Welcome to the Open Ecosystem Research Team Website.

Our research team is part of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, a research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In the Open Ecosystem Research Team, our core research focuses on species community composition and functional diversity across environmental gradients. We also research how communities and populations are evolving subject to land-use change and climate change, in order to understand their implications for the conservation of plant communities and species. We do this with the help of community diversity analyses,  remote sensing (GIS), molecular techniques and experimental methods.

Most of our research is centered on tropical Asia, one of the fastest developing and changing tropical regions in the world. Its once continuous tropical landscapes are now fragmented and mostly degraded.  These changes have put enormous pressures on the region’s natural ecosystems.  Our team studies these changes and trys to find ways to maintain or restore the functions of tropical Asia’s natural ecosystems.

We also contribute to basic research through the study of functional trait diversity across environmental gradients at the global scale and evolution through time. These analyses contribute to general understanding of trait selection under resource limitation and natural disturbances.

该研究团队隶属于中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园。

开阔生态系统团队的研究聚焦于物种群落组成以及沿环境梯度分布的功 能多样性，同时探索在土地利用变化和气候变化作用下，群落和种群的 演变过程对植物群落和物种保护的意义。通过群落多样性分析、遥感（GIS）、分子技术和 实验方法开展上述工作。

该团队的研究大多以热带亚洲——发展和变化最快的热带地区——为中心 。曾经连片的热带景观如今已支离破碎，且大多退化。这些变化对该地 区的自然生态系统造成了巨大压力。该团队致力于研究这些变化 ，并探 索维持或恢复热带亚洲自然生态系统功能的途径。

此外，该团队还研究全球尺度上沿环境梯度的功能性状多样性及其时间 演化，为基础研究作出贡献。这些分析有助于从整体上理解资源限制和 自然干扰条件下的性状选择机制。