The primate extinction crisis in China: immediate challenges and a way forward

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dc.contributor.authorLi, Baoguo
dc.contributor.authorLi, Ming
dc.contributor.authorLi, Jinhua
dc.contributor.authorFan, Pengfei
dc.contributor.authorNi, Qingyong
dc.contributor.authorLu, Jiqi
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Xuming
dc.contributor.authorLong, Yongcheng
dc.contributor.authorJiang, ZhiGang
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Peng
dc.contributor.authorGroves, Colin
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-25T04:31:47Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-04
dc.date.updated2019-05-19T08:21:55Z
dc.description.abstractChina is facing an unprecedented set of challenges in balancing the effects of economic development and global climate change with environmental protection and maintaining biodiversity. Although positive steps have been undertaken to remedy this situation, currently 80% of China's 25 extant primate species are threatened, 15-18 species have population sizes of less than 3000 individuals, and two species of gibbonsand one species of langur have been extirpated over the past few decades. Today, virtually all species of primates in China inhabit fragmented landscapes and are distributed in small isolated subpopulations with limited opportunities to exchange individuals or genetic information. Here we present a historical framework examining how human-induced environmental changes, particularly since the second half of the 20th century, accelerated primate population decline in China. In addition, we modeled the expected spatial conflict between agricultural expansion and primate distributions over the next 25-75years and assessed the current overlap between protected areas and primate distributions. Depending on the assumptions of the spatial conflict model, primate distributions are expected to decline by an additional 51-87% by the year 2100. Thus, unless large-scale conservation policies are implemented immediately the current trend of primate population decline, local extirpation, and species extinctions will accelerate. To mitigate against such extinction scenarios, we advocate the creation of a Chinese national agency and repository of environmental information focused on public awareness and education, the implementation of targeted programs of habitat restoration designed to return impacted forests to a more natural state especially within and at the boundaries of nature reserves, the establishment of additional protect areas, and the construction of a latticework of corridors connecting isolated primate subpopulations. This comprehensive approach offers the most effective way to protect China's animal and plant biodiversity, including its endangered primate populations.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThis project was sponsored by the following Grants: Baoguo Li, Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of China (31730104) and National Key Program of Research and Development, Ministry of Science and Technology (2016YFC0503200), Ming Li (National Key R&D Program of China, 2016YFC0503200 and Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, XDPB0202), Pengfei Fan (National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals in China, National Natural Science Foundation of China—NNSFC, 30900169; 31160424; 31372216). Jiqi Lu (NNSFC, 31472018 and 31672302) and Qingyong Ni (NNSFC, 31501873 and Kadoorie Conservation China, Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden Corporation). Jinhua Li (NSFC, No. 31672307 and 31372215). Sidney Gouveia (Brazilian CNPq Grants, Procs. #303180/2016-1 and 402469/2016-0); Zhipang Huang (Collaborative Innovation Center for Biodiversity and Conservation in the Three Parallel Rivers Region of China).en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0960-3115en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/186600
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherKluwer Academic Publishersen_AU
dc.rights© 2018 Springer Nature B.V.en_AU
dc.sourceBiodiversity and Conservationen_AU
dc.subjectPrimate conservationen_AU
dc.subjectExtinction risken_AU
dc.subjectHabitat restorationen_AU
dc.subjectEnvironmental sustainabilityen_AU
dc.titleThe primate extinction crisis in China: immediate challenges and a way forwarden_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-08-21
local.bibliographicCitation.issue13en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage3327en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage3301en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLi, Baoguo, Northwest Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLi, Ming, Chinese Academy of Sciencesen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLi, Jinhua, Anhui Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationFan, Pengfei, Sun Yat‐sen Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationNi, Qingyong, Sichuan Agricultural Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLu, Jiqi, Zhengzhou Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationZhou, Xuming, Chinese Academy of Sciencesen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLong, Yongcheng, The Nature Conservancyen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationJiang, ZhiGang, Chinese Academy of Sciencesen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationZhang, Peng, Sun Yat-sen Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGroves, Colin, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu7400233@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidGroves, Colin, u7400233en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160102 - Biological (Physical) Anthropologyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970106 - Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciencesen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4485658xPUB1515en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume27en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1007/s10531-018-1614-yen_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85053417995
local.identifier.thomsonID000445737300001
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4485658en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://link.springer.comen_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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