Biodiversity of marine estuarine wetlands

Author: Huang Zongguo
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book comprehensively discusses China's coastal river estuaries, bays, wetlands, migratory birds and their migration, biodiversity, and 84 marine nature reserves. Taking the estuarine wetland of Quanzhou Bay in Fujian as an example, it elaborates on the characteristics of intertidal zone and tidal channel animal communities and halophytic plants, the migration season of migratory birds and the breeding process of resident birds, the spatiotemporal distribution patterns of species, the sustainable utilization of biodiversity and invasive alien species, biodiversity conservation and nature reserve construction. It records over 1,000 species, including 363 species with morphological illustrations. More than 40 editions feature over 200 natural ecological landscape and species color photographs.