Giant Panda Conservation and Bamboo Forest Destruction

摘要: Abstract The mountains around Sichuan contain richer biological diversity than any other temperate region. But in recent centuries, human exploitation has accelerated up from subtropical lowlands, removing most forest. Disturbance is generally excessive for larger mammals of subtropical-warm zones, and now there are threats to those cool temperate-subalpine zones. zone wettest, favoring extensive bamboo within the Bamboo virtually only food giant pandas, this species' range been reduced by roughly half past century. Though much remains, patches warm bamboos may be needed as well seasonal use long-term dynamics. In decade at least, decline pandas precipitated periods flowering mortality. Monocarpic life-cycles a natural feature bamboos, somewhat synchronous with dry climatic periods. Deforestation alternative available emergency after such events. To resolve many problems concerned nature conservation these — taxonomic, demographic, ecosystematic socioeconomic more interdisciplinary international cooperation will needed. There hope that centralization planning China can extend better land-use provinces, communication western conservationists overcome.