supported by the NationalNatural Science Foundation of China(Nos.30860044,30360015 and39830030);by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(NCET-10-0111)
The Hainan Peacock Pheasant (Polyplectron katsumatae),the smallest allied species of somber forest peacock pheasants among the taxa of Polyplectron spp.,is a rare tropical forest bird endemic to China,and distributed ...
The phylogeny of the monal pheasants (Lophophorus) and their relationships to some species of the genera Tragopan,Pucrasia and Ithaginis were studied by comparing mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt b) nucleotide sequence...
National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(39830030 and 30170156)and Research Programme of Tibetan Bureau of Science and Technology
Galliformes are often difficult to count adequately in their natural habitats due to low detectability of them. In the present study, we confirm availability of feather-count and feces-count as two useful field techni...