What drove giant panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca expansion in the Qinling Mountains? An analysis comparing the influence of climate, bamboo, and various landscape variables in the past decade

The role of climate and aclimatic factors on species distribution has been debated widely among ecologists and conservationists. It is often difficult to attribute empirically observed changes in species distribution to climatic or aclimatic factors. Giant pandas ( A. melanoleuca ) provide a rare op...

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Main Authors: Qiongyu Huang, Audrey Lothspeich, Haydée Hernández-Yáñez, Katherine Mertes, Xuehua Liu, Melissa Songer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab86f3