Human activities and elevational constraints restrict ranging patterns of snub‐nosed monkeys in a mountainous refuge

Huang, Pengzhen; Bian, Kun; Huang, Zhi‐Pang; Li, Qi; Dunn, Derek W.; Fang, Gu; Liu, Jiahui; Wang, Mengyao; Yang, Xianfeng; Pan, Ruliang; Gao, Cunlao; Kai-chuang, SI; Li, Baoguo; Xin, Qi

doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12490

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“…Meanwhile, there is strong food competition between Siberian ibex and domestic sheep, and Siberian ibex show strong avoidance behavior towards domestic sheep, which reduces their range of activity [84]. Thus, a series of human disturbances forces Siberian ibex to abandon potential suitable habitats at lower elevations leading to a reduction in the vertical distribution range of ungulates [85], which is similar to the effects found in primates and Walia ibex (Capra walie) [85][86][87].…”

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Siberian Ibex Capra sibirica Respond to Climate Change by Shifting to Higher Latitudes in Eastern Pamir

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Climate change has led to shifts in species distribution and become a crucial factor in the extinction of species. Increasing average temperatures, temperature extremes, and unpredictable weather events have all become a part of a perfect storm that is threatening ecosystems. Higher altitude habitats are disproportionately affected by climate change, and habitats for already threatened specialist species are shrinking. The Siberian ibex, Capra sibirica, is distributed across Central Asia and Southern Siberia and is the dominant ungulate in the Pamir plateau. To understand how climate change could affect the habitat of Siberian ibex in the Taxkorgan Nature Reserve (TNR), an ensemble species distribution model was built using 109 occurrence points from a four-year field survey. Fifteen environmental variables were used to simulate suitable habitat distribution under different climate change scenarios. Our results demonstrated that a stable, suitable habitat for Siberian ibex was mostly distributed in the northwest and northeast of the TNR. We found that climate change will further reduce the area of suitable habitat for this species. In the scenarios of RCP2.6 to 2070 and RCP8.5 to 2050, habitat loss would exceed 30%. In addition, suitable habitats for Siberian ibex will shift to higher latitudes under climate change. As a result, timely prediction of the distribution of endangered animals is conducive to the conservation of the biodiversity of mountain ecosystems, particularly in arid areas.

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“…Human activity (i.e., land use change and habitat fragmentation) is believed to be the key factor shaping the distribution range of large mammals (Real et al, 2010;Polaina et al, 2019;Huang et al, 2021). Human activities, such as land use transformation and artificial facility construction, are the major factors inducing the distribution change of Asian elephants (Lin et al, 2008).…”

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The recent Asian elephant range expansion in Yunnan, China, is associated with climate change and enforced protection efforts in human-dominated landscapes

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Recently, the northward movement of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Yunnan, China, has attracted international attention. Climate change or human disturbances have been proposed to be the key drivers, but these hypotheses have not been rigorously tested. In this study, we quantified the relationship between climate change and human impacts on the recent range expansion of Asian elephants in southwest China. We found that the first observation probability of this species in a new place during 1959–2021 had a significant and positive association with change in air temperature and human density, resulting in a movement toward a high-latitude region with a warmer climate and higher human density; however, its association with precipitation was scale-dependent in time: positive or negative during the past 10 or 5 years, respectively. Under the enforced protection policy, human-dominated areas became preferred habitats for elephants. Our results indicate that climate change and enforced protection efforts in human-dominated landscapes in the last few decades are significant drivers of the recent range expansion of Asian elephants in Yunnan, China. It is necessary to expand the current protected areas or habitat corridors toward the north or set up new reserves in the north and set up barriers between human settlements and elephant habitats to facilitate elephant movements and minimize human-elephant conflicts under accelerated global change.

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“…2020; Huang et al. 2021). For instances, recent studies on phylogeographic structural patterns in Mt.…”

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Genetic structure and recent population demographic history of Taihangshan macaque (Macaca mulatta tcheliensis), North China

ZHOU

Tian

2022

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Massive actions have been and are being taken into protecting the world's primates from extinction, while the study of the properties of genetic diversity, demographic history, and ecological relationships will benefit the understanding of the long‐term survival of a species. The Taihangshan macaque (Macaca mulatta tcheliensis), a subspecies of rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), is endemic to China and currently restricted to southern Mt. Taihangshan area. Herein, we evaluated the genetic diversity, population structure, and demographic history of this subspecies using mitochondrial (Cytb and high variable region I: HVR I) and nuclear markers (microsatellite loci) of 131 individuals collected from 9 localities covering the distribution range of this subspecies. Both phylogenetic analyses and genetic assignment revealed that the wild populations of Taihangshan macaques could be divided into 2 major highly divergent clades, THS‐east and THS‐west. Low genetic diversity (π: 0.00266 ± 0.00016) but high haplotype diversity (Hd: 0.80352 ± 0.015) were detected in the Taihangshan macaques, particularly in THS‐east. Analyses of demographic history suggested that the Taihangshan macaques experienced first a stable historical population size from Holocene to early 19th century but a subtle decline and then slight growth in the recent 200 years. We suggest that bridging the neighbor populations (i.e. setting corridors) would facilitate the male‐mediated gene flow and subsequently increase the genetic diversity of the Taihangshan macaque populations.

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Human activities and elevational constraints restrict ranging patterns of snub‐nosed monkeys in a mountainous refuge

Cited by 15 publications

References 39 publications

Siberian Ibex Capra sibirica Respond to Climate Change by Shifting to Higher Latitudes in Eastern Pamir

Siberian Ibex Capra sibirica Respond to Climate Change by Shifting to Higher Latitudes in Eastern Pamir

The recent Asian elephant range expansion in Yunnan, China, is associated with climate change and enforced protection efforts in human-dominated landscapes

Genetic structure and recent population demographic history of Taihangshan macaque (Macaca mulatta tcheliensis), North China

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