Chinese National Committee for DIVERSITAS Biodiversity ...Asian countries are experiencing severe threats to the biodiversity rich areas and ecosystems. The related information platforms

Chinese National Committee for DIVERSITASBiodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences

IV. Activities of Members of CNC-DIVERSITAS ………………………………………………………… 30i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi.

V. Publications ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 44i.ii. iii. iv.

VI. Activities Associated with Important International Organizations or Conventions ……………… 48i. ii.iii. iv. v.

Publicity of CNC-DIVERSITAS …………………………………………………………………………… 52

Appendix: Organizational Structure

Cataloging and Evolutionary Biology Group ………………………………………………………… 32Ecosystem Function and Sustainable Management Group …………………………………………… 35Agriculture and Forest Biodiversity Group …………………………………………………………… 37Aquatic Biodiversity Group …………………………………………………………………………… 39Biodiversity Monitoring and Information Sharing Group …………………………………………… 41Genetic Resources and Bio-security Group …………………………………………………………… 43

Catalogue of Life China 2014 CDROM ……………………………………………………………… 45Advances in biodiversity conservation and research in China X …………………………………… 46Biodiversity Science ………………………………………………………………………………… 46Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Newsletter …………………………………………………… 47

International Union for Conservation of Nature ……………………………………………………… 49The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) ……………………………………………… 49Convention on Biological Diversity ………………………………………………………………… 50Encyclopedia of Life ………………………………………………………………………………… 51Species 2000 ………………………………………………………………………………………… 51

The year 2014 was of special significance for the process of development of biodiversity conservation in China. Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and the chairman of the National Commission of Biodiversity Conservation, presided and stressed a meeting of the Commission on December 8th in Beijing. The National Work Plan to Strengthen Management of Genetic Resources (year 2014-2020), and the Implementation Plan of Major Projects on Biodiversity Protection (year 2014-2020) were reviewed at the meeting. Comprehensive arrangements to systematically protect biodiversity were made.

The Chinese National Committee for DIVERSITAS, and the Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences made significant progress in promoting research and conservation of biodiversity in China, especially in the fields of biodiversity informatics and monitoring.

Asia Biodiversity Conservation and Database Network (ABCDNet) is the first biodiversity informatics project initiated by China that has important influence in regional cooperation. It aims to build a platform for

sharing biodiversity information in Asia, and to be an important regional cooperation project in the field. The Asia Species Database, the Asia Red List Database and biodiversity related network resources have made great progress (available at www.abcdn.org). The databases include Chinese species list with 171,807 records, 51778 national red list records from 12 Asia countries/areas and 334 websites from 26 Asia countries/areas. GBIF-CAS Node website was built and put online in July, and published 530,000 records of plant specimens. Sino BON was established by taking advantage of CAS’ strengths in comprehensive disciplines and research platforms and integrating its resources in biodiversity monitoring and intelligence. It was accepted as a member of AP BON in October. CForBio has 13 large forest dynamics plots, and based on which, 67 papers (34 SCI-indexed) were published or accepted.

Catalogue of Life, China (2014 Annual Checklist) and Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in China were published. The manuscripts of eight issues of Species Catalogue of China (print version) were completed and passed the review of the editorial

Message from the Chairman

promoted the academic research and exchange of biodiversity conservation.

Here, on behalf of the CNC-DIVERSITAS and BC-CAS, I would like to thank all the committee members for their hard working and endeavors; and acknowledge the government agencies, institutions and experts for their enormous support.

As a renowned Chinese verse puts it, "with all the natural beauties in the world, the scenery here is particularly splendid."

The Committee will continue to focus on biodiversity research and conservation, actively promote biodiversity monitoring and information sharing platform, and make better efforts in biodiversity conservation under the new normal.

committee, including Orchidaceae, Leguminosae, Saxifragaceae, Crassulaceae, general Catalogue of Higher Plants, Lecithoceridae, Bees, Geometridae, and Pezizaceae.

The Committee participated in activities of important international organizations (conventions) to facilitate biodiversity conservation in China, and introduce China’s achievements in biodiversity to the world. As an IUCN member, we jointly promoted the pilot work of the Green List together with IUCN China Office and Conservation International and other partners. As a result, six Chinese protected areas were selected into the first IUCN’s Green List of Protected Areas at the World Parks Congress held in Sydney, Australia, which accounts for 1/4 of the total number.

The Committee organized and hosted a number of international conferences, forums, workshops, and training courses. These include the 11th National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation in China, the 2nd Workshop on Biodiversity Data Sharing Environment in Asia, the 8th Cross-Straits Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots, and four training courses such as the NSF-NSFC joint project: CTFS & CForBio Analytical Workshop. All of these activities effectively

Chairman, Chinese National Committee for DIVERSITASVice Minister, Ministry of Agriculture

President, Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing, China

January 30, 2015

I. Introduction to the Committee

PART I

Photo: Yongwen Zhang, Changqing National Nature Reserve

The Chinese National Committee for DIVERSITAS Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DIVERSITAS is an international program of biodiversity science established in 1991 that aims to address the complex scientific questions posed by the loss of and change in global biodiversity. By networking individuals across natural and social science disciplines, it facilitates research that extends beyond national or regional boundaries to address issues of global concern, thereby adding value to research projects being undertaken around the world.

CNC-DIVERSITAS (the Chinese National Committee for DIVERSITAS) is an academic organization that was created on October 28, 2004 to coordinate and conduct local activities of DIVERSITAS in China. CNC-DIVERSITAS is led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with committee members from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, State Forestry Administration, State Oceanic Administration and National Natural Science Foundation. The Office of Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (BC-CAS) is in charge of the daily operation of CNC-DIVERSITAS. The 2nd Chinese National Committee for DIVERSITAS was established in March 2011 (See the appendix).

The Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was established in 1992, and includes the following fuctions: determing the biodiversity research guidelines of Chinese Academy of Sciences; formulate long-term planning and action plan; review of observation and test technology of rules and regulations and the organization management system; review the academic exchanges and the talent training scheme; formulates domestic and international cooperative research plans and measures.

The CNC-DIVERSITAS is responsible for taking part in the activities of DIVERSITAS as the national representative to promote international cooperation and exchange; promoting domestic biodiversity research and academic exchange; providing advice and consultation on plans of biodiversity studies, managing of biological resources and the environment, and developing sustainable development strategies for decision makers; assessing and reviewing key domestic and international cooperation projects, commissioned by ministries and related organizations; disseminating knowledge of biodiversity to enhance the public awareness of biodiversity conservation.

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Introduction to the Committee

On-going Projects

PART II

Photo: Yinan Liu, Biodiversity Committee, CAS

Species 2000 China Node

Compiling of printed version of Species Catalogue of China

Asia Biodiversity Conservation and Database Network

GBIF CAS Node

China Biodiversity Observation and Research Network (Sino BON)

Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network (CForBio)

Encyclopedia of Life China Regional Center

Related Biodiversity Information Sharing Platforms

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i. Species 2000 China Node

Compared with last edition, the main changes in the 2014 edition are as follows: about 1468 species or infraspecific taxa added in Animalia Coelenterata, Echiura, Sipuncula. Data of Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Chlorobi, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria were added to Bacteria for the first time. Another 1800 species or infraspecific taxa added in Basidiomycota; 575 species or infraspecific taxa added in plant kingdom; 319 species or infraspecific taxa added in Virus, and information of 486 species in the current edition were updated.

There are 69920 species, 9872 infraspecific taxa, 95811 synonyms and 32413 common names, which belong to 6 kingdoms.

The 2014 edition areas follows

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The 2014 edition is available at the website (http://www.sp2000.cn) and CDROM free for users in the world.

http://www.sp2000.cn

Species 2000 is a non-profit 'federation' of 115 database organizations of global species, whose goal is to create a uniform and validated index to the world's known species. Species 2000 China Node is a regional hub of Species 2000 program, and was launched in 2006. The goal of Species 2000 China Node project is to provide a validated checklist of all species distributed in China. Since 2008, the project compiles and publishes electronic version of the annual checklist of the Catalogue of Life China.

Organized by the Biodiversity Committee of Chinese Academy of Sciences (BC-CAS), Catalogue of Life China 2014 Annual Checklist edition has been compiled by Species 2000 China Node, published by Science Press (Beijing) and released on August 14. In line with the Species 2000 data standard, each species page includes scientific name, synonym, common name, literature, classification system, distribution and Chinese name with Pinyin (pronunciation in Chinese). The reviewers for each record are also listed.

ii. Compiling of Species Catalogue of China (printed version)

The project Species Catalogue of China was initiated and sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2013. The goal is to compile 29 issues in three volumes, i.e. plants, animals and fungi for three years, and to update it electronically. The Catalogue will not only provide authoritative and comprehensive species information for protection, monitoring, and sustainable use of China’s biodiversity resources, but also provide scientific support for the Chinese government to fulfill and implement the CBD.

2014 was a key year for the work of Species Catalogue of China. A significant achievement was made last year. A manuscript of eight issues was completed, i.e. two of fungus, and three of plant and animal, respectively. The standard working procedure is first and most importantly, catalogue by authors on the literature, and then peer review by the editorial committee. In this way, we can ensure the work is scientifically sound.

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Chinese National Committee for DIVERSITAS 2014 Annual Report

Compiling of Species Catalogue of China (printed version) -Important ActivitiesDate

August 28thmanuscripts for two issues of seed plants and master catalog of higher plants were reviewed. Orchidaceae, Lauraceae, and gymnosperms, etc. are included in Issue I of Volume I and Issue IV of Volume I includes Fabaceae, Saxifragaceae and Crassulaceae, etc.

December 17thmanuscripts for three issues of Volume II Animal including Lecithoceridae, Apoidea and Geometrinae were reviewed.

December 19th

December 22nd

the third editor-in-chief meeting was held. The authors introduced the texts of the seven manuscripts and associated review process. The editor-in-chiefs approved the manuscipts for publication by Science Press (Beijing).

the manuscript for Araneae was reviewed by an expert group.

Photo: Bin Cheng, photographer

iii. Asia Biodiversity Conservation and Database Network

Asia Biodiversity Conservation and Database Network (ABCDNet) is the first biodiversity informatics project initiated by China. It aims to build a platform for sharing biodiversity information in Asia, and to be an important regional cooperation project in the field.

Background

Asian countries are experiencing severe threats to the biodiversity rich areas and ecosystems. The related information platforms are vital for developing sustainable strategies of biodiversity conservation and management. However, the available biodiversity information in Asia is still limited and scattered. There is no mechanism to harness that information for mega-scale, inter-country planning of conservation strategies. In this context, in March of 2013, the Biodiversity Committee, CAS, organized the Workshop on Biodiversity Data Sharing Environment in Asia at Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China. It was attended by representatives from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, the ASEAN Centre For Biodiversity (ACB), the IUCN Asia office, the Chinese National Committee for MAB, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Indonesian Institute of Sciences and Kookmin University, Korea. The participants discussed on the future plans for a possible network of biodiversity information sharing among the Asian countries. All the participants agreed to develop a network of networks, namely Asia Biodiversity Conservation and Database Network (ABCDNet).

Governance

To initiate the development of ABCDNet, a technical working group was established. The working group, co-chaired by Prof. Keping Ma and Prof. K N Ganeshaiah, proposed governance structure, working structure and road map for the development of ABCDNet in coming years. The other members are from Kookmin University, ASEAN Centre For Biodiversity, IUCN Asia office, the Chinese National Committee for MAB, ICIMOD, Indonesian Institute of Sciences. During the meeting held in April, 2014, Prof. Liliya Dimeyeva, from Kazakhstan, was recommended and elected as a member. The office of ABCDNet is affiliated with the Biodiversity Committee, CAS.

Information System Development

As the major projects, the Asia Species Database, the Asia Red List Database and biodiversity related network resources have made great progress (see next page).

http://www.abcdn.org

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The databases include Chinese species list with 171,807 records, 51778 national red list records from 12 Asia countries/areas and 334 websites from 26 Asia countries/areas.

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iv.GBIF CAS Nodehttp://www.gbifchina.org

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open data infrastructure, funded by governments, with 106 members. GBIF is the biggest and the most influential network for biodiversity information service, which holds a significant place in the field of biodiversity informatics. By cooperation and seed fund, the organization integrates current available databases of biological records in the world, to build a comprehensive biodiversity information service network, to facilitate the development of research, conservation, and sustainable use of biodiversity. With the development of GBIF, it now has more than 5 million of species occurrence data, mainly observation records and specimen records, providing massive biodiversity information services.

CAS has worked for decades in the field of biodiversity informatics. The collaboration between CAS and GBIF is very important for the research and conservation of biodiversity in China. On behalf of CAS, BC-CAS is in charge of building and maintaining of GBIF-CAS Node. This project was supported kindly by CAS Vice-President Zhang Yaping, and Bureau of International Cooperation, and the former Bureau of Biological Sciences and Technology.

At present, the website of GBIF-CAS Node has been online since July of 2014.

GBIF-CAS Node uses GBIF integrated publishing Toolkit (IPT), posted 530542 species records on the GBIF website, with three types of data. These data are integrated with existing data of China on GBIF effectively, which will allow more people to know and understand biodiversity in China better. Feedback and questions are also expected to further improve data quality and application. The data set can be freely obtained from the GBIF's official website (http://www.gbif.org) or GBIF-CAS Node website.

GBIF-CAS Node will continue to cooperate with other related platforms, introduce GBIF’s technology and huge datasets to Chinese users and publish data to the GBIF global network. This will greatly improve the current weak data situation about China in GBIF network. It will also make the research based on GBIF data in Chinese area more reliable.

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v. China Biodiversity Observation and Research Network (Sino BON)

China Biodiversity Observation and Research Network (Sino BON) was established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences following the basic principle of “sound planning and unified layout”. Sino BON was a priority supported by the Twelfth Five-year Plan and Thirteenth Five-year Plan of CAS as an observation platform at the academy level. Sino BON was started during the Twelfth Five-year Plan. Establishing 10 thematic networks, one synthesis and data management center were the key of the project during the Thirteenth Five-year Plan.

Sino BON was formally accepted by Asia Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network (AP BON) as its partner on Oct. 11.For now, the organizational structure of Sino BON includes the zoological diversity network, the botanical diversity network, the microbiological diversity network and synthesis center. Six thematic networks belonging to the zoological diversity network are as follows: the mammal diversity observation network, the bird diversity observation network, the amphibian & reptile diversity observation network, the fish diversity observation network, the insect diversity observation network and the soil invertebrate diversity observation network; Three thematic networks belonging to the botanical diversity network are as follows: CForBio, the steppe & desert biodiversity observation network, and the forest canopy biodiversity observation network; Soil microbial observation network belongs to the microbiological diversity network. The synthesis center would take charge of standards & criteria formulation, data management & sharing, and remote sensing with LiDAR.

Long term monitoring on biodiversity and its dynamics followed agreed standard would be carried out and the monitoring data would be submitted to the synthesis center as required by Sino BON. It would contribute to provide detailed and reliable information for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use, especially for the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

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In 2014, the EOL China team cooperated closely with EOL US team via internet meetings weekly to discuss technical issues and progress in both sides. Areas of progress of EOL China Regional Center in 2014:

1. Tracking changes on the EOL system dynamically, translating the terms appeared on EOL website and database into Chinese and uploading them to the EOL maintenance system; 2. synchronizing slave database system in Beijing with master databases in the US; 3. Implementing Trait Bank, developed by EOL last year, on servers in Beijing and updating local data with US servers periodically; 4. Translating and integrating literature about EOL into Chinese and publishing a paper on the Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Bidiversity in China X: Advances in Biodiversity Conservation and Research in China, to introduce the concept and progress of EOL to Chinese reader; 5. Helping the EOL US team to test new functions in EOL system.

vii. Encyclopedia of Life China Regional Centerhttp://www.eolchina.org

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), launched in 2007, is one of the most influential biodiversity information systems in all the world in recent years. Its goal is to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia on the Internet. It will consolidate humanity’s knowledge about all life on Earth and make it accessible to scientists, educators, students and ordinary citizens. The second version (EOLv2) was released on September 5, 2011. Encyclopedia of Life China Regional Center (http://www.eolchina.org) was launched in 2009 to assemble information on all organisms in China on a platform on the Internet, which can provide users with reliable and complete biodiversity information.

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Vii. Related Biodiversity Information Sharing Platforms

1. Chinese Virtual Herbarium

Chinese Virtual Herbarium has set up a quick and easy electronic platform of digitized Chinese plant specimens. In addition to a large number of digitized specimen information, CVH also provides information on description (Flora), field images (color photo) and names of species,

Chinese Virtual Herbarium http://www.cvh.org.cn

Chinese Field Herbariumhttp://www.cfh.ac.cn

China Plant Photo Bankhttp://www.plantphoto.cn

2. Chinese Field Herbarium

CFH holds the mission of "Aiming to exploring nature, documenting discovers and transforming the Earth into a living museum", and provides a whole set resolution for field investigation of biodiversity, data management and long-term monitoring. Multimedia data are collected by

3. China Plant Photo Bank

In 2014, 400,000 new pictures were add, which belongs to 817 species. The total pictures are 1,720,000, belonging to 411 families, 3270 genera, and 18184 species. 10.2 million pages were viewed in 2014. In collaboration with Baidu Institute of Deep Learning, the images of 1,000 common flowers can be recognized with pettern recognition approach at accuracy rate of 80%. Users can search WeChat public number "plantphoto".

which can be accessed freely. The website keeps the links to Species 2000 China Node, and directly access information of specimens, color photos, and literatures, fulfilling professional and popular needs. Nine new data providers joined in 2014. The specimen data increased to 3,728,000, including 2,350,000 specimens with image.

digital equipment with location data by GPS in the field, then stored and managed on the platform. By collaborative identification of species and automotive compilation of species, authorities and amateurs can work together to manage and collect biodiversity data. This opened a new way to survey and monitor of biodiversity in the information era. Up to now, the system has 5.2 million of images, 36,000 species or intraspecies, 270 sub-stations, 10557 user IDs. CFH added 1.1 million of images, 2,000 species, and opened a total of 262 sub-stations in 2014.

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Viii. Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network (CForBio)http://www.cfbiodiv.org

The Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network (CForBio) was established in 2004. It is a research base for the dynamics of biodiversity of forest ecosystems in China, and also an important part of the global forest biodiversity monitoring network (CTFS/ ForestGEO). It covers major forest vegetation types at different latitudes in China, including boreal forest, coniferous and broadleaved mixed forest, deciduous broadleaved forest, deciduous and evergreen broadleaved mixed forest, evergreen broadleaved forest and tropical rainforest.

By the end of 2014, 13 permanent plots with the size over 9-ha have been set up by CForBio. The 13 permanent plots are: 25-ha dahurian larch forest plot in Daxinganling in Heilongjiang; 30-ha broadleaved-Korean pine mixed forest plot at Fenglin in Xiaoxing’an Mountains in Heilongjiang; 9-ha broadleaved-Korean pine mixed forest plot and 9-ha Spruce-fir valley forest plot at Liangshui in Xiaoxing’an Mountains in Heilongjiang; 25-ha deciduous broadleaved Korean pine mixed forest plot at Changbai Mountain in Jilin; 20-ha deciduous broad-leaved forest plot at Dongling Mountain in Beijing; 25-ha deciduous broad-leaved forest plot at Baotianman in Henan; 25-ha mid-subtropical mountain evergreen and deciduous broadleaved mixed forest plot at Badagong Mountain in Hunan; 20-ha subtropical evergreen broad-leaved

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Online Communication PlatformThe website for CForBio (http://www.cfbiodiv. org) “Forest Dynamics Monitoring” section in Planta (http://www.planta.cn/forum)

forest plot at Tiantong Mountain in Zhejiang; 24-ha subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest plot at Gutian Mountain in Zhejiang; 20-ha lower subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest plot at Dinghu Mountain in Guangdong; 15-ha karst seasonal rain forest plot at Nonggang in Guangxi; 20-ha tropical rain forest plot at Xishuangbanna in Yunnan. A 25-ha deciduous broadleaved forest plot in Qinling in Shannxi is now being established.CForBio has made great progress. Multidisciplinary research has been carried out, such as monitoring mammal diversity, bird diversity and soil arthropod diversity, root system, forest gap dynamics and biodiversity conservation. CForBio is becoming an integrative biodiversity research platform.

Main progress

All plots completed the annual work plan for 2014. Infrared camera trapping data sharing was realized for plots in Baotianman, Dongling Mountain, Badagong Mountain, Dinghu Mountain, Nonggang and Xishuangbanna. 62 academic papers have been published or accepted for publication in 2014. Among them, 31 are in SCI-indexed journals, with a mean IF of 3.39. The research was mainly focused on spatial patterns, density dependence, functional traits, biodiversity and biomass, forest dynamics, community phylogeny etc. Two special isssues were organized by CForBio, one of which is a special issue entitled “Ten Years of Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network (CForBio)” published in the Chinese Science Bulletin, and the other one “Infrared Camera trapping monitoring on wildlife” was published in Biodiversity Science.

Funding

The research teams received funds from NSFC, including eight regular projects, three young investigator projects, one regional project, and a cross-strait workshop funded by CAS.

Date Venue Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network-Important Activities

Mar. 24-27

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Training Courses on Scientific Writing

NSF-NSFC Joint Project: CTFS & CForBio Analytical Workshop IV

Training Courses on Macroecology

The Eighth Cross-Straits Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots

Training Seminar on Infrared Camera Monitoring on Wildlife Diversity

Advanced Workshop on Functional Traits and Phylogeny

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Photo: Naxun Zhao, Changqing National Nature Reserve

Communication and Training

PART III

The Eleventh National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation

The Second Workshop on Biodiversity Data Sharing Environment in Asia

The Eighth Cross-Straits Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots

Meeting of the Editor-in-chiefs of printed version of Species Catalogue of China

Workshop on Biodiversity Information and Protection

Training Courses of Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network (CForBio)

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i. The Eleventh National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation

Zhiyun Ouyang. 14 sessions, 145 oral presentations, 211 abstracts and 16 graduate student posters, covered all aspects of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. During the conference, “GBIF data resources and technology” and “Electronic techniques used for field investigation and information management technology” training workshops were held.

The “Nature Conservation Youth Award” was continued for graduate students to encourage young researchers engaged in biodiversity research. Five winners were selected by the expert group: Deng Tao from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yaoqi Li from Peking University, Wang Yao From Ocean University of China, Sheng Sun from Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry and Chunjing Qiu from Peking university. The award of the sponsor representative, Jingren Hu, the deputy secretary-general from China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation and Prof. Keping Ma awarded the certificate of honor, bonus and souvenirs for winners.

Hosted by eleven organizations, headed by CNC-DIVERSITAS, supported by Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, the Eleventh National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation was held in Shenyang, on August 14-16. The conference attracted more than 400 participants from ministries, universities, research institutes, protected areas and so on.

Six plenary presentations were given by academicians Yiyu Chen and Le Kang, Profs. Xingguo Han, Zhi Lu, Keping Ma and

ii. The Seconnd Workshop on Biodiversity Data Sharing Environment in Asia

On April 10-12, the Second Workshop on Biodiversity Data Sharing Environment in Asia was held in Haikou, Hainan Province. It was organized by the Biodiversity Committee, CAS, and attended by 22 participants from 9 Asia countries, including India, South Korea, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, and 3 International organizations, such as ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Participants from China came from Department of Nature and Ecology Conservation, the Ministry of Environment Protection, Bureau of Science & Technology for Development, CAS, Institute of Botany, Institute of Zoology, Secretariat of China National Committee for Man and the Biosphere.

The discussion was focused on: 1). Formulating membership application policy, member’s benefits and responsibilities; 2). Collecting Asia biodiversity data effectively; 3). Promoting priority projects in 2014; 4). Improving the book outline of Biodiversity Informatics in Asia: Status, Challenges and Opportunities and its compilation plan. ABCDNet works on promoting biodiversity related research and conservation, and encourages members to establish different Task Forces to push forward the development of ABCDNet.

Paticipants agreed that species checklist, species red list and network resources were the major projects at present. Meanwhile, to actively expand ABCDNet, they decided to organize training courses, seminars and joint symposia, and carry out publicity in important international events, such as the Conference of the Parties to Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP).

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iii. The Eighth Cross-Straits Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots

Hosted by Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences, supported by College of Life Sciences and Bioechnology and College of Forestry, Shenyang Agricultural University and Institute of Natural Resources and Ecology, Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, co-organized by the Administration Bureau of Huzhong National Nature Reserve in Heilongjiang and the National and Provincial Joint Engineering Laboratory of Wetlands and Ecological Conservation, Institute of Natural Resources and Ecology, Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, funded by CAS, the Eighth Cross-Straits Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots was held in Shenyang and Harbin, on Aug. 17-21. The workshop was attended 120 participants, including 13 participants from Taiwan.

Two plenary talks were given by Prof. Dayong Zhang, Beijing Normal University and associate Prof. I-fang Sun, Dong Hwa University. 31 talks were focused on forest

dynamics, spatial patterns, diversity maintaining mechanisms, wildlife diversity, forest carbon stock and dynamics, etc.. The participants extensively discussed these topics during the workshop.

Evaluation of mid-term progress of long-term monitoring projects of CForBio, for 8 plots (Changbai Mountain, Dongling Mountain, Baotianman, Badagong Mountain, Gutian Mountain, Nonggang and Xishuangbanna plots), was also conducted in the cross-strait workshop. The 25-ha dahurian larch forest plot in Daxinganling of Heilongjiang passed field inspection and was accepted as a new member by CForBio. At the same time, a cooperation agreement was signed between Daxing’anling plot and Dinghu Mountain plot.

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iv. Meeting for Editor-in-chiefs of Species Catalogue of China (printed version)

v. Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics and Conservation

In April 10th, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of BC-CAS, Prof. Ma Keping, Prof. Eun-Shik Kim of Korea’s Kookmin University, and Prof. Shin-ichi Nakano of Tokyo University hosted the workshop on biodiversity informatics and conservation at the Sixth International Conference of the Ecological Society of East Asia. The workshop attracted more than 50 researchers from China, Korea, Japan, India and Philippines, including 10 oral presentations and 19 posters. Research status and achievements in biodiversity informatics in these countries were shared. Prof. Ma Keping was invited to deliver a plenary talk entitled Biodiversity informatics and plant conservation research in China.

The Sixth International Conference of the Ecological Society of East Asia was hosted by Ecological Society of China and Hainan University, in Haikou from April 9th to 11th. Experts, scholars, and students from East Asia in ecology exchanged achievements and discussed topics on ecosystem dynamics under global change during the conference.

Using ABCDNet as a tool, renowned experts from China, Japan, and Korea jointly organized a workshop associated with the conference, which effectively promoted biodiversity research and academic exchanges in East Asia and beyond, also for further cooperations among participants.

On December 19th, The third editor-in-chief meeting of the print version of Species Catalogue of China organized by BC-CAS was held in Beijing. The meeting was chaired by editor-in-chief, Academician Yiyu Chen. Deputy editor-in-chiefs of academicians Guangmei Zheng and Deyuan Hong, Prof. Keping Ma, deputy head of the working group from editorial committee, Profs. Haining Qin, Liqiang Ji and Yijian Yao, editor for Species Catalogue of China from Science Press, Dr. Jun Ma and related authors, sucha as academician Wenying Zhuang attended the meeting.

The experts discussed the manuscrits of each volume on plants, animals and microorganisms. The guidelines for authors need to be consistent among different subjects and could be changed on some extent in line with the special requirement of each subject. Species is the core of the list, but the distribution of species also needs attention. Selection of classification system, order of genera and other issues were discussed and will be finalized by the subject deputy editor-in-chief who is responsible for the quality control of each volume.

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vi. Training Courses of Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network (CForBio)

1. CTFS and CForBio Workshop IV

The NSF-NSFC joint project: CTFS & CForBio analytical workshop IV was held from July 25th to August 8th, in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, China. Forty-eight participants from China (including Taiwan), USA, Ecuador, Panama, UK, Italy, Czech, India and Sri Lanka etc. attended the workshop, among which 25 participants from CTFS and 23 young researchers from CForBio. There were four groups on population spatial patterns, community and population dynamics, functional traits and phylogeny, diversity and ecosystem function. Data analysis methods were discussed, and the idea of how to conduct data analysis and paper writing were proposed by senior scientists for young researchers. Ninteen academic talks were given during the workshop, and 23 participants presented their results at the workshop.The workshop provided opportunities for young researchers and students to communicate with eminent international experts face to face, and for CForBio to show its achievements. The workshop was well received and setup links among various plots for further collaboration.

3. Training Course on Macroecology

The training course on macroecology were held in Beijing on Jun 2-6, 44 young researchers and students from 9 CForBio plots attended the workshop. Macroecology principle introduction, statistical principles and methods, and software operation were lectured on by Prof. Jens-Christian Svenning and Dr. Brody Steven Sandel, Aarhus University, Denmark, who were invited by the Biodiversity Committee, CAS. Ideas and methods for large-scale research based on CForBio facilities were proposed, and also some practical skills in research were shared during the 5-day training course.

2. Training Courses on Scientific Writing

Following the CTFS and CForBio Workshops, with the opportunity of publishing a special issue of Chinese Science Bulletin, training courses on scientific writing were held in Beijing on Mar. 24-27. Sixteen young researchers from 7 CForBio plots attended the workshop. There were 4 special topics on forest succession, phylogeny and functional traits, forest biomass and carbon, density dependence and spatial pattern. The four topics were lectured on by associate profs. Guohong Wang, Xiangcheng Mi, Drs. Jiangshan Lai and Lei Chen, from Institute of Botany, CAS. The training courses included three parts: lecturing, software operation and maniscript reviewing. The participants received valuable comments and suggestions for their manuscript improvement, and also some practical problems in research were solved during the 4-day training course.

4. Advanced Workshop on Functional Traits and Community Phylogeny

The advanced workshop on functional traits and community phylogeny was held in Beijing on Sep. 27-29. Fifty-four participants from 11 CForBio plots and plots outside of CForBio attended the workshop.

The workshop covered a wide range of more interactive topics, it focused on future directions and perspectives, and cooperation and comparision among various plots along different latitudes. The main aim is to publish more papers based on the network in high profile international journals. Prof. Keping Ma, the vice chairman and sectratery general of Biodiversity Committee, CAS, made the summary statement, he emphasised on the importance of data sharing and good international cooperation for the whole network and for every plot of CForBio. He hoped CForBio would give full play to its unique advantages through sincere cooperation.

5. Training Seminar on Infrared Camera Monitoring on Wildlife Diversity

The first training seminar on infrared cameras monitoring of wildlife diversity was held in Beijing on Jul. 10-13, chaired by Prof. Zhishu Xiao, Institute of Zoology, CAS. More than 100 participants from 70 institutions (universities, research institutes and nature reserves) of 20 provinces attended the workshop.

Four plenary talks were presented by Profs. Keping Ma, Fuwen Wei, Zhigang Jiang, from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Jiliang Xu, from Beijing Forestry Unviersity. Thirteen lectures were given at the workhsop, focused on infrared camera monitoring standards of wildlife, infrared camera application, data management and analysis, etc., and on-line practice on infrared camera data management and analysis were carried out by participants.

This workshop promoted the understanding of the three basic tasks of wildlife monitoring in China (Is the species recorded in the past still there? Where? How many?). Participants were engaged in a intensive discussion on monitoring standards, data management, analysis and sharing, and research collaboration of infrared camera monitoring in China.

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vii. Important visits

1. Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences Met With Global Names

On February 20, Biodiversity Committee, CAS (BC-CAS), held a meeting with Global Names. Prof. David Patterson, the Director of Global Names, Prof. Keping Ma, the Deputy Director and Secretary General of BC-CAS, Prof. Liqiang Ji, the Deputy Secretary General, and Prof. Yijian Yao attended the meeting.

Prof. David Patterson hoped that the Chinese scientific community could assume a more important role in the project Global Names.Prof. Ma made specific suggestions on ways for cooperation including organizational involvment, software development, data management and operation, to benefitthe development of both sides. The participants at the meeting discussed in details and agreed ona draft work plan for next year.

2. Delegation of Biodiversity Center, State Academy of Sciences, DPRK Visited Biodiversity Committee, CAS

On March 17, Prof. Pak U II, the Vice President of MAB National Committee and Honorary Director of Biodiversity Centre, State Academy of Sciences (SOAS) , DPRK, and Prof. Sin Nam Hui visited Biodiversity Committee, CAS. Mr. Jiangfeng Li, the DRPK embassy counselor and Mr. Wencan Li, the deputy representative of SOAS to China accompanied the visit. The two sides reached a consensus on the cooperation project and possible funds raising channels. They agreed to promote bilateral collaborations, so as to better promote international cooperation on biodiversity informatics, monitoring and conservation.

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3. Delegation of Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and Morton Arboretum visited Biodiversity Committee, CAS

On March 18, a delegation consisting of Dr. William McShea from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Dr. Nicole Cavender, Vice President of Science and Conservation, Morton Arboretum, visited the Biodiversity Committee, CAS. Dr. Nicole Cavender and Prof. Keping Ma discussed the importance of forest dynamics plots in Chinese forest monitoring and research, the potential functions that botany playing in woodland conservation, and the possibility of cooperation in the protection of rare and endangered forest plants in China. Dr. William McShea and Prof. Ma discussed the relationship between animals and plants based on researchin forest dynamics plots. The delegation highly praised the facilities and achievements of CForBio and the development of biodiversity and ecosystem function manipulation experimental plots in Chinese subtropical forests. They hoped that both sides could have more communication and cooperation in future.

4. Microsoft Research Asia delegation visited Biodiversity Committee, CAS

On March 18, a Microsoft Research Asia delegation visited Biodiversity Committee and Institute of Botany, CAS. Prof. Keping Ma hosted the meeting. Also attended were some staff from Office for Foreign Affairs, Center for Documentation and Information Management, Institute of Botany. The two sides exchanged their opinions on virtual labs of data mining, and pattern recognition technology for animal photos captured with infrared camera traps. And they had an in depth discussion about promoting data sharing and project applications.

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Photo: Zhigang Jiang, Institute of Zoology, CAS

Activities of members of CNC-DIVERSITAS

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Cataloging and Evolutionary Biology Group

Ecosys tem Funct ion and Sus ta inable Management Group

Agriculture and Forest Biodiversity Group

Aquatic Biodiversity Group

Biodiversity Monitoring and Information Sharing Group

Genetic Resources and Bio-security Group

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Agriculture and Forest Biodiversity

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Genetic Resources and Bio-security

Aquatic Biodiversity

Ecosystem Function and Sustainable Management

Yaping Zhang

Youyong Zhu

Liqiang Ji

Hongwen Huang

Bin Wang

Jin Chen

Wenjun Bu, Xun Cheng, Shaohua Li, Naifa Liu, Haining Qin, Guodong Ren, Fadao Tai, Wei Wang, Yuezhao Wang, Guang Yang, Daode Yang, Deyuan Hong, Jiangchun Wei, Wenying Yin, Wenying Zhuang, Song Ge, Ping He

Yanliang Wang, Xiwu Zhang, Yuehui Ma, Yu Li, Changxin Wu, Zhibin Zhang, Changming Gu, Xingtu Liu, Jianzhang Ma

Zhenzhen Chen, Zhigang Jiang, Xiankun Li, Yongzhong Ye, Wanhui Ye, Keping Ma, Guangmei Zheng, Ronghui Su

Jinghua Cao, Shengming Du, Borong Pan, Xu Liu, Xianen Zhang, Zhihong Xu, Xiaoya Chen, Jindong Zhao, Zhiping Lou

Xiaoping Wu, Liangmin Huang

Hongwei Ni, Tieliang Shangguan, Xinquan Zhao,Youxu Jiang, Zhibiao Nan, Weilun Yin, Du Zheng, Ning Wu, Weiming Fan, Xingguo Han, Yingnan Liang, Guangqing Zhu, Lianxi Sheng, Yingzhong Xie, Jianming Jin, Zongwei Feng, Xinshi Zhang

Dezhu Li, Ruiliang Zhu

Shaolin Peng, Yijian Yao

Zhanqing Hao, Ping Ding

Manzhu Bao, Fuwen Wei

Song Sun, Ding Wang

Xiaobo Yang, Se Li

Working Groups of Chinese National Committee for DIVERSITAS

Jiayang LiOn March 5, Academician Jiayang Li attended Temasek Life Sciences Conference-Next Generation Genomic View on Plants, Animals and Microbes in Singapore, and was invited to give a keynote speech entitled “Foxtail millet: an emerging model for genomic and genetic studies in staple crops”.From April 21-22, Academician Jiayang Li attended Cold Spring Harbor

i. Cataloging and Evolutionary Biology Group

Song GeOn April 4, Prof. Song Ge visited Indonesian Academy of Sciences (IAS) with Chunli Bai, the President of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Prof. Song Ge, the Deputy Director General of Institute of Botany, CAS, and the Director of Biological Research Centre of IAS signed an agreement on collaborations between two institutions. In the days following the meeting, Song Ge and Xianchun Zhang, the curator of Herbarium of Institute of Botany, CAS visited the Bogor Botanical Garden, and discussed with the counterparts from the garden on further collaborations on personnel training and research.

On October 21, the Organizing Committee of XIX International Botanical Congress (2017 IBC) has been established in Shenzhen City. A press conference on the 2017 IBC was jointly held by Botanical Society of China (BSC) and the municipal Government of Shenzhen City. On behalf of BSC, Song Ge, the Vice President and Secretary General, and Hongwen Huang, the Vice President of BSC, participated in the conference and answered questions from the media.From November 18-24, Prof. Song Ge visited the University of Ruhuna in Sri Lanka and was invited to give a talk entitled “Evolutionary studies on rice and its relatives” at the College of Agriculture. In addition, he met the Vice President of the University, Prof. S. Senanayake, and reached an agreement on personnel exchanges and collaborative research between Institute of Botany, CAS and University of Ruhuna. In the days following the meeting, Song Ge and his team conducted a field survey in Sri Lanka.

Deyuan HongOn November 8-9, Academician Deyuan Hong attended the National Symposium on Systematic and Evolutionary Botany held in Hangzhou and gave a talk entitled “How does the king of flowers form?”.

Jiayang Li Deyuan HongSong Ge

Asia meeting on Genome Assisted Biology of Crops and Model Plant Systems in Suzhou, and presented a keynote speech. From November 10-12, Academician Jiayang Li attended the Agricultural Genomics Conference, which co-organized by Nature Genetics, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and delivered a keynote speech entitled “Breeding by design: molecular basis of agronomically important traits of rice”.

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Haining QinDezhu Li Shaohua Li

Dezhu LiOn January 9-16, Prof. Dezhu Li was invited to visit French Guiana by the CAY Herbarium Curator, Dr. Sophie Gonzalez, Institut de Recherche pour le Déaveloppement. He worked in collaboration with Sophie Gonzalez’s team on bamboo species, and collected specimens of bamboos in the field.On July 27- August 7, upon the invitation of Asociación Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad of Costa Rica, Prof. Dezhu Li and his team from

Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS paid a visit to Costa Rica. During the visit, researchers from both institutes conducted a collaborative field trip and collected more than 400 plant DNA barcoding samples. They also discussed next year’s plan for this project and broad consensus on future collaboration was made by the two sides.On September 22-25, Prof. Dezhu Li was invited to attend the International Conference “Botanists of the Twenty-first Century: Roles, Challenges and Opportunities” which took place at the UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, to give a plenary presentation entitled “Integrating DNA barcodes into China’s Strategy for Plant Conservation”. As a member of the scientific committee, he was also involved in drafting the conference declaration.On October 23-27, Prof. Dezhu Li was invited to attend the third meeting of International Scientific Collaboration Committee (ISCC) for the International Barcode of Life Project at the Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Germany.

Shaohua LiThe 11th International Conference on Grapevine Breeding and Genetics was successfully held from July 28 to August 2, 2014, in Yanqing, Beijing, China, hosted by the International Society for Horticultural Science. The Convener is Dr. Shaohua Li, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It was the first time the symposium was held in China since the inaugural conference in Germany in 1973. The conference attracted a total of 358 delegates from 34 countries on six continents. The conference had two concurrent sessions, addressing seven general topic areas, including “Grapevine breeding and new cultivar development”, “Genetic resources and evolution”, “Biotic and abiotic stress”, “Yield and berry quality”, “Vine growth and berry development”, “Interactions between genotype and environment and climate”, and “Omics and bioinformatics”. The conference featured over 80 invited and selected presentations and more than 100 posters. With both oral and poster presentations, grapevine scientists reported the latest research findings in the broad areas of grapevine breeding and genetics and established new friendships.

Haining QinOn November 7-11, Prof. Haining Qin organized the 2014 Annual Work Meeting of Plant Specimen Sub-Platform of the National Specimen Information Infrastructure and Digital Technology Training in Guiyang. The meeting summarized the specimen digitization progress and achievements in 2014 and annual work plan for 2015. The implementation of Plant Specimen Sub-Platform was facilitated by training and exchange activities of herbarium digital technology specifications, methods and information sharing. As a plant sub-platform project leader, Prof. Haining Qin introduced the background, progress and tasks, as well as requirements for the next year from Chinese Virtual Herbarium (CVH). The annual meeting held in conjunction with the technical training courses, with a special feature for learning opportunities for new entrants and small herbarium to master digital technology.

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Activities of Members of CNC-DIVERSITAS

Guang Yang Yaping Zhang

Fadao Tai Jiangchun Wei

Fadao TaiOn September 18-19, the Seventh Workshop on Zoology of Shaanxi Province was held successfully in Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province. Prof. Fadao Tai organized the workshop. 100 participants exchanged their research result and discussed the academic issues profoundly on zoological studies.On October 22-25, Prof. Fadao Tai attended the Twelfth Workshop on Physiological Psychology in China which was held in Shantou, Guangdong Province. In this meeting, he gave a talk on “Effects of alloparental experience on behaviors and neuroendocrine parameters”.

Jiangchun WeiAcademician Jiangchun Wei gave a lecture on "The sustainable development of research on biodiversity and systematics with supporting infrastructures" at Jilin Agriculture University in July 16.

Guang YangOn April 17, Prof. Guang Yang attended the First Workshop on Conservation Biology of China which was held by the International Society of Conservation Biology China Chapter and the Key Lab of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, CAS. In this symposium, Prof. Yang was specially invited to give a speech entitled “Evolutionary and conservation genetics of cetaceans”.On August 31-September 6, Prof. Guang Yang visited Taipei and Hualien of Taiwan, China where he attended the 14th Workshop on Ecology and Conservation Biology of Cetaceans--Study and Reserve Management of Cetaceans cross the Taiwan Straits.

Yaping Zhang On June 24, on behalf of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician Yaping Zhang signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. The two institutions will carry out extensive cooperation in plant utilization, biodiversity conservation, and other aspects in next decade.On September 11-18, Academician Yaping Zhang headed a delegation to visit the United States, Costa Rica and Ecuador. He attended the Fifteenth Session of Sino-US Joint Commission on Science and Technology Cooperation, and focused on the promotion of bilateral cooperation in scientific research and personnel training. During his visit to the University of Costa Rica and the Institute of Biodiversity (Inbio), to further promote cooperation in the use and evaluation of microbial resources, bio-safety and personnel training, and recommended by holding bilateral workshops to further promote the cooperation in biodiversity science and other related fields.On December 1-2, Academician Yaping Zhang attended the Second Forum on Cross-Strait Life Sciences. He co-chaired the meeting with Chien Jen Chen, vice president of Academia Sinica, and delivered a conference report. The main topics of the forum were big data and bioinformatics, etc.

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Xingguo HanRuiliang Zhu Jin Chen

Ruiliang ZhuOn August 1-5, Prof. Ruiliang Zhu attended the 2014 National Bryological Conference which was held in Inner Mongolia, and was invited to give a keynote speech entitled “Liverwort diversity of Vietnam”.On November 7-9, Prof. Ruiliang Zhu attended the National Symposium on Systematic and Evolutionary Botany held in Hangzhou, and he presented a report entitled “Liverwort expedition at the border areas of

ii. Ecosystem Function and Sustainable Management Group

Jin ChenProf. Jin Chen headed a delegation of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) to the Cat Tien National Park and Biosphere Reserve in Vietnam during Feb. 15-21 to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the park and to consult on the development of a botanical garden there. There are more than 700 square kilometers in the Cat Tien National Park and it is one of the largest and most important reserves in southern Vietnam.

On May 10-11, Prof. Jin Chen was invited by Prof. Pete Hollingsworth to make field trip to the living collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE). He discussed with Leigh Morris and Martyn Dickson from Department of Horticulture of RBGE about sending outstanding trainees of Chinese Union of Botanical Gardens (CUBG) course for further study at RBGE for three months. Prof. Jin Chen gave a brief introduction on XTBG to Mr. Simon Milne, the new Regius Keeper of RBGE.

The Environmental Education Training Course 2014, supported by CUBG, was held during August 5-18 at XTBG. 20 trainees from 14 botanical gardens across China participated in the training. Certificates of completion were conferred on the trainees by Prof. Chen Jin, director of XTBG and chairman of CUBG.

Xingguo HanOn August 14-16, Prof. Xingguo Han attended the Eleventh National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation held in Shenyang, and he was invited to give a plenary talk entitled “Effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on structure and function of grassland biodiversity”.

China and Vietnam”.From November 28 to December 9, Prof. Ruiliang Zhu organized a bryophyte expedition to southwest Guangxi, China. The investigators include Prof. S.R. Gradstein from Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, Dr. Yu-Mei Wei from Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and graduate students from East China Normal University, Shanghai.

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Zhibiao NanAs team leader, Academician Nan organized a Basic Science and Technology Specialized Project, “The current status of grassland degradation for key region of temperate grassland in China and its causes”. The results indicated that the grassland degradation was correlated well with plant species richness in a given area. It was proposed that biodiversity should be included as an indicator of grassland health evaluation.As the PI, Academician Nan chairs a National Key Basic Research Program, “The biological basis for stress tolerance, higher quality and higher yield of main forage and native plants in China”. The project has achieved good progress in native plant stress tolerance, with less shelter shattering and a higher content of unsaturated fatty acid and lower content of hydrocyanic acid.

Zhibiao Nan Hongwei Ni

Tieliang Shangguan

Hongwei NiDuring May 27-30, Prof. Hongwei Ni was invited to attend “The Listing of UNESCO Heritage and the Sustainable Development of Huangshan Dialogue” in Huangshan City, Anhui Province.During June 27-30, Prof. Hongwei Ni was invited to attend The 7th Eco-Forestry Development Forum between China and Russia in Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province, and gave a lecture about “Forest ecological protection and promoting regional development” at the conference.During July 25-28, as one of the organizers, Prof. Hongwei Ni attended The Ecological Civilization Forum of The Great Khingan held in Mohe country, Heilongjiang Province. The Great Khingan Region Ecological Alliance was set up in this forum, which included many ecosystem research stations from Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang Province. The Yilehuli Mountains Forest Ecological Station of the Institute of Nature and Ecology, Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, become one of the alliance members.On August 29, as the organizer, Prof. Hongwei Ni held The 8th Cross-Strait Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots and gave a lecture on “The history review and introspection of the Great Khingan boreal forest”.

Tieliang ShangguanWe took the investigation of species diversity of regeneration of forest ecosystems in Lingkong Mountain and completed the study of species diversity changes of the restored vegetation in the eco-reclamation area of ATB (Antaibao) opencast coal mine dump.Biodiversity and its conservation of the Zhongtiao Mountains and Qin River Valley were investigated by Prof. Shangguan and his team from July 20th to August 5th.Prof. Shangguan participated in The Eleventh National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation held in Shenyang from August 14th to 16th, and conducted in-depth exchanges of ideas for the current research and the latest achievements in the field of biodiversity in China.

Xiaobo YangOn April 9-11, Prof. Xiaobo Yang attended The 6th EAFES International Congress, which hosted by Hainan University and Ecological Society of China. The theme was Ecosystem Dynamics in a Changing Environment.

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Weilun Yin Changming Gu Yu Li

On September 18-19, Prof. Xiaobo Yang attended 2014 Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of China at Shenyang, and gave a report at the conference.

Weilun YinOn April 16, Academician Weilun Yin was invited to attend the academic exchange of “Biodiversity of Wetland” hosted by Macau University

iii. Agriculture and Forest Biodiversity Group

Changming GuMr. Changming Gu was responsible for organizing and implementing the project of “Strengthening the management effectiveness of the wetland protected area system in Anhui Province”, and he held a kick-off meeting for the project in March and set up a GEF Project Management Office.

In August, Mr. Gu had a study tour on wetlands legislation in Yunnan and Sichuan province with the Agricultural Economics Committee, and the Law Committee of the People’s Congress of Anhui Province, respectively, and held further discussions and revisions on the legislative documents with the Legislative Affairs Office of the Government of Anhui Province. “Regulations on Wetland Protection in Anhui Province” will be reviewed by the provincial People’s Congress in 2015.

Mr. Gu was responsible for synchronizing the waterfowl pilot survey, and carrying out synchronization surveys in Anhui Province of the national second survey on terrestrial wildlife resources in lakes along the Yangtze River Basin in March 2 and November 5 respectively, and training on waterfowl survey techniques for more than 60 technical personnel from 16 forest bureaus of municipalities, nature reserves, wetland parks and lakes.

Yu LiThe 8th International Workshop on the Systematics and Ecology of Myxomycetes was held in Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China on August 12-15, and Academician Yu Li chaired the meeting. More than 50 scientists from 14 countries including USA, Germany, Belgium, France, Ukraine, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, China, Japan, Russia, Philippines, India, Mongolia and so on registered.On July 9-10, Academician Yu Li participated in the Forum on the Development of Edible Fungus Industry in Guizhou Province of 2014 and delivered a report entitled “the Importance of infrastructure development for fungal resources”.

of Science and Technology, and delivered a report on “The strategic thinking of wetland protection”. In his report, the concept and function of wetlands, the problems in wetland protection and restoration were illustrated systematically. He conducted a study tour on the distribution, characteristics and functions of Macao wetland and also popularized wetland science knowledge for college students.

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On September 9-10, Academician Yu Li participated in 2014 Changbai Mountain International Ecological Forum of China which was held in Erdaobaihe Town and he delivered the report entitled “Protection and Utilization of Fungus Resource in Changbai Mountain”.On November 7-8, Academician Yu Li participated in Chinese Society of Biotechnology Annual Conference 2014 and National Biotechnology Meeting which was held in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province and presented a keynote speech entitled “The Current situation of medicinal fungi”.

Jianzhang MaAcademician Jianzhang Ma attended Symposium of National Parks on April 28 in Kunming, and gave a report entitled “ A Concept on National Parks”.Academician Jianzhang Ma attended The 8th International Deer Biology Congress and

Jianzhang Ma Yuehui Ma

Shaolin Peng Yijian Yao

International Wildlife Management Symposium on July 27-31 in Harbin, and gave a plenary report entitled “Conservation and research on Felidae in China”.

Yuehui MaFrom July 27 to August 1, Prof. Yuehui Ma attended the 34th International Conference of Animal Genetics held in Xi’an. This is the first time the International Conference of Animal Genetics was held in China since International Society of Animal Genetics (ISAG) established in 1954. More than 1500 Chinese and foreign participants attended the meeting.On August 6-8, Prof. Yuehui Ma hosted the 14th National Symposium on Animal Genetic Markers in Kunming. There are more than 300 participants from universities, research institutes and enterprises across the country took part in the academic exchanges.

Shaolin PengProf. Shaolin Peng took charge of the surveys on the vegetation of Macau and the composition of Vegetation of Macau. The ceremony for the release of Vegetation of Macau Vol 1-Terrestrial Natural Vegetation was held on March 22nd and Prof. Peng gave a speech as the editor-in-chief. Prof. Shaolin Peng attended the Ecological Society of China (ESC) 13th Annual Meeting in Shenyang, China and presided over a session “Plant Invasion and the Restoration of Invaded Habitats”.As a vice president of Ecological Society of China, Prof. Shaolin Peng attended the 1st workshop of Freshwater Ecology hosted by Ecological Society of China.

Yijian YaoIn February, Prof. Yijian Yao worked on fungal database with Dr. Paul M. Kirk who is a British mycologist and Database Curator and Web Master for the Index Fungorum. Dr. Paul M. Kirk, was invited through the program “Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists”.From May 30 to June 17, Prof. Yijian Yao was invited by the Database Curator and Web Master for the Index Fungorum, Dr. Paul M. Kirk, to Royal Botanical Gardens Kew for further collaboration between Fungal Names, the fungal names

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registration website initiated by Prof. Yao and Index Fungorum in UK, and the supporting for the official repositories of the two repositories and data synchronization between them.

On August 3-8, Prof. Yijian Yao was invited to the 10th International Mycological Congress (IMC 10) in Bangkok, Thailand as a member of the IAPT Nomenclature Committee for Fungi to attend the Nomenclature Venue and gave a lecture on “the scientific name of Ling-zhi, the widely cultivated Ganoderma in China”. After discussion, Fungal Names, launched by Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS), together with the other two international repositories, Index Fungorum (UK) and MycoBank (Netherlands) were authorized by the IMC10, and became one of the official international websites for fungal name registration prior to valid publication. After the meeting, Dr. Paul M. Kirk was invited to visit IMCAS, working on improvements for the system update and data synchronization between Fungal Names and Index Fungorum.

Zhibin ZhangOn May 3-7, Prof. Zhibin Zhang attended the annual meeting of Norway Academy of Science and Letters, and was elected a foreign member of the Academy.On September 17-19, Prof. Zhibin Zhang attended the annual meeting of Ecological Society of China which was hosted by Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology at Shenyang, and delivered a plenary speech entitled “Ecological non-monotonicity and its impact on complexity and stability”.On November 17-20, Prof. Zhibin Zhang attended the General Assembly of 17th annual meeting of Zoological Society of China and its 80th Anniversary which was hosted at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, and was elected standing Vice-president of the society.

iv. Aquatic Biodiversity Group

Liangmin Huang On May 13-14, Prof. Liangmin Huang was invited to attend the the expert consultation on the program of work for marine biodiversity conservation priority area boundaries organized by Department of Nature and Ecology Conservation, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China.On September 17-19, Prof. Liangmin Huang participated in the 2014 Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of China, and gave a keynote report at the venue entitled “Our research and conservation of biodiversity in the South China Sea.”On November 6-11, Prof. Liangmin Huang organized The Eleventh International Seagrass Biology Workshop as Chairman of the Organizing Committee.

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Ding Wang Xiaoping Wu

Song SunWorld Conference on Marine Biodiversity (WCMB 2014) was held in Qingdao, China 12-16 October, 2014 with the theme of “Life in the Changing Ocean”. Over 400 marine biologists from 55 countries come together to discuss exciting new ideas and achievements in marine biodiversity. Dr. Sun Song served as the chairman of the conference. There were six themes and twelve sessions: Marine Biodiversity & Global change; Marine Ecosystem Structure & Function; Marine Ecosystem Safety; Marine Biological Observation; Marine Biological Resources; Deep Sea Biodiversity etc.

Bin Wang On 4-5 March in Hawaii, U.S., as one of the co-chairs, Dr. Bin Wang chaired the ASEAN Regional Forum-Maritime Security Workshop on Marine Environmental

Song Sun Bin Wang

Protection Cooperation. In the forum, he gave an address about emergency response management on marine environmental accidents in China and made proposals for regional cooperation with ASEAN.On September 18, in Shenyang, Dr. Bin Wang attended the 2014 Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of China on Innovation of marine ecological science and protection of marine ecosystems hosted by Marine Ecology Comminute of the Ecological Society of China, and gave a presentation on “Theory and Practice of Marine Ecological Red-Line-In the case of Bohai Sea”.

Ding WangProf. Ding Wang participated the 14th Cetacean Ecology and Conservation Symposium which was held in Taiwan University in Taipei and Hualien Farglory Ocean Park in Hualien from September 1-5. At this meeting, he delivered a lecture entitled “Conservation of the Yangtze finless porpoise: Where to go”. In this talk, he shared his research and thoughts about what the main threats facing the Yangtze finless porpoise, what we should do to save this lovely animal species from quickly becoming extinct, what progress in conservation have been made so far, and what we should do next. The Yangtze finless porpoise is the only cetacean surviving in the Yangtze River now after the possible extinction of Baiji (the Yangtze River Dolphin) which was driven by the disturbance of human activities, and since it has been facing the same kind of the threats faced by Baiji, its population size decreased remarkably during the last several decades, and has come to the edge of extinction.

Xiaoping WuFrom March 10 to 15, Prof. Xiaoping Wu invited Profs. David Zanatta and Daelyn Woolnough visiting Nanchang University and collaborated on the research of conservation of freshwater unionids. Drs. David and Daelyn are mussel experts from the Biology Department, Central Michigan University. The key research objectives are as follows: Determine the amount of genetic variation for several common unionid species in the region; Measure the amount of gene flow between Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River watershed for several common unionids. The data resulting from these objectives will provide a valuable baseline that can guide how proposed water control structures between Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River will function.

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Zhanqing HaoOn August 14-16, Prof. Zhanqing Hao hosted The Eleventh National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation in Shenyang, and gave a session report.On August 17-19, Prof. Zhanqing Hao attended The 8th Cross-Straits Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots held in Shenyang and Harbin and gave a conference report.On September 10-12, Prof. Zhanqing Hao participated in the 2014 Changbai Mountain International Ecological Forum of China which was held at Changbai Mountain and gave a conference report entitled “Fixed sample of large forest and its significance on the population ecology research and protection of the population”.On October 11-14, Prof. Zhanqing Hao participated in the 2014 Annual Meeting of East Asian Biodiversity Conservation Network held in South Korea, and delivered a speech entitled “Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network (CForBio): Changbaishan Temperate Forest Plots 2004-2014”.

Liqiang JiProf. Liqiang Ji attended the EOL Executive Committee Meetings in Australia on January 18-24.Prof. Liqiang Ji attended the 2014 Scientific Data Conference in Beijing on Feburay 24-25 and presented an invited talk on Biodiversity Data Management and Application.Prof. Liqiang Ji attended the Catalogue of Life Global Team Meeting in Washington, DC., USA on June 1-6.Prof. Liqiang Ji attended The Eleventh National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation in August 14-16 at Shenyang. He was the sponser of symposium on Biodiversity Informatics and presented a talk on the Progress of Chinese Animal Scientific Databases.

Zhigang JiangFrom April 28 to May 3, 2014, representing the CITES national scientific authority, Prof. Zhigang Jiang attended the 27th Animals Committee Meeting and Joint Meeting of Animals Committee and Plants Committee of CITES held in Varacruz, Mexico. The Animals Committee and Plants Committee are technique committees of CITES, which hold meeting to prepare issues for next Convention of Parties (CoP) of CITES when the CoP is not in session. From May 23 to 30, 2014, Prof. Zhigang Jiang attended the 1st Joint Meeting of Canadian Zoological Society, Canadian Society of Evolutionary Biology, and Canadian Society of limnology-“Genome to /aux Biomes Montreal 2014” in Montreal, Canada. He convened the symposium “Phylogeography”, and gave a presentation about “Przewalski’s gazelle in anthropogenic landscape”.In November, the Final Research Project Report of the Important directional project of the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences-Resource Status Assessment and Endangerment Mechanism of Important CITES Appendix Species, which was coordinated by Prof. Fuwen Wei and Prof. Zhigang Jiang from 2011-2014, passed the evaluation of the Panel Meeting of Sponsor-Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Xiankun LiIn February, Prof. Xiankun Li attended the expert consultation of “National Ecosystem Survey and Assessment of China-Guangxi (2000-2010)” held by Department of Environmental Protection, Guangxi.In April, Prof. Xiankun Li attended the expert consultation of “The 2nd NationalInvestigation for Key Protected Plants (Guangxi)” held by Bureau of Forestry, Guangxi.In December, Prof. Xiankun Li attended the expert consultation of “Workshop for Trans-boundary Cao Vit Gibbon Habitat Restoration Technical Framework and Plan” in Jingxi, Guangxi. The cao vit gibbon Nomascus nasutus (also known as eastern black gibbon) is one of the world’s rarest primates. This gibbon population barely numbers more than 100 and is only known to be present in one area of karst forest, which lies on the border of northeast Vietnam and southern China.

Keping Ma

Guangmei Zheng

Xiankun Li Keping Ma

Wanhui Ye

On August 14-16, Prof. Keping Ma hosted The Eleventh National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation held in Shenyang, and made a presentation entitled “Biodiversity and ecosystem function: progress and Chinese cases”.On October 17-21, Prof. Keping Ma led a delegation with Zhanqing Hao, Haining Qin and Xiangcheng Mi to visit the DPRK. They talked with relevant institutions of the DPRK State Academy of Sciences for possible collaboration on biodiversity inventories and the establishment of large-scale forest biodiversity monitoring plots.On October 26-29, Prof. Keping Ma was invited to participate in The Fourth Annual iDigBio Summit in US, and gave a plenary presentation entitled “National Specimen Information Infrastructure and Chinese Field Museum”.

Wanhui YeProf. Wanhui Ye, as a senior visiting scholar, visited the University of Alberta in Canada from January 26th to April 25th.Prof. Wanhui Ye attended The 8th Cross-Strait Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots held in Shenyang and Harbin on August 17-21. He visited the 25 ha temperate plot in Daxinganling, Heilongjiang province.

Guangmei ZhengOn August 3, Academician Guangmei Zheng attended the meeting of the steering committee of China Ornithological Society held in Shandong. The committee members discussed building the literature databases of ornithology of China, prepare a symposium for the China zoological congress, attending the 27th International Ornithological Congress, and also the development of the journal Avian Research. As the editor-in-chief of Avian Research, Prof. Zheng was declared the deputy editors-in-chief and member of the editorial board.From July 31 to August 2, Academician Guangmei Zheng attended the Endangered Wildlife Protection Forum of China, 2014. This forum was held every year, and provided platform for scientists and administrative staff from nature reserves.

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Xiaoya Chen Hongwen Huang Borong Pan

vi. Genetic Resources and Biosafety Group

Xiaoya ChenOn May 25-26, Academician Xiaoya Chen attended the 16th annual conference of China Association for Science and Technology held in Yunnan Province. He and colleagues visited Zhaotong City located in northeastern part of Yunan province. This area is well known for biodiversity but has a fragile ecosystem and a less developed economy. Guided by local government officials and forest workers, they traveled to the Ludian Lehong Nature Reserve, where two gymnosperm tree species of Pseudotsuga forrestii and Tsuga chinensis grow, both are endemic to China. He is also interested in the utilization and protection of natural resources of medicinal plants, such as Bletilla striata and Gastrodia elata. Organized by the city government, Prof. Xiaoya Chen gave a lecture on “Plant Science and Ecological Development”.

Hongwen HuangOn 18-19 October, the 5th Joint Conference of the Asian Division of the International Association of Botanic Gardens (IABG-AD) and the East Asia Botanical Garden Network Meeting was held in Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-sen, Nanjing. The theme of the Congress was “The role of botanical gardens: building capacity for biological resources service”. More than 150 delegates from botanical gardens, universities, institutes and non-governmental organizations from 12 countries and regions attended the congress. As joint conference chairman, Prof. Hongwen Huang presided over the opening ceremony and gave a presentation entitled “BGs Living Collections: Historic Introduction & Domestication vs. Contemporary Ex Situ Conservation”.

Borong PanProf. Borong Pan jointed The Eleventh National Conference on Biodiversity Science and Conservation on August 14-16, in Shenyang, and gave a presentation named “Rare and endemic species and Plant species with extremely small populations (PSESP) protection in Xinjiang”.Prof. Borong Pan jointed the “Symposium on standardizing the information of ex-situ conservation in botanical gardens” on August 24-26, in XTBG, and gave a presentation named “Scientific record and rational use of information for ex-situ conservation plants in botanical gardens”.Prof. Borong Pan joined “The 7th National Symposium on Ethnobotany and 6th Asia-Pacific Forum on Ethnobotany” on October 20-22, in Guilin, and gave a presentation named “Characteristics and conservation of melons & fruits’ germplasm diversity in Xinjiang”; and reported the “Differences and its scientific basis on ethno-botanical knowledge of Ammopiptanthus” in venues.

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Photo: MinXing Zhang, photographer

Publications

PART V

Catalogue of Life China 2014 CDROM

Advances in biodiversity conservation and research in China X

Biodiversity Science

Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Newsletter

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i. Catalogue of Life China 2014 CDROM

Catalogue of Life, China (2014 Annual Checklist) was compiled by Species 2000 China Node and published by Science Press, Beijing. It contained data of 79792 species or infraspecies in China. The groups of species in 2014 Annual Checklist of Catalogue of Life China (number of species, number of infraspecies) are as follows:

Animalia (Animals)

Protozoa

Viruses d s D N A v i r u s e s ( 3 6 8 , 2 7 ) ; d s R N A viruses(35, 26); Nagative stranded ssRNA viruses(51, 12); Positive stranded ssRNA viruses(131, 56); Retroviruses(5, 0); Reversetranscribing viruses(25, 9); ssDNA viruses(36, 20); Vivoid(4, 0).

Amoebozoa(380 , 13 ) ; C i l iophora (498 ,

1); Dinozoa(253, 50); Percolozoa(3, 0);

Radiolaria(537, 10).

Annelida(488, 20); Arthropoda(16099, 1802); Brachiopoda(8, 0); Bryozoa(197,0); Cnidaria(1565,0); Echiura(12,0); Echinodermata(588,9); Entoprocta(8,0); Hemichordata(7,0); Mollusca(2309,42); Myxozoa(39,0); Nematoda(192,0); Nemertea(58, 0); Phoronida(4, 0); Porifera(172, 7); Chordata(6034, 1934) [Agnatha(8,0); Leptochordata(4,0); Fish(3337,16); Amphibian(346,0); Reptile(403,12); Bird(1373,1791); Mammal(563, 115) .

Actinobacteria(45, 0); Bacteroidetes(30, 0); Chloriobi(1, 0); Cyanobacteria(158, 5); Firmicutes(48, 0); Proteobacteria(181, 1).

Diatomeae(1248, 406); Phaeophyta(292, 8).

Basidiomycota(1579, 41).

Angiosperm (30281, 4888); Gymnosperm (245, 78); Pteridophyta (2391, 200); Bryophyta(2576, 178); Chlorophyta(199, 18); Rhodophyta(496, 12).

Bacteria

Chromista

Fungi

Plantae (Plants)

iii. Biodiversity Science

Biodiversity Science (formerly Chinese Biodiversity), launched in 1993, specifically addresses the issues of biodiversity aiming to enhance information exchange between Chinese and international scholars. Biodiversity Science is a high-impact scientific journal of China. Its impact factor for 2013 (CJCR) is 1.481, which ranked 1st out of 27 journals for basic biological sciences in China. In 2014, Biodiversity Science was awarded an on-going grant by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). It was also received an awardas one of “The 100 Chinese Outstanding Academic Journals” and “Chinese Key Sci-tech Journals”. In 2014, 113 papers in six issues were published, including two special issues on “Genome and Biodiversity” and “Wildlife Monitoring with Camera Traps”; 4 special features entitled “Biodiversity Informatics”, “Marine Biodiversity”, “National Parks”. Ten papers published in this journal between 2009 and 2014 were recommended as Frontrunners 5000 (F5000), i.e. the Top Articles from Chinese Key SCI-tech Journals in 2014. For more information, please visit the website at http://www.biodiversity-science.net.

ii. Advances in Biodiversity Conservation and Research in China X

Advances in Biodiversity Conservation and Research in China X-Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in China was published by China Meteorological Press in July. A Total of 42 scientific papers on biodiversity conservation and sustainable use were embodied. The proceedings were a presentation of research progress and new accomplishment in Chinese biodiversity science and related fields. It was valuable for scholars in biodiversity conservation, nature conservation, and for teachers and students in related areas.

中国生物多样性保护与研究进展X

中国生物多样性保护与研究进展XADVANCES IN BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

AND RESEARCH IN CHINA X

第十届全国生物多样性保护与持续利用研讨会论文集Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference on the Conservation

and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in China

国际生物多样性计划中国委员会

中国科学院生命科学与生物技术局

环境保护部自然生态保护司

国家林业局野生动植物保护与自然保护区管理司

科学技术部基础研究司

农业部科技教育司

教育部科学技术委员会

住房和城乡建设部城市建设司

国家海洋局海洋环境保护司

国家自然科学基金委员会生命科学部

中国科学技术协会国际联络部

中国科学院国际合作局

中国生物多样性保护与绿色发展基金会

中国科学院生物多样性委员会

定价: 80.00元

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iv. Biodiversity and Nature Newsletter

Biodiversity and Nature Newsletter published 2 issues in 2014 with columns for conservation and sustainable use, species protection, research progress and IUCN. It expanded circulation by publishing an electronic version which was well received.

Photo: Dunmei Lin, Collego of Urban Construction and Environmental Engineering, Chongqing University

Photo: Yanhong Bing, Institute of Botany, CAS

Activities Associated with Important International Organizations or Conventions

PART VI

International Union for Conservation of Nature

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Convention on Biological Diversity

Encyclopedia of Life

Species 2000

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i. International Union for Conservation of Nature

On August 25-26, the enlarged meeting of Asia Regional Committee, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was held in Bangkok, Thailand. Prof. Keping Ma attended the meeting and reported on the work of Chinese IUCN members.On November 3, Asia Regional Election Commission Chairman from IUCN, Anshuman Saikia, announced to the community that Prof. Keping Ma from Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences was elected as the Vice-Chair of the Asian Regional Committee, IUCN, which recognized his great contribution towards the development of biodiversity research and to the committee.

ii. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

On July 17-18, the Fifth GBIF Asian Conference was held at the National Museum of natural history in Tsukuba Japan. 30 representatives from Japan, China, India, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Chinese Taipei, ASEAN Center for Biodiversity (ACB), and the GBIF Secretariat participated the meeting. Progress reports from nodes were discussed, as well as the important progress in biodiversity database format, improving the region fish data recording, red list and invasive species information. Some representatives proposed to establish Catalog of Asian Species using the red list and invasive species list as the beginning. Yinan Liu of the Biodiversity Committee Office participated in the meeting and reported the work progress on behalf of GBIF-CAS node.In order to improve the data quality and contribution, delegates agreed to hold regular regional meetings in the future. The delegates thanked Ms.Sheila G Vergara from ASEAN Center for Biodiversity (ACB) for her work as Asia representative over the past two years. Dr. Tsuyoshi Hosoya from Japan was elected as the new Asian representative.

iii. Convention on Biological Diversity

SBSTTA 18 Meeting

From June 23-28, The 18th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) was held in Montreal, Canada, and more than 500 participants attended the meeting. The meeting reviewed the draft of the fourth edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook. They noted that progress has been made in many areas, but most of the progress is not sufficient to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets in 2020. The meeting stressed that biodiversity plays a key role in maintaining the ecosystem, and provides essential ecosystem services, which are the basis for sustainable development and human well-being, livelihoods and poverty elimination. Biodiversity can play a positive role in the broader sense in sustainable development. Consideration of SBSTTA should focus on promoting the full implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, so that all parties can make a real contribution to the sustainable development agenda. At the meeting, marine and coastal biodiversity, and climate change-related issues and chanllenges of synthetic biology are hot topics and they should cause us to pay more attention. Commissioned by the Bureau of International Cooperation, CAS, Prof. Keping Ma attended the conference as a scientific adviser for Chinese government delegation on June 24-28, and he was responsible for two issues namely the GSPC and the Global Taxonomy Initiative.

COP 12 Meeting

The Twelfth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity was held on October 6-17 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. More than 8000 people from 160 Parties, international organizations, NGOs, etc. attended the meeting. The meeting recognized that global biodiversity resources are being over-exploited in the immediate time-frame, and that biodiversity is essential to the survival of the Earth and is closely related to national economic interest. We cannot just continue to be administrators of documents and records for extinction, threatening extinction, and the destruction of species. Parties must play a more active role if they are not living up to this responsibility. In order to promote the biodiversity agenda, we must have practical ways and means. The meeting emphasized the point: Even though some parts have made significant progress towards achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, in most cases, given the current situation it is not enough to expect progress towards achieving these goals. Therefore, there is an urgent need to take additional action to ensure the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 in the next five years. High-level roundtable discussions on the theme “Biodiversity for Sustainable Development” were held on October 15-16 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The meeting emphasized the integration of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation goals, coordination of climate change, biodiversity and economic development and innovation, peace and biodiversity conservation. The Government of Mexico will host the Thirteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2016.Commissioned by the Bureau of International Cooperation, CAS, Prof. Keping Ma attended the Conference of the Parties as a scientific adviser for Chinese government delegation on October 6-17. According to the regiment of the division of labor, the CAS took part in a consultation and negotiation in GSPC, to strengthen the capacity building and technical and

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scientific cooperation toward invasive alien species, conservation and restoration of ecosystems and other issues. Overall, these issues are not very controversial, the views of all parties are more consistent with the joint efforts of all Parties. We should strengthen the protection of plant diversity, prevention and control of alien species and the recovery of degraded ecosystems, and hope that developed countries will help developing countries strengthen capacity building, and actively transfer advanced technology to promote scientific and technological cooperation between all Parties. At the same time, we must take advantage of the opportunity to discuss and publicize the achievements in these areas and show the type of case that China has made. During the meeting, Prof. Keping Ma was invited by Biodiversity Center of Japan’ Ministry of the Environment, Missouri Botanical Garden of USA, and the International Center Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), respectively, and gave a report on their Side event entitled “Plant Conservation Progress in China，World Flora On-line Associated Progress in China, Infrastructure Development for Biodiversity Conservation: From national to regional scale”. The report described the progress of biodiversity informatics, monitoring and protection of biodiversity and achieved praise by peers, especially direct appreciation by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, the executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

iv. Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

On 18-24 January, Prof. Liqiang Ji was invited to attend the Executive Committee Meeting of Encyclopedia of Life as the representative of Biodiversity Committee, CAS. The meeting was EOL regular meeting and held every half year. During the meeting, the secretary reported the main activities, data content development, data service function construction, social influence and financial status. Also, each working group reported on development and discussed some major future issues.

v. Species 2000

The Catalogue of Life Global Team Meeting was held in Washington, DC., USA in June 1-6, 2014. Prof. Liqiang Ji, Deputy Secretary General of Biodiversity Committee, CAS, attended the meeting as member of the Team.The Catalogue of Life Global Team Meeting is held once every 9 months, and consists of an internal meeting and a public symposium. In the internal meeting, members of the Team got progress reports from Species 2000 Secretariat, ITIS Secretariat, Species 2000 Secretariat Philippines, China Regional Center and CoL Executive Editor, the report on e-infrastructure for the Catalogue of Life at Naturalis, discussed issues from the informatics group, fund raising and the location for next meeting. More than 80 people attended the public symposium, in which 9 scientists from USA, UK, China and the Netherlands gave oral presentations on biodiversity informatics.Prof. Liqiang Ji introduced the progress of Species 2000 China Node on Catalogue of Life China, China mirror site of Global Names, Asia Biodiversity Conservation and Databases Network, Taxonomic Tree Tool (TTT) - a platform for classification analysis. The work of China Node got high appraisal from the audience. Many people suggested that the TTT should be widely introduced and be used by more scientists around the world.

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Activities Associated with Important International Organizations or Conventions


Photo: Naxun Zhao, Changqing National Nature Reserve

Publicity of CNC-DIVERSITAS

PART VII


The websites of two committees merged and redesigned now

CNC-DIVERSITAS We-media

Biodiversity committee, CAS E-newsletter

First GBIF training courses held in China

Tenth anniversary celebrations for CForBio

Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Newsletter

Annual report of BC-CAS and CNC-DIVERSITAS

Annual report of CForBio


The websites of two committees merged and redesigned now online

http://www.cncdiversitas.org

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CNC-DIVERSITAS We-mediaBiodiversity committee, CAS E-newsletter

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Tenth anniversary celebrations for CForBio

August 14th, Biological field survey information technology and information management courseAugust 15th, Data resources and technical training course

First GBIF training courses held in China

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Annual report of CNC-DIVERSITAS and BC-CAS

Annual report of CForBio

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Appendix: Organizational Structure

The 2nd Scientific Committee of CNC-DIVERSITAS

Scientific Committee

Chair

Jiayang Li, Vice Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, President, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Vice Chair (In alphabetical order)

Jinghua Cao, Deputy Director General, Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zhenzhen Chen, Inspector, Urban Construction Division, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China

Shengming Du , Execut ive Derector General , Department of Life Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China

Yingnan Liang, Deputy Director General, Department of International Affairs, China Association for Science and Technology

Bin Wang, Deputy Director General, General Office, State Oceanic Administration of China

Yanliang Wang, Inspector, Department of Science, Technology & Education, Ministry of Agriculture of China

Changxin Wu, Executive Deputy Director General, Science and Technology Committee, Ministry of Education of China

Xiwu Zhang, Director General, Department of Wildlife Conservation and Nature Reserve Management, State Forestry Administration, China

Xianen Zhang, Professor, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zhibin Zhang, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Guangqing Zhu, Secretary General, China Ecological Civilization Research and Promotion Association, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China

Members (In alphabetical order)

Manzhu Bao, Dean, College of Horticulture & Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University

Wenjun Bu, Dean, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University

Xun Chen, Deputy Director-General, Guizhou Science and Technology Department

Jin Chen, Director General, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ping Ding, Professor, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University

Changming Gu, Senior Engineer, Anhui Provincial Department of Forestry

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Zhanqing Hao, Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ping He, Secretary of CPC, Wulong County, Chongqing City

Hongwen Huang , Director General, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Liqiang Ji, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zhigang Jiang, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dezhu Li, President, Kunming Branch, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shaohua Li, Professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xiankun Li, Deputy Director General, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Se Li, Senior Engineer, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China

Naifa Liu, Professor, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University

Keping Ma, Professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yuehui Ma, Professor, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Hongwei Ni, Director, Institute of Natural Resources and Ecology, Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences

Borong Pan, Professor, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shaolin Peng, Professor, College of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University

Haining Qin, Professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese

Academy of Sciences

Guodong Ren, Professor, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University

Tieliang Shangguan, Professor, College of Environmenal Sciences and Resources, Shanxi University

Lianxi Sheng, Professor, Northeast Normal University

Ronghui Su, Deputy Director General, Bureau of Major R&D Programs, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Song Sun, Director General, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Fadao Tai, Vice Dean, College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University

Ding Wang, Professor, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Wei Wang, Professor, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University

Yuezhao Wang, Professor, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Fuwen Wei, Deputy Director General, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xiaoping Wu, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Nanchang University

Yingzhong Xie, Vice President, Ningxia University

Guang Yang, Professor, College of Life Science, Nanjing Normal University

Daode Yang, Professor, College of Life Science and Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology

Xiaobo Yang , Professor, Division of Tropical Agriculture and Life Science, Hainan University

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Advisory Committee

Chair

Yiyu Chen, Academician of CAS, National Natural Science Foundation of China

Vice Chairs

Zhihong Xu, Academician of CAS, Peking University

Xu Liu, Academician of CAE, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Jianming Jin, Academician of CAE, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China


Xiaoya Chen, Academician of CAS, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zongwei Feng, Academician of CAE, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Deyuan Hong, Academician of CAS, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Youxu Jiang, Academician of CAS, Chinese Academy of Forestry

Yu Li, Academician of CAE, Jilin Agricultural University

Xingtu Liu, Academician of CAE, Norhteast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jianzhang Ma, Academician of CAE, Northeast Forestry University

Yijian Yao, Professor, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yongzhong Ye, Professor, College of Life Science, Henan Agriculture University

Yaping Zhang, Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xinquan Zhao, Director General, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ruiliang Zhu, Professor, College of Life Science, East China Normal University

Youyong Zhu, Honorary President, Yunnan Agricultural University

Secretary General


Vice Secretary General (In alphabetical order)


Zhiping Lou, Professor, Bureau of Frontier Sciences and Education, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Haining Qin, Professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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The 5th Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chair

Jiayang Li, Vice Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, President, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Vice Chair

Zhibin Zhang, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences



Jin Chen, Director General, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Weiming Fan, Deputy Director General, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Song Ge, Deputy Director General, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xingguo Han, Director General, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zhanqing Hao, Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Hongwen Huang, Director General, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Liangmin Huang, Professor, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences


Zhigang Jiang, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Li Kong, Professor, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dezhu Li, President, Kunming Branch, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zhibiao Nan, Academician of CAE, Lanzhou University

Jiangchun Wei, Academician of CAS, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Weilun Yin, Academician of CAE, Beijing Forestry University

Wenying Yin, Academician of CAS, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, CAS

Xinshi Zhang, Academician of CAS, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Du Zheng, Academician of CAS, Institute of Geography and Natural Resources Research, CAS

Guangmei Zheng, Academician of CAS, Beijing Normal University

Wenying Zhuang, Academician of CAS, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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