My first ecosystem monitoring and warning system was put into use

The first set of ecosystem monitoring and early warning system in China was successfully developed and put into use in Sichuan Baoxing County in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province. This was disclosed by He Jianbang, a researcher at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who was interviewed by a reporter from the Science and Technology Daily on May 6th.

The upper reaches of the Yangtze River is an important ecological barrier, water source conservation area, and catchment area in China. It is rich in mineral resources and lush vegetation. It lives a large number of rare species, including giant pandas and golden monkeys, known as the "treasure house of biodiversity." However, the region is again a fragile eco-environmental zone. The economy is lagging behind. Extensive development has caused water and soil erosion, and some rare and endangered species are on the verge of extinction or extinction.

The ecological monitoring and early warning system was jointly established by the Institute of Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences, and the People's University of China. Among them, the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences has designed monitoring and early warning models for water conservation and carbon storage/absorption monitoring and early-warning models; the Institute of Plants of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has designed a monitoring and early warning model for biodiversity conservation; the People's University of China has designed the ecosystem's functional economic and social impacts. Monitoring and early-warning models; the Institute of Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences designed soil conservation monitoring and early-warning models and systems to develop thematic models.

He Jianbang said that the system content mainly includes basic databases such as basic geography, ecological environment, and socio-economic information, and the special operating models and integrated models for water conservation, soil erosion, biodiversity conservation, and carbon enrichment for ecosystems. Operational model; map-based maps supported by on-site monitoring, completed basic maps, land use maps, vegetation maps, river maps, and various satellite image maps of 1:100 million in the upper Yangtze River and 1:50,000 in two demonstration areas .

He Jianbang explained that the ecological factors are huge and the relationship between them is complicated. The large amounts of data and pictures obtained by researchers and grass-roots workers in the investigation are fragmentary and not systematic. Through the ecosystem monitoring and early warning system, input survey data, output summary data, maps and various analyses, evaluations, and develop search lists. Aerial survey methods can also be used to check various conclusions obtained through analysis. Policy makers and executors make scientific decisions and execute them accurately.

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