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49
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11394
World Ranking
3987
National Ranking
89

Overview

Min Cao is affiliated with the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in China. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions to nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, molecular biology, computer vision and pattern recognition, and global and planetary change.

The main topics of Min Cao's research encompass ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, forest ecology and management, species distribution and climate change, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, advanced image and video retrieval techniques, and multimodal machine learning applications.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Min Cao include Jie Yang, Luxiang Lin, Xiaoyang Song, Nathan G. Swenson, and Xiangcheng Mi.

Min Cao has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plant Diversity
  • Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Min Cao include:

  • "ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network," 2020, Biological Conservation
  • "Ethiopian vegetation types, climate and topography," 2020, Plant Diversity
  • "Image-text Retrieval: A Survey on Recent Research and Development," 2022, Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Alternative designs and tropical tree seedling growth performance landscapes," 2020, Ecology
  • "Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide," 2021, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Demand for rubber is causing the loss of high diversity rain forest in SW China

    Hongmei Li;Æ T. Mitchell Aide;Youxin Ma;Wenjun Liu

  • Impact of land use and land cover changes on ecosystem services in Menglun, Xishuangbanna, Southwest China.

    Huabin Hu;Wenjun Liu;Min Cao

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • Tropical forests of Xishuangbanna, China

    Min Cao;Xiaoming Zou;Xiaoming Zou;Matthew Warren;Hua Zhu

  • Forests and Their Canopies: Achievements and Horizons in Canopy Science.

    Akihiro Nakamura;Roger L. Kitching;Min Cao;Thomas J. Creedy;Thomas J. Creedy

  • Why Functional Traits Do Not Predict Tree Demographic Rates.

    Jie Yang;Min Cao;Nathan G. Swenson

  • TMK1-mediated auxin signalling regulates differential growth of the apical hook

    Min Cao;Min Cao;Rong Chen;Pan Li;Pan Li;Yongqiang Yu;Yongqiang Yu

  • Tropical forest vegetation of Xishuangbanna, SW China and its secondary changes, with special reference to some problems in local nature conservation

    Jianhou Zhang;Min Cao

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Geological History, Flora, and Vegetation of Xishuangbanna, Southern Yunnan, China

    Hua Zhu;Min Cao;Huabin Hu

  • The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots

    Miquel De Cáceres;Pierre Legendre;Renato Valencia;Min Cao

  • Tree species diversity of tropical forest vegetation in Xishuangbanna, SW China

    Min Cao;Jianhou Zhang

  • Ethiopian vegetation types, climate and topography.

    Mengesha Asefa;Mengesha Asefa;Min Cao;Yunyun He;Ewuketu Mekonnen

  • Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size classes, spatial scales and habitats

    Jie Yang;Jie Yang;Guocheng Zhang;Guocheng Zhang;Xiuqin Ci;Xiuqin Ci;Nathan G. Swenson

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

  • Commonness, rarity, and intraspecific variation in traits and performance in tropical tree seedlings

    María Natalia Umaña;Caicai Zhang;Caicai Zhang;Min Cao;Luxiang Lin

  • Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

    Chengjin Chu;James A. Lutz;Kamil Král;Tomáš Vrška

  • Multispecies coexistence of trees in tropical forests: spatial signals of topographic niche differentiation increase with environmental heterogeneity

    Calum Brown;D. F. R. P. Burslem;J. B. Illian;L. Bao

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan G. Swenson
Nathan G. Swenson University of Notre Dame
Keping Ma
Keping Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhanqing Hao
Zhanqing Hao Northwestern Polytechnical University
Wanhui Ye
Wanhui Ye Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Roger L. Kitching
Roger L. Kitching Griffith University
I-Fang Sun
I-Fang Sun National Dong Hwa University
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Fangliang He
Fangliang He University of Alberta

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