Special Profile: Challenges and prospects for applied ecology in China.
Abstract
This special section includes six papers entitled: (1) Price of prosperity: economic development and biological conservation in China; (2) Grazers on the plains: challenges and prospects for large herbivores in Central Asia; (3) Applying ecology for cave management in China and neighbouring countries; (4) Galliformes - barometers of the state of applied ecology and wildlife conservation in China; (5) Conflicts between biodiversity conservation and development in a biosphere reserve; and (6) Impact of China's Grain for Green Project on the landscape of vulnerable arid and semi-arid agricultural regions: a case study in northern Shaanxi Province.