What are the tourism functions of bio-tourism resources?

1. Biological landscape tourism resources and their types

Organisms are the floorboard of the organisms on the earth's surface, which can be divided into animals, plants and microorganisms according to their properties. According to statistics, there are about 2 million species of organisms that have been discovered, recorded and named, which makes nature present a rich and colorful biological landscape. As a tourism resource, biological landscape mainly refers to various processes and phenomena composed of animals, plants and their related living environments.

Biological landscape, as the most distinctive type of natural tourism resources, constitutes the entity of tourism landscape with its complex form and variability shown by its own life rhythm.

2. Characteristics of biological landscape tourism resources

(1) is extensive and diverse.

Refers to the extensiveness and diversity of biological landscape tourism resources in spatial distribution. China is extremely rich in biological resources, including many unique and rare species mainly distributed in China. According to statistics, there are more than 30,000 kinds of higher plants in China. There are about 27 150 species of vascular plants; There are more than 50 unique trees, among which Ginkgo biloba, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Pinus bungeana and Cryptomeria fortunei are called "living fossils of plants".

China is also rich in animal resources. There are about 2000 species of terrestrial vertebrates, including about 1 189 species of birds, nearly 500 species of mammals, 320 species of reptiles and 2 10 species of amphibians. Many terrestrial vertebrates in the world are endemic to China or mainly produced in China, such as red-crowned cranes, pheasants and pheasants.

(2) the organic nature of life

The geology, geomorphology, hydrology and other elements in natural tourism resources belong to inorganic substances, and the landscape composed of them also changes dynamically and statically, but this dynamic change is mainly a natural movement process under the action of internal and external forces, and it is lifeless. Animals and plants are living organisms, and their existence adds vitality to nature. For example, thousands of birds on Bird Island in Qinghai Lake make the originally lonely desert landscape very lively.

(3) Indicative

Because all the elements of physical geography are closely related and interdependent, the development of each element is not independent, but carried out in a * * * * yoke. According to this relationship between elements, one link in the natural environment can be used to determine the rest. Among the elements of physical geography, organisms, especially plants, are the most sensitive and expressive to other elements. For example, the normal flowering and fruiting of coconut is a symbol of tropical climate; Temperate grassland landscape is the symbol of temperate continental climate.

(4) Seasonal

Seasonality refers to the seasonal tourism landscape characteristics caused by the changes of the morphology and spatial position of organisms with the changes of seasons. In different seasons, different plants bloom, such as plum blossom in winter and chrysanthemum in autumn. The color of leaves of many plants also changes with the seasons. Ginkgo biloba leaves, for example, are green in spring and summer and yellow in autumn. The fur color of some animals also changes with the seasons. For example, Thunderbirds turn white to keep up with the color of winter snow. As a protective color against enemies, many animals, such as migratory birds, butterflies, reindeer and so on. Will migrate regularly with the seasons to find a better and more comfortable living environment, thus showing the scene that the biological spatial position changes with the seasons.

(5) Reproducibility

Reproducibility is determined by the reproduction, domestication and spatial mobility of organisms themselves. Based on the reproduction of organisms, people partially change the ecological environment through domestication and spatial mobility of organisms, domesticate, transplant, raise and cultivate many animals and plants through artificial intervention, and form an artificial biological landscape. For example, China has protected the endangered animal giant panda and its living environment through human actions, and given it as a precious gift to many countries.

(6) Vulnerability

Vulnerability refers to the characteristics of organisms and natural ecosystems that are more vulnerable to stress and their anti-interference ability. Catastrophic environmental changes have led to the death of many organisms and even the extinction of species. For example, the disastrous environment of the Cretaceous period made the once dominant dinosaurs extinct.

Second, biological landscape and tourism

1. Biology is an important part of natural landscape.

2. Biology is a soft material for constructing artificial landscape and optimizing tourism environment.

3. Biology makes tourism projects more colorful

Some animals and plants can become the characteristics of some tourist destinations, such as the "strange pine" in Huangshan Mountain and the harpsichord frog in Emei Mountain, to attract tourists to watch and hunt for wonders. Some tourist destinations carry out or hold tourism activities with the help of some plants, such as the Red Flower Festival in Fiji, the Kekenhauf Flower Festival in the Netherlands, the Maple Sugar Festival in Canada, the Sophora Flower Festival in Dalian and the Chrysanthemum Festival in Xiaolan, Guangdong.