Sustainably managing montane forests in arid mountain regions: The Oytag valley of West Kunlun

Ambio

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 493-495

  Zhang, Baiping ^a   Chen, Xiaodong ^a   Lu, Zhou ^a   Shao, Xuemei ^a   Zhang, Yili ^a   Jiang, Fengqing ^a   Pai Zila, ^a   Kong, Liang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; SUSTAINABILITY;

CHINA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; TIBET;

EID: 0036752834     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-31.6.493     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Zhang Baiping 1995. Geoecology and sustainable development in the Kunlun Mountains, China. Mountain Res. Dev. 15, 283-292.
2. Yang Lipu 1982. Water Resource and Rational Utilization in Xinjiang. Xinjiang People's Press. (In Chinese).
3. Zheng Du and Zhang Baiping 1989. A study on the altitudinal belts and environmental problems of the Karakorum and west Kunlun Mountains. J. Nat. Res. 4, 254-266. (In Chinese).
4. Zheng Du, Zhang Qingsong and Wu Shaohong (eds). 2000. Mountain Geoecology and Sustainable Development of the Tibetan Plateau. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London.
5. The authors are grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China for funding the fieldwork and research (project #49871007) and the Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences for its knowledge innovation project (No. CX10G-D00-09). German Max Planck Association (Gesellschaft) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly funded the fieldwork of the Sino-German Research Team on the Oytag Area (1998-1999). Prof. Dr. Georg Miehe, Mr. Ubbo Wuendisch (University of Marburg), Prof. Dr. Hermann Kreutzmann, Dr. Michael Friederich (University of Erlangen), and Mr. Marcus Stueben (University of Bonn) also participated in the fieldwork. Thanks are also due to Mr. Wang Xinhuai, executive president of the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, and Mr. Xia Mingfang, Office Head of the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture government, for their kind support.