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

生物多样性保护要取得成功，需要以科学证据为基础（Sutherland et al., 2004）。对于在社会生态系统中发现的物种，不仅需要种群参数的信息（Partelow, 2018），还需要当地人类社区的构成、对物种的态度以及与物种的相互作用（Watson et al., 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相关的文化价值观方面的价值（例如，Joa， Winkel和primer， 2018）。对于稀有或难以捉摸的物种（McKelvey， Aubry和Schwartz， 2008），如棕地棕蛛，很难获得保护证据。难以捉摸的（Clough, 1976）和濒危的（Kennerley， Turvey和Young， 2018）啮齿动物是牙买加特有的，也是冰川后最严重的哺乳动物灭绝的罕见幸存者（Turvey等人，2017）。约翰·克劳山脉是牙买加土著居民Maroons居住的社会生态系统（Kopytoff, 1976），并在其中发现了Geocapromys brownii （Robinson, 2020）。将探讨生态学、人类学和基因组学的方法，以了解科尼种群参数，以及在约翰克劳山脉的栗色人与物种保护的相互作用和意见。

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.