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Plant diversity, forest ecosystems and influence forecasts of disturbance in Yunnan, SW China Min CAO Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Page 1: Plant diversity, forest ecosystems and influence forecasts of ......Taxonomic categories No. of species in Yunnan No. of species in China Proportion (Y/C) Mosses and liverworts 1,500

Plant diversity, forest ecosystems and influence forecasts of disturbance in

Yunnan, SW China

Min CAO

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Points

Floristic BackgroundMajor EcosystemsDisturbanceEcosystem Assessment

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Natural environment

Location: 21o08’32”-29o15’08”N97o31’39”-106o11’47”E

Bordered with Vietnam, Laos & MyanmarElevation: 76 m - 6740 m (6664 m difference)Size: 394,000 km2 ( 4.1% of China )About 600 rivers belong to 6 major river systems (Yangtze R., Pear R., Red. R., Mekong R., Salwin R., Irrawaddy R.) Population: 44.15 Million (2004)

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Natural environmentClimate: Monsoon

City LatitudeAltitude

(m)

28º27’ 3485

1890

552

25º01’

22º00’

TypeAverage

temperature(℃)

Average precipitation

(mm)

Deqing Subalpine 4.7 664

Kunming Subtropics 14.7 1094

Jinghong Tropics 21.7 1211

Rainy: May – Oct.; Dry: Nov. – Apr.

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Floristic BackgroundFloristic Background

Magnolia Magnolia officinalisofficinalis

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Number of plant species

Taxonomic categories

No. of species in Yunnan

No. of species in

China

Proportion (Y/C)

Mosses and liverworts 1,500 2,600 58%

Ferns 1,500 2,500 60%

Seed plants 17,000 30,000 57%

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Areas (x 1000 km2)

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Yunnan Xizang(Tibet)

Sichuan Guangxi Taiwan

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Seed plants: Genus

2136

1145

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Yunnan Xizang(Tibet)

Sichuan Guangxi Taiwan

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Seed plants: Species14000

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8541

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Yunnan Xizang(Tibet)

Sichuan Guangxi Taiwan

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Endemic genera

China Yunnan

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Com

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l eve

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e nu s Distribution Patterns No. of genera

in YunnanProportion

(%)No. of genera

in China1. Cosmopolitan 92 -- 1072. Pantropic 313 16.54 3733. Trop. Amer. & Asia disjuncted 70 3.70 964. Old World Tropics 124 6.55 1625. Trop. Asia to Trop. Australia 99 5.23 1526. Trop. Asia to Trop. Africa 126 6.66 1607. Trop. Asia (Indo-Malaysia) 439 23.21 5708. North Temperate 226 11.95 2979. E. Asia & N. Amer. disjuncted 76 4.02 12010. Old World Temperate 91 4.80 16311. Temperate Asia 18 0.95 5812. Mediterranean, W. Asia to C. Asia 24 1.27 16913. C. Asia 5 0.26 11314. E. Asia 198 10.47 29415. Endemic to China 83 4.39 224

Total 1984 100 3058

61.89%

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Demarcation line

HolarcticHolarctic

PaleotropicPaleotropic

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Subalpin

Major Forest Ecosystems

Subtropical

Tropical

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Shorea wangtianshuea

Tropical seasonal rain forestSouth Yunnan

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Evergreen broad-leaved forest – subtropical mountains

Middle Yunnan

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Northwest Yunnan

Abies georgeiSubalpine coniferous forest

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Jinghong

Menghai

Mengla

XTBGMyanmar

Total land area: 19,124 km2

0.2% of China

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人口与森林覆盖率

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Population (persons) Forest cover (%)

Population andforest of

Xishuangbanna

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Rubber plantation

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Mountain agriculture

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Imperata cylindrica Chromolaena odorata

Secondary Communities

Macaranga denticulata Thysanolaena maxima

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Soil seed bank

RestorationSeed rain

Seedling bank

Resprouting

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Third group in mature forest: Nonconstituent?

Nonconstituent

WeedExotic

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Asynchronism in forest growth

Above ground

Climax Pioneer

Nonconstituent

Under ground

Pioneer

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Shift: Underground → Aboveground

Climax Pioneer

Pioneer

Disturbance

Nonconstituent

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Major findings

•Extraordinarily larger soil seed banks

•More nonconstituent components

•Increasing proportion of woody species in SSB with forest succession

•Decreasing similarity of SSB to above-ground vegetation

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Implications

1. Disturbance assessment (Quantifingdisturbance)

2. Forest fragmentation (Surveying edge effect)

3. Vegetation restoration (Examining potentials of forest restoration)

4. Detecting biological invasion

Monitoring Ecosystem Processes Underground !

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Forest ecosystem

assessment?

Linking the temperate with

the tropics

A FEA Network in continental SE Asia?

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Thank you

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Forest growth cycle in time

BuildingPioneer Climax

Gap Mature