The College of Ecology at Lanzhou University traces its origin to the Department of Botany and Department of Zoology established in 1946 and the State Key Laboratory of Arid Agroecology founded in 1995. In 1999, the Department of Biology, the Institute of Cell Biology, the Institute of Plant Physiology, and the State Key Laboratory of Arid Agroecology merged to form the School of Life Sciences....