Climate-change impacts on understorey bamboo species and giant pandas in China’s Qinling Mountains

Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Andrés Viña, Julie A. Winkler, Yu Li, Weihua Xu, Zhiyun Ouyang and Jianguo Liu ()
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Mao-Ning Tuanmu: Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University
Andrés Viña: Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University
Julie A. Winkler: Michigan State University
Yu Li: Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University
Weihua Xu: State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhiyun Ouyang: State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianguo Liu: Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University

Nature Climate Change, 2013, vol. 3, issue 3, 249-253

Abstract: Understorey plants perform an important role in forest ecosystems but their sensitivity to climate change remains largely unexplored. Now research points to a substantial climate-mediated reduction in the distributional ranges of three dominant bamboo species in the Qinling Mountains over the twenty-first century; plants that comprise almost the entire diet of the panda population in the region.

Date: 2013
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