Plant fossils play an important role in understanding landscape evolution across the Tibetan Region, as well as plant diversity across wider eastern Asia. In the past decade, important progress has been achieved in Cenozoic paleobotany throughout the Tibetan Region. In a study published in SCIENCE CHINA: Earth Sciences, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB) summarizes the major progress in five ways.

In a study published in Science of the Total Environment, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) investigated the importance of riparian areas for biodiversity conservation management, by identifying climatic refugia for threatened woody plant species.

In a study published in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and Guangxi University documented interactions between frugivorous birds and fruiting trees on a ForestGeo plot in southwestern China. The researchers deployed nine autonomous recording units (ARUs) in a grid on the 20-ha plot, placed at least 150？m from each other, and used the freeware program Animal Sound Identifier (ASI) to detect bird vocalizations.

In a study published in ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA, the potential estimation bias caused by the use of plasticine models was valued by a team of young researchers who have ever received training at the Advanced Field Course in Ecology and Conservation - Xishuangbanna (AFEC-X).

In a study published in Journal of Applied Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their international collaborators evaluated the role of protected areas on the protection of Asian elephants and their habitats in the Sundaic region.

In a study published in Ecohydrology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their collaborators attempted to understand the rainfall interception mechanisms of the canopy and the underlying reduction in kinetic energy. They also tried to identify the most advantageous intercropping species that can reduce the kinetic energy of throughfall.

In a study published in Journal of Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their collaborators attempted to determine whether variations in light, microclimatic conditions and host tree size affect the variation in species composition and phylogenetic structure of epiphytic bryophyte communities. By then, they assessed the contribution of environmental filtering, phylogenetic constraints and competition to community assembly.

In a study published in Plant Biology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) attempted to link ecological stoichiometry to epiphyte population dynamics, by using four consecutive epiphyte censuses performed in 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020 in a subtropical montane cloud forest in the Ailao Mountains in SW Yunnan.

In a study published in Molecular Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to disentangle factors shaping outcrossing rate and genetic structure of different populations, by combining data on the spatial distribution, the behavior of pollinating birds, and the mating system.

In a study published in Applied Soil Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) investigated how aboveground litterfall respiration and its environmental parameters respond to heavy snowfall events.