Atlas of Rangeland Plants in Northern China

China contains 392-76 million hectares rangeland??which is 41.7% of the country's total land area and 12.5% of all rangeland in the world. The rangeland is distributed throughout the entire coimtry, stretching 31 degrees latitude from north to south and 61 degrees longitude from east to west, with mi eleviition difference of 5 000 meters, across llie monsoon region in the southeast, the arid region in Uic northwest, and the alpine region in the Qinghai-Tibef Plotean. The orea contains tropical, subtropical, warni-temperate, temperate and cold-teniperatc zones: and an annual precipilaLion difference of 2 000 millimeters.