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Correlation between diet and biomass of staple-food bamboos utilized by giant pandas during summer in Liziping Nature Reserve,China

ZHOU Hong,YUAN Shibin,YANG Zhisong,ZHENG Lisong,YANG Yi,GU Xiaodong,YANG Xuyu,ZHANG Zejun   

  • Online:2014-02-21 Published:2014-02-21

四川栗子坪自然保护区夏季大熊猫食性与主食竹生物量的关系

周宏 袁施彬 杨志松 郑立松 杨毅 古晓东 杨旭煜 张泽钧   

  1. 西华师范大学生命科学学院

Abstract: Although belonging to the order Carnivora,the giant panda has specialized on a bamboo diet. Bashania spanostachya Yi and Yushania lineolata Yi are the major food sources for giant pandas in Liziping Nature Reserve,Sichuan Province, China,imposing great influences upon their long-term survival and reproduction. In order to uncover their diet composition in summer and the effect of stem age and part on the biomass of B. spanostachya and Y. lineolata,we established 60 plots along elevation gradients in Liziping Nature Reserve during June and July 2012. The results indicated that giant pandas there mainly fed on new shoots of B. spanostachya in this season. For B. spanostachya and Y. lineolata,biomass of their stems is greater than that of branches,and then followed by leaves. For single culm,biomass of Y. lineolata is greater than that of B. spanostachya. addition,biomass of perennial bamboos is greater that of biennial ones,followed by annual ones. Statistic models were constructed to predict biomass of single culm for Y. lineolata and B. spanostachya through their basal diameter.The above results can not only be helpful for understanding the optimal foraging strategies of wild giant pandas,
but also to calculate the total biomass of the staple-food bamboos for giant pandas in the reserve.

Key words: Biomass, Giant panda, Liziping Nature Reserve, Staple-food bamboos

关键词: 大熊猫, 主食竹, 生物量, 栗子坪自然保护区