Hope for the Giant Panda
Scientific Evidence and Conservation Practice
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Fuwen Wei
Evolutionary Biology
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Population History of the Giant Panda
The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) has an evolutionary history of approximately 8 million years, and its direct ancestors can be traced back to the primal panda (Ailurarctos lufengensis and Ailurarctos yuan...
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Reproductive Strategy and Dispersal Pattern of the Giant Panda
Reproduction, an important part of the animal life cycle, is fundamental for population growth and species persistence. In the 1980s, due to the difficulty of captive breeding of giant pandas, it was generally...
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Major Threats to Giant Pandas and Conservation Practices
Rapid human population growth and increasing human activities have severely affected the survival of giant pandas. On the one hand, large-scale deforestation, road construction, and economic development along ...
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Adaptive Mechanisms of Dietary Specialization of Giant Panda
The giant panda belongs to the Order Carnivora and has a digestive system typical of carnivores. Compared with typical herbivores, it has neither a large stomach nor cecum for microbial fermentation, nor cellu...
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Population Ecology and Population Genetics of the Giant Panda
Population size, sex ratio, and age structure are basic parameters of population ecology and are fundamental for studying population dynamics and viability analysis. The population dynamics (increase or declin...
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Open AccessChromosome-level genome assembly for giant panda provides novel insights into Carnivora chromosome evolution
Chromosome evolution is an important driver of speciation and species evolution. Previous studies have detected chromosome rearrangement events among different Carnivora species using chromosome painting strat...
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Genetic evidence of recent population contraction in the southernmost population of giant pandas
Anthropogenic habitat loss and fragmentation have been implicated in the endangerment and extinction of many species. Here we assess genetic variation and demographic history in the southernmost population of ...
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Spatial genetic structure and dispersal of giant pandas on a mountain-range scale
Understanding the spatial genetic structure of populations can provide insight into the ecological or evolutionary processes of the species, and enable wise conservation decisions. We examined the spatial gene...
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A new method for quantifying genoty** errors for noninvasive genetic studies
More and more noninvasive genetic data are being produced but a general methodology to quantify genoty** error rates from non-pilot data remains lacking. Here we propose a mathematical approach to estimate g...
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Food habits and space-use of red pandas Ailurus fulgens in the Fengtongzhai Nature Reserve, China: food effects and behavioural responses
The red panda Ailurus fulgens Cuvier, 1825 is endemic to the Himalayan-Hengduan Mountains. Many of its ecological traits are still poorly understood although important from a scientific standpoint as a highly spe...
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Factors Influencing Interannual and Intersite Variability in the Diet of Trachypithecus francoisi
Comparative studies of the diet of the same species in different habitats, and over the long term, are essential to understanding a species’ behavioral and ecological plasticity. Moreover, such studies can hel...
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Open AccessDietary Profile of Rhinopithecus bieti and Its Socioecological Implications
To enhance our understanding of dietary adaptations and socioecological correlates in colobines, we conducted a 20-mo study of a wild group of Rhinopithecus bieti (Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys) in the montane Samage...
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Choice of analytical method can have dramatic effects on primate home range estimates
Primate home range sizes can vary tremendously as a consequence of the analytical technique chosen to estimate home range. This is exemplified by a recent dataset on free ranging snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus...
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Ranging of Rhinopithecus bieti in the Samage Forest, China. I. Characteristics of Range Use
We quantified the home range and explored the style of ranging of black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) in the subtropical-temperate montane Samage Forest (part of Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve) ...
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Ranging of Rhinopithecus bieti in the Samage Forest, China. II. Use of Land Cover Types and Altitudes
We investigated composition and structure of a temperate montane forest called Samage at Baimaxueshan National Nature Reserve in Yunnan, one of the last refuges for the highly endangered black-and-white snub-n...
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Reproductive Characters and Mating Behaviour of Wild Nomascus hainanus
We report for the first time the reproductive behaviors of Hainan gibbons (Nomascus hainanus), based on 29 mo of field observations. Receptive females initiated courtship displays. Copulatory patterns involved th...
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Open AccessComplex population genetic and demographic history of the Salangid, Neosalanx taihuensis, based on cytochrome b sequences
The Salangid icefish Neosalanx taihuensis (Salangidae) is an economically important fish, which is endemic to China, restricted to large freshwater systems (e.g. lakes, large rivers and estuaries) and typically e...
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Measuring Daily Ranging Distances of Rhinopithecus bieti via a Global Positioning System Collar at **sichang, China: A Methodological Consideration
There are few data on the daily ranging distances of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti). We fitted 1 adult male from a natural group at **sichang in China’s Yunnan Province with a global positioning...
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Seasonal Variation in the Activity Patterns and Time Budgets of Trachypithecus francoisi in the Nonggang Nature Reserve, China
Activity patterns and time budgets are 2 important aspects of animal behavior that researchers use to investigate ecological influences on individual behavior. We collected data on activity patterns and time b...
