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Contemporary Ecology Research in China pp 29–45Cite as

Biodiversity Conservation and Its Research Process

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In this chapter, we mainly introduce the wildlife vertebrates and birds conservation and research. China has great habitat and biological diversity; however, many of wildlife are in peril due to habitat loss and over exploitation in the past few decades. Ever since, China had strengthened the protection of wild animals, especially the establishment of nature reserves. Here we take the protection of giant panda, Milu and Przewalski’s wild horse as case studies. For birds, China has extremely rich bird resources, highly endemism, but faces high threaten for endangered species. In addition, the development of molecular biology, bioacoustics, a variety of analytical software, various analytical models, etc, have played an important role in promoting the scientific researches and conservation of birds in China.

Keywords

  • Biodiversity
  • Vertebrates
  • Giant panda
  • Przewalski’s wild horse
  • Birds
  • Endangered bird species
  • Wild bird diseases
  • Conservation

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  1. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Zhigang Jiang

  2. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Fumin Lei & Chunlan Zhang

  3. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Moucheng Liu

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Jiang, Z., Lei, F., Zhang, C., Liu, M. (2015). Biodiversity Conservation and Its Research Process. In: Li, W. (eds) Contemporary Ecology Research in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48376-3_2

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