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Issue 01
Brief

Biodiversity Science（formerly Chinese Biodiversity）published its first issue in October 1993. It is sponsored by the Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Botanical Society of China and jointly managed by Institute of Botany, Institute of Zoology and Institute of Microbiology, CAS. It is the first nationwide academic journal that specifically addresses the issues of biodiversity, aiming to enhance information exchange between Chinese and international scholars.
Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Ma Keping

Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Fu Shenglei;Guo Liangdong
Lei Fumin;Kong Hongzhi
Lv Zhi;Zhang Jian
Guo Qinghua;Huang Xiaolei

On implementation path of the strictest conservation policies in national park management

Yan Yan;Fanglin Tang;Yongchen Tian;Kun Jin

Biodiversity Science,2021,Vol 29,No. 01

Application of passive acoustic monitoring technology in the monitoring of western black crested gibbons

Enzhu Zhong;Zhenhua Guan;Xingce Zhou;Youjie Zhao;Han Li;Shaobin Tan;Kunrong Hu

Biodiversity Science,2021,Vol 29,No. 01

The contributions of animal movement network researches to landscape ecology

Yuehui Li;Yuanman Hu

Biodiversity Science,2021,Vol 29,No. 01

Context: As early as the emergence of landscape ecology in the 1980s, scientists began to conceive ideas about landscape networks including landscape networks concepts, network metrics, and landscape connectivity. Those early ideas needed to be gradually realized through the exploration of concrete landscape processes. Animal movement processes are substantially different from inorganic processes due to the fact that animals provide a variety of biological attributes in each corridor or patch and feed back into their habitat in a highly complex way. Therefore, the animal movement network research especially contributes to realizing and developing those early ideas to build up landscape network research. O bjectives: We present a review to summarize the development of research focusing on animal movement networks and how it has contributed to landscape ecology. We also provide an overview of animal movement network research progress in China and recognize the gap between China and developed countries. Results and conclusions: We summarize the early ideas of landscape networks including landscape networks concepts, network metrics, and landscape connectivity which have shaped three current focuses in animal network research: modeling movement networks, evaluating importance of network elements, and examining functional landscape connectivity. It is considered as the trend of incorporating animal movement to movement network research. We illustrate that the research on movement networks has aimed at quantifying biological attributes in each corridor/patch as well as the connections or differences among corridors/patches in those attributes. This has made a special contribution to realizing those early ideas and developing landscape ecology from the era of focusing on only inorganic processes. Also, we highlight that there is a gap in animal movement networks research between China and developed countries, which hinders the special contributions to landscape ecology study in China. Additionally, we emphasize the importance and necessity of movement ecology research employing GPS tracking data to improve knowledge of animal movement networks and narrow the research gap.

Plant strategies for nitrogen acquisition and their effects on exotic plant invasions

Simiao Sun;Jixin Chen;Weiwei Feng;Chang Zhang;Kai Huang;Ming Guan;Jiankun Sun;Mingchao Liu;Yulong Feng

Biodiversity Science,2021,Vol 29,No. 01