After the rubber boom: good news and bad news for biodiversity in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China

doi:10.1007/s10113-019-01509-4

	After the rubber boom: good news and bad news for biodiversity in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China
	Zhang, Jia-Qi 1,2; Corlett, Richard T.1; Zhai, Deli3,4
通讯作者	Corlett, Richard T.(corlett@xtbg.org.cn) ; Zhai, Deli(zhaideli@mail.kib.ac.cn)
	2019-08-01
发表期刊	REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
ISSN	1436-3798
卷号	19 期号:6 页码:1713-1724
摘要	The expansion of rubber plantations in northern Southeast Asia over the last 20years displaced shifting cultivation and tropical forests. In Xishuangbanna, SW China, rubber occupied 22% of the area by 2010, reducing lowland forest to scattered fragments, with severe impacts on plants, animals, and ecosystem services. The rubber price has declined steeply since 2011, but consequences for forest biodiversity have not previously been explored. We use a new approach for vegetation mapping, combining phenological information with object-based classification, to produce land-use maps for 2002, 2010, 2014, and 2018. During 2002-2018, forest cover declined continuously, from 71 to 52% of the land area, while rubber increased from 11 to 24% by 2014, before declining to 21% by 2018. Other farmlands also declined while tea plantations increased. Forest patch number increased 8-fold during 2001-2014, while patch size decreased 10-fold, but these trends were partly reversed after 2014, with the loss of numerous small (<1ha) patches. Most larger (>10ha) patches in 2018 were forest throughout the study period, but many smaller patches are secondary. Currently, 20% of Xishuangbanna is in protected areas. Unprotected forest is disproportionately on steep slopes at high altitudes, while biodiversity is highest in valleys and at low altitudes, where only smaller patches remain, creating challenges for conservation planning. We recommend that all the largest patches are preserved, plus smaller patches selected for their biota, and that forest restoration is used to restore connectivity and buffer small patches of high conservation value.
关键词	Deforestation Fragmentation Rubber plantations Biodiversity Conservation China
DOI	10.1007/s10113-019-01509-4
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000477615300015
引用统计	被引频次：51[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/68248
专题	资源植物与生物技术所级重点实验室
通讯作者	Corlett, Richard T.; Zhai, Deli
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Integrat Conservat, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Menglun 666303, Yunnan, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Key Lab Econ Plants & Biotechnol, 132 Lanhei Rd, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, Peoples R China 4.World Agroforestry Ctr, East & Cent Asia Off, 132 Lanhei Rd, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Jia-Qi,Corlett, Richard T.,Zhai, Deli. After the rubber boom: good news and bad news for biodiversity in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China[J]. REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE,2019,19(6):1713-1724.
APA	Zhang, Jia-Qi,Corlett, Richard T.,&Zhai, Deli.(2019).After the rubber boom: good news and bad news for biodiversity in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China.REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE,19(6),1713-1724.
MLA	Zhang, Jia-Qi,et al."After the rubber boom: good news and bad news for biodiversity in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China".REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE 19.6(2019):1713-1724.

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