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维普资讯 CHINESE BIODIVERSITY，Vo1．2，Supplemem．PP．43~ 46，1994 GeographicDiversification ofBiotain theContinentofChina ZHANG RoNGZU InstituteofGeography，AcademiaSinica (ReceivedOctober29，1993：RevisedFebruary16，1994) Atthehighestlevel，onemajorparameterdealingwithdiversityofspeciesshouldbethelarge— sca1evariationsinnaturalenvironment，which influencesplantandanimaldistributions，and coexists in differentregionswith differentcharacteristicsofbiodiversity．Thishappenstobe true in vast territory，suchasthecontinentofChina． Apartfrom thepan-tropicandpan—borealpatterns，suggestedbytheauthor(Zhang，1979)，the mostobviouspatternsinthedistributionoflandvertebratesinChina(Fig．1)，isatendencyof geographicaldiversification，forplantsandanimalsonthewhole．Thisoccursinresponsetovariation inthephysicalenvironmentwithparticularityofgeologicalhistory．Forfurtherstudyofbiodiversity ofChina，thesuggestioncouldberegardedashypothesisbaesdontheexistingknowledgeofprevious studies． Fig．1 ThedistributionpatternsoflandveterbratesofChina Note： N：B0reaL E：Northeast，C：CentralAsian，P：Plataeu．T：Old world Tropic，0：Oriental(Tropic—Subtropic)，S SouthernChina，H：Hengduan—Himaalyan． ’SubsidizedbythecommitteeofNationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChina 维普资讯 1 TransitionofPalaearcticandOrientalRealms From aglobalpointofview，floraandfaunaofChinacan bedivided intothePalaearcticand Orientalrealmsandhavebeenrecognizedbyearlyphytogeographersandzoogeographers，butwith differentopinionsoftheir delimitation， exceptfor the linealong the Himalaya Rangewhich， apparently，createsaninsurmountablebarrier．TotheeastoftheHimalaya，north-southmigrationof thetWOrealm elementshadhappenedinresponsetoclimaticoscillations (Zhang，1988)，especially， theelementsbelongingtobi