Applying systems thinking to inform studies of wildlife trade in primates
Applying systems thinking to inform studies of wildlife trade in primates
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DOI：
10.1002/ajp.22715
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发表时间：
2017-11-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Sterling, Eleanor J.
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作者：
Blair, Mary E.;Le, Minh D.;Sterling, Eleanor J.
野生动物贸易对灵长类动物种群构成了重大威胁，从当地到国际范围的各种用途，从食品和传统药物到外来宠物贸易，对灵长类动物的需求都很大。我们认为，一个跨学科的框架来促进跨时空尺度的社会经济、人类学和生物学数据的整合，对于指导野生动物贸易动态及其对灵长类种群的影响至关重要。在此，我们提出了一种利用系统思维框架设计灵长类动物野生动物贸易研究的新方法。我们讨论了如何构建我们的框架，该框架遵循社会生态系统框架，以设计对越南当地、区域和国际懒猴（Nycticebus spp.）贸易的持续研究。我们通过这个框架概述了迭代变量探索和选择的过程，以告知研究设计。我们的框架在系统思维的指导下，能够认识到研究设计的复杂性，从中得出的结果可以为更全面、更适合现场和更有效的贸易管理实践提供信息。我们将本框架置于研究野生动物贸易的其他方法的背景下，并讨论解决实施新框架可预见挑战的方案。
Wildlife trade presents a major threat to primate populations, which are in demand from local to international scales for a variety of uses from food and traditional medicine to the exotic pet trade. We argue that an interdisciplinary framework to facilitate integration of socioeconomic, anthropological, and biological data across multiple spatial and temporal scales is essential to guide the study of wildlife trade dynamics and its impacts on primate populations. Here, we present a new way to design research on wildlife trade in primates using a systems thinking framework. We discuss how we constructed our framework, which follows a social-ecological system framework, to design an ongoing study of local, regional, and international slow loris (Nycticebus spp.) trade in Vietnam. We outline the process of iterative variable exploration and selection via this framework to inform study design. Our framework, guided by systems thinking, enables recognition of complexity in study design, from which the results can inform more holistic, site-appropriate, and effective trade management practices. We place our framework in the context of other approaches to studying wildlife trade and discuss options to address foreseeable challenges to implementing this new framework.