The doctoral thesis entitled “Ecological research of epiphytic lichens in primary and secondary forests in the subtropical Ailao Mountains” by Dr. Li Su has been enlisted in the 2015 Provincial Excellent Dissertations of Yunnan. Prof. Liu Wenyao, supervisor of Li Su, won honor of excellent supervisors of Yunnan province.

   The award honored 23 doctors and 108 masters who recently received their academic degrees in universities and research institutions based in Yunnan.

   In 2010, Dr. Chen Junwen and his teacher Prof. Cao Kunfang of XTBG ever won the honor.

Dr. Li Su’s selected publications are as following:

1.  Li S, Liu WY, Li DW, Li ZX, Song L, Chen K, Fu Y: Slower rates of litter decomposition of dominant epiphytes in the canopy than on the forest floor in a subtropical montane forest, southwest China. Soil Biol Biochem 2014, 70:211-220.

2.  Li S, Liu WY, Li DW: Epiphytic lichens in subtropical forest ecosystems in southwest China: Species diversity and implications for conservation. Biol Conserv 2013, 159:88-95.

3.   Li S, Liu WY, Li DW: Bole epiphytic lichens as potential indicators of environmental change in subtropical forest ecosystems in southwest China. Ecol Indic 2013, 29:93-104.

4. Li S, Liu WY, Wang LS, Ma WZ, Song L: Biomass, diversity and composition of epiphytic macrolichens in primary and secondary forests in the subtropical Ailao Mountains, SW China. For Ecol Manage 2011, 261(11):1760-1770.

Certificate of award