Mapping human pressure in China and implications for biodiversity conservation
Protected areas (PAs) are crucial for supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services, but human pressure increasing within PAs, which remain poorly understood, will undermine this. Here, we used the human modification model to map the comprehensive human pressure for China and analyze its changes in...
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| description | Protected areas (PAs) are crucial for supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services, but human pressure increasing within PAs, which remain poorly understood, will undermine this. Here, we used the human modification model to map the comprehensive human pressure for China and analyze its changes in nature reserves (NRs, the primary category of PAs in China) during 2000–2020. We found that human pressure within NRs showed decreasing trends with fluctuations, far lower than the whole country. But in eastern and northeastern China, human pressure within NRs has been increasing since 2000. NRs in China can be classified into the national, provincial, prefectural, and county levels, and an individual NR can be further classified into strictly protected core zones, buffer zones allowing limited human use, and experimental zones that examine different land uses. The stricter the management level of the NRs, the lower the human pressure. Our results show substantial progress in China's NRs management, but existing conservation actions are not enough for conservation targets. Strictly conservation areas must be expanded to promote conservation planning and complimented by multi-coordinated regional policy for biodiversity conservation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bd26def47c4a43799f0d81fc155d3cbf2023-12-01T05:01:02ZengElsevierEcological Indicators1470-160X2024-01-01158111325Mapping human pressure in China and implications for biodiversity conservationQuanxin Luo0Shicheng Li1Department of Land Resource Management, School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, ChinaCorresponding author.; Department of Land Resource Management, School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, ChinaProtected areas (PAs) are crucial for supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services, but human pressure increasing within PAs, which remain poorly understood, will undermine this. Here, we used the human modification model to map the comprehensive human pressure for China and analyze its changes in nature reserves (NRs, the primary category of PAs in China) during 2000–2020. We found that human pressure within NRs showed decreasing trends with fluctuations, far lower than the whole country. But in eastern and northeastern China, human pressure within NRs has been increasing since 2000. NRs in China can be classified into the national, provincial, prefectural, and county levels, and an individual NR can be further classified into strictly protected core zones, buffer zones allowing limited human use, and experimental zones that examine different land uses. The stricter the management level of the NRs, the lower the human pressure. Our results show substantial progress in China's NRs management, but existing conservation actions are not enough for conservation targets. Strictly conservation areas must be expanded to promote conservation planning and complimented by multi-coordinated regional policy for biodiversity conservation.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X2301467XProtected areaConservation managementConservation planningHuman pressureHuman modification |
| spellingShingle | Quanxin Luo Shicheng Li Mapping human pressure in China and implications for biodiversity conservation Ecological Indicators Protected area Conservation management Conservation planning Human pressure Human modification |
| title | Mapping human pressure in China and implications for biodiversity conservation |
| title_full | Mapping human pressure in China and implications for biodiversity conservation |
| title_fullStr | Mapping human pressure in China and implications for biodiversity conservation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mapping human pressure in China and implications for biodiversity conservation |
| title_short | Mapping human pressure in China and implications for biodiversity conservation |
| title_sort | mapping human pressure in china and implications for biodiversity conservation |
| topic | Protected area Conservation management Conservation planning Human pressure Human modification |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X2301467X |
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