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FOREST RESOURCES WANAGEMENT ›› 2011›› Issue (1): 49-54.

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Planning a Powerful and Efficient Protected Area Network Based on Suitable Habitats—Take the adjusting of giant panda reserves and network inQinling Mountains as an example

GONG Minghao, GAO Zuofeng, HOU Meng   

  1. Academy of Forest Inventory and Planning,SFA,Beijing 100714,China
  • Received:2010-09-16 Revised:2010-10-22 Online:2011-02-28 Published:2020-12-16

Abstract: Unscientific planning is the main problem in the process of the construction of nature reserves in China.Through the evaluation on suitable habitats for giant pandas within the reserve network in Qinling Mountains,we found that the current reserve network did not comply with the bio-border of suitable habitats without scientific planning for its establishment,which resulted in the great difference of surviving environmental quality in various giant panda reserves and the imbalance of the functions of the reserve network.Therefore,this decreased the efficiency and conservation achievements.Suitable habitat is the land which contributes to the conservation functions in nature reserves,and it will also conduct the functions of nature reserves.Finally suitable habitats should be the focus when planning of nature reserves and the network is to be done.The planning and adjusting of the reserve and its network based on suitable habitats can improve its functions and efficiency,decrease the land cost of conservation,and effectively alleviate the conflict between conservation and development.

Key words: reserve, network, planning, suitable habitat, giant panda.

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