Amur tigers and leopards returning to China: direct evidence and a landscape conservation plan

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• 作者：Tianming Wang ; Limin Feng ; Pu Mou ; Jianguo Wu ; James L. D. Smith…
• 关键词：Panthera tigris altaica ; Panthera pardus orientalis ; Camera ; trapping ; Human disturbance ; Cattle control ; Nature reserve ; Conservation planning
• 刊名：Landscape Ecology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：31
• 期：3
• 页码：491-503
• 全文大小：2,209 KB
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• 作者单位：Tianming Wang (1)
  Limin Feng (1)
  Pu Mou (1)
  Jianguo Wu (2) (3)
  James L. D. Smith (4)
  Wenhong Xiao (1)
  Haitao Yang (1)
  Hailong Dou (1)
  Xiaodan Zhao (1)
  Yanchao Cheng (1)
  Bo Zhou (1)
  Hongyan Wu (1)
  Li Zhang (1)
  Yu Tian (5)
  Qingxi Guo (6)
  Xiaojun Kou (1)
  Xuemei Han (7)
  Dale G. Miquelle (8)
  Chadwick D. Oliver (9)
  Rumei Xu (1)
  Jianping Ge (1)
  
  1. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Engineering & College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
  2. School of Life Sciences & School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
  3. Center for Human-Environment System Sustainability, State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
  4. Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA
  5. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science, Beijing, 100012, China
  6. College of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China
  7. NatureServe, Arlington, VA, 22203, USA
  8. Wildlife Conservation Society, Russian Program, Bronx, NY, 10460, USA
  9. School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Landscape Ecology
  Plant Ecology
  Forestry Management
  Forestry
  Ecology
  Plant Sciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9761

文摘

Context The Amur tiger and leopard, once roaming over the Eurasian continent, are now endangered and confined to the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Russia—a landscape that has been increasingly fragmented due to human activities. The ultimate fate of these big cats depends on whether they can resettle in their previous main historical range in NE China. Recent sightings of these animals along the China–Russia border have aroused new hope, but direct evidence is lacking.