Biodiv Sci ›› 2000, Vol. 08 ›› Issue (4): 435-440.  DOI: 10.17520/biods.2000061

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Global 200: an approach to setting large_scale biodiversity conservation priorities

ZHAO Shu-Qing, FANG Jing-Yun, LEI Guang-Chun   

  1. 1)  Department of Urban and Environmental Science & Center for Ecological Research and Education , Peking University , Beijing  100871
    2)  College of Life Sciences , Peking University , Beijing  100871
  • Received:2000-07-06 Revised:2000-10-12 Online:2000-11-20 Published:2000-11-20

Abstract: Conservationists are far from able to protect all species under threat for lack of available resources and funding. This places a premium on setting priorities. Global 200 , posed by the World Wildlife Fund , one of the approaches to setting large- scale biodiversity conservation priorities , frames a list of ecoregions to establish global conservation priorities. In this paper , we introduced method , and then evaluated limitations of the Global 200 , emphasized the ecoregions in China involved in the Global 200 , and compared their coincidence to current critical regions in China.