caa a22 4500 469032030 CHVBK 20180323132746.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02664547 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02664547 Zhu Hua Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Kunming Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Mengla, 666303, Yunnan, PRC aut The tropical rainforest vegetation in Xishuangbanna [Elektronische Daten] [Hua Zhu] The tropical rainforest in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province of China, is introduced in detail in this paper. Situated at the northern margin of tropical mainland SE Asia and controlled by monsoon climate, the region has been climatically at the lower limits for tropical rainforests, however true tropical rainforests exist and develop luxuriantly in the region. The reasons for this are discussed. In general phytocoenological characteristics such as vertical stratification, life form spectrum, species riches etc. the tropical rainforest in Xishuangbanna is very similar to the typical tropical rainforest in equatorial region, but it is characterized by a clear change of physiognomy between different season. As occurred at the latitudinal and altitudinal limits of tropical rainforest, the flora of the rainforest is endowed with the nature of northern margin of tropical zone of SE Asia and is transitional toward the flora of subtropical forest of China. In recent years the region has been opened up to use in a large scale and the primary forests, especially rainforests, have been severely destroyed. The conservation and research to the tropical rainforest are very urgent and have to be done at once. Science Press, 1992 Tropical rainforest nationallicence Xishuangbanna nationallicence Chinese Geographical Science Science Press 2/1(1992-03-01), 64-73 1002-0063 2:1<64 1992 2 11769 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02664547 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02664547 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zhu Hua Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Kunming Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Mengla, 666303, Yunnan, PRC aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Chinese Geographical Science Science Press 2/1(1992-03-01), 64-73 1002-0063 2:1<64 1992 2 11769 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer