The Baotianman National Nature Reserve () is located in
Nanyang, Henan, in central
China.
[ It is embedded in the much larger (909.5 km²) Baotianman UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve.]
Description
The Baotianman National Nature Reserve is the most well-preserved natural broad-leaved forest area in east China.[ (Nb. Wang and He are family names using Chinese word order)]
Baotianman Forest Dynamics Plot
The reserve includes the 25-ha Baotianman Forest Dynamics Plot established in 2009 as part of the Center for Tropical Forest Science The Center for Tropical Forest Science, or CTFS, was a consortium of forest researchers who pursued long-term research on tree populations using comparable census method. The work developed out of a study of 50 hectares of forest on Barro Colorado I ...
consortium.camera trap
A camera trap is a camera that is automatically triggered by a change in some activity in its vicinity, like presence of an animal or a human being. It is typically equipped with a motion sensor – usually a passive infrared (PIR) senso ...
s. The most frequently recorded mammals were wild boar
The wild boar (''Sus scrofa''), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is ...
s, Père David's rock squirrels, Swinhoe's striped squirrels, rats of genus '' Niviventer'', Malayan porcupine
The Malayan porcupine or Himalayan porcupine (''Hystrix brachyura'') is a species of rodent in the family Hystricidae. Three subspecies are extant in South and Southeast Asia.
Geographical distribution
The Malayan porcupine ranges from Nepal th ...
s, hog badger
Hog badgers are three species of mustelid in the genus ''Arctonyx''. They represent one of the two genera in the subfamily Melinae, alongside the true badgers (genus '' Meles'').
Taxonomy
''Arctonyx'' was formerly considered a monotypic genus ...
s, and Reeves's muntjacs. Common birds recorded were koklass pheasant
The koklass pheasant (''Pucrasia macrolopha'') is a species of gamebird, being closely related to progenitive grouse that lived during the Miocene. They are distantly related to pheasants and are most closely related to grouse and turkeys. Ko ...
s, Eurasian jays, and Eurasian nuthatch
The Eurasian nuthatch or wood nuthatch (''Sitta europaea'') is a small passerine bird found throughout the Palearctic and in Europe. Like other nuthatches, it is a short-tailed bird with a long bill, blue-gray upperparts and a black eye-strip ...
es.
See also
* Baotianmansaurus
References
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External links
Photos at Flickr
Nature reserves in China
Biosphere reserves of China