Result of a year-long animal survey in a state-owned forest farm in Beijing, China.

ABSTRACT: Background Artificial forest can have great potential in serving as habitat to wildlife, depending on different management methods. As the state-owned forest farms now play a new role in ecological conservation in China, the biological richness of this kind of land-use type is understudied. Once owned by a mining company, a largest state-owned forest farm, Jingxi Forest Farm, has been reformed to be a state-owned forest farm with the purpose of conservation since 2017. Although this 116.4 km² forest farm holds a near-healthy montaine ecosystem very representative in North China, a large proportion of artificial coniferous forest in the forest farm has been proven to hold less biodiversity than natural vegetation. This situation, however, provides a great opportunity for ecologic

SUBMITTER: Shi X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9836563 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature