Habitat suitability and connectivity inform a co-management policy of protected area network for Asian elephants in China

	Habitat suitability and connectivity inform a co-management policy of protected area network for Asian elephants in China
	Huang, C; Li, XY; Khanal, L; Jiang, XL
	2019
发表期刊	PEERJ
ISSN	2167-8359
卷号	7
摘要	Enlarging protected area networks (PANs) is critical to ensure the long-term population viability of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), which are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation. Strict policies of PAN enlargement that focus on wildlife conservation have failed largely due to difficulties in encouraging stakeholder participation and meeting the elephant habitat requirement. A co-management policy that promotes sustainable resource use, wildlife conservation, and stakeholder participation may have greater feasibility than the strict policies in a developing world. Here, we identified the suitable habitat of elephants using maximum entropy models and examined whether habitat suitability is indirectly associated with local economic development in human-dominated landscapes. We found that (1) the suitable habitat was mainly in areas of forest matrix (50% natural forest cover) with multiple land-use practices rather than relatively intact forest and near communities (mean distance two km) and (2) habitat suitability was negatively associated with local economic development (r(p) = -0.37, P = 0.04). From the standpoint of elephant habitat and its socio-economic background, our results indicate that co-management will be more effective than the currently strict approaches of enlarging PAN. Additionally, our results provide on-ground information for elephant corridor design in southern China.
收录类别	SCIE
语种	英语
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kiz.ac.cn/handle/152453/12441
专题	科研部门_兽类生态与进化（蒋学龙）
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Huang, C,Li, XY,Khanal, L,et al. Habitat suitability and connectivity inform a co-management policy of protected area network for Asian elephants in China[J]. PEERJ,2019,7.
APA	Huang, C,Li, XY,Khanal, L,&Jiang, XL.(2019).Habitat suitability and connectivity inform a co-management policy of protected area network for Asian elephants in China.PEERJ,7.
MLA	Huang, C,et al."Habitat suitability and connectivity inform a co-management policy of protected area network for Asian elephants in China".PEERJ 7(2019).

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