Background of CBIS

Data Resources

    (1) Monographs
	1) Flora of China
	2) Pictorial Handbook of Higher Plants in China
	3) Flora of Hainan
	4) Flora of Xizang (Tibet)
	5) China Plant Red Data Book Vol. 1
	6) Avian Zoography of China
	7) Economic Plants of China
	8) Economic Zoography of China

    (2) Herbarium Specimens
	1) Number of Herbarium in China 	    150
	2) Number of Plant Specimens		     11 million
	3) Number of Animal Specimens		      5 million
	4) Number of Strains of Fungi and Bacteria  250 thousands

    (3) Monitoring of Ecosystem and Environment
	1) Monitoring data from meteorological stations
	2) AVHRR of Meteorological Satellites
	3) Monitoring records of ecological field stations,
	  natural reserves, off-site conservation gardens.

Established Databases

    (1) Databases for Resource
	1) Database for Physical and Mechanical Properties of
	  Timber in China (Institute of Botany)
	2) Regular Medicinal Plants Database (Institute of Botany)
	3) Chinese Medicinal Plant Database (Institute of Botany)
	4) Fiber Plants (cotton) Database (Institute of Botany)
	5) Fiber Plants(reed) Database (Institute of Botany)
	6) Oil-bearing Plants Database (Institute of Botany)
	7) Plant Climate Database (Institute of Botany)
	8) Sunflower Plants Database (Institute of Botany)
	9) Microbe Species Database (Institute of Microbiology)
       10) Vertebrates Information System (Institute of Zoology)
       11) Biodiversity Inventory System (Northwest Plateau
					  Institute of Biology)
       12) Alga Species Inventory System (Wuhan Institute of
					   Hydrobiology)
       13) Plant Resources Index System (Kunming Institute of
					 Botany)
       14) Plant chemical Components Index System (Kunming
					     Institute of Botany)
       15) Northeast China Plants Database (Shenyang Institute of
					     Applied Ecology)
       16) Chinese Populous and Salix Database
			 (Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology)
       17) Non-Legume Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixing Actinomycetes
	   Database (Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology)
       18) Microbes Database
			(Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology)

    (2) Databases for Conservation of Biodiversity
	1) Database for Names of Chinese Endangered Plant Species
		(Institute of Botany)
	2) Rare and Endangered Chinese Plants Database
		(Institute of Botany)
	3) Chinese Botanical Gardens Database
		(Institute of Botany)
	4) National Nature Reserves Database
		(Institute of Zoology)
	5) Southern Yunnan Tropical Valuable and Endangered
	   Plants Information Management System
		(Kunming Institute of Botany)

    (3) Databases for Specimens
	1) Insect Database
		 (Institute of Zoology)
	2) Information Management System for Invertebrate
	   Specimens
		 (Institute of Hydrobiology)
	3) Information Management System for Dried Fish Specimens
		 (Institute of Hydrobiology)
	4) Database for Plant Types of South China Botanical
	   Institute Herbarium
		 (South China Institute of Botany)

    (4) Databases for Classification

	1) Database for Plant Morphological Description
		 (Institute of Botany)
	2) Database for Microbe Characters
		 (Institute of Microbiology)
	3) Database on Classification Codes for Vertebrates
		 (Institute of Zoology)
	4) Database on Classification Codes for Plants in China
		 (Institute of Botany)

    (5) Vegetation and Environmental Factor Databases
	   (All the following databases are in Institute of Botany)
	1) Database of Three-Dimensional Topography of China
	2) Database for Meteorological Observations (from 1951 to
	    80)
	3) Digitized Soil Map of China
	4) Digitized Vegetation Map of China
	5) Digitized Geological Map of China
	6) Digitized Quaternary Geological Map of China
	7) Digitized Floristic Map of China

    (6) Some Other Databases
	1) Market Information System for Microbes Products
		 (Institute of Microbiology)
	2) Database on RKC Codes for International Information
	   Exchange
		 (Institute of Microbiology)
	3) Database for Microbiological Terms
		 (Institute of Microbiology)