Combining camera-trap surveys and hunter interviews to determine the status of mammals in protected rainforests and rubber plantations of Menglun, Xishuangbanna, SW China
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acv.12588" target="_blank" >https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acv.12588</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acv.12588" target="_blank" >10.1111/acv.12588</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Combining camera-trap surveys and hunter interviews to determine the status of mammals in protected rainforests and rubber plantations of Menglun, Xishuangbanna, SW China
Original language description
Hunting and deforestation are the two biggest threats to vertebrates in Southeast Asia. In the last 50 years, monoculture rubber plantations replaced large areas of tropical rainforests in Xishuangbanna, southwest China. We set up camera traps at 109 stations (57 in forest reserves and 52 in rubber plantations) to determine the distribution of mammal species in Menglun, Xishuangbanna. We also interviewed 37 experienced hunters (mean age: 54) in the study area to understand their perceptions of species abundance trends. We used hierarchical multispecies occupancy modelling to determine the effect of distance to village, distance to forest edge and elevation on mammal occupancy after accounting for imperfect detection. We used non-parametric tests for the rank data to evaluate perceived species trends. Using a combination of historical literature (1954-1985), hunter interviews, direct observations and camera-trap surveys, we only recorded 56% (15 out of 27) of the medium-to-large sized (>1 kg) mammal species known previously from the study region. Interviews suggested that current population densities of all extant mammal species are below historical levels. Our camera traps captured 11 mammal species in the forest reserve and only two species in rubber plantations. Low capture rates (10 captures) in rubber mean we could only determine mammal occupancy in forests. Environmental variables did not affect community level mammal occupancy in forests, but common muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) and the northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) avoided forest edges. At the time of the survey, hunting was still prevalent in the region. Therefore, conservation interventions that end both hunting and deforestation are urgently needed to stabilize and increase mammal populations in the region.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Animal Conservation
ISSN
1367-9430
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
689-699
UT code for WoS article
000526149500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85083587565