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Relationship between giant panda populations and selected ecosystem services

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2020-08-01
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Zhang, J
Pimm, SL
Xu, W
Shi, X
Xiao, Y
Kong, L
Fan, X
Ouyang, Z
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The Convention on Biological Diversity's Aichi Targets address both biodiversity and ecosystem services. We explore the relationship between giant panda populations and three ecosystem services: carbon sequestration, water retention, and soil retention. Do pandas prefer areas with higher than average values of these services? Areas may be good for pandas but not for these ecosystem services, and vice versa. Answering these questions can focus panda conservation. We map their spatial distribution and temporal changes from 2000 to 2015, by watershed, to target future protected areas for both pandas and these ecosystem services. Pandas occupy watersheds with above-average carbon sequestration and water retention. There is no tendency for pandas to be increasing in watersheds that have higher than average values of these ecosystem services or in watersheds where they are improving. Protected areas represented watersheds with higher than average values of these ecosystem services but without pandas only poorly. Watersheds with pandas do provide higher than average ecosystem services, but watersheds above average for these ecosystem services often lack pandas. Those areas might be potentially important for pandas, but obstacles block their way. We identified conservation areas combining habitats, population, activity range, and higher than average values of these ecosystem services and then proposed new protected areas.
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Journal article
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Giant panda
Ecosystem services
Relationship
Protected areas
Conservation planning
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23517
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10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101130
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Zhang, J; Pimm, SL; Xu, W; Shi, X; Xiao, Y; Kong, L; ... Ouyang, Z (2020). Relationship between giant panda populations and selected ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services, 44. pp. 101130-101130. 10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101130. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23517.
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Stuart L. Pimm

Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Stuart Pimm is a world leader in the study of present-day extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. His research covers the reasons why species become extinct, how fast they do so, the global patterns of habitat loss and species extinction and, importantly, the management consequences of this research. Pimm received his BSc degree from Oxford University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974. Pimm is the author of over 350 scientific papers and five books. He i
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