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Stations--Forest Stations--Chang Baishan Research Station of Changbai Mountain Forest Ecology, CAS Changbai Mountain is one of the most valuable reserves for its various natural ecosystems and rich gene pool, especially for the altitudinal vegetation zonation in the mountain. This makes the mountain a non-substitutive ecological research site. For a long term forest ecological research, the Institute of Forestry and Soil Sciences (presently, the Institute of Applied Ecology) was entrusted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to establish the station in 1979, and the station joined the MAB program in the same year. Since then, a group of scientists from more than 10 institutions led by famous ecologists, Professor Zhan Wang and Hanxi Yang, has been involved in the research programs. It was promoted as an