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- The liverwort Kurzia hainanensis, previously thought endemic to Hainan, is found to be a synonym of T. semperiana.
- Smith AT and Xie Y (eds), 2008. A Guide to the Mammals of China. Princeton University Press, 544 pp.
This long-awaited English publication sprang from the Biodiversity Working Group of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, which recognised the need for an illustrated synthesis of the mammalian fauna of China using up-to-date taxonomy. The work itself, building on an unpublished outline by Wang Song, was done by a team of international and Chinese scientists and especially the two editors. It covers 556 species, most of them illustrated in colour by Frederico Gemma, and details the distinctive characteristics, distribution, natural history and conservation status of each. An Introduction section covers geography and mammalian zoogeography, a history of mammalogy in China, and a section on conservation, and in each order, species accounts are preceded by anatomical keys to family, genera and species.
- Su YJ, Zan QJ, Wang T et al., 2008. High ISSR variation in 24 surviving individuals of Apterosperma oblata (Theaceae) endemic to China. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 36(8): 619-625.
- Tan QK, Li HS, Luo SM et al., 2008. Arthropod biodiversity and community structure as influenced by different winter-cropping systems in the paddy fields of Enping City, Guangdong Province. Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture 16(4): 938-943.
- Tian HZ and Xing FW, 2008. Chamaegastrodia nanlingensis (Orchidaceae), a new species from Guangdong, China. Novon 18(2): 261-263.
- Thompson I and Christophersen T (eds), 2008. Cross-Sectoral Toolkit for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Forest Biodiversity. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Technical Series no. 39, Montreal, Canada, 53 pp.
- Tong YF and Li SQ, 2008. Tetrablemmidae (Arachnida, Araneae), a spider family newly recorded from China. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 8(2): 84-98.
- Wang HL, Huang LS, Miao SY et al., 2008. Community characteristics of Rhododendron simiarum in Shimentai Nature Reserve, Guangdong. Guihaia 28(1): 73-77
- Wang Z, Dong SY, Luo YY et al., 2008. Invasive plants in Guangzhou, China. Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Botany 16(1): 29-38.
Seventy-three alien invasive plant species are recorded from Guangzhou, Guangdong. Of these 61 (84%) are from tropical America. Preventive strategies are discussed.
- Wu G, Li MT, Liu JM et al., 2008. The ecological adaptation of several medicinal materials to the karst environment in Guangxi Nongla. Progress in Modern Biomedicine 8(2): 341-345.
- Wu J, Yu XD, Zhou HZ, 2008. The saproxylic beetle assemblage associated with different host trees in Southwest China. Insect Science 15(3): 251-261.
- Wu KY, Jiang ZC, Luo WQ and Qing XQ 2008. Effect of tri-dimensional eco-agriculture pattern in karst peak-cluster zones – a case study of Guohua Demonstration Area in Pingguo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture 16(5): 1197-1200.
- Xu JX, Yang HM, Feng ZJ et al., 2008. Investigation of plant resources in Nanxiangshan Forest Park, Zengcheng City, Guangdong Province. Journal of South China Agricultural University 29(3): 56-58.
- Wang HL, Miao SY, Wu WD et al., 2008. Characteristics of Pinus kwangtungensis community in Luokeng Nature Reserve, Guangdong Province. Journal of Wuhan Botanical Research 26(1): 53-58.
- Wilson K, Reels G and Xu ZF, 2008. Revised checklist of Hainan Odonata, China. Echo 5: 7-14.
- Wu KY, Jiang ZC, Deng XH and Ye Y, 2008. Ecosystem service value of restored secondary forest in the karstic-rocky hills – a case study of Nongla National Medicine Nature Reserve, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture 16(4): 1011-1014.
Ecosystem services of restored forest in west-central Guangxi were quantified. The accumulated total value was estimated at over RMB 882 million. Of this direct use of timber, herbs and fruits was only 6%; high indirect-use service values include controlling soil erosion (35%), conserving biodiversity (20%) and supporting research and culture (6%).
- Yang YC, Zhang WY, Lin RC and Yang XS, 2008. Study on structure and species diversity in post harvested tropical montane rainforest dominated by Dacrydium pierrii in Bawangling, Hainan Island. Forest Research 21(1): 37-43.
- Zhang Y, Zhou F, Wang ZG et al., 2008. Summer bird diversity in three different artificial forest in suburbs of Nanning. Journal of Guangxi Agricultural and Biological Science 27(1): 46-51.
Bird surveys in three suburban plantations found only 26 bird species. Diversity was lowest in Eucalyptus grandis plantation, where the bird community was quite different to that in Pinus elliotti and Pinus massoniana plantations.
- Zhang YB and Ma KP, 2008. Geographic distribution patterns and status assessment of threatened plants in China. Biodiversity and Conservation 17(7): 1783-1798.
Distribution patterns of China's globally and nationally threatened plant species at the county level revealed concentration in eight areas. Of these several were in South China: south to southeast Yunnan and southwest Guangxi; southern Hainan; the mountains connecting Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi; and the western Guangdong mountains.
- Zhao XJ, Barlow J, Taylor BL et al., 2008. Abundance and conservation status of the Yangtze finless porpoise in the Yangtze River, China. Biological Conservation 141: 3006-3018.
- Zhou F and Jiang AW, 2008. A new species of babbler (Timalidae: Stachyris) from the Sino-Vietnamese border region of China. The Auk 125(2): 420-424.
- Zhou FS, Zhang HH, Dahmer T et al., 2008. The effects of benthos and wetland area on shorebird abundance and species richness in coastal mangrove wetlands of Leizhou Peninsula, China. Forest Ecology and Management 255(11): 3813-3818.
- Zhou J, Wei FW, Li M et al., 2008. Reproductive characters and mating behaviour of wild Nomascus hainanus. International Journal of Primatology 29: 1037-1046.
- Zhou YB, Zhang L, Kaneko Y et al., 2008. Frugivory and seed dispersal by a small carnivore, the Chinese Ferret-badger, Melogale moschata, in a fragmented tropical forest of central China. Forest Ecology and Management 255: 1595-1603.
- Zhou YB, Slade E, Newman C et al., 2008. Frugivory and seed dispersal by the Yellow-throated Marten, Martes flavigula, in a subtropical forest of China. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24: 219-223.
- Zhou YB, Zhang JS, Slade E et al., 2008. Dietary shifts in relation to fruit availability among Masked Palm Civets (Paguma larvata) in central China. Journal of Mammalogy 89(2): 435-447.
- Zhu JG, Li DW, Ye JP et al., 2008. New record of Ia io in Hainan Island, its echolocation pulses and ND1 analysis. China Journal of Zoology 43(5): 69-75.
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