China's endemic vertebrates sheltering under the protective umbrella of the giant panda

Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
Binbin V Li, Stuart L Pimm

Abstract

The giant panda attracts disproportionate conservation resources. How well does this emphasis protect other endemic species? Detailed data on geographical ranges are not available for plants or invertebrates, so we restrict our analyses to three vertebrate taxa: birds, mammals, and amphibians. There are gaps in their protection and we recommend practical actions to fill them. We identified patterns of species richness, then identified which species are endemic to China and then which, like the panda, live in forests. After refining each species' range by its known elevational range and remaining forest habitats as determined from remote sensing, we identified the top 5% richest areas as the centers of endemism. Southern mountains, especially the eastern Hengduan Mountains, were centers for all three taxa. Over 96% of the panda habitat overlapped the endemic centers. Thus, investing in almost any panda habitats will benefit many other endemics. Existing panda national nature reserves cover all but one of the endemic species that overlap with the panda's distribution. For whole China, of particular interest are 14 mammal, 20 bird, and 82 amphibian species that are inadequately protected. Most of these the IUCN currently deems thr...Continue Reading

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Aug 26, 2016·Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology·Gregor KalinkatIvan Jarić
Apr 12, 2017·Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology·Stuart L PimmBinbin V Li
Feb 1, 2017·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Weihua XuZhiyun Ouyang
Feb 28, 2018·Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology·Jussi JyväsjärviTimo Muotka
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