Lower Huang He

636

Author(s)

J. Hales

Countries

China
China
China

Major Habitat Type

Temperate floodplain rivers and wetlands

Drainages flowing into

Bohai Sea

Main rivers to other water bodies

Huang He

Description

Boundaries

This ecoregion includes the Huang He (Yellow River) basin downriver of the border between Nei Monggol (Inner Mongolia) and the Shaanxi and Shanxi Provinces.

Description of endemic fishes

10 endemic species

Justification for delineation

Delineations were determined using a bottom-up approach that employed both published and unpublished field data and expert assessment (Abell et al. 2008). The Huang He was subdivided into different zoogeographic ecoregions based on Li (1981) and Zhang (1995). This ecoregion contains a generalized fauna that is similar to the fauna in the Huang He Great Bend ecoregion [635] because of topography (M. Kottelat pers. comm. 2006).

References

Abell, Robin,M.L. Thieme,C. Revenga,M. Bryer,M. Kottelat,N. Bogutskaya,B. Coad,N. Mandrak,S.C. Balderas,W. Bussing,M.L.J. Stiassny,P. Skelton,G.R. Allen,P. Unmack,A. Naseka,R. Ng,N. Sindorf,J. Robertson,E. Armijo,J.V. Higgins,T.J. Heibel,E. Wikramanayake, (2008). "Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation" BioScience 58 (5) pp. 403-414.
Li, Sizhong (1981). "Studies on zoogeographical divisions for fresh water fishes of China" Beijing, China: Science Press.
Zhang, J. M. (1995) Fishes of the Heilungjiang Heilungjiang Scientific Press : Harbin