A recent commentary in Biological Diversity highlights the Hefei Botanical Garden's innovative and comprehensive efforts in plant germplasm conservation, sustainable resource utilization, and public education, establishing it as a vital benchmark for regional biodiversity protection and urban ecological development in East China.

Second-language sentence processing raises fundamental questions about whether learners rely on native-like structural mechanisms or alternative strategies. In a new study, researchers compared native English speakers and native Japanese speakers learning English as a second language using eye-tracking during comprehension of ambiguous filler-gap sentences. Results revealed that learners with higher structural computation ability showed native-like, structure-based prediction, whereas lower-accuracy learners relied more on lexical cues, supporting a gradient view of predictive processing.