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Plant Diversity and Folk Utilizable Plants of Swidden Agroecosystem of Tropical mountain

Fu Yongneng, Chen Aiguo, liu Zhiqiu, Cui Jingyun   

  1. Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303
  • Received:1998-09-09 Revised:1999-02-20 Online:2000-06-10

Abstract: The plant diversity and folk utilizable plants of swidden agroecosystems in Daka, Xishuangbanna were described in this paper. The result shows that species richness index differs from 2 to 9.5 in different subsystems of swidden agroecosystem. There are 79 kinds of folk utilizable plants of swidden agroecosystem that belong to 38 families and 64 genus. Correspondingly,most of them belong to Euphorbiaceae, Papilionaceae, Rubiaceae, Malvaceae and Compositae. At last a list of folk utilizable plants found in sampling plots is presented.

Key words: transgenic crop, root exudates, crop residue, soil microorganisms, safety assessment.