Geographical patterns based on faunal types of breeding birds and mammals in China  

作　　者：Yajun XING Lizhi ZHOU Youyu ZHANG Xinjian WANG 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Biodiversity and Wetland Ecology,School of Life Science,Anhui University,Anhui Key Laboratory of Ecological Engineering and Biotechnology,Hefei,China

出　　处：《Integrative Zoology》2008年第4期280-289,共10页整合动物学（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30370215);the International Cooperation Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30611120127);the Talent Cultivation Project of Anhui University.

摘　　要：We collected available chorological data of birds and mammals in China and assigned faunal types.The 19 sub-regions of the zoogeographical regions of China were used as operative geographical units.Matrices of the geo-graphical units using the species number of each faunal type were then constructed.Based on the matrices we clustered the geographical units using a hierarchical cluster analysis The results of the faunal divisions according to the cluster analysis were illustrated in a geographic information system(GIS).When 19 geographical units were clustered into two clusters,the boundary of the two clusters corresponded to that of the Palearctic and Indomalayan(Oriental)realms in the recent division of Chinese fauna.When the geographical units were clustered into eight clusters,the sub-region Southern Yunnan Hilly became an idiographic cluster.As a result,Southern Yunnan hilly should be regarded as a region rather than a sub-region at the same level as Southwest region,Central China region and South China region.The differences in the distribution patterns of birds and mammals among the units in the Indomalayan(Oriental)realm were more complicated than those in Palearctic realm.Afew differences of the cluster analysis results based on the faunal types were found between the bird and mammal species.These differences might result from the different ecological and geographical distribution patterns of these two animal categories.

关 键 词：BIRDS China fauna division faunal type mammals. 

分 类 号：G63[文化科学—教育学]