Brief Introduction
The Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NWIPB, CAS) strives for excellence in research, education, and outreach related to Alpine Meadow Ecosystem/alpine mammals/alpine agriculture/plateau biological resources studies/healthy products in the Tibetan Plateau. Most recently, we’ve been doing great international cooperation on natural pastures degradation, population regulations of small mammals, physiological response of plants to climate warming and migrant bird behaviors/virology in high-latitude and similar environments. NWIPB, CAS is affiliated with three research centers of Plateau Ecology, Biological Resources and Plateau Eco-agriculture.
Details
Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NWIPB, CAS), a comprehensive and multidisciplinary institute founded in 1962, is engaged in fundamental and applied research on plateau biology, plateau ecology, plateau ecological agriculture, chemistry and innovative development on natural biological products. NWIPB is seeking international cooperation in following research areas: 1) alpine plant evolution and adaptation, 2) ecosystem process/function under global climate change, 3) germplasm creation and breeding of high-yield alpine crops and forage grasses, 4) sustainable utilization and product development of plateau biological resources and 5) development and introduction of sustainable alpine ecosystem models and technologies.
NWIPB has 171 employees including 136 research staff, among them 1 CAS academician, 29 professors, 43 associate professors, and 53 doctors. By the June of 2010, 111 Ph.D.s and 268 Masters have graduated from NWIPB, 21 postdoctoral researchers and over 200 visiting researchers worked and have been working at NWIPB. The world-famous Haibei Research Station of Alpine Meadow Ecosystem, CAS is the highlight of NWIPB and a hot field research site as well where majority of important international researches fulfilled and long-term field experiments performed on plateau ecology and global change. Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota (AEPB), Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, lays a foundation for molecular biology research and plays an important role in international and domestic academic cooperation and exchange on plateau biology research. The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Museum of Biology, CAS, is the only museum of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau biology in the world. Acta Theriologica Sinica http://english.mammal.cn is a journal of Mammalogy founded in 1981 with international interests and an internationalized editing board.
Since 1962, NWIPB has accomplished 264 important research achievements and 116 awarded at national, CAS and provincial levels, e.g. A Worldwide Monograph of Gentiana won a second prize of the China National Award for Natural Sciences in 2004. NWIPB currently has 34 patents authorized, 3051 research papers and 105 books published, and 33 new crop varieties and 31 natural biological products discovered and developed.
NWIPB is being always interested in cooperating with scientists around the world. Since 1980s, NWIPB has established long-term friendly cooperative relationship with USA, UK, Japan, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Australia,, etc and we are making great efforts to build further relationship with you. You are very much welcome to contact us and join us in the fields that we are both interested in on plateau biology, plateau ecology, plateau ecological agriculture and natural biological product development.