Threats to biodiversity in Chinese inland waters

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Volumn 28, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 674-681

  Xie, Ping ^a   Chen, Yiyu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

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BIODIVERSITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; NATURE CONSERVATION;

CHINA;

EID: 0033372104     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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50. This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 39430101) and the Key Project of CAS titled "Formation and Sustainability of Ecosystem Productivities". Many results from a joint research project titled "Studies on Ecosystem and biodiversity of lakes along the Yangtze River" between the Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS (China) and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan) are also included in this papers. Facilities of the State Key Laboratory for Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology of China, and the Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, CAS, were used in many of the studies in this paper.