The 2016 US-China Biodiversity Workshop Held in Hangzhou, China

发布日期：2016-11-7 16:24:58

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the United States National Natural Science Foundation (NSF) funded a 2016 Sino-US Biodiversity Symposium. The workshop was help on October 19-25 at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. The symposium was jointly organized by Zhejiang University, North Carolina State University, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang Botanical Society, and Zhejiang Ecology Society. The theme of the workshop was "New theories and methods of biodiversity research". The symposium was co-chaired by Prof. Ma Keping, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Brian Wiegmann and Prof. Jenny Xiang from North Carolina State University, USA, and Professors Cheng Lei and Fu Chengxin from Zhejiang University. More than 70 biodiversity scientists and graduate students/postdocs from more than 30 institutions attended the workshop. Participants focused on new theories and methods of biodiversity research, community phylogeny, dynamic forest monitoring, phylogeny of major taxa, Eastern Asian-North American discontinuity distribution, and other topics. The talks reported the latest research results, put forward the future directions of study.

NSFC-NSF's research directions, collaborative project proposals, forms of cooperation between China and USA, and data sharing in the next five to 10 years in the field of biological diversity research were also discussed. It was recognized that the scientific questions should aim to promote integrative, multidisciplinary, and multidimensional studies.