Giant Pandas in a Changing Landscape

Loucks, Colby; Lü, Zhi; Dinerstein, Eric; Wang, Hao; Olson, David M.; Zhu, Chi; Wang, Dajun

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“…The first thought forgets the general improvement of rural ecosystems, while second thought neglects the important contributions made by outmigration and improvement of rural economy. To mitigate the degradation of the environment, and to eliminate environment-induced poverty, China has implemented a number of large-scale national conservation programs, including the Natural Forest Conservation Program (NFCP), Grain to Green Program (GTGP), Forest Eco-Compensation Program, as well as numerous local projects (Loucks et al 2001;Xu et al 2006;Liu et al 2008). While the literature on Chinese ecological restoration and rural poverty reduction is extensive, a majority of them overemphasizes the function of ecological projects (Liu et al 2001;Liang et al 2006;Zhang 2006), but neglects the function of economic development and rural livelihood improvement.…”

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Economic Development, Rural livelihoods, and Ecological Restoration: Evidence from China

Wang

Yang

Zhang

2010

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This article uses a case study in Southeast China to demonstrate how the substantial changes in rural livelihoods have been driven by a combination of ''pull'' forces from external economic development, and ''push'' forces from local areas, leading to a shift in rural household economic activities: household outmigration and de-population of the countryside, changes in energy consumption, and most importantly, changes in land uses and eventually, ecological restoration. Such dramatic changes are becoming common across the Chinese countryside. It is pointed out that economic development has generally caused a deterioration of the environment at least at the early period of economic growth, but the positive impacts, especially in some ecosystem in rural areas, have become more apparent.

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Economic Development, Rural livelihoods, and Ecological Restoration: Evidence from China

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Yang

Zhang

2010

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“…Not only do they specialize on bamboo, but they may eat only two or three bamboo species, depending on their region, despite the presence of other bamboo species (e.g., [2,68,69]). We currently cannot predict impacts of climate change on various bamboo species or whether they will remain at lower elevations, shift upslope, or do both.…”

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“…A majority of the remaining populations have 20 pandas or fewer [3,5,75], putting them at risk of inbreeding and extirpation [4,76]. Enhancing their chance for survival will depend on improving connectivity by increasing protection of suitable habitat and establishing corridors to connect isolated populations [4,68,76].…”

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“…In addition to the restoration programs currently underway they have greatly expanded the amount of protected area in recent decades. The number of giant panda protected areas has increased from only 12 in 1980 to 33 by the year 2000 [2,68], and currently there are more than 59 protected areas [74]. Still, just 60% of giant pandas are currently found within protected areas [29].…”

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Modeling Impacts of Climate Change on Giant Panda Habitat

Songer

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International Journal of Ecology

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Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) are one of the most widely recognized endangered species globally. Habitat loss and fragmentation are the main threats, and climate change could significantly impact giant panda survival. We integrated giant panda habitat information with general climate models (GCMs) to predict future geographic distribution and fragmentation of giant panda habitat. Results support a major general prediction of climate change-a shift of habitats towards higher elevation and higher latitudes. Our models predict climate change could reduce giant panda habitat by nearly 60% over 70 years. New areas may become suitable outside the current geographic range but much of these areas is far from the current giant panda range and only 15% fall within the current protected area system. Long-term survival of giant pandas will require the creation of new protected areas that are likely to support suitable habitat even if the climate changes.

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“…The short-horned water buffalo (Bubalus mephistopheles) became globally extinct in early historical times . The decline of the giant pandas started in the late Pleistocene and accelerated in historical times (Loucks et al 2001;Zhang et al 2007), while the retreat of the elephants and rhinoceroses (one to two species) has occurred largely over the past 3000 years, with a progressive withdrawal of the northern boundaries of their distributions in the face of growing population pressures (Corlett 2007). Historical data suggest a threshold value of about four people per square kilometres for rhinos, and 20 people for elephants, above which they did not persist (Liu 1998).…”

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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terra australis 32Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2009. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Among saltbush greyer than seaweed we boardwalk the yeasting waves of the old golden-perch pond. List of volumes in Terra AustralisRabbit dung dots a lake bottom dry since their coming -only once, last century, after seven inches of rain a farmer had to rescue his sheep by boat.The roo bounces down-slope, a brown branch crackling.The professor's eye, noting the local runoff and what the westerlies do, observes seas that rush in and out of a continent's middle, salt lakes spreading and emptying, hills pimpling up and down with cartoon-like speed, or gullying themselves into extinction, rainforests and deserts zipping back and forth like Tom and Jerry. A human mouse plague swiftly swarms, perhaps soon gone.Impermanent planet. Impermanent surface. All under air and water. The lunette is a wave, a dumper of sand, a collapsing tower in the mad rabbit years when its top blew off and old bones winked through, with a vault's worth of fine stone cores.Once so simply mislaid in sand, now so obligingly sluiced out to the un-subincised world that smiles at stone knives. terra australis 32Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes v You might as well offer your table knife to a carpenter.Cane grass and the Dreamtime's stone fight the eroding rivulets together. In today's rare downpour each lost core, or blunted scraper crowns some tiny eroding hillock, plops its anchor in the dissolving silts.The bettong whose skin took off the stone tool's edge has vanished -sacrifice to future fertility.Through the softening soil Homo sapiens's skeleton bumps up like a carp's back.Waits for the wind to shave it off in pieces.A D-section and a ti...

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Giant Pandas in a Changing Landscape

Cited by 161 publications

References 5 publications

Economic Development, Rural livelihoods, and Ecological Restoration: Evidence from China

Economic Development, Rural livelihoods, and Ecological Restoration: Evidence from China

Modeling Impacts of Climate Change on Giant Panda Habitat

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

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