Toward a new generation of effective problem solvers and project-oriented applied ecologists

Battisti, Corrado; Amori, Giovanni; Luiselli, Luca

doi:10.5194/we-20-11-2020

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“…Local communities, ethnic minorities and local "wise people" (i.e., indigenous communities that often own unique knowledge about ecosystems) play a central role in the future of ecosystems [61][62][63]. Local "wise people" will be actively involved in managing and protecting community biodiversity [64]. In Xishuangbanna, large areas of tropical rainforest have been replaced by rubber forests with high economic value, forming a contiguous "green desert", which has seriously affected the services and functions of the local ecosystem [65].…”

Section: Increased Public Awareness Of Biodiversity Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biodiversity Conservation in Xishuangbanna, China: Diversity Analysis of Traditional Knowledge Related to Biodiversity and Conservation Progress and Achievement Evaluation

Huang,

Kuang,

Zhou

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Biodiversity plays an important role in maintaining the ecological balance of the earth. The study of traditional knowledge related to biological resources is a hot issue in the field of international biodiversity conservation. Xishuangbanna is a key area of biodiversity and a cultural hotspot of international significance. According to the Technical Regulation for Classification, Investigation, and Inventory of Traditional Knowledge Relating to Biological Diversity issued by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, we investigated and catalogued the traditional knowledge related to biodiversity of the Jino people who have lived in Xishuangbanna for generations, and collected 490 entries of traditional knowledge related to biodiversity of the Jino people. Drawing on the traditional knowledge diversity index calculation method proposed by Wang Guoping, the overall traditional knowledge α-diversity index of the Jino people is 0.63, indicating that the richness of the traditional knowledge of the Jinuo people is relatively high. The traditional culture related to biodiversity, the traditional knowledge related to agricultural genetic resources, and the traditional technology related to the sustainable utilization of biological resources are relatively rich and diverse. The diversity index is 0.86, 0.82 and 0.79, respectively. In addition, Xishuangbanna has invested a lot of energy in biodiversity protection, including the establishment of nature reserves, botanical gardens, zoos, ecological tea gardens and other species reserves, and the promulgation of laws and policies related to biodiversity protection, and has achieved remarkable results in in situ protection and ex situ protection. On the basis of analyzing the progress and achievements of biodiversity conservation in Xishuangbanna, this study points out that Xishuangbanna faces challenges such as the loss of traditional knowledge, insufficient conservation efforts, and great changes in land use, and puts forward corresponding suggestions.

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Section: Increased Public Awareness Of Biodiversity Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biodiversity Conservation in Xishuangbanna, China: Diversity Analysis of Traditional Knowledge Related to Biodiversity and Conservation Progress and Achievement Evaluation

Huang,

Kuang,

Zhou

et al. 2024

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“…From the point of view of the “planners”, it has been highlighted that ENs can represent a useful planning tool that regulates land use destinations (Jongman & Pungetti, 2004). However, yet Boitani et al (2007) underlined how an EN plan, in addition to being designed, should be tested to verify its effectiveness: it should be treated as a tool relevant to conservation biology as a science, and therefore as a true CC project equipped with objectives, actions, outputs, and outcomes that should be monitored through appropriate indicators (Battisti, 2018; Battisti et al, 2020; Hockings, 2006). These indicators should have characteristics of HF‐sensitivity but also be relatively common so as to show trends of variation following the project (Amici & Battisti, 2009; Battisti & Luiselli, 2011).…”

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Ecological networks as planning tools for African fragmented landscapes: Overcoming weaknesses for an effective connectivity conservation

Battisti¹

2023

Afr J Ecol

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Landscape‐based Ecological Networks (EN) have been considered a conservation tool developed to contrast habitat fragmentation (HF) as an anthropogenic process. This approach, based on the “core‐buffer‐corridors” model, has been largely applied in the Northern world to plan human‐dominated landscapes. However, an application of this process to the African continent should be carried out with criticism. When adopting the EN approach as a connectivity conservation tool, planners must remember that (i) it is important to be aware that “core–buffer–corridors” designs are species‐specific, (ii) the identification of connective areas can be biased due to a “framing effect”, (iii) planners and managers focus too much on areas of conservation concern and less on human‐transformed sites where anthropogenic threats arise, (iv) ecological and social processes are dynamic and that it is necessary to apply a flexible approach, (v) ecologists only partially know the HF problem; therefore, they will have to involve experts from other disciplines, (vi) spatial patterns of HF may be determined by multiple threats, often historically overlapping, (viii) no planning solution can be exclusively top–down (i.e., only through governmental Agencies) and that, especially in areas of rapid urban expansion and demographic growth, local populations must be involved because they can make a difference in achieving conservation successes.

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“…(2) The lack of effective management is a crucial factor that has led to the current situation. It is necessary to develop an effective monitoring system and put this into practice [1,69]. In addition, management activities should be scientific and reasonable [1,7,8].…”

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Responses and Indicators of Composition, Diversity, and Productivity of Plant Communities at Different Levels of Disturbance in a Wetland Ecosystem

2021

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Grassland tourism is a very popular leisure activity in many parts of the world. However, the presence of people in these areas causes disturbance to the local environment and grassland resources. This study analyzes the composition, diversity, and productivity under different levels of disturbance of the plant communities in the Kangxi Grassland Tourist Area and the Yeyahu Wetland Nature Reserve of Beijing, China. It aims to identify indicators of plant communities and their responses to different levels of disturbance. Our analysis shows that the plant community density and coverage have a certain compensatory increase under disturbed conditions. With the increase in disturbances, more drought-tolerant species have appeared (increased by 5.7%), some of which have become the grazing-tolerance indicator species in the trampled grazed area (TGA). For plant community productivity, biomass and height are good indicators for distinguishing different disturbances (p < 0.05). In addition, several diversity indices reveal the change of plant communities from different perspectives (three of the four indices were significant at the p < 0.05 level). For soil parameters, soil water content and organic matter concentration help to indicate different disturbance levels (the former has a 64% change). Moreover, the standard deviation of the plant community and soil parameters is also a good indicator of their spatial variability and disturbance levels, especially for the TGA. Our analysis confirms that the indicators of productivity, diversity, and soil parameters can indicate the disturbance level in each subarea from different perspectives. However, under disturbed conditions, a comprehensive analysis of these indicators is needed before we can accurately understand the state of health of the plant community.

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Toward a new generation of effective problem solvers and project-oriented applied ecologists

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Biodiversity Conservation in Xishuangbanna, China: Diversity Analysis of Traditional Knowledge Related to Biodiversity and Conservation Progress and Achievement Evaluation

Biodiversity Conservation in Xishuangbanna, China: Diversity Analysis of Traditional Knowledge Related to Biodiversity and Conservation Progress and Achievement Evaluation

Ecological networks as planning tools for African fragmented landscapes: Overcoming weaknesses for an effective connectivity conservation

Responses and Indicators of Composition, Diversity, and Productivity of Plant Communities at Different Levels of Disturbance in a Wetland Ecosystem

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