Biotic Surveys and Inventories of Southern China (2004 - 2008)

This collaborative project includes five annual surveys in the borderlands area of the People's Republic of China. So far, surveys have been conducted in Guangxi Province, Guizhou Province, and with the last year's team most likely heading westward to the lowlands of southeastern Yunnan Province. Our project is focusing on lowland tropical areas, where our teams are surveying birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and associated parasites in a region for which almost no specimen based biodiversity information exists. Survey teams consist of two ornithologists, two mammalogists, two herpetologists, one ectoparasite specialist, and one endoparasite specialist. For more information please visit this site.

Ornithological publications based on our fieldwork in China:

Robbins, M.B., A.T. Peterson, A. Nyari, G. Chen, and T.J. Davis. 2006. Ornithological surveys of two reserves in Guangxi Autonomous, China, 2004-2005. Forktail. 22:140-146. PDF

Benz, G.W., M.B. Robbins, and A.T. Peterson. 2006. Evolutionary history of woodpeckers and allies (Aves: Picidae): Placing key taxa on the phylogenetic tree. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40:389-399. PDF

Komar, O., B.W. Benz, and G. Chen. 2005. Late summer ornithological inventories of Mt. Shunhuang and Mt. Dawei in Hunan, China. Zoological Research. 26:31-39. PDF

Komar, O., B.W. Benz, and G. Chen. 2004. Notes on Elliott's Pheasant Syrmaticus elliotti, Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis and Mountain Scops Owl Otus spilocephalus from Hunan, China. Forktail. 20:136-138. PDF

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