Measuring protected-area effectiveness using vertebrate distributions from leech iDNA

	Measuring protected-area effectiveness using vertebrate distributions from leech iDNA
	Ji, YQ; Baker, CCM; Popescu, VD; Wang, JX; Wu, CY; Wang, ZY; Li, YH; Wang, L; Hua, CL; Yang, ZX; Yang, CY; Xu, CCY; Diana, A; Wen, QZ; Pierce, NE; Yu, DW
	2022
发表期刊	NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷号	13 期号:1
摘要	Protected areas are key to meeting biodiversity conservation goals, but direct measures of effectiveness have proven difficult to obtain. We address this challenge by using environmental DNA from leech-ingested bloodmeals to estimate spatially-resolved vertebrate occupancies across the 677 km(2) Ailaoshan reserve in Yunnan, China. From 30,468 leeches collected by 163 park rangers across 172 patrol areas, we identify 86 vertebrate species, including amphibians, mammals, birds and squamates. Multi-species occupancy modelling shows that species richness increases with elevation and distance to reserve edge. Most large mammals (e.g. sambar, black bear, serow, tufted deer) follow this pattern; the exceptions are the three domestic mammal species (cows, sheep, goats) and muntjak deer, which are more common at lower elevations. Vertebrate occupancies are a direct measure of conservation outcomes that can help guide protected-area management and improve the contributions that protected areas make towards global biodiversity goals. Here, we show the feasibility of using invertebrate-derived DNA to estimate spatially-resolved vertebrate occupancies across entire protected areas. Invertebrate-derived eDNA (iDNA) is an emerging tool for taxonomic and spatial biodiversity monitoring. Here, the authors use metabarcoding of leech-derived iDNA to estimate vertebrate occupancy over an entire protected area, the Ailaoshan Nature Reserve, China.
收录类别	sci
语种	英语
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kiz.ac.cn/handle/152453/13261
专题	科研部门_生态学与环境保护中心（俞维理）
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ji, YQ,Baker, CCM,Popescu, VD,et al. Measuring protected-area effectiveness using vertebrate distributions from leech iDNA[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2022,13(1).
APA	Ji, YQ.,Baker, CCM.,Popescu, VD.,Wang, JX.,Wu, CY.,...&Yu, DW.(2022).Measuring protected-area effectiveness using vertebrate distributions from leech iDNA.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,13(1).
MLA	Ji, YQ,et al."Measuring protected-area effectiveness using vertebrate distributions from leech iDNA".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 13.1(2022).

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