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The Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests is an endangered ecoregion in southwestern China.These forests once covered the western parts of the Yungui Plateau but have been significantly reduced and replaced with agricultural land uses.
The Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests are a critically endangered WWF ecoregion. [1] The ecoregion occupies the Sichuan Basin in China and covers an area of 9,816,054 ha (24,256,000 acres). [ 2 ]
The South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0149) covers the mountainous coastal region of southeastern China and northeastern Vietnam. The ecoregional also covers the coastal plain along the South China Sea and Hainan Island. The area has significant biodiversity and ecological importance, with high levels of ...
The Changjiang Plain evergreen forests ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0415) covers the plain of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) from where it leaves the mountains at the Three Gorges in the west, to the mouth of the Yangtze at the East China Sea. This plain is one of the most densely populated areas on Earth, and most of the original oak and conifer ...
The Jiang Nan subtropical evergreen forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0118) covers the mountainous divide between the lower Yangtze River and the coastal plain of South China.The region is also a climatic divide between the temperate valleys of the north and the subtropical forests of the south.
The predominant plant community is subtropical broadleaf evergreen forest. These forests include a mix of subtropical plants common to the Himalayas and southern China, along with tropical lowland forest species. Mature forests form a three-layered canopy up to 30 metres (98 ft) high.
The following is a list of terrestrial ecoregions of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.. The transition between two of the planet's eight terrestrial biogeographic realms – the Palearctic, which includes temperate and boreal Eurasia, and Indomalaya, which includes tropical South and Southeast Asia – extends through ...
The Daba Mountains evergreen forests are a Global 200 endangered ecoregion located on the Daba Mountains in China. [1] The forests are part of temperate broadleaf and mixed forests containing both coniferous and broadleaf trees covering a swath of Central China. Forests here provide a transitional area between evergreen forests to the south and ...