China National Nature Reserve (Upper, Middle, Lower)

Author: Wang Kai, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Supported by the Forest Protection Department of the National Forestry Administration and various nature reserves, this book is jointly compiled by forestry and nature conservation experts from the Association of Chinese Senior Professors. It is a specialized work that provides the most detailed elaboration and introduction to 131 types of national-level nature reserves in China and UNESCO's "Man and the Biosphere" reserves to date. The book is rich in information, comprehensive in scope, and highly professional, with fluent and accessible text, vivid and exquisite, rare images. It is certain to win the favor and appreciation of a broad readership, making it a valuable scientific and scholarly work on China's national-level nature reserves that deserves recommendation both domestically and internationally.
The book covers various types of nature reserves, including forest ecosystems, grassland and meadow ecosystems, desert ecosystems, inland wetland ecosystems, coastal ecosystems, wildlife, wild plants, geological and paleontological heritage sites, and more. It introduces each nature reserve by detailing the protected objects, natural environment, biodiversity, tourism resources, socio-economic conditions, functional zoning, management, and evaluation and prospects. For nature reserves focused on rare wildlife and plant species, in addition to the basic introductions, the book also elaborates on the biological characteristics, ecological traits, survival conditions, food, growth and development patterns, and behavioral ecology of these species, as well as their conservation value and approaches.
For geological and paleontological heritage sites, the book emphasizes the description of their geological and geomorphological features and origins, geological profiles and stratigraphic descriptions, research findings on paleontology (including micro-paleontology) in each stratum, and mineral resource characteristics. Another feature of the book is that it provides extremely detailed information for each aspect of key and well-known nature reserves. For example, Guizhou Maolan Nature Reserve is described in depth, as it is a globally significant forest reserve on karst (limestone) terrain. As a location in China's subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest belt, it exhibits a non-ecological evergreen and deciduous mixed forest type. Thus, the description of its unique community characteristics (floristic composition, species diversity, communities, structure, etc.) reaches the level of a specialized flora community monograph. The compilers have thoroughly introduced all topics that readers may find interesting, living up to their expectations.