How to Detect, Monitor, and Assess Population Change in Threatened Cryptic Mammal Species.

为了成功地保护生物多样性，它需要以科学证据为基础(Sutherland等人，2004年)。对于在社会生态系统中发现的物种，不仅需要关于种群参数的信息(Partelow，2018)，而且还需要关于当地人类社区的组成、对物种的态度以及与物种的互动的信息(Watson等人，2019)。西方机构和科学家越来越认识到当地生态知识在了解物种分布、当地自然资源管理和社会规范以及与生态系统有关的文化价值方面的价值(例如，Joa、Winkel和Primmer，2018年)。对于稀有或难以捉摸的物种(McKelvey，Aubry和Schwartz，2008)，很难获得像Geocaproys Brownii这样的保护证据。这种难以捉摸(Clough，1976)和濒危(Kennerley，Turvey和Young，2018)的啮齿动物是牙买加特有的，是冰川后最严重的哺乳动物灭绝的罕见幸存者(Turvey等人，2017年)。约翰·克罗山脉是一个社会生态系统，牙买加土著马龙人生活在其中(Kopytoff，1976)，在其中发现了Geocaproys Brownii(Robinson，2020)。将探索生态学、人类学和基因组学方法，以了解科尼种群参数和栗族与约翰克罗山脉物种保护的互动和意见。

For biodiversity conservation to be successful, it needs to be based on scientific evidence (Sutherland et al., 2004). For species found in social-ecological systems, information is not only needed on population parameters (Partelow, 2018), but also on local human communities' makeups, attitudes towards the species, and interactions with the species (Watson et al., 2019). Western institutions and scientists are increasingly recognizing the value of local ecological knowledge in understanding species' distributions, local natural resource management and social norms, and cultural values relating to the ecosystem (e.g., Joa, Winkel and Primmer, 2018). Conservation evidence is hard to obtain for rare or elusive species (McKelvey, Aubry and Schwartz, 2008) like Geocapromys brownii. The elusive (Clough, 1976) and Endangered (Kennerley, Turvey and Young, 2018) rodent is endemic to Jamaica and a rare survivor of the worst post-glacial mammalian extinction (Turvey et al., 2017). The John Crow Mountains are a social-ecological system in which Maroons, Indigenous people of Jamaica, live (Kopytoff, 1976), and in which Geocapromys brownii is found (Robinson, 2020). Ecological, anthropological, and genomic approaches will be explored to understand coney population parameters and Maroon peoples' interactions with and opinions on the conservation of the species in the John Crow Mountains.