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Biodiversity:
"More than half of Chinese species are distributed in Yunnan
Province. This makes Yunnan province as one of the areas with the
most complex, most colorful and most valuable biodiversity in China.
Due to its complex natural terrain, geography and different climates,
Yunnan is endowed with eco-system diversity, and always recognized
as the "Kingdom of Plant and Animal"... more to read on CBIK.org
Kunming
Institute of Botany (KIB)
"The Website of Scientific Database on Plant Resources and
Biodiversity in Southwest of China"
"The Hengduan Mountains, located east of the Himalayan Range,
form a dramatic series of north-south trending valleys and ridges
extending from 1,000 to over 7,000 meters in elevation. It is one
of the world"s 25 "biodiversity hotspots" and one of only four in
the North Temperate Zone. The area is particularly rich in vascular
plants, with about 12,000 (ca. 40%) of China"s roughly 30,000 species
in the region, of those more than 3,000 are possibly endemic. "
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