International: Identifying strategies to protect biodiversity in rapidly-developing southwest China: Songbird abundance and diversity in Tibetan sacred forests

国际：确定保护快速发展的中国西南部生物多样性的战略：西藏神圣森林中鸣禽的丰富性和多样性

• 批准号: 1027065
• 负责人: Volker Radeloff
• 金额: $ 1.48万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1027065&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Identifying; strategies; protect; biodiversity

This Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Program award supports the field research in China of Ms. Jodi Brandt, whose objective is to identify effective strategies of conservation. The specific project will investigate how Tibetan sacred-forest patches, protected areas, contribute to biodiversity in a very important but highly-threatened biodiversity hotspot, the Himalayan Mountains of Southwest China. She will test the hypothesis that bird diversity and abundance are higher in the sacred forests than in the surrounding landscapes, and that the sacred forests are important keystone structures for the maintenance of regional biodiversity. The research will be performed in Northwest Yunnan Province. PhD student Brandt, under the direction of Dr. Volker Radeloff, will conduct the research in collaboration with two experienced Chinese ecologists, an ornithologist from the Southwest Forestry University and a botanist from the Shangri-la Alpine Botanical Garden. They will survey breeding-bird communities and bird habitat in sacred forests near Shangri-la City, the most developed and rapidly changing region in NW Yunnan.Despite the importance of NW Yunnan for regional avian biodiversity, no research has been done on forest songbirds in the study area. This research represents a foundational study to understand forest-bird habitat and distribution in this rapidly-changing region. It will explore critical ecological concepts in a unique and unstudied region. Acknowledging sacred areas as an important means to protect biodiversity could ensure their continued existence in the face of accelerating political, socioeconomic, and cultural change and may offer new avenues for conservation in other parts of the world.

该博士论文强化计划奖项支持乔迪·勃兰特女士在中国的实地研究，其目标是确定有效的保护策略。该具体项目将调查西藏神圣森林保护区如何促进中国西南部喜马拉雅山脉这一非常重要但高度威胁的生物多样性热点地区的生物多样性。她将检验以下假设：神圣森林中的鸟类多样性和丰富度高于周围景观，并且神圣森林是维护区域生物多样性的重要基石结构。该研究将在云南省西北部进行。 博士生布兰特将在Volker Radeloff博士的指导下，与两位经验丰富的中国生态学家、西南林业大学的鸟类学家和香格里拉高山植物园的植物学家合作进行这项研究。他们将调查香格里拉市附近神圣森林中的繁殖鸟类群落和鸟类栖息地，香格里拉市是滇西北最发达且变化最快的地区。尽管滇西北对于区域鸟类生物多样性非常重要，但尚未对研究区域的森林鸣禽进行研究。这项研究是了解这个快速变化地区的森林鸟类栖息地和分布的基础研究。它将在一个独特且未经研究的地区探索重要的生态概念。承认圣地是保护生物多样性的重要手段，可以确保它们在政治、社会经济和文化加速变革的情况下继续存在，并可能为世界其他地区的保护提供新途径。