China News Service, Beijing, May 18 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences) released information to the media on the 18th, saying that the institute undertakes China's second comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to study "forest and shrub ecosystems". Researcher Guo Ke's team on the topic of "Resource Management" recently discovered the tallest tree known in China, the 83.2-meter-high Yunnan Huangguo fir, during a recent inspection in Chayu County, Tibet.
According to the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, researcher Guo Ke's team discovered a large virgin forest of Yunnan Huangguo fir during an inspection in Chayu County, Tibet.
After repeated measurements by the drone sling, the team confirmed that its canopy height is 70 meters, and the tallest one is 83.2 meters high and 207 cm in diameter at breast height. The tallest tree records in China are the sloughed Bhutan pine (76.8 m) and the Taiwan bald fir (81-82 m).
It is understood that the newly discovered Yunnan Huangguo fir forest during the second comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China by the team of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is located in the mountains and valleys on both sides of the Zayu River in Shangchayu Town, Zayu County, and is in the shape of a belt. Distribution, the local altitude is about 2300 meters.
The virgin forest community contains a large number of national first-level key protected wild plants, ancient yew trees, as well as epiphytic orchids and ferns.
The team of researchers Guo Ke believes that the reason why the newly discovered area with the tallest trees in China so far can retain such a tall and intact virgin forest is due to the superior climate and topographic conditions, as well as very little human activity disturbance.
The large number of tall trees and their communities and ecosystems here have important scientific research value and protection significance.
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