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The potential distribution and disappearing of Yunnan snub-nosed monkey: Influences of habitat fragmentation


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dc.contributorDayong Li, 980119lsc@163.comen_US
dc.coverage.spatialYunnan Province, Chinaen_US
dc.creatorXia, Wancai
dc.creatorZhang, Chao
dc.creatorZhuang, Hongfei
dc.creatorRen, Baoping
dc.creatorZhou, Jiang
dc.creatorShen, Jian
dc.creatorKrzton, Ali
dc.creatorLuan, Xiaofeng
dc.creatorLi, Dayong
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-01T16:43:58Z
dc.date.available2022-11-01T16:43:58Z
dc.date.created2020
dc.identifier10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00835en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989419305347en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50440
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-508
dc.description.abstractAnalysis of environmental variables and organism occurrence records offers insight that can be used to predict potential distribution areas and habitat fragmentation. For large landscapes, modeling is the most convenient and effective way to conduct habitat research. Two species distribution models, BIOMOD2 and FRAGSTATS 4.2, were given data on environmental variables and organism occurrence records as input and used to predict the potential suitable habitat and habitat fragmentation for the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti). Our results estimated the total area of potentially suitable habitat for R. bieti as 7412.82 km2, but only 4164.58 km2 was found to be inhabited by R. bieti. We found that the main land cover type in the potential suitable distribution area of R. bieti was evergreen needle-leaf forest (6153.95 km2, 83.02%). Comparison of inhabited and suitable but uninhabited habitats showed that areas actually inhabited by R. bieti had a lower patch density (PD) and higher largest patch index (LPI) than uninhabited habitats only in evergreen needle-leaf forest. The potential suitable habitats of R. bieti has increased significantly, but the actual distribution has shrunk from 1997 to 2017. Although the government has made great progress in protecting R. bieti, logging that took place before the regulations and the boundary effect of roads and rivers resulted in the local extinction of R. bieti in some potentially suitable areas. In view of this, we propose to establish a national park for Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys. We also suggest protecting the potentially suitable but currently empty habitats for later release of R. bieti. Successfully reintroducing R. bieti into areas where it formerly lived will require continual and careful habitat monitoring.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.ispartofGlobal Ecology and Conservationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2351-9894en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY)en_US
dc.subjectRhinopithecus bietien_US
dc.subjectpotential distributionen_US
dc.subjecthabitat fragmentationen_US
dc.subjectspecies distribution modelsen_US
dc.titleThe potential distribution and disappearing of Yunnan snub-nosed monkey: Influences of habitat fragmentationen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume21en_US
dc.citation.spagee00835en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0001-9979-2471en_US

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