Conserving populations at the edge of their geographic range: the endangered Caspian red deer (Cervus elaphus maral) across protected areas of Iran

Shokri, Shirko; Jafari, Abbas; Rabei, Korous; Hadipour, Ehsan; Alinejad, H.; Zeppenfeld, Thorsten; Soufi, Mobin; Qashqaei, Ali Turk; Ahmadpour, Mohsen; Bahram, Zehzad; Kiabi, Bahram H.; Pavey, Chris R.; Balkenhol, Niko; Waltert, Matthias; Soofi, Mahmood

doi:10.1007/s10531-020-02077-4

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“…SDM assesses scientific adaptation strategies at the community and ecosystem levels and makes relevant predictions that aim to help offset future warming impacts on biota [77,78]. To date, many studies have used SDM analysis to predict the future distribution trends of rare and endangered species (e.g., Meconopsis punicea, Coptis deltoidea, Cervus elaphus maral, and Manis crassicaudata), which also makes an important contribution to their timely conservation and sustainable exploitation [43,[79][80][81].…”

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Potential Global Distribution of the Habitat of Endangered Gentiana rhodantha Franch: Predictions Based on MaxEnt Ecological Niche Modeling

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Continued global climate and environmental changes have led to habitat narrowing or migration of medicinal plants. Gentiana rhodantha Franch. ex Hemsl. is a medicinal plant for ethnic minorities in China, and it has a remarkable curative effect in the treatment of lung-heat cough. However, its habitat is gradually decreasing, and the species has been listed as an endangered ethnic medicine due to excessive harvesting. Here, based on CMIP6 bioclimatic data and 117 species occurrence records, the maximum entropy model (MaxEnt), combined with ArcGIS technology, was applied to predict the potentially suitable habitats for G. rhodantha under different climate scenarios. The results showed that the most critical bioclimatic variables affecting G. rhodantha are the precipitation of the warmest quarter (Bio18) and the mean temperature of the coldest quarter (Bio11). The highly suitable habitats of G. rhodantha are mainly concentrated in Belt and Road (“B&R”) countries, including China, Bhutan, and Vietnam. However, under different climate change scenarios, the fragmentation extent of suitable habitats in China will generally increase, the suitable area will show a decreasing trend as a whole, the distribution center will shift to the northeast, and the distance will increase with time. Notably, the shrinkage of the high suitability area was the most obvious for the 2081–2100 SSP585 scenario, with a total of 358,385.2 km2. These findings contribute to the understanding of the geo-ecological characteristics of this species, and provide guidelines for the conservation, management, monitoring, and cultivation of G. rhodantha.

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Section: Factors Controlling the Distribution Of Gentiana Rhodanthamentioning

confidence: 99%

Potential Global Distribution of the Habitat of Endangered Gentiana rhodantha Franch: Predictions Based on MaxEnt Ecological Niche Modeling

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“…Nonetheless, they have never been studied in Hyrcanian forests of northern Iran, where a few large herbivores such as Caspian red deer ( Cervus elaphus maral ), roe deer ( Capreolus capreolus ) and wild pig ( Sus scrofa ) exist. These sites are also crucial for the conservation of the herbivores, as they are widely known among local poachers to be frequently visited by the species, so can create a poaching hotspot (Blake et al, 2011 ), particularly for the Caspian red deer which suffers from a drastic population reduction due to poaching and habitat loss across its range in west Asia (Shokri et al, 2021 ).…”

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