Diversity of tropical forest landscape types in Hainan Island, China |
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Authors: | Wang Bosun Peng Shaolin Guo Luo and Ye Youhua |
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Institution: | 1. Earth Institute, O''Brien Centre for Science, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland;2. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA;3. Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA;4. Department of Biology, Haverford College, Haverford, USA |
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Abstract: | A novel landscape classification system was proposed in this study based on landscape ecological theory and the differentiation in climate, topography, soil, vegetation and land use mode. Five basic units (zone, tract, province, region and type) and two assistant units (sub and group) were used in this system. The tropical forest landscape in Hainan Island was regarded as a landscape province, belonging to global tropical forest landscape zone, Asiatic (oriental) tropical forest landscape tract and Chinese tropical forest landscape subtract. Based on the grade system of region, sub-region, type-group and type, this landscape province (Hainan Island) is divided into 6 landscape regions (east moist forest landscape, west semi-arid forest landscape, central-south mountainous forest landscape, tropical evergreen needle-leaved forest landscape, tropical bamboo landscape and tropical plantation landscape), 11 tropical forest landscape sub-regions represented by tropical lowland valley rain forest landscape, 26 tropical forest landscape-type groups represented by tropical lowland valley Dipterocarpaceae forest landscape, and 54 forest landscape types (FLT) represented by lowland valley Vatica mangachapoi forest. Generally, this classification system represents the landscape diversity of the tropical forest in Hainan Island. Further studies are needed to better understand the landscape diversity of Hainan Island. |
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Keywords: | Hainan Island tropical forest landscape diversity landscape-type diversity classification system |
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