FOREWORD ...................................................... vii
PREFACE ........................................................ ix
CONTRIBUTORS .................................................... x
MAP ........................................................... xii
Chapter 1 Introduction .......................................... 1
Stephen Blackmore, HONG De-Yuan, Peter H. Raven and Alexandra
H. Wortley
Chapter 2 Global Significance of Plant Diversity in China ...... 7
HUANG Hong-Wen, Sara Oldfield and Hong Qian
Chapter 3 Physical Geography ................................... 35
ZHENG Du and DAI Er-Fu
Chapter 4 Climate ............................................. 55
ZHANG Xue-Qin and ZHENG Du
Chapter 5 Soils ............................................... 71
WANG Xiu-Hong, WANG Zhao-Feng and ZHENG Du
Chapter 6 Origin and Development of the Chinese Flora ......... 86
ZHOU Zhe-Kun
Chapter 7 History of Vegetation in China ..................... 103
ZHOU Zhe-Kun
Chapter 8 The Vegetation of China Today ...................... 120
CHEN Ling-Zhi
Chapter 9 Floristic Elements of the Chinese Flora ............ 158
PENG Hua and WU Cheng-Yih (WU Zheng-Yi)
Chapter 10 Phytogeographical Regions of China ................. 176
SUN Hang and WU Cheng-Yih (WU Zheng-Yi)
Chapter 11 Development of Chinese Botany ...................... 205
PENG Hua
Chapter 12 Plant Exploration in China ......................... 212
HU Chi-Ming (HU Qi-Ming) and Mark F. Watson
Chapter 13 History of Chinese Botanical Institutions .......... 237
HU Zong-Gang, MA Hai-Ying, MA Jin-Shuang and HONG De-Yuan
Chapter 14 History of and Recent Advances in Plant Taxonomy ... 256
ZHANG Yu-Xiao and LI De-Zhu
Chapter 15 Introduction to Economic Plants .................... 279
PEI Sheng-Ji
Chapter 16 Crop Plants and their Wild Relatives ............... 283
HE Shan-An, YI Ting-Shuang, PEI Sheng-Ji and HUANG Hong-Wen
Chapter 17 Economic Forest Plants ............................. 309
PEI Sheng-Ji, YANG Yu-Ming and WANG Juan
Chapter 18 Medicinal Plants ................................... 324
PEI Sheng-Ji and HUAI Hu-Yin
Chapter 19 Ornamental Plants .................................. 342
HE Shan-An and XING Fu-Wu
Chapter 20 Major Introduced Economic Plants ................... 357
YI Ting-Shuang, Peter L. Morrell, PEI Sheng-Ji and HE Shan-An
Chapter 21 Other Important Economic Plants ................... 383
PEI Sheng-Ji and HU Guang-Wan
Chapter 22 Naturalized and Invasive Plants in China ........... 397
LI Zhen-Yu, FAN Xiao-Hong and David E. Boufford
Chapter 23 The Extinction Crisis .............................. 407
HUANG Hong-Wen and Sara Oldfield
Chapter 24 Conservation Strategies ............................ 418
HUANG Hong-Wen, Peter S. Wyse Jackson and CHEN Ling-Zhi
Chapter 25 Prospects for the Future ........................... 446
HUANG Hong-Wen
Index to Scientific Names ..................................... 453
APPENDIX Table of Chinese Dynasties .......................... 473
Figure Credits ................................................ 474
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