By consulting a large amount of literature, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and University of Maryland found evidence that functional traits often fail to predict demographic rates. The trait–demographic rate relationships are not as strong as often assumed or portrayed. They argue in Trends in Ecology & Evolution that the weak relationships arise from three fundamental problems with trait-based community ecology as it is currently implemented.

Prof. Cai Xitao, an eminent late botanist and founder of XTBG, is honored one of the “60 People Who have Moved Yunnan since the Founding of China”, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the tobacco and rubber industries, and the devotion to botanical studies.

Renowned botanists have traveled from across the world to the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) to take part in a symposium from July 6 to 9 on a surprisingly useful plant - ginger.More than 130 biologists and botanists from 14 countries and regions are attending the Fifth International Symposium on Zingiberaceae, more commonly known as ginger.

A delegation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) visited XTBG on May 18, in the company of officials from the State Forestry Administration of China.

A delegation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) visited XTBG on May 18, in the company of officials from the State Forestry Administration of China.