Integrating priority areas and ecological corridors into national network for conservation planning in China

Liang, Jie; He, Xinyue; Zeng, Guangming; Zhong, Minzhou; Gao, Xiang; Li, Xin; Wu, Haipeng; Feng, Chao; Xing, Wenle; Fang, Yingying; Mo, Dan

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.086

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“…China thus represents a model for other developing countries by showing that economic development can be successfully integrate with environmental protection. Liang et al (2018) identified conservation priority areas and ecological corridors in China that, if preserved, will enhance the landscape connectivity and promote an efficient ecological network. Currently, about 19% of China's nature reserves are within those priority areas.…”

Section: Conservation-driven Studies Gapmentioning

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Research trends on bats in China: A twenty-first century review

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a b s t r a c tIn this century, China has sustained unparalleled economic development, leading to exponentially growing investments in scientific research. Yet, the demand for research-funding is large and tracing the current knowledge is a key step to define priority research topics. In this same span, studies on bats in China have uncovered an overlooked diversity and revealed novelties in bats' evolutionary history and life-history aspects. All this 21st-century knowledge, however, is scattered and a large part is concealed from most of the international scientific community in Mandarin-language articles. Here, we summarize the post-millennium (2000-2017) research on bats in China and point out trends and future directions based on neglected topics, groups, and regions. In addition, we provide an up-to-date list of bat species in China. We retrieved 594 publications related to bats in China, nearly half were written in Mandarin. At least 147 bat species are present in China, which places it among the most bat-rich countries in the world. There was a significant positive trend on the number of publications, from 12.5 annual average in 2000-2005 to 46.5 in recent years, reflecting the Chinese economic-scientific development in this century. We found marked taxonomic and spatial biases. Half of the studies in this century focused on Rhinolophus, Myotis, and Hipposideros, and the southern and eastern provinces were the most studied. Systematic/taxonomy and Ecology were the predominant topics post-millennium, whereas only 10 articles have clear conservation-driven goals. Our review shows that the majority of studies were focused on the least concern, cave-dweller species, and on bat-rich provinces. Future projects should address the effects of human-modified landscapes on bat community to define proper conservation actions. We discuss some priority actions and projects that will help to enhance bat protection in China.

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Section: Conservation-driven Studies Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research trends on bats in China: A twenty-first century review

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“…We used the Zonation software for spatial conservation prioritization to prioritize representative areas for biodiversity conservation. The Zonation meta-algorithm is a reverse stepwise heuristic that begins by assuming that the landscape is fully protected, and then progressively identifies and removes cells that contribute to smallest marginal losses in the representation of biodiversity features (Moilanen et al, 2005(Moilanen et al, , 2009(Moilanen et al, , 2011Lehtomäki and Moilanen, 2013). Zonation results in a prioritization hierarchy; these priority values were then used to identify locations that contributed most to biodiversity representation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Further, Magris et al (2017) developed a marine protected area (MPA) zoning system to accommodate multiple sets of conservations objectives (i.e., representing biodiversity features, maintaining connectivity, and addressing climate change impact) for Brazilian coral reefs. Such a selection process can be facilitated by the application of conservation prioritization software such as Marxan (Ball et al, 2009;Watts et al, 2009), C-Plan (Pressey et al, 2009), Zonation (Moilanen et al, 2005(Moilanen et al, , 2009(Moilanen et al, , 2011, and other spatial decision support tools.…”

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Designating Spatial Priorities for Marine Biodiversity Conservation in the Coral Triangle

Asaad

Lundquist

Erdmann³

et al. 2018

Front. Mar. Sci.

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To date, most marine protected areas (MPAs) have been designated on an ad hoc basis. However, a comprehensive regional and global network should be designed to be representative of all aspects of biodiversity, including populations, species, and biogenic habitats. A good exemplar would be the Coral Triangle (CT) because it is the most species rich area in the ocean but only 2% of its area is in any kind of MPA. Our analysis consisted of five different groups of layers of biodiversity features: biogenic habitat, species richness, species of special conservation concern, restricted range species, and areas of importance for sea turtles. We utilized the systematic conservation planning software Zonation as a decision-support tool to ensure representation of biodiversity features while balancing selection of protected areas based on the likelihood of threats. Our results indicated that the average representation of biodiversity features within the existing MPA system is currently about 5%. By systematically increasing MPA coverage to 10% of the total area of the CT, the average representation of biodiversity features within the MPA system would increase to over 37%. Marine areas in the Halmahera Sea, the outer island arc of the Banda Sea, the Sulu Archipelago, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Malaita Islands were identified as priority areas for the designation of new MPAs. Moreover, we recommended that several existing MPAs be expanded to cover additional biodiversity features within their adjacent areas, including MPAs in Indonesia (e.g., in the Birds Head of Papua), the Philippines (e.g., in the northwestern part of the Sibuyan Sea), Malaysia (e.g., in the northern part of Sabah), Papua New Guinea (e.g., in the Milne Bay Province), and the Solomon Islands (e.g., around Santa Isabel Island). An MPA system that covered 30% of the CT would include 65% of the biodiversity features. That just two-thirds of biodiversity was represented by one-third of the study area supports calls for at least 30% of the ocean to be in no-fishing MPA. This assessment provides a blueprint for efficient gains in marine conservation through the extension of the current MPA system in the CT region. Moreover, similar data could be compiled for other regions, and globally, to design ecologically representative MPAs.

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“…The first step in ESP construction is to identify ecological source, which is mainly conducted through assessing ecological suitability, ecological risk, ecological importance, or ecological connectivity (Su et al, 2016;Teng et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2016a). Among these techniques, ecological importance evaluation based on ecosystem services is the most common (Lin et al, 2016;Li et al, 2010;Liang et al, 2018). Ecosystem services are defined as the benefits human population gains directly or indirectly from natural ecosystems, such as food, clean water, flood control, climate regulation, erosion control, and recreation and tourism (Costanza et al, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

Linking ecosystem services and circuit theory to identify ecological security patterns

Peng

Yang

Liu

et al. 2018

Science of The Total Environment

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The rapid process of urbanization, accompanied by the sharp increase of urban population and expansion of artificial surface, has resulted in the loss of natural ecosystems and the degradation of ecosystem services. Identifying and protecting key places that have high importance for ecological sustainability are great challenges. Ecological security patterns are such an integrated approach to protecting regional ecological sustainability. In this study, taking Yunnan Province, China as a case study area, ecological sources were identified through ecosystem services, and circuit theory was used to model ecosystem processes in heterogeneous landscapes via calculating the 'resistance' or 'current', and thus to identify ecological corridors and key ecological nodes. The results showed that, ecological security patterns included 66 ecological sources, 186 ecological corridors, 24 pinch-points and 10 barriers. In details, the ecological sources were mainly distributed in the southwest and northwest of Yunnan Province, with the ecological corridors locating along the high mountains, and both ecological sources and corridors were mostly covered with forest land. Pinch-points covered by forest land and cultivated land, were distributed in the middle of Yunnan Province along the rivers. Approximately 75.9% nature reserves were located in the identified ecological sources, and the remainings were mainly distributed in eastern Yunnan Province with small area, showing the effectiveness in identifying ecological security patterns. Among 81 projects of low-slope hill development carried out in Yunnan Province, 46.9% showed potential human stress on regional ecological security. Based on ecosystem services and circuit theory, this study provides a new approach to identifying the spatial range of ecological corridors and the specific location of key nodes for effective ecological conservation and restoration.

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Integrating priority areas and ecological corridors into national network for conservation planning in China

Cited by 172 publications

References 73 publications

Research trends on bats in China: A twenty-first century review

Research trends on bats in China: A twenty-first century review

Designating Spatial Priorities for Marine Biodiversity Conservation in the Coral Triangle

Linking ecosystem services and circuit theory to identify ecological security patterns

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