Red list of China's forest ecosystems: A conservation assessment and protected area gap analysis

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108636

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	Red list of China's forest ecosystems: A conservation assessment and protected area gap analysis
	Chen, Guoke; Wang, Xuan; Ma, Keping
刊名	BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
	2020
卷号	248
关键词	Asia Biodiversity loss Nature reserves Risk assessment Spatial conservation Threatened ecosystems
ISSN号	0006-3207
DOI	10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108636
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Current biodiversity loss is far greater than at any time in human history. As complementary tool to prioritize biodiversity for conservation, the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) is well justified as a conservation tool. Although China's biodiversity is among the world's richest, a significant part of this diversity is under threat. Based on the distribution of 229 forest formations, we assessed the risk status according to the IUCN RLE criteria, and evaluated the conservation status of threatened forests by comparing ecosystem distribution with terrestrial national and provincial nature reserves (NNRs and PNRs, respectively). We found that 90 threatened forest formations accounted for 16% of the area, but for 39.3% of the number of assessed formations. Threatened forest formations were mainly located in western Sichuan, Yunnan, southeastern Xizang, southwestern Guangxi, Hainan Island, northeastern China, and the mountains of Taiwan. Tropical rain forests and evergreen broadleaved forests together accounted for the highest number of threatened formations. Northern Xinjiang (with the Tianshan and Altai Mountains) proved to be a unique area that has rarely been identified as hotspot of plant conservation. On average, NNRs covered 13.2%, and NNRs and PNRs together covered 22.7%, of the threatened forest distribution areas. However, 15 threatened forest formations were not covered by NNRs or PNRs. We suggest that the red list of ecosystems will contribute towards providing a more informative picture of the status of biodiversity. Our work highlights the need to use the red list of ecosystems as additional tool in plant conservation.
学科主题	Biodiversity Conservation ; Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
电子版国际标准刊号	1873-2917
出版地	OXFORD
WOS关键词	BROAD-LEAVED FOREST ; THREAT STATUS ; BIODIVERSITY ; PATTERNS ; DIVERSITY ; DYNAMICS ; SERVICES ; INVASION ; CRITERIA ; CLIMATE
WOS研究方向	Biodiversity & Conservation ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000556843900014
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [41471044]
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/21640]
专题	植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Guoke,Wang, Xuan,Ma, Keping. Red list of China's forest ecosystems: A conservation assessment and protected area gap analysis[J]. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION,2020,248.
APA	Chen, Guoke,Wang, Xuan,&Ma, Keping.(2020).Red list of China's forest ecosystems: A conservation assessment and protected area gap analysis.BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION,248.
MLA	Chen, Guoke,et al."Red list of China's forest ecosystems: A conservation assessment and protected area gap analysis".BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 248(2020).