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Biodiversity Inventory and Researches

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Chinese authorities have organized many national or regional large-scale investigations, such as national key species resources, terrestrial wildlife resources, wetland resources, agricultural, and livestock genetic resources investigation. Currently, China has set up relevant database for biodiversity, published nearly 400 volumes of species cataloged annals, and established the monitoring system of forest resources, wetland resources monitoring centres, wildlife resources monitoring centres, and the Chinese ecosystem research network with dozens of ecological research stations. At the same time, China has gradually formed a set of perfect identification and evaluation technology on crop germplasm resources, formulated the unified germplasm resource description specification and data standard for more than 100 variety of crops, and established a set of scientific and standardized cryopreservation and monitoring technology system for genebanks, germplasm, and tube seedlings which is accord with the situation of China itself. Furthermore, the intimate connection between cultural diversity and biodiversity in China has been recognized and appreciated.

Keywords

  • Biodiversity
  • Inventory
  • Crop germplasm resources
  • Monitor
  • Conservation
  • Genetic resources
  • Cultural diversity

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  1. Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Nanjing, 210042, China

    Dayuan Xue & Jianyong Wu

  2. Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing, 100088, China

    Xu Liu

  3. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Ecological Engineering, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Baorong Lu

  4. Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, China

    Shengji Pei

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Xue, D., Wu, J., Liu, X., Lu, B., Pei, S. (2015). Biodiversity Inventory and Researches. In: Li, W. (eds) Contemporary Ecology Research in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48376-3_1

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