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CAO Min
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Education: |
Ph.D
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Positions: |
Deputy Director，Research Professor, Doctoral Supervisor，Chairman of XTBG Academic Committee
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Academic title: |
Professor
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Postal Code: |
650223
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Subject categories: |
Ecology
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Mailing Address: |
88 Xuefu Road, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China
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E-mail: |
caom@xtbg.ac.cn
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Resume: |
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Name: Cao Min
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: September 29, 1960 (Yunnan, P. R. China)
EDUCATION:
B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., Yunnan University, Kunming, P.R. China
1992-1993: Institute for Biology at the University of Freiburg, Germany Visiting scholar (12 months)
Specialty: Geobotany
1995-1996: Geobotanical Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland Visiting scholar (6 months)
Specialty: Vegetation Ecology
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Direction: |
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Forest Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Vegetation Ecology |
Achievements: |
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In 1997, Dr. Cao Min won the Fang Shuquan Young Scientist Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ．In 2004, the research project of “Study on Dynamics of Tropical Forest in Southwestern China” was awarded the second-grade “Prize of Natural Sciences” by Yunnan province. (first contributor) ．In 2007, awarded “Government Special Subsidy” by the State Council |
Article: |
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1. Cao, Min, Tang, Yong, Sheng, Caiyu and Zhang, Jianhou. 2000. Viable seeds buried in the tropical forest soils of Xishuangbanna, SW China. Seed Science Research 10: 255-264.
2.Cao, Min, Zou, Xiaoming*, Warren, Matthew and Zhu, Hua. 2006. Tropical forests of Xishuangbanna, China. Biotropica, 38(3): 306-309.
3. Zhu, Hua*, Cao, Min, Hu, Huabin. 2006. Geological history, flora and vegetation of Xishuangbanna, Southern Yunnan. Biotropica, 38(3): 310-317.
4. Zheng, Zheng*, Feng, Zhili, Cao, Min, Li, Zhongfei and Zhang, Jianhou. 2006. Forest structure and biomass of a tropical seasonal rain forest in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China. Biotropica, 38(3): 318-327.
5. Tang, Yong, Cao, Min* and Fu, Xianhui. 2006.Soil seed bank in a dipterocarp rain forest in Xishuangbanna, SW China. Biotropica, 38(3): 328-333.
6. Zheng, Zheng*, Shanmughavel, P., Sha, Liqing, Cao, Min and Warren, Mathew. 2006. Litter decomposition and nutrient release in a tropical seasonal rain forest of Xishuangbanna, Southwest China. Biotropica, 38(3): 342-347.
7. Min CAO, Kevin WOODS, Huabin HU, Liming LI, 2003. Biodiversity Management and Sustainable Development: Lancang-Mekong River in the New Millennium. Beijing: China Forestry Publishing House.
8.Luxiang Lin, Min Cao, Yongtao He, Jerry M. Baskin, and Carol C. Baskin Nonconstituent species in soil seed banks as indicators of anthropogenic disturbance in forest fragments. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 36(9): 2300–2316 (2006). doi:10.1139/X06-137
9.Luxiang Lin, Min Cao* Edge effects on soil seed banks and understory vegetation in subtropical and tropical forests in Yunnan, SW China. Forest Ecology and Management, 257(4):1344-1352 (2009). doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2008.12.004
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Community service: |
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Memeber of the Steering Committee of Global Canopy Programme |
Commitment to research the situation: |
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Prof. Dr. Cao Min focused his major research activities on forest ecology. So far, he has published more than 80 research papers both home and abroad, 15 of which are listed as SCI papers. He has presided or participated in over 20 research projects.
．Directed and managed the construction of the 20-ha Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest Biodiversity Monitoring Plot, which is the biggest whole-forest observation plot in China.
．Determined the diversity measurements of forest types in Xishuangbanna for the first time.
．Conducted studies on the dynamic ecology in tropical rainforest, and applied relevant research achievements to the restoration of degraded vegetations.
．Directed and established an observation plot of 1 ha for Xishuangbanna tropical wet seasonal rainforest.
．Presided to accomplish the systematic research on tropical forest gap, soil seed bank, and seed rain ecology in China.
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