Habitat suitability and connectivity inform a co-management policy of protected area network for Asian elephants in China
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| 作者 | Huang, C; Li, XY; Khanal, L; Jiang, XL |
| 刊名 | PEERJ
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| 出版日期 | 2019 |
| 卷号 | 7 |
| ISSN号 | 2167-8359 |
| 英文摘要 | Enlarging protected area networks (PANs) is critical to ensure the long-term population viability of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), which are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation. Strict policies of PAN enlargement that focus on wildlife conservation have failed largely due to difficulties in encouraging stakeholder participation and meeting the elephant habitat requirement. A co-management policy that promotes sustainable resource use, wildlife conservation, and stakeholder participation may have greater feasibility than the strict policies in a developing world. Here, we identified the suitable habitat of elephants using maximum entropy models and examined whether habitat suitability is indirectly associated with local economic development in human-dominated landscapes. We found that (1) the suitable habitat was mainly in areas of forest matrix (50% natural forest cover) with multiple land-use practices rather than relatively intact forest and near communities (mean distance two km) and (2) habitat suitability was negatively associated with local economic development (r(p) = -0.37, P = 0.04). From the standpoint of elephant habitat and its socio-economic background, our results indicate that co-management will be more effective than the currently strict approaches of enlarging PAN. Additionally, our results provide on-ground information for elephant corridor design in southern China. |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.kiz.ac.cn:8080/handle/152453/12441]  |
| 专题 | 昆明动物研究所_兽类生态与进化 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Huang, C,Li, XY,Khanal, L,et al. Habitat suitability and connectivity inform a co-management policy of protected area network for Asian elephants in China[J]. PEERJ,2019,7. |
| APA | Huang, C,Li, XY,Khanal, L,&Jiang, XL.(2019).Habitat suitability and connectivity inform a co-management policy of protected area network for Asian elephants in China.PEERJ,7. |
| MLA | Huang, C,et al."Habitat suitability and connectivity inform a co-management policy of protected area network for Asian elephants in China".PEERJ 7(2019). |
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来源：昆明动物研究所
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