"The publication of "Qinghai Wild Plants (2022 Edition)" is a systematic summary of the research results of wild plants in Qinghai Province in recent years. It is an important reference book for the study of plants in Qinghai. Diversity cataloging and protection, science popularization, etc. have very important reference significance." On the 22nd, Chen Shilong, director and researcher of the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said.
On the same day, the Qinghai Forestry and Grassland Bureau and the Northwest Plateau Biology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences officially released the "Qinghai Plant Catalog (2022 Edition)".
The inventory of biological species is the basic data for understanding biodiversity. Biodiversity is an important national strategic resource and an irreplaceable material basis for sustainable socio-economic development. Conservation of biodiversity helps maintain the home of the earth and promotes the sustainable development of human beings.
Qinghai Province is located in the hinterland of western my country and the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. source". Qinghai Province is an important part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and its geological and landform formation and evolution history is in line with the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. At the same time, Qinghai Province is also the intersection and transition zone of the alpine flora of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the temperate (grassland) flora of the Loess Plateau, and the desert flora of eastern Asia in my country.
According to Chen Shilong, the vegetation in Qinghai Province is divided into two types: temperate vegetation and alpine vegetation. Temperate vegetation mainly includes temperate evergreen coniferous forest, deciduous broad-leaved forest, temperate shrub, temperate grassland and temperate desert. Alpine vegetation mainly includes alpine shrubs, alpine meadows, alpine grasslands, alpine deserts, alpine cushion vegetation and alpine flowstone slope sparse vegetation.
The reporter learned that the "Qinghai Plant Catalog (2022 Edition)" systematically organizes and describes wild plants in Qinghai Province based on years of field survey data, pictures and related literature. The book contains a total of 2,867 species (including subspecies and varieties) of 109 families and 600 genera of wild plants distributed in Qinghai Province, including 12 families, 20 genera and 55 species of ferns; 3 families, 6 genera and 36 species of gymnosperms; 94 families and 574 genera of angiosperms. 2776 species. Compared with the "Qinghai Plant Catalog" published in 1997, the 2022 edition has a total of more than 1,500 revisions or revisions, including 18 new families, 79 genera and 449 species, 14 families, 43 genera and 404 species, and 20 families, 73 genera and 414 species. Or escape species 255 species.
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