mountain of southwest China biodiversity hotspot

Biodiversity hotspot in mountain of southwest china

location of the biodiversity hotspot

To identify a biodiversity hotspot

Climate graph for different biomes in habitats in hotspot

The Mountains of Southwest China Hotspot stretches over 262,400 km2 of temperate to alpine mountains between the easternmost edge of the Tibetan Plateau and the Central Chinese Plain. It lies to the north of the Indo-Burma Hotspot, and to the immediate east of the Himalaya Hotspot, and is bounded in the northwest by the dry Tibetan Plateau, in the north by the Tao River of southern Gansu, and in the east by the Sichuan Basin and the plateau of eastern Yunnan.

biomes for habitats

Yuxi Hewakeshima

The complex topography results in a wide range of climatic conditions. Temperatures range from frost-free throughout the year in parts of Yunnan and short, frost-free periods at the northern boundary of the region, to permanent glaciers on the high mountain peaks of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Xizang. Annual average rainfall in the region exceeds 1,000 millimeters on southwestern slopes at higher altitudes in Yunnan, while areas of the northwestern part of the region, in the rainshadow of the Tibetan Plateau, rarely receive more than 400 millimeters annually. And i think all the biomes in the entire hotspot will include tundra,temperate seasonal forest and temperate grassland.

According to CI, to qualify as a hotspot a region must meet two strict criteria: it must contain at least 1,500 species of vascular plants (> 0.5 percent of the world’s total) as endemics, and it has to have lost at least 70 percent of its original habitat. The mountain of southwest china will qualify that, it has 12,000 species of vascular plants. It has already losses more than 70 percent of it's original habitat cause by logging,population growth cause high consumtion.

black snub-nosed monkey

giant panda

common name:black snub-nosed monkey

common name:giant panda

Circaeaster

scientific name:Rhinopithecus bieti

scientific name:

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

range:This species has a highly restricted distribution in the biodiversity hotspot of the Yunling Mountains which border the Himalaya range. The actual distribution range is limited to the Yun Ridge portion of the Hengduan Mountains.Mostly high altitude area

Ranges:This species survives in fragmented populations confined to over 40 reserves stretching from western Sichuan to southern Gansu and southern Shaanxi.

common name:Circaeaster

scientific name:

Circaeaster agrestis

reason to threatened:is endangered as a result of habitat loss cause by logging,also hunting because chinese people like blakc snub-nosed monkey's skin. There it's currently 1,700 black snub-nosed monkey left in the world, EN level in IUCN

reason to threatened: giant panda is endangered as a result of habitat loss cause by grazing, hunting, and the wildlife trade.Chinese people love panda skin.A 2007 report shows 239 pandas living in captivity inside China and another 27 outside the country.EN level in IUCN.

effort to protect: It's a conseravtion reliannt endangered species, protected by IUCN and CITES, also protected by the endangered species act publish by the chinese government,no alllowing any illegal trading,hunting on black snub-nosed monkeys. Also no allowing destroying its habitas

Effort to protect:The giant panda is a conservation reliant endangered species. Which is in the IUCN Red List, protected by the IUCN,also protected by the endangered species act publish by chinese government. Which ban all the illegal trading,hunting on Panda, local government also give people education about endangered species. Also ban the logging,grazing around its habitats.

range:Circaeaster agrestis is a flowering plant species and one of only one to two species in its family, the Circaeasteraceae. The plant is a small, glabrous herb found in temperate zones from the northwest Himalaya to northwest China.

reason to threatened: Scale-dependent effects of habitat fragmentation on reproduction in the annual Circaeaster agristis cause by human cause habitat loss.

efforts to protect this species: We currently don't have effort to preserve this speices,but we tried to protect the habitas in this entire hotspot,such as laws that bandding all the logging whithin the entire hotspot,including the land conversion program published by chinese government

Liangbei toothed toad

common name:

Liangbei toothed toad

demographic transition of china

Words cited

scientific name:Oreolalax liangbeiensis

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"Oreolalax liangbeiensis." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2016.

range: it is only known from the vicinity of its type locality, Puxiong in the Yuexi County, Sichuan. Its natural habitats are subtropical moist montane forests and rivers.

reason to threatened:habitat loss cause by human water pollution,usage, IUCN level CR.

effort to protect it: It's an conservation reliant dangered species,protected by the IUCN, the chinese government also tried to reduce local water pollution, publishing level of pollutants you can emit.

we can see the demographic transition stage of china is 4 currently,and it's going to be in stage 5 in 2050