Human Expansion-Induced Biodiversity Crisis over Asia from 2000 to 2020
Asia stands out as a priority for urgent biodiversity conservation due to its large protected areas (PAs) and threatened species. Since the 21st century, both the highlands and lowlands of Asia have been experiencing the dramatic human expansion. However, the threat degree of human expansion to biod...
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| author | Chao Yang Qingquan Li Xuqing Wang Aihong Cui Junyi Chen Huizeng Liu Wei Ma Xuanyan Dong Tiezhu Shi Fanyi Meng Xiaohu Yan Kai Ding Guofeng Wu |
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| description | Asia stands out as a priority for urgent biodiversity conservation due to its large protected areas (PAs) and threatened species. Since the 21st century, both the highlands and lowlands of Asia have been experiencing the dramatic human expansion. However, the threat degree of human expansion to biodiversity is poorly understood. Here, the threat degree of human expansion to biodiversity over 2000 to 2020 in Asia at the continental (Asia), national (48 Asian countries), and hotspot (6,502 Asian terrestrial PAs established before 2000) scales is investigated by integrating multiple large-scale data. The results show that human expansion poses widespread threat to biodiversity in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia, with Malaysia, Cambodia, and Vietnam having the largest threat degrees (∼1.5 to 1.7 times of the Asian average level). Human expansion in highlands induces higher threats to biodiversity than that in lowlands in one-third Asian countries (most Southeast Asian countries). The regions with threats to biodiversity are present in ∼75% terrestrial PAs (including 4,866 PAs in 26 countries), and human expansion in PAs triggers higher threat degrees to biodiversity than that in non-PAs. Our findings provide novel insight for the Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG-15 Life on Land) and suggest that human expansion in Southeast Asian countries and PAs might hinder the realization of SDG-15. To reduce the threat degree, Asian developing countries should accelerate economic transformation, and the developed countries in the world should reduce the demands for commodity trade in Southeast Asian countries (i.e., trade leading to the loss of wildlife habitats) to alleviate human expansion, especially in PAs and highlands. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-834ab1de82784c549eaf2bcd60f519512024-03-03T07:29:51ZengAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Research2639-52742023-01-01610.34133/research.0226Human Expansion-Induced Biodiversity Crisis over Asia from 2000 to 2020Chao Yang0Qingquan Li1Xuqing Wang2Aihong Cui3Junyi Chen4Huizeng Liu5Wei Ma6Xuanyan Dong7Tiezhu Shi8Fanyi Meng9Xiaohu Yan10Kai Ding11Guofeng Wu12MNR Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area & Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics & Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Services, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.MNR Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area & Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics & Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Services, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.Center for Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, China Geological Survey, Baoding 071051, China.Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 999077, China.Faculty of Land Resource Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China.MNR Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area & Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics & Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Services, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China.Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan.MNR Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area & Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics & Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Services, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.MNR Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area & Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics & Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Services, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.School of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen 518055, China.School of Computer Science and Technology, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523419, China.MNR Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area & Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics & Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Services, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.Asia stands out as a priority for urgent biodiversity conservation due to its large protected areas (PAs) and threatened species. Since the 21st century, both the highlands and lowlands of Asia have been experiencing the dramatic human expansion. However, the threat degree of human expansion to biodiversity is poorly understood. Here, the threat degree of human expansion to biodiversity over 2000 to 2020 in Asia at the continental (Asia), national (48 Asian countries), and hotspot (6,502 Asian terrestrial PAs established before 2000) scales is investigated by integrating multiple large-scale data. The results show that human expansion poses widespread threat to biodiversity in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia, with Malaysia, Cambodia, and Vietnam having the largest threat degrees (∼1.5 to 1.7 times of the Asian average level). Human expansion in highlands induces higher threats to biodiversity than that in lowlands in one-third Asian countries (most Southeast Asian countries). The regions with threats to biodiversity are present in ∼75% terrestrial PAs (including 4,866 PAs in 26 countries), and human expansion in PAs triggers higher threat degrees to biodiversity than that in non-PAs. Our findings provide novel insight for the Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG-15 Life on Land) and suggest that human expansion in Southeast Asian countries and PAs might hinder the realization of SDG-15. To reduce the threat degree, Asian developing countries should accelerate economic transformation, and the developed countries in the world should reduce the demands for commodity trade in Southeast Asian countries (i.e., trade leading to the loss of wildlife habitats) to alleviate human expansion, especially in PAs and highlands.https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/research.0226 |
| spellingShingle | Chao Yang Qingquan Li Xuqing Wang Aihong Cui Junyi Chen Huizeng Liu Wei Ma Xuanyan Dong Tiezhu Shi Fanyi Meng Xiaohu Yan Kai Ding Guofeng Wu Human Expansion-Induced Biodiversity Crisis over Asia from 2000 to 2020 Research |
| title | Human Expansion-Induced Biodiversity Crisis over Asia from 2000 to 2020 |
| title_full | Human Expansion-Induced Biodiversity Crisis over Asia from 2000 to 2020 |
| title_fullStr | Human Expansion-Induced Biodiversity Crisis over Asia from 2000 to 2020 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human Expansion-Induced Biodiversity Crisis over Asia from 2000 to 2020 |
| title_short | Human Expansion-Induced Biodiversity Crisis over Asia from 2000 to 2020 |
| title_sort | human expansion induced biodiversity crisis over asia from 2000 to 2020 |
| url | https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/research.0226 |
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