Integrative Conservation最新文献

{"title":"Integrative Conservation: A new journal from the conservation frontline\u0000 Integrative Conservation—来自生物多样性热点地区的保护类新刊","authors":"Yongping Yang,&nbsp;Harald Schneider,&nbsp;Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz","doi":"10.1002/inc3.14","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inc3.14","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Welcome to the opening issue of <i>Integrative Conservation</i>, a new global journal for biodiversity conservation, published by the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).</p><p>XTBG is located in tropical Asia (22°N, 101°E)—more specifically in the region where China, Laos, and Myanmar are stitched together by the waters of the Mekong (<i>Lancang</i>) river, not far from Vietnam and Thailand (Figure 1). This region, in the northern part of the Indoburmese Biodiversity Hotspot, is famous for its rich biological and cultural diversity and epitomizes many of the key conservation issues of the 21st century. Within a 50-km radius of our institute, there are dramatic examples of recent or ongoing rainforest loss and fragmentation, poaching, illegal wildlife trade, intense human–wildlife conflicts, and ecosystems threatened by climate change; but also the ongoing establishment and expansion of protected areas, the recovery of charismatic floristic and megafauna populations, rich local ecological knowledge, top-notch technology applied to the monitoring and conservation of rare species, ambitious ecological restoration initiatives, international cooperation for transboundary conservation, and world-class research. Against many odds, from this “remote corner” of tropical China, XTBG has become one of the leading institutions in conservation science and capacity building in tropical Asia (Qiu, <span>2009</span>). To further expand the services supplied to biodiversity conservation, XTBG is now launching this journal, <i>Integrative Conservation</i>, that is distinct from conservation journals published in Amsterdam, London, or New York, in that it is a journal from the conservation frontline.</p><p>Biodiversity conservation is arguably the most critical environmental challenge of our time, especially due to the irreversibility of extinction (Pimm, <span>2021</span>). Tackling this challenge requires more and better knowledge of biodiversity and its threats at different scales, and innovative approaches specifically designed for the effective conservation of biodiversity and natural resources. Biodiversity conservation is a young and still evolving academic discipline. The global scientific output has grown considerably and continues to do so (Figure 2). Despite this, massive knowledge gaps remain to be addressed (e.g., Nguyen et al., <span>2021</span>; Scheffers et al., <span>2012</span>), resulting in a pressing need for more research on biodiversity conservation and—or so we think—additional journals to publish this newly-generated knowledge. Arguably, journals are urgently needed with a broader interdisciplinary take-on to biodiversity conservation.</p><p>China is one of the so-called megadiverse countries—ranking fourth overall in terms of National Biodiversity Index (Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, <span>2011</span>). Most importantly, by embedding the goal of “achievi","PeriodicalId":100680,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Conservation","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inc3.14","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73343628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"China's wandering elephants: Integrating exceptional movements into conservation planning\u0000 中国亚洲象游牧行为的启示:整合特殊运动行为的保护规划","authors":"Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz,&nbsp;J. Antonio de la Torre,&nbsp;Ke Wei,&nbsp;Xiaoyu O. Wu,&nbsp;Yang Zhang,&nbsp;Yufei Zhu,&nbsp;Zicheng Yang,&nbsp;Shu Chen,&nbsp;Yang Bai,&nbsp;Richard T. Corlett,&nbsp;Fei Chen","doi":"10.1002/inc3.10","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inc3.10","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In May-June 2021 a herd of wild Asian elephants made global headlines when they trekked hundreds of km into areas where elephants had been absent for centuries, mobilizing a response of unprecedented scale. Here, we analyze the movement attributes and body condition of these elephants to understand this unusual behavior and its implications for megafauna conservation in the Anthropocene. We propose that these movements are a form of partial and irruptive nomadic behavior, although the data is also compatible with a failed attempt of dispersal. In their path to Kunming, the elephants made unusual habitat choices, using landscapes with higher nightlight intensity, and moving close to towns and villages, while avoiding areas with high forest cover, which we interpret as habituation to feeding on crops and lack of fear of people. Fifteen months after starting their journey, the elephants showed high body condition scores and had successfully delivered two babies, both indicators of good health, suggesting that their decision to leave their previous home range had paid off. In China, we recommend an elephant conservation strategy founded on area-based and area-specific measures, including protected areas, landscape connectivity, and the mitigation of human-elephant conflicts, as well as preparedness for expectable population range expansions, potentially on the scale of hundreds of km, in the coming decades. Our study highlights the ecological and behavioral plasticity of elephants and the importance of integrating movement ecology in conservation planning, especially for wide-ranging species.</p>","PeriodicalId":100680,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Conservation","volume":"1 1","pages":"40-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inc3.10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84342606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Threatened species are disproportionately important interactors in a seed dispersal network in Southeast Asia\u0000 东南亚地区濒危物种在种子散布网络中扮演着关键性角色","authors":"Aurélie Albert-Daviaud,&nbsp;Kim R. McConkey,&nbsp;Nidhi Jha,&nbsp;Colin Fontaine,&nbsp;Shumpei Kitamura,&nbsp;Anuttara Nathalang,&nbsp;Chution Savini,&nbsp;Tommaso Savini,&nbsp;Pierre-Michel Forget","doi":"10.1002/inc3.9","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inc3.9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Southeast Asia is a conservation priority region due to its high biodiversity—including megafauna—and high rates of defaunation, which has negative impacts on key ecological processes such as seed dispersal. Yet, seed dispersal interactions at the community level have rarely been described in this region. This is a major knowledge gap because medium-size and large animals are disproportionately affected by defaunation and they also have critical roles as seed dispersers. Hence, community-wide studies that encompass a full range of animal body sizes across diverse regions are required, to enable an improved understanding of defaunation impacts. Here, we (a) describe a highly diverse Southeast Asian seed dispersal network (Khao Yai National Park, Thailand), (b) assess the role of body size in identifying important animals and (c) determine if threatened species are disproportionately important in the network. The network is highly nested and modular, with species phylogeny, body size and seed size having a major influence on modularity; mammals and birds occupied different modules. Generalist species playing important roles in the network were mainly medium or large-sized. However, the largest disperser (elephants) played a relatively minor role in seed dispersal in this community, and bulbuls were important despite their small size. Many threatened animal species were important within the network as connector species and through their interactions with a larger number of plant species. Consequently, the resilience of this biodiversity hotspot is at threat by the potential nonrandom loss of the most important seed dispersers.</p>","PeriodicalId":100680,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Conservation","volume":"1 1","pages":"25-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inc3.9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81528402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trends and progress in studying butterfly migration\u0000 蝴蝶迁徙行为的研究趋势与进展","authors":"Shawan Chowdhury,&nbsp;Myron P. Zalucki,&nbsp;Tatsuya Amano,&nbsp;Tomas J. Poch,&nbsp;Mu-Ming Lin,&nbsp;Atsushi Ohwaki,&nbsp;Da-Li Lin,&nbsp;Li Yang,&nbsp;Sei-Woong Choi,&nbsp;Michael D. Jennions,&nbsp;Richard A. Fuller","doi":"10.1002/inc3.13","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inc3.13","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Several hundred butterfly species show some form of migratory behaviour. Here we identify how the methodologies available for studying butterfly migration have changed over time, and document geographic and taxonomic foci in the study of butterfly migration. We review publications on butterfly migration published in six languages (English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish), summarise how migration in butterflies has been studied, explore geographic and taxonomic patterns in the knowledge base, and outline key future research directions. Using English search keywords, we found only 58 studies from Asia; however, after searching in local languages, we found an additional 98 relevant studies. Overall, butterfly migration studies are mostly from North America and Europe. Most studies focus on three species: monarch (<i>Danaus plexippus</i>), painted lady (<i>Vanessa cardui</i>) and red admiral (<i>Vanessa atalanta</i>). About 62% of publications are focused on the monarch, with nearly 50% of migratory butterfly species mentioned in only a single paper. Several research methods have been applied to ascribe migratory status and to study the physiology, neurobiology, and ecology of migration; however, virtually all this research is on a handful of species. There remain hundreds of species for which we do not understand the comprehensive seasonal pattern of movement, flight destinations, wintering, or breeding grounds. A better understanding of movement ecology and migratory connectivity is needed to effectively conserve migratory butterflies. It is essential that research becomes more geographically and linguistically representative since migrants frequently cross political borders and international cooperation is necessary for their conservation.</p>","PeriodicalId":100680,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Conservation","volume":"1 1","pages":"8-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inc3.13","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79798284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remote assessments of human pressure on biodiversity may miss important human threats\u0000 遥感评估人类活动对生物多样性的危险可能会被低估","authors":"Christos Mammides,&nbsp;Francesco Martini,&nbsp;Constantinos Kounnamas","doi":"10.1002/inc3.11","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inc3.11","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Monitoring human pressure on biodiversity within protected areas (PAs) remains a challenging task due to the vast number of PAs worldwide (&gt;250,000) and the fact that we lack basic information for most of them. Consequently, researchers are increasingly relying on remote sensing techniques to overcome this challenge. However, remote assessments of human pressure on biodiversity may miss crucial threats, such as hunting and invasive species, which are often best documented through in situ field surveys. Here, we use a unique European Union dataset documenting human threats within 8210 PAs through field surveys to assess the relationship between those threats and three commonly used indices of human pressure that are largely derived using remote-sensing methods—the Human Footprint and Human Modification indices and the LandScan Global Population Database. We find that the indices are not always related to the threats recorded within PAs through field surveys. The indices seem to best capture threats associated with urbanization, agriculture, and pollution but not necessarily others. Although remote assessments of human pressure on biodiversity are crucial for conservation, researchers and practitioners must be aware of their limitations and must complement such assessments with information collected in the field whenever possible.</p>","PeriodicalId":100680,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Conservation","volume":"1 1","pages":"52-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inc3.11","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75773803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"We need to accelerate the digitization of existing botanical information and complete the global plant inventory\u0000 加快现有植物信息的数字化和完成全球植物编目迫在眉睫","authors":"Richard T. Corlett","doi":"10.1002/inc3.12","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inc3.12","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The availability of a global checklist of known land plants makes it possible to bring together all botanical information and make it accessible online. Two obstacles remain, however. First, most existing information is not yet digitized. Second, an estimated 10%‒25% more species are still undescribed and therefore invisible to science.</p>","PeriodicalId":100680,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Conservation","volume":"1 1","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inc3.12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79643742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}