An International Team Surveys Biodiversity in Northwestern Yunnan

摘要

A 25-member team recently concluded an autumn fieldtrip to the Dulong River Valley in the northwest corner of southwest China's Yunnan Province. The 32-day-long survey is part of a much larger five-year biotic survey of the Gaoligong Mountain range supported by the US National' Science Foundation and the CAS Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB). Led by Prof. Li Heng of KIB, the international consortium included entomologists and botanists from the CAS Institute of Zoology in Beijing, Hunan Normal University, the US Californian Academy of Sciences, the UK Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh and the University of Marburg in Germany.