Conflict between biodiversity conservation and economic growth: insight into rare plants in tropical China

Biodiversity managements are always hot topics in China that harbors so much hyper-biodiversity. However, biodiversity loss is continuing as economic growth is accelerating during recent decades. Questions that need to be addressed with regard to the conflict between biodiversity conservation and ec...

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Published in:Biodiversity and conservation 2019-02, Vol.28 (2), p.523-537
Main Authors: Meng, Hong-Hu, Zhou, Shi-Shun, Li, Lang, Tan, Yun-Hong, Li, Jian-Wu, Li, Jie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Biodiversity exploitation and use
Biodiversity loss
Biological diversity conservation
Biological evolution
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
Commentary
Conflicts
Conservation
Conservation Biology/Ecology
Conservation status
Ecology
Economic aspects
Economic development
Economic growth
Economics
Environmental policy
Evolution
Growth
Hazards
Life Sciences
Plants
Plants (botany)
Species extinction
Surveys
Threatened species
Tropical climate
Wildlife conservation
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Summary:Biodiversity managements are always hot topics in China that harbors so much hyper-biodiversity. However, biodiversity loss is continuing as economic growth is accelerating during recent decades. Questions that need to be addressed with regard to the conflict between biodiversity conservation and economic growth are: how much conservation effort is required and what measures are necessary to reconcile conflicts. Here we evaluate the phenomenon and conservation status of representative of the rare plants with important economic values in tropical China. They are facing the danger of extinction, even are disappearing as they are discovered. This topic enables us to propose conservation measures to resolve the dilemma that continued biodiversity loss is linked closely with economic growth. A combination of ex situ conservation, in situ conservation and in-depth surveys, is necessary to protect biodiversity in the tropical China. Insights gained from current conflict will permit a greater understanding of the rare plants with significant evolutionary and ecological roles but which are threatened by economic development, thus enabling the relevant departments to develop and implement appropriate conservation policies.
ISSN:0960-3115
1572-9710
DOI:10.1007/s10531-018-1661-4