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NEWSLETTER OF SINO-ECO ASSOCIATION OVERSEAS VOLUME 18, NO. 3, 2005

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NEWSLETTER OF SINO-ECOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION OVERSEAS

December 22, 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS Page

A Message from the Sino-Eco Committee SINO-ECO 2

2006 SINO-ECO Presidential Election 2006 SINO-ECO 3

Brief News 3

Meeting Announcements 6

Members on Move 6

Recent Publications 7

Reports from Sino-Eco members ( ) 8

Ecological Essays 9

Ecological Literature 10

Ecological Photography ( ) 12

Green Humors 13

Sino-Eco Memberships 13

General Editor: Binhe Gu

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Current Sino-Eco Association Overseas Committee:

President and Committee Chair: Dr. Changhui Peng, University of Quebec at Montreal e-mail: [email protected] Vice President: Dr. Hong Jiang, Conservation Biology Institute in Corvallis, USA e-mail: [email protected] Treasurer: Dr. Yufu Cheng, California State University e-mail: [email protected] Public Affairs Coordinators: Dr. Xiaohua (Adam) Wei, University of British Columbia-Okanagan e-mail: [email protected] Webpage Design and Maintenance: Dr. Dong Hua, University of Quebec at Montreal e-mail: [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Dr. Binhe Gu, South Florida Water Management District

e-mail: [email protected]


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A MESSAGE FROM THE SINO-ECO COMMITTEE SINO-ECO

Dear SINO-ECO members and friends: Once again, it’s Christmas – that delightful time of year when hearts are filled with gratitude and homes are bright with cheer, when everyone’s remembering good friends and loved ones too - so naturally, the warmest thoughts and wishes go to you. In the past year, with your inputs, helps, and contributions, the SINO-ECO has successfully made several progresses and achievements as we planned, including: 1) organizing the SINO-ECO Get-Together party at ESA/INTECOL joint meeting at Montreal; 2) Co-organizing the Guangzhou International Carbon Symposium; 3) Sponsoring and organizing the book translation of “ ECOVISION”; 4) New collaboration between Institute of Botany and Botanical Society of China, and 5) attracting and increasing new members and enhancing the website and newsletter. With your continuous support and contribution, the SINO-ECO will try to accomplish more in the new year. On behalf of 2004-2006 Committee, we would like to thank all of you for your enthusiasm, strong support and kind cooperation with SINO-ECO in the past year and hope you continue to support and make contribution to the SINO-ECO in the new year!. On behalf of 2004-2006 Committee, we would like to extend our best wishes to you and your family: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! May your home be filled with happiness, your hearts with love, your days with joy – at Christmas, New Year, and always. May 2006 a fruitful and healthy year again for you and your lovely family. Changhui, Hong, Binhe, Yufu, Xiaohua, and Dong.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ! Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année !


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2006 SINO-ECO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2006 SINO-ECO

It is the good time again for us to consider about the SINO-ECO president election. According to the SINO-ECO election bylaw, any members who paid membership dues are eligible to run or to vote. Our membership starts on August 1 of each year. The members who paid the dues between August 1, 2005 and December 31, 2005 are qualified to be voted for and to vote. To ensure the election runs smoothly, I would like to make the following announcements: 2006 Election Committee: A three-members election committee was formed consisting of Drs. Changhui Peng ([email protected]), Xiaohua Wei ([email protected]) and Yufu Cheng ([email protected]) 2006 Election schedules: Jan. 1 – Jan. 20: Members nominate candidates Jan. 23: Election committee announces the candidates Feb. 6: Candidates announce their campaign statements Feb.10- Feb. 25: Members e-mail votes to the Election Committee Feb. 28: Election committee checks the validation of the votes March 1: Election committee announces the election result March 1 – April: The President-elect organizes the 2006-2008 committee May 1: The sunset of the 2004-2006 committee and the 2006-2008 committee takes

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BRIEF NEWS ( )

• SINO-ECO New collaboration between SINO-ECO and

Institute of Botany (CAS) and Botanical Society of China

Starting from 2006, the SINO-ECO, together with ESA-Asian Ecology Section, will collaborate with the Institute of Botany (Chinese Academy of Science) and the Botanical Society of China for improving the quality of the journal of Acta Phytoecologica Sinica, which is one of leading peer-review journals of plant ecology in China ( 2005 Chinese Academic Journal Comprehensive Citation Annual Reports (CAJCED): Impact Factor: 2.733, ranking 1/78 in biological sciences catalog).We encourage and welcome more research and review papers being submitted from our SINO-ECO members.

On behalf of the 2004-2006 SINO-ECO Committee, we would like to also congratulate and thank the following SINO-ECO members who have been selected as new Editorial Board members for serving the journal:

Chen, Jiquan; Cheng, Weixin; Gu, Binhe; Guo, Qinfeng; Jiang, Hong; Luo, Yiqi; Miao, Shili; Peng, Changhui; Wei, Xiaohua; Wu, Jianguo


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For more information, please visit the journal website (http://www.plant-ecology.com/).

• Montreal 2005: The 11th United Nations Climate Change Conference The 11th Annual United Nations Climate Change Conference was held from November 28 to December 9, 2005 in Montreal. Montreal 2005 will open a new chapter in the international dialogue on climate change and the Protocol itself. Delegates from 189 countries and the European Union will gather to consider the way forward for Kyoto, and deeper engagement in multilateral action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The conference also discussed the future strategy and action plan for developing country (like China, India) for the post-Kyoto commitments. The conference has attracted more than 10,000 people to the city of Montreal, including delegates, official observers from government, industry, business, the scientific community, and other groups interested in action on climate change, and up to 1,000 journalists from around the world. Changhui Peng, a member of SINO-ECO, has been invited as official observer from the scientific community to attend this first Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol since it came into effect in February 2005. Former President Clinton, a Kyoto supporter, appeared at the Montreal meeting on its final day and urged nations to unite to confront the climate change threat. • Special issue of Global Change Biology for 2005 Guangzhou Carbon Symposium A proposal of a special issue of Global Change Biology for publishing the papers presented at the 2005 Guangzhou symposium on ecosystem carbon balance and the carbon cycle (convened on July 1-3, 2005 in Guangzhou, China) has been recently approved by Steve Long (Chief Editor of the journal), in which recent research progress and advances in the theory of the carbon cycle and its application were reviewed. The meeting also aimed to promote effective international communication, collaboration, and cooperation in this field. Hong Jiang and Changhui Peng will be involved as the guest editor Committee and a number of SINO-ECO members contributed to this issue.

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A new book that contains (1) all of the translation work from a special issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment and the 21st Century Vision and Action Plan for ESA; (2) a paper from Science (by Palmer et al, 2004) and (3) a paper from Nature (by Jianguo Liu and Jared Diamond, 2005). This project is sponsored by Sino-Eco, Ecological Society of China, Asian Ecology Section of ESA and the Key Lab of System Ecology of CAS. The electronic version of this book is now available on our SINO-ECO website at: http://www.sino-eco.org. You can download the pdf file of book from the website. Over 20 Sino-Eco members, including Yegang Wu, Shili Miao, Ben Gu, Jianguo Wu, Wexin Cheng, Wei Fang, Frank Gao, Weihe Guan, Xi He, Dong Hua, Guanhui Lin, Zhangzhi Huang, Hong Jiang, Junda Lin, Qinqin Liu, Yiqi Luo, Xinyuan Wu, Frank Chang, Weixing Zhu and Changhui Peng, have been working collectively and dedicated their spare and weekend time for the translation. On behalf of the SINO-ECO Committee, I would like to thank all of above participants for their great contribution to, particularly for Yegang, Shili, and Ben for initiating and coordinating, this wonderful project. Excellent job, well done, and congratulations! (provided by Changhui Peng)


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A book based on the lecture series at Fudan University has been recently published. Sino-Eco member, Dr. Jiquan Chen, is the senior editor for this publication. Please contact Jiquan ([email protected]) if you want to purchase a copy of this book.

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2005

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS ( )

Symposium on environmental issues in China

A symposium entitled Environmental Sustainability in Rapidly Developing Countries: Lessons from China” will be held at the annual meeting of AAAS in Beijing on February 19, 2006. Professors Lester Brown, Hal Mooney and Yiqi Luo are coorganizers fro this symposium.

For more information please visit http://php.aaas.org/meetings/MPE_01php#1045 and type in

Luo to find the symposium. provided by Yiqi Luo .

International Conference on Forest and Water in a Changing Environment

International Conference on Forest and Water in a Changing Environment will be held in Beijing,

China from August 8-10, 2006 This conference is sponsored Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF), Beijing Forestry University (BFU) and USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station. For more information, please contact Dr. Ge Sun ([email protected]).

MEMBERS ON MOVE Dr. Qianlai Zhuang moved from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (Rapid City, SD) to Purdue University. Dr. Zhuang’s new contact information is: Dr. Qianlai Zhuang, Assistant Professor, Purdue University, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Agronomy, CIVIL 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2051 Tel. (765) 494-9610; Fax (765) 496-1210 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Yi Wang moved from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) to University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Wang’s new contact information is: Dr. Yi Wang, Center for Climatic Research University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 Tel: (608) 263-0232 Fax: (608) 263-4190 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://ccr.aos.wisc.edu/contacts/yiwang.html


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RECENT PUBLICATIONS ( )

B. Larry Li Makarieva, A. M., V. G. Gorshkov, and B. L. Li. 2005. Energetics of the smallest: do bacteria breathe at the

same rate as whales? Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 272: 2219 2224. (This work has been featured by several public media in three languages as well as a peer-reviewed journal) Makarieva, A. M., V. G. Gorshkov, and B. L. Li. 2005. Gigantism, temperature and metabolic rate in terrestrial poikilotherms. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 272: 2325-2328. (One of the four images in the cover page of this issue was featured for this article) Makarieva, A. M., V. G. Gorshkov, and B. L. Li. 2005. Revising the distributive networks models of West, Brown and Enquist (1997) and Banavar, Maritan and Rinaldo (1999): Metabolic inequity of living tissues provides clues for the observed allometric scaling rules. Journal of Theoretical Biology 237: 291-301. Makarieva, A. M., V. G. Gorshkov, and B. L. Li. 2005. Temperature-associated upper limits to body size in terrestrial poikilotherms. Oikos 111: 425-436. Nazarov, I. and B.L. Li. 2005. Maximal sustainable yield in a multipatch habitat. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems 13 (Suppl.): 682-691. Hong Liu Liu, H. and Stiling, P. 2006. Testing the enemy release hypothesis: a review and meta-analysis. Biological Invasion (In press). Liu, H., and Menges, E. 2005. Dry-season fires promote population vital rates of Chamaecrista keyensis, a narrowly endemic herb of the Lower Florida Keys. Ecology 86: 1483-1495. Liu, H., Menges, E., Snyder, J., Koptur, S., and Ross, M. 2005. Effect of fire intensity on population vital rates of Chamaecrista keyensis. Natural Areas Journal 25: 71-76. Liu, H.,Menges E., and Quintata-Ascencio, P. F. 2005. Population viability analysis of Chamaecrista keyensis – Stochastistic model simulations on the effect of different fire regimes. Ecological Applications 15: 210-221. Wang, Z.S., An, S.Q., Liu, H., Leng, X., Zheng, J.W., and Liu, Y.H. 2005. Genetic structure of the endangered plant Neolitsea sericea (Lauraceae) from the Zhoushan Archipelago Using RAPD Markers. Annals of Botany 95: 305-313. Liu, H., Platt, S. G., and Borg, C.K. 2004. Seed dispersal by the common box turtle (Terrapene carolina) in Subtropical Pine Rockland in the Lower Florida Keys. Oecologia 138 (4): 539-546. Liu, H., Trusty, J., Oviedo, R., and Francisco-Ortega, J. 2004. Molecular phylogenetics of the Carribean Genera Rhodogeron and Sachsia (Asteraceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 165: 209-217. Liu, H., and Koptur, S. 2003. Breeding system and pollination of a narrowly endemic herb of the Lower


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Florida Keys: Impacts of the Urban Wildland Interface. American Journal of Botany 90: 1180-1187. Adam Wei:

Ben Gu Brenner, M., D. Hodell, J. Curtis, W. Kenney, B. Leyden, B. Gu, and J. Newman. 2006. Mechanisms for organic matter and phosphorus burial in sediments of a shallow, subtropical, macrophyte-dominated lake. Journal of Paleolimnology. 35: 129–148

Dierberg, F., J. Juston, T. DeBusk, K. Pietro and B. Gu. 2005. Relationships between Hydraulic efficiency and phosphorus removal in a submerged aquatic vegetation dominated treatment wetland. Ecological Engineering 25:9-23.

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SINO-ECO MEMBERSHIPS Any individual with Chinese origin and at least one year of overseas professional in ecological fields, willing to recognize and follow the bylaws and paying the membership dues, shall be deemed to be eligible as a member. The due for Regular and Student Members in developed countries will be $10 and $5, respectively, for those in developing countries will be $5 and waived, respectively. For new members, dues paid before March 1 will cover the current year and the following year; those paid between Oct. 1 and Feb.28 will be half of the due and will cover the current year. Donation is greatly appreciated. Please fill in the application form which may be downloaded from: http://www.sino-eco.org/current/membership.htm and sent it, with your check payable to SINO-ECO, to the treasurer (2004-2006): Dr. Yufu Cheng, Virtual Center for Spatial Analysis and Remote Sensing (VCSARS), Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032 (US Dollars or equal foreign country’s currency).

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