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Taoyuan Station of Agricultural Ecosystem Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Taoyuan Station of Agro-ecosystem Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (TYSAR) is a national key station for field scientific observation and research approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). It is one of the basic stations of the Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN) organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a member of the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) under FAO. The station is also a provincial base for the academic activities of teenagers. TYSAR is administratively subordinate to the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture (ISA), CAS (the former Changsha Institute of Agricultural Modernization, CSIAM).
Founded in June of 1978, TYSAR is located in Taoyuan County, a typical hilly agriculture region in North-western Hunan province, at longitude 110?72E, by 28?52N. It is about 190 km away from Changsha, the capital city of Hunan province. This region may well represent the double cropping rice based agricultural economic zone and the complex agro-ecosystem in the red-soil and hilly land area in Subtropical Central China. TYSAR is only an ordinary field station with regular agricultural experiments of CSIAM at its beginning. With the changes of the national demand, and the transferring of the researches stresses of the Institute from general agricultural problems to the field of agriculture resources and ecological environment, which are closely related to the sustainable development of a regional society, economics and ecology, TYSAR has now become a national base for research and education in subtropical agro-ecology.
The main tasks of TYSAR are as follows: `Conducting basic and applied researches, and integrating eco-agriculture technologies and demonstrating the models of ecological agriculture according to the eco-environmental issues in the development of highly intensive and complex agriculture in Subtropical China.
It stresses on the structural and functional optimization of agro-ecosystem, the protection and highly efficient and sustainable utilization of agricultural resources, and the remediation and restoration of degraded farming ecosystem in subtropical red-soil and hilly land regions. a Long-term located observation of the main ecological processes and essential eco-factors in typical agricultural ecosystems in the hilly area of Subtropical China under the guideline of CERN. b Serving as an experimental base for agro-ecological scientists, both in China and abroad, and exchanging information and sharing scientific data with national and international scientists.
The research scope of TYSAR reaches at three levels: The experimental farm for the positioning observation and researches, the central research base ?CTaoyuan county, and the demonstration area ?Cthe hilly area around Dongting Lake. Located at a natural catchment, the experimental farm is about 12.2 hm2 with a topographical and landscape feature of typical hilly area in the South of Yangtze river. Most of the basic ecological researches and long-term positioning observation projects of TYSAR are conducted on this farm. The central research base, Taoyuan County plays a key role in the research of regional complex agro-ecosystem management, optimizing agriculture resources, and integrating advanced agriculture technologies and demonstrating of ecological agriculture models. The county is geographically located at longitude 110?02363to 111?62323E, by latitude 28?42303to 29?42133N. It is a typical agriculture based hilly county with 13.4% of alluvial plain, 49.3% of hilly slope land, and 36.0% of low mountain area for its agricultural landforms. The red-soil and hilly area around Dongting Lake is the main region for ISA to develop its major academic activities. It is also the area of TYSAY in the demonstration of scientific and technological achievements. It covers an area of 9761 km2, including 17 hilly counties within 6 cities, i.e. Changsha, Xiangtan, Zhuzhou, Yiyang, Changde, and Yueyang City. During the previous 15 years, ISA and TYSAR have carried out a series of scientific researches and demonstration of applicable techniques in this area to address the issues of an overall character in developing sustainable agriculture and exploiting and protecting natural resources and ecological environment in the hilly region of Subtropical Central China.
Numbers of achievements and academic accumulations have gotten and some of the achievements have been awarded by the national and provincial governments or CAS.
Staff list of Taoyuan Station of Agro-ecosystem Research
Name Degree Position Working field
Kai-rong Wang PhD Director, professor plant Nutrition and Environmental Sciences
Bo-han Liao PhD Visiting Professor Agricultural Environmental Engineering
Ting-bai Peng Agronomist Agriculture Resource Management Ze-jian Lin Deputy Director Administration
Xiao-li Xie BS Assoc.Professor Water Management in Agro-ecosystem
Wei-jun Zhou PhD Assoc. Professor Nutrient Management in Agro-ecosystem
Dao-you Huang BS Assoc. Professor Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Management
Feng Li MS Research Assistant Intensive Farming System and Environment
Xin Liu MS Research Assistant Pedological Eco-factor Monitoring
Ya-fei Pan Senior Technician In Charge of Laboratory
Wei-dong Wang Senior Technician Laboratory
Jiu-rong Wang BS Senior Technician Laboratory
Gui-fang Zhu BS Research Aide Biological Eco-factor Monitoring
Hui-ping Chen Research Aide Agriculture Resource Management
Zhi-guo Li Field Aide Long-term Fertilizer Experiment Management
Xin-gan Fu Field Aide Field Microclimate Monitoring
Ling-xian Xiao Field Aide Water Monitoring in Agro-ecosystem
Wen-jing Liu Manager In Charge of Rear Service
Yan-guo Chen BS Manager Assistant Rear Service
Kai-feng Wang Graduated Student Bioremediation of Soil Pollution
Jia Sun Graduated Student Agriculture Resource Management
Wan-yu Wen Graduated Student Agriculture Environmental Protection
Na Peng Graduated Student Water Management of Farming System
An-lei Chen Graduated Student Plant Nutrition and Environment
Xiang Zeng Graduated Student Agriculture Water Resource Use and Management
Jun Zou Graduated Student Water Cycling in Agro-ecosystem
Hua-ping Duan Graduated Student Water Transfer in Soil-Crop-Atmosphere System
Yun-sheng Xia Graduated Student Soil Chemistry of Contaminated Elements
Current Research Projects in Taoyuan Station of Agro-ecosystem Research
1. Mechanisms of the Competitive Nutrient Uptake in Agroforestry Ecosystem.
2. Water Recycling Use in Complex Farming System in Subtropical Hilly Region.
3. Effects of Reclamation and Fertilization of Oil-tea Camellia Plantation on the Yield and Quality of Tea Oil and the Environment of the Slope Land of Plantation.
4. Effects of Organic Nutrient Recycling Use on Soil Quality and Grain Yield under Different Levels of Chemical Fertilizer Application in Double Cropping Rice Field.
5. Evaluation on the Environmental Effects of Intensive Farming System with Different Models of Fertilization.
6. Long-term Experimental Assessment of the Effects of Fertilizer NPK Application in Double Cropping Rice Field.
7. Locating Experimental Study on the Utilization of Water Resource in Rice Production under Different Intensity/Models of Irrigation.
8. Ecological and Economic Foundations of the Adjustment and Optimization of Agricultural Structure in a County-scale.
9. Bioremediation and Ecological Regulation for Metal Polluted Farming Lands.
10. Comparative Study on the Differences of Rodent Behavior and Community in the Mono-culture and Complex Agroforestry Ecosystem.
11. Monitoring of the Cycling of Water, Heat and Carbon in Rice Based Ecosystem.
12. Monitoring Some Important Eco-processes and Essential Eco-factors in Subtropical Agro-ecosystem under CERN Guideline.
Academic prizes awarded by CAS and national/provincial government in recent 10 years
Academic prizes awarded by CAS and national/provincial government in recent 10 years
Name of Achievement Category Grade Awarded by Year Mechanisms of the formation NSP 2 CAS 1991
of primary and secondary greyed
paddy soils and their characteristics
Exploitation and application of STPP 3 CAS 1991
micronutrient fertilizer a way for
enhancing productivity in middle-and-low
yielding fields
Models and technologies for development STPP 2 Hunan 1992
of the ecological agriculture in hilly
slope land region of Taoyuan
Effects of arable soil pollution on STPP 3 CAS 1992
the growth of crops and the quality
of crop products
Eco-technologies of breeding STPP 3 CAS 1995
for tolerant rice cultivars of
greyed-paddy-soil
Dynamics of water and soil resources STPP 3 Hunan 1997
and exploitation of hilly-slope
land in Northern Hunan
Models of agro-ecological regulation STPP 2 CAS 1998
and safe-and-efficient use of Cd
polluted faring land
The production and transformation of NSP 1 CAS 1999
methane gas in rice ecosystem and
its mechanisms
Sustainable agriculture development STPP 3 Hunan 2000
in the red-soil and hilly area of
Northern Hunan
Development and demonstration of STPP 2 CAS 2001
high efficient and sustainable
agriculture in Xiangtan city
Effect of heavy metal pollution STPP 1 Hunan 2001
on the growth of field crops
Process of green house gas effluence STPP 2 MOST 2002
from farming field and the techniques
for monitoring
Techniques for the comprehensive STPP 2 MOST 2002
treatment and sustainable agriculture
development in red and yellow soil
regions of Southern China NSP-Natural Science Price. STPP-Science and Technology Progress Prize. CAS-the Chinese Academy of Sciences. MOST-the Ministry of Science and Technology. .