High praise for burgeoning growth
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) now has a leading international role in the study of tropical biology that impresses W John Kress, a scientist with the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in the US, one of the world's largest museums and research organizations.
"Especially with the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), the largest professional society devoted to understanding and protecting the biodiversity of the topics in the world, the XTBG has played a significant part and made great progress in cooperation of other such organizations," he noted.
Dr Chen Jin, Dr Cao Min and Dr Li Qingjun with the XTBG have made important contributions to the journal Biotropica, a premier research publication.
