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Status of Major Ecosystems and Management

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The major ecosystems considered by the Task Force are forests, grasslands, and wetlands. These three biomes cover about 63.8 % of China’s landmass. By one estimate, the value of their ecosystem services is between 74.4 and 81.5 % of the total value of terrestrial ecosystem services in China (He et al. 2005; Zhu et al. 2007).

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  1. Research Center for Eco-Environment Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Yihe Lü & Bojie Fu

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

    Xiubo Yu

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing

    Yiyu Chen

  2. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Germany

    Beate Jessel

  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

    Bojie Fu

  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

    Xiubo Yu

  5. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Jamie Pittock

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Lü, Y., Fu, B., Yu, X. (2014). Status of Major Ecosystems and Management. In: Chen, Y., Jessel, B., Fu, B., Yu, X., Pittock, J. (eds) Ecosystem Services and Management Strategy in China. Springer Earth System Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38733-3_3

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