Bamboo for climate-smart landscapes in Chishui， Guizhou province

This report presents the first study into the vulnerability and resilience of bamboo forest ecosystems to climate change in China. The project team hope this pioneering research can serve as a starting point and reference for further related work. Due to the limitation of time， long-term data monitoring， lack of previous researches and the complexity of the issues， there are inevitably some inadequacies existed. We encourage more and more research to study the subject in geater depth. According to the 4th IPCC Assessment Report (AR4)， China has experienced warming temperatures， including higher extremes in winter since 1979. That lead an increase river runoff in Southern and decrease in Northern. A recent WWF report indicates the whole Yangste basin will become warmer and dryer in the future， however， precipitation shows no obvious change， but there is notable spatial heterogeneity (Xu Ming etc， 2009). The upper reaches of the Yangtze River is not only an area which is the focus of the national poverty alleviation programme but， due to its ecological importance and high-vulnerability， it is also a key conservatory area for the China -- Yangtze River Shelter Forest， which is one of the ecological protection demonstration project areas in China. Climate change is causing significant changes to eco-systems， socio economics and human health. Chishui， one of the famous hometowns of bamboo in China， is located in a transition area between the Yungui Plateau and the Sichuan Basin in the upper reaches of the Yangtse basin. Research has shown that Chuishui’s ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to environmental changes that are likely to be amplified by the effects of climate change. How to adapt to the climate change， especially warming trends? Does the system have enough resilience?