Distribution and conservation of threatened plants in China

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.10.019

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	Distribution and conservation of threatened plants in China
	Zhang, Zejin ; He, Jin-Sheng ; Li, Junsheng ; Tang, Zhiyao
刊名	BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
	2015
关键词	Conservation Nature reserves Pattern Red list Species richness Threatened species LAND-USE CHANGE PROTECTED AREA NETWORK BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION TEMPERATE FORESTS SPECIES RICHNESS NATURE-RESERVES PRIORITY AREAS CLIMATE-CHANGE DIVERSITY PATTERNS
DOI	10.1016/j.biocon.2015.10.019
英文摘要	China is very rich in biodiversity, however, it is also characterized by a long history of civilization. As a result, China has a large number of threatened species. Recently the Chinese government evaluated the living status of plants, and published the China Biodiversity Red List: Higher Plants. However, little is known about how threatened plants are distributed and conserved in China. In this study, we developed a fine resolution distribution database for 3244 threatened plants, explored richness patterns and evaluated the in situ conservation status of the threatened plants by overlapping the species distribution with terrestrial national and provincial nature reserves (NNRs and PNRs) in China. We found the greatest richness of threatened plants in the southwestern region of mainland China (mainly Yunnan, southeastern Xizang and western Sichuan), northwestern Guangxi, northern Guangdong, Hainan Island and the mountainous region of Taiwan, while the lowest richness was found in Qinghai, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Chongqing Provinces. On average, NNRs covered 18.8%, and NNRs and PNRs together covered 27.5%, of threatened plant distribution areas. However, 827 threatened plants (including 627 species endemic to China) were not covered by NNRs and 397 threatened plants (including 293 endemic to China) were not covered by either NNRs or PNRs. We proposed that nature reserves specifically designed for threatened plants need to be established in South China, especially in the Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Xinjiang Hainan, and Zhejiang Provinces. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.; Special Research Funding for the Public Benefits of the Ministry of Environmental Protection [201209028]; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [31021001, 31170499]; SCI(E); ARTICLE; zytang@urban.pku.edu.cn; 454-460; 192
语种	中文
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/439163]
专题	城市与环境学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Zejin,He, Jin-Sheng,Li, Junsheng,et al. Distribution and conservation of threatened plants in China[J]. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION,2015.
APA	Zhang, Zejin,He, Jin-Sheng,Li, Junsheng,&Tang, Zhiyao.(2015).Distribution and conservation of threatened plants in China.BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION.
MLA	Zhang, Zejin,et al."Distribution and conservation of threatened plants in China".BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION (2015).