Species Composition, Fauna and Elevational Gradient Pattern of Birds in Damingshan, Southern Central Guangxi
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College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004,Managing Bureau of Damingshan National Nature reserve, Wuming, 530114, China,College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004,College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004,College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004,College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004

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    The Damingshan is a famous mountain rising in southern central Guangxi, southern China. The vegetation of the Daminshan is diverse and varies primarily in different elevation: monsoon evergreen broadleaved forest below the elevation 1 100 m; evergreen, deciduous and coniferous mixed forest between the elevation 1 100 m and 1 400 m; elfin wood above the elevation 1 400 m. Bird composition, fauna and elevational gradient pattern were studied in Damingshan by 41 survey spots and 28 line transects from 2007 to 2015. Total of 337 bird species representing 17 orders and 56 families were recorded in this area, with 234 species (69.4% of total birds) of breeding birds including residents and summer migrants. Oriental birds would incline with the increasing of elevation in Damingshan (Table 1). We identified 6 bird habitats according to the difference of vegetation and elevation (Fig. 1). The most abundant area was distributed on the elevation around 500 m with 247 bird species including 182 breeding species, and the second was habitat of farmland and residential area on the elevation around 200 m with 227 bird species including 141 breeding species. Considering the distrubution range of some representative birds, the Damingshan Mountain should be an important boundary of birds between tropical and subtropical areas of Guangxi (Table 2). We suggest to list Damingshan as the fauna of southern China, but different with tropical fauna, because 67.1% of breeding birds in Damingshan are typically restricted to Oriental Pattern. Because of the unique location between tropical and south subtropical area, the knowledge of the elevational pattern of birds in Damingshan would be beneficial to assess the influence of climate change.

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JIANG Ai-Wu, ZHOU Pi-Ning, 蒋德梦, 何超, 于明娟,曾倩. 2017. Species Composition, Fauna and Elevational Gradient Pattern of Birds in Damingshan, Southern Central Guangxi. Chinese Journal of Zoology, 52(2): 177-193.

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  • Received:May 16,2016
  • Revised:February 19,2017
  • Adopted:February 13,2017
  • Online: March 09,2017
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