A new conservation strategy for China—A model starting with primates
A new conservation strategy for China—A model starting with primates
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DOI：
10.1002/ajp.22577
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发表时间：
2016-11
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
R. Pan;C. Oxnard;C. Grueter;Baoguo Li;X. Qi;G. He;Songtao Guo;P. Garber
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作者：
R. Pan;C. Oxnard;C. Grueter;Baoguo Li;X. Qi;G. He;Songtao Guo;P. Garber
尽管中国灵长类的进化历史可以追溯到始新世，包括中新世、上新世和更新世期间的懒猴科、人科、长尾猴和colobines的主要辐射，但在过去几个世纪中，人类引起的栖息地变化和森林砍伐导致25种现存物种中的22种被列为受威胁或濒危物种，两种长臂猿在过去几年中灭绝。这篇评论简要回顾了过去400年来导致中国灵长类动物减少的因素，特别是现代中国的重大社会事件和经济发展如何导致不可持续的环境变化。作为回应，我们描述了我们在中国发展战略科学，教育和保护合作伙伴关系的努力，重点是灵长类动物，其中GIS技术将用于整合地理概况，气候信息，土地利用模式变化以及人类和非人类灵长类动物分布，以突出迫在眉睫的问题，并制定基于优先级的保护解决方案。我们的目标是评估人类引起的环境变化如何随着时间的推移影响灵长类动物，并预测在不久的将来灵长类动物种群灭绝的可能性。该模型是一个早期预警系统，将通过社交媒体和教育视频广泛提供给中国政府、公众、教育机构、研究人员和非政府组织，以唤起公众意识，促进野生动物保护。我们鼓励跨学科，政治意识形态和公众的广泛的同事，以帮助将这一战略变成现实，越快越好。Am. J. Primatol. 78：1137-1148，2016.© 2016 Wiley Periodicals，Inc.
Although the evolutionary history of primates in China dates to the Eocene, and includes major radiations of lorisids, hominoids, cercopithecines, and colobines during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene, extensive human‐induced habitat change and deforestation over the past few centuries has resulted in 22 of 25 extant species listed as threatened or endangered, and two species of gibbons extirpated in the last few years. This commentary briefly reviews factors that have contributed to the decline of primates in China over the past 400 years, and in particular how major social events and economic development in modern China have resulted in unsustainable environmental change. In response, we describe our efforts to develop a strategic scientific, educational and conservation partnership in China, focusing on primates, in which GIS technology will be used to integrate geographical profiles, climatic information, and changes in land use patterns and human and nonhuman primate distributions to highlight issues of immediate concern and to develop priority‐based conservation solutions. Our goal is to evaluate how human‐induced environmental change has impacted primates over time and to predict the likelihood of primate population extinctions in the near future. This model represents an early warning system that will be widely available to the Chinese government, public, educational institutions, researchers, and NGOs through social media and educational videos in order to arouse public awareness and promote wildlife conservation. We encourage colleagues across a broad range of academic disciplines, political ideologies, and the public to help move this strategy into reality, the sooner the better. Am. J. Primatol. 78:1137–1148, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.