Prof. Wenhua Xiang is dean of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the Central South Forestry University of Science and Technology. He obtained a Master’s degree in forest ecology from the Central South Forestry University in 1991 and completed a PhD in Ecology at the Central South Forestry University in 2003. He was a visiting scholar at the School of Resources, Environment and Society at the Australian National University in 2002 and conducted soil nitrogen isotope research at the Institute of Ecosystems and Chemical Ecology at the University of Vienna, Austria, in 2010. His research topics mainly include forest biomass, fine root production, soil N cycle, and forest community structure.