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Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Keywords

biosphere reserve; Wolong National Nature Reserve; monitoring technology; technology empowerment; innovation driver

Document Type

China's Practice in World Biosphere Reserves

Abstract

Ecological monitoring can provide basic data and decision-making support for ecological environment management and policy formulation. The technologies and methods adopted in ecological monitoring by the Wolong National Nature Reserve, located in Sichuan, China, hold extensive representativeness and influence on a global scale. Based on a review of the main monitoring practices of the Wolong World Biosphere Reserve, this paper presents the adoption of different technical paths and collaborative applications in the “sky-Earth-space integrated” monitoring, as well as the practices in promoting the “Five Ones” goals (i.e., one set of data, one platform, one set of algorithms, one cloud, and one network). The current challenges and opportunities are also explored. On the one hand, there are challenges such as institutional and mechanism restrictions on business collaboration, obstacles to the coordination of technical standards, and bottlenecks in communication transmission and power supply; on the other hand, there are opportunities including policy support and development-oriented guarantees, improvement of governance and service efficiency, technological innovation and application expansion, and data value release and decision optimization. In the future, through continuous technological innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, Wolong will provide Chinese reference for ecological monitoring in other world biosphere reserves.

First page

1586

Last Page

1595

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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