be covered by the participants.

Accommodation

We highly recommend that hotel accommodation shall be booked at your earliest convenience. We will be happy to help you with the hotel reservations.

(1) Royal Water Lily Hotel (Locatedwithin the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, about 1km to the conference venue. Price: 380- 600 RMB Tel: 86-0691-8717066)

(2) Jin Jiang Yuan Hotel (Located in the Menglun Town, about 500m to Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and 2 km to the conference venue, Price:100 - 120 RMB,Tel: 86-0691-8717555)

(3) Chunlin hotel (Near the entrance gate of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, about 1.5 km to the conference venue, Price: 80RMB, Tel: 86-0691-8715681, 86-013759252885)

Field trip

We are going to visit the observation station of C, N and water cycles in tropical rainforest and rubber plantations, and the experiment sites for climate change simulation.

For more information regarding the workshop, please contact:

Yiping Zhang(张一平) (yipingzh@xtbg.ac.cn) or

Wenjun Zhou (周文君) (Zhouwj@xtbg.ac.cn).

Registration form