Southwest China
The role of natural and human disturbance and understory bamboos in subalpine forest dynamics in giant panda habitat in Sichuan, People's Republic of China
The goal of this study is to examine the consequence of different forest canopy disturbances (treefall gaps, selective cutting, clearcutting) and understory bamboos on the dynamics and diversity of high elevation forests used by pandas in China. Field sites for this research are in Natural Reserves in the Qionglai (Wolong) and Min Mountains (Tangjiahe, Wang Lang) on the eastern escarpment of the Tibetan Plateau. Alan Taylor has worked closely on this project with Chinese collaborators and the World Wide Fund For Nature whose objectives are to preserve wild panda populations in China.
View PDF reprints of publications below:
Regeneration patterns and tree species coexistence in old-growth Abies-Picea forests in southwestern China (pdf)
Canopy tree development and undergrowth bamboo dynamics in old-growth Abies-Betula forests in southwestern China: a 12-year study (pdf)
Regeneration patterns in old-growth Abies-Betula forests in the Wolong Natural Reserve, Sichuan, China (pdf)
Culm dynamics and dry matter production of bamboos in the Wolong and Tangjiahe Giant Panda reserves, Sichuan, China (pdf)
Regeneration from seed of Sinarundinaria fraxoniana, a bamboo, in the Wolong giant Panda resreve, Sichuan, China. (pdf)
Tree replacement patterns in subalpine Abies-Betula forests in Wolong Natural Reserve, China
Structure and composition of uncut and selectively cut Abies-Tsuga forest in Wolong Natural Reserve and implications for panda conservation in China
Environmental influences on Bashania fangiana bamboo growth and implications for giant panda conservation (pdf)
Spatial patterns and environmental associates of live bamboo (Bashania fangiana) after a mass flowering in southwestern China (pdf)
Bamboo regeneration after flowering in the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve, China
Structure and dynamics of bamboos in the Wolong Natural Reserve, China (pdf)
Tree regeneration in an Abies faxoniana forest after bamboo dieback Wang Lang Natural Reserve, China
Structure and dynamics of subalpine forests in the Wang Lang Natural Reserve, China
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