(CONSERVATION) SELECTIVE LOGGING IMPACT ON SUMATRAN ORANGUTANS

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 目的：评估伐木对苏门答腊猩猩行为和生存的影响。 (大猿信托和WNPRC新闻稿，2008年11月25日) 爱荷华州得梅因2008年11月25日爱荷华州大猿信托基金的一位科学家，世界领先的猩猩及其栖息地专家之一，被威斯康星州国家灵长类动物研究中心授予了一项享有盛誉的保护奖。Serge Wich博士是2008年劳伦斯·雅各布森保护研究奖的获得者，该奖项支持应用保护生物学的研究，保护非人类灵长类动物的栖息地。雅加达国立大学和班达亚齐Syiah Kualah大学的学生获得了5000美元的赠款，帮助资助苏门答腊猩猩的研究。 作为旗舰物种，猩猩象征着热带雨林的重要性，不仅对类人猿和数以百万计的其他森林物种来说，而且对生活在森林附近的人和我们世界各地受气候变化影响的人来说也是如此。我非常荣幸和高兴的是，同事们认为该项目对猩猩保护做出了有意义的贡献。为印度尼西亚正在培训的科学家提供成为保护生物学家的机会，对于未来保护猩猩及其栖息地至关重要。 科学家们的研究将集中在选择性采伐对苏门答腊猩猩行为和生存的影响。更好地了解伐木对猩猩的影响对于设计减少影响的伐木系统是必要的。这些管理系统可能会为部分采伐木材提供机会，同时仍能保护猩猩及其栖息地。虽然还没有对苏门答腊猩猩种群进行这样的分析，但Wich说，这些研究最大的好处是在猩猩研究网站Ketambe收集了35年的科学数据。关于猩猩行为、人口学、密度和食物可获得性的重要信息提供了一个全面的伐木前数据库，将与印度尼西亚和非印度尼西亚学生目前与当地实地工作人员合作收集的伐木后数据进行比较。 “通过比较伐木前和伐木后的数据，我们将能够确定伐木对猩猩的行为、觅食生态、生存和密度造成的任何重大变化，”Wich补充道。“这些结果将对猩猩保护管理策略产生重要影响。” 更多信息请访问：http://www.greatapetrust.org/media/releases/2008/nr_76a08.php

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Objective: To assess the impact of logging on Sumatran orangutan behavior and survival. (Great Ape Trust and WNPRC press release Nov. 25, 2008) Des Moines, Iowa  November 25, 2008  A scientist at Great Ape Trust of Iowa, and one of the world's leading experts on orangutans and their habitat, has been honored with a prestigious conservation award by the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. Dr. Serge Wich is the 2008 recipient of the Lawrence Jacobsen Conservation Research Award, which supports studies in applied conservation biology that protect nonhuman primates in their habitat. Wich has been awarded a $5,000 grant to help fund Sumatran orangutan research by students from Universitas Nasional in Jakarta and Universitas Syiah Kualah in Banda Aceh. "As a flagship species, the orangutan symbolizes the importance of the rain forest  not only to the apes and the millions of other forest species but also to the people who live near the forests and those of us around the world affected by climate change," said Wich. "I'm very honored and pleased that colleagues view the project as a meaningful contribution to orangutan conservation. Providing opportunities for Indonesian scientists-in-training to become conservation biologists is crucial for the future protection of orangutans and their habitat." The scientists' research will focus on the impact of selective logging on Sumatran orangutan behavior and survival. A better understanding of logging's effect on orangutans is necessary to design reduced-impact logging systems. These managed systems might provide opportunities for the partial extraction of timber while still conserving orangutans and their habitat. While such analysis hasn't been conducted for Sumatran orangutan populations, Wich said what greatly benefits these studies is 35 years of scientific data collected at the orangutan research site Ketambe. Important information on orangutan behavior, demography, density and food availability has provided a comprehensive pre-logging database that will be compared with the post-logging data now being collected by Indonesian and non-Indonesian students in collaboration with local field staff. "By comparing pre-logging and post-logging data, we will be able to identify any significant changes in orangutan behavior, feeding ecology, survival and density that have resulted from logging," Wich added. "These results will be important for orangutan conservation management strategies." More at: http://www.greatapetrust.org/media/releases/2008/nr_76a08.php