Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network (CForBio)
www.cfbiodiv.cn
The Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network (CForBio) was established in 2004. It is a research base for the dynamics of biodiversity of forest ecosystems in China and is an important part of the global forest biodiversity monitoring network (CTFS/Forest GEO). It covers major forest vegetation types in different climatic zones in China, including boreal forest, coniferous and broadleaved mixed forest, deciduous broadleaved forest, deciduous and evergreen broadleaved forest, evergreen broadleaved forest and tropical rainforest.
By the end of 2019, 20 permanent forest dynamics plots and more than 50 associated plots with the size 1 ha or larger have been set up for CForBio. The total plot area is 578.6 ha. 2,448,900 individuals belonging to 1827 species (DBH≥1 cm) are recorded. The 20 permanent plots are:
|
No. |
Plot |
Forest Type |
Hectare |
North latitude |
East longitude |
Establishment |
Principle Investigator |
Responsible unit |
Species number |
Family number |
Genera number |
|
1 |
Daxing’an Mountain |
Dahurian larch forest |
25 |
51.82° |
122.99° |
2011 |
NI Hongwei |
Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences |
18 |
6 |
12 |
|
2 |
Fenglin |
Broadleaved-Korean pine mixed forest |
30 |
48.08º |
129.12º |
2009 |
JIN Guangze |
Northeast Forestry University |
46 |
21 |
39 |
|
3 |
Liangshui |
Broadleaved-Korean pine mixed forest, Spruce-fir valley forest |
9+9 |
47.18º/ 47.2º |
128.88º/128.85º |
2006/2005 |
JIN Guangze |
Northeast Forestry University |
44/48 |
15/20 |
30/34 |
|
4 |
Muling |
Taxus cuspidataforest |
25 |
43.95° |
130.07° |
2014 |
TIAN Songyan |
Heilongjiang Forest Engineering and Environment Institute |
57 |
22 |
38 |
|
5 |
Changbai Mountain 1 |
Broadleaved Korean pine mixed forest |
25 |
42.38º |
128.08º |
2004 |
HAO Zhanqing |
Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS |
52 |
18 |
32 |
|
6 |
Changbai Mountain 2 |
Poplar-birch forest |
24 |
42.37º |
128.00º |
2016 |
HAO Zhanqing |
Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS |
63 |
21 |
37 |
|
7 |
Dongling Mountain |
Warm temperate deciduous broadleaved forest |
20 |
39.96º |
115.43º |
2010 |
SANG Weiguo, ZHU Li |
Institute of Botany, CAS |
58 |
18 |
33 |
|
8 |
Foping, Qinling |
Deciduous broadleaved forest |
25 |
33.69° |
107.82° |
2014 |
ZHANG Quanfa, DAGN Haishan |
Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS |
119 |
35 |
66 |
|
9 |
Huangguan, Qinling |
Warm temperate deciduous broadleaved forest |
25 |
33.54º |
108.37º |
2019 |
HAO Zhanqing |
Northwestern Polytechnical University |
124 |
45 |
82 |
|
10 |
Baotianman |
Warm temperate deciduous broadleaved forest |
25 |
33.49º |
111.94º |
2009 |
DU Xiaojun |
Institute of Botany, CAS |
126 |
39 |
77 |
|
10 |
Badagong Mountain |
Subtropical evergreen and deciduous broadleaved mixed forest |
25 |
29.77º |
110.09º |
2011 |
JIANG Mingxi |
Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS |
232 |
53 |
114 |
|
11 |
Tiantong Mountain |
Subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest |
20 |
29.8° |
121.8° |
2009 |
WANG Xihua |
East China Normal University |
152 |
51 |
94 |
|
12 |
Gutian Mountain |
Subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest |
24 |
29.25° |
118.12° |
2005 |
MI Xiangcheng, YU Mingjian |
Institute of Botany, CAS；Zhejiang University |
159 |
49 |
104 |
|
13 |
Yulong Snow Mountain |
Cool-temperate spruce-fir forest |
25 |
27.14° |
100.23° |
2014 |
XU Kun |
Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS |
62 |
26 |
41 |
|
14 |
Mulun |
Karst evergreen and deciduous broadleaved mixed forest |
25 |
25.13° |
108.00° |
2014 |
ZENG Fuping |
Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, CAS |
254 |
64 |
161 |
|
|
Chebaling |
mid-subtropical mountain evergreen broadleaved forest |
20 |
24.72° |
114.20° |
2017 |
CHU Chengjin, SONG Xiangjin |
Sun Yat-sen University; Chebaling National Nature Reserves |
213 |
61 |
128 |
|
15 |
Dinghu Mountain |
Lower subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest |
20 |
23.10° |
112.32° |
2005 |
YE Wanhui |
South China Botanical Garden, CAS |
210 |
56 |
119 |
|
16 |
Nonggang |
Karst seasonal rain forest |
15 |
22.43° |
106.95° |
2011 |
LI Xiankun |
Guangxi Institute of Botany, CAS |
223 |
54 |
153 |
|
|
Nabanhe |
tropical mountain rain forest |
20 |
22.25° |
100.60° |
2017 |
LIU Feng |
Administrative Bureau of Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserves |
296 |
63 |
197 |
|
17 |
Xishuangbanna |
tropical seasonal rain forest |
20 |
21.61° |
101.57° |
2007 |
Min Cao |
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS |
468 |
70 |
213 |
CForBio attaches great importance to long-term monitoring. Besides the census of trees at every 5-years, monitoring on seed rains, seedlings, litter-falls, functional traits, radial growth, herbs, soil, logs and wildlife are also carried out.
Since the establishment in 2004, CForBio has been monitoring and researching species coexistence mechanisms. The researches of monitoring on the population structure and dynamics of plants, animals and microbes, their interactions, and the exploration of their internal mechanism allowed CForBio to become one of the most influential and the fastest-growing regional research platforms. Based on climate data across climate zones in CForBio, scientific articles were published in the mainstream journals, such as Science, Ecology Letters, Ecology and so on. The research results on the mechanism of species coexistence were received positively by international colleagues. There are 74 scientific articles were published in 2019, including 50 papers in SCI-jounals. Models of tree diversity should incorporate the role of both plant pathogens and mutualists, which is published on Science by Dr. CHEN Lei from Gutian Mountain plot.
The research teams of CForBio obtained one National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars project, one Key NSFC project, one NSFC Sino German project, three NSFC general projects, three NSFC Young Investigator projects. One project of the Basic Frontier Science Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Starts from 0 to 1 Original Innovation projects, one International Cooperation project of CAS. Two Postdoctoral Fund Projects. 12 Provincial projects and two projects cooperated with protected areas.
CForBio is now the most influential and fastest developed platform to support China’s ecological research. Its rapid development has also stimulated the agencies from forestry, environmental protection and education to carry out monitoring of forest biodiversity.
Important Activities of CForBio in 2019
www.cfbiodiv.cn
The Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network (CForBio) was established in 2004. It is a research base for the dynamics of biodiversity of forest ecosystems in China and is an important part of the global forest biodiversity monitoring network (CTFS/Forest GEO). It covers major forest vegetation types in different climatic zones in China, including boreal forest, coniferous and broadleaved mixed forest, deciduous broadleaved forest, deciduous and evergreen broadleaved forest, evergreen broadleaved forest and tropical rainforest.
By the end of 2019, 20 permanent forest dynamics plots and more than 50 associated plots with the size 1 ha or larger have been set up for CForBio. The total plot area is 578.6 ha. 2,448,900 individuals belonging to 1827 species (DBH≥1 cm) are recorded. The 20 permanent plots are:
|
No. |
Plot |
Forest Type |
Hectare |
North latitude |
East longitude |
Establishment |
Principle Investigator |
Responsible unit |
Species number |
Family number |
Genera number |
|
1 |
Daxing’an Mountain |
Dahurian larch forest |
25 |
51.82° |
122.99° |
2011 |
NI Hongwei |
Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences |
18 |
6 |
12 |
|
2 |
Fenglin |
Broadleaved-Korean pine mixed forest |
30 |
48.08º |
129.12º |
2009 |
JIN Guangze |
Northeast Forestry University |
46 |
21 |
39 |
|
3 |
Liangshui |
Broadleaved-Korean pine mixed forest, Spruce-fir valley forest |
9+9 |
47.18º/ 47.2º |
128.88º/128.85º |
2006/2005 |
JIN Guangze |
Northeast Forestry University |
44/48 |
15/20 |
30/34 |
|
4 |
Muling |
Taxus cuspidataforest |
25 |
43.95° |
130.07° |
2014 |
TIAN Songyan |
Heilongjiang Forest Engineering and Environment Institute |
57 |
22 |
38 |
|
5 |
Changbai Mountain 1 |
Broadleaved Korean pine mixed forest |
25 |
42.38º |
128.08º |
2004 |
HAO Zhanqing |
Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS |
52 |
18 |
32 |
|
6 |
Changbai Mountain 2 |
Poplar-birch forest |
24 |
42.37º |
128.00º |
2016 |
HAO Zhanqing |
Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS |
63 |
21 |
37 |
|
7 |
Dongling Mountain |
Warm temperate deciduous broadleaved forest |
20 |
39.96º |
115.43º |
2010 |
SANG Weiguo, ZHU Li |
Institute of Botany, CAS |
58 |
18 |
33 |
|
8 |
Foping, Qinling |
Deciduous broadleaved forest |
25 |
33.69° |
107.82° |
2014 |
ZHANG Quanfa, DAGN Haishan |
Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS |
119 |
35 |
66 |
|
9 |
Huangguan, Qinling |
Warm temperate deciduous broadleaved forest |
25 |
33.54º |
108.37º |
2019 |
HAO Zhanqing |
Northwestern Polytechnical University |
124 |
45 |
82 |
|
10 |
Baotianman |
Warm temperate deciduous broadleaved forest |
25 |
33.49º |
111.94º |
2009 |
DU Xiaojun |
Institute of Botany, CAS |
126 |
39 |
77 |
|
10 |
Badagong Mountain |
Subtropical evergreen and deciduous broadleaved mixed forest |
25 |
29.77º |
110.09º |
2011 |
JIANG Mingxi |
Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS |
232 |
53 |
114 |
|
11 |
Tiantong Mountain |
Subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest |
20 |
29.8° |
121.8° |
2009 |
WANG Xihua |
East China Normal University |
152 |
51 |
94 |
|
12 |
Gutian Mountain |
Subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest |
24 |
29.25° |
118.12° |
2005 |
MI Xiangcheng, YU Mingjian |
Institute of Botany, CAS；Zhejiang University |
159 |
49 |
104 |
|
13 |
Yulong Snow Mountain |
Cool-temperate spruce-fir forest |
25 |
27.14° |
100.23° |
2014 |
XU Kun |
Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS |
62 |
26 |
41 |
|
14 |
Mulun |
Karst evergreen and deciduous broadleaved mixed forest |
25 |
25.13° |
108.00° |
2014 |
ZENG Fuping |
Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, CAS |
254 |
64 |
161 |
|
|
Chebaling |
mid-subtropical mountain evergreen broadleaved forest |
20 |
24.72° |
114.20° |
2017 |
CHU Chengjin, SONG Xiangjin |
Sun Yat-sen University; Chebaling National Nature Reserves |
213 |
61 |
128 |
|
15 |
Dinghu Mountain |
Lower subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest |
20 |
23.10° |
112.32° |
2005 |
YE Wanhui |
South China Botanical Garden, CAS |
210 |
56 |
119 |
|
16 |
Nonggang |
Karst seasonal rain forest |
15 |
22.43° |
106.95° |
2011 |
LI Xiankun |
Guangxi Institute of Botany, CAS |
223 |
54 |
153 |
|
|
Nabanhe |
tropical mountain rain forest |
20 |
22.25° |
100.60° |
2017 |
LIU Feng |
Administrative Bureau of Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserves |
296 |
63 |
197 |
|
17 |
Xishuangbanna |
tropical seasonal rain forest |
20 |
21.61° |
101.57° |
2007 |
Min Cao |
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS |
468 |
70 |
213 |
CForBio attaches great importance to long-term monitoring. Besides the census of trees at every 5-years, monitoring on seed rains, seedlings, litter-falls, functional traits, radial growth, herbs, soil, logs and wildlife are also carried out.
Since the establishment in 2004, CForBio has been monitoring and researching species coexistence mechanisms. The researches of monitoring on the population structure and dynamics of plants, animals and microbes, their interactions, and the exploration of their internal mechanism allowed CForBio to become one of the most influential and the fastest-growing regional research platforms. Based on climate data across climate zones in CForBio, scientific articles were published in the mainstream journals, such as Science, Ecology Letters, Ecology and so on. The research results on the mechanism of species coexistence were received positively by international colleagues. There are 74 scientific articles were published in 2019, including 50 papers in SCI-jounals. Models of tree diversity should incorporate the role of both plant pathogens and mutualists, which is published on Science by Dr. CHEN Lei from Gutian Mountain plot.
The research teams of CForBio obtained one National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars project, one Key NSFC project, one NSFC Sino German project, three NSFC general projects, three NSFC Young Investigator projects. One project of the Basic Frontier Science Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Starts from 0 to 1 Original Innovation projects, one International Cooperation project of CAS. Two Postdoctoral Fund Projects. 12 Provincial projects and two projects cooperated with protected areas.
CForBio is now the most influential and fastest developed platform to support China’s ecological research. Its rapid development has also stimulated the agencies from forestry, environmental protection and education to carry out monitoring of forest biodiversity.
Important Activities of CForBio in 2019
|
Date |
Important Activities |
|
Jun. 25-27 |
Workshop on forest hyperspectral reomote sensing data analysis |
|
Dec. 2-6 |
Workshop on soil microbe, genomics and transcriptome |
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