On October 12, 2019, Shenyang Key Laboratory of Superantigen Research (hereinafter referred to as the key laboratory) was formally established and the first academic committee meeting was held at the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), Chinese Academy of Sciences. More than 40 people including Academician LIU Changxiao from Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, all the key laboratory members, the academic committee members and graduate students, attended the meeting.

On October 5th, the editorial office of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences got good news that Ecological Processes, the international journal affiliated with IAE, had been accepted for indexing in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and will receive its first Impact Factor in 2020. The papers will be indexed from 2017.

Founded in 1933, the International Scientific Centre of Fertilizers (i.e. Centre International des Engrais Chimiques, CIEC) is the oldest non-profit international scientific association in the field of fertilizers.

BEIJING, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have disclosed that a species asynchrony, illustrating the difference in species reaction rates on external environment changes, was the determinant of the temporal stability of aboveground biomass in temperate forests.

On August 16, 2019, at the invitation of the Natural Forest Ecology Group of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Associate Professor LIU Xubing from the School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-Sen University visited IAE and gave a talk entitled “Resource partitioning and species coexistence among arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees”.

Sponsored by China Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE-China) and the Landscape Ecology Professional Committee of the Ecological Society of China (ESC-LEPC),

During August 11 and 12, 2019, Bureau of Science and Technology for Development (BSTD), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), administrated an Assessment Committee to field-assess the completion of Field Station Network Corner-Stone Research Infrastructure Project “Multi-Tower-based LiDAR Platform for the Structure and Function of Secondary Forest Ecosystems” (Abbreviation: Multi-Tower Platform; Project #: KFJ-SW-YW006, funded by CAS) in Qingyuan Forest CERN (Fig. 1).

Prof. LIANG Naishen from the National Institute of Environmental Studies, Associate Professor Jesper Riis Christiansen from the University of Copenhagen, Professor YI Zhigang from Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University, and Professor JI Yujie from Shenyang University of Science and Technology visited the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) for academic exchanges from July 30th to August 1st, 2019.

The International Workshop on Re-greening and Ecosystem Restoration in Drylands, which was jointly organized by the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE),

The Soil Ecology and Agricultural Ecological Engineering Research Center of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) formed a featured innovation team for ‘Agro-Ecosystem Process and Regulation’ Research and held its kick-off meeting on the morning of July 17, 2019.