s:629:"%T Establishing Long-term Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring in Northwest Yunnan, China: A Growing Need for Baseline Information 
%A Melick D R 
%A Yang X 
%A Yang Y 
%A Jianchu X 
%X Increasing attention is being paid to land use changes in the mountain environments of southwest China. Yet it is essential to develop a network of relevant sites for long-term analysis and comparison. For this reason an important part of an ongoing ethno-ecological project being undertaken by the Kunming Institute of Botany is the establishment of permanent vegetation plots across key environmental gradients in northwest Yunnan. 
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