On August 28-29, the Sixth National Symposium on Biodiversity Monitoring took place at Northeast Forestry University. Li Mingze, Vice President of NEFU and member of its Party Committee Standing Committee, and Qin Haining, Deputy Secretary-General of the Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), attended the opening ceremony and gave speeches. The ceremony was led by Professor Zhou Xuhui, Dean of the School of Ecology.

Jointly sponsored by the Biodiversity Committee of CAS and the China Biodiversity Observation Network (Sino BON), and organized by NEFU’s School of Ecology and the Northeast Asia Biodiversity Research Center, the symposium drew nearly 200 registered participants from 132 research institutes, universities, and social organizations.

At the conference, nine distinguished experts were invited to give keynote presentations. Among them, CAS Academician Fu Bojie introduced global and national dryland monitoring systems and threshold models, revealing the feedback mechanisms and threshold responses between environmental changes and dryland ecosystems, thus providing scientific guidance for ecological restoration. CAS Academician Yu Guirui proposed constructing a “four-in-one” national ecological observation and research system that integrates networked observation, networked experiments, numerical simulations, and knowledge synthesis to support ecological governance and sustainable development. Additionally, seven experts, including noted researcher Gao Jixi from the Satellite Application Center for Ecology and Environment, shared advances in biodiversity monitoring based on smart monitoring networks, acoustic-optical integration, eDNA technology, LiDAR remote sensing, and satellite tracking. Their reports highlighted dynamic changes, maintenance, and response mechanisms of ecosystems such as forests and grasslands, as well as key species including amphibians, reptiles, birds, tigers, leopards, and Yangtze finless porpoises. Collectively, they showcased China’s significant progress and innovative models in biodiversity monitoring, mechanistic research, and conservation governance, driven by multi-technology integration from the ecosystem to the species level.

The symposium featured eight thematic sessions that focused on monitoring vertebrates, soil fauna, and ecosystems such as forests and grassland-desert. It also covered informatization and conservation policy evaluation, highlighting the latest achievements and practical applications in these areas.