Climate change challenges the current conservation strategy for the giant panda

Biological Conservation

Volumn 190, Issue , 2015, Pages 43-50

  Shen, Guozhen ^a   Pimm, Stuart L ^b   Feng, Chaoyang ^c   Ren, Guofang ^d   Liu, Yanping ^e   Xu, Wenting ^a   Li, Junqing ^e   Si, Xingfeng ^f   Xie, Zongqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^e BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fragmentation; Giant pandas; Metapopulation capacity; Protected areas; Static conservation

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT TYPE; METAPOPULATION; NATURE RESERVE; PROTECTED AREA;

CHINA; GANSU; MIN MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN;

AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA;

EID: 84930656778     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.05.004     Document Type: Article

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