Spatio-temporal responses of male Reeves's pheasants Syrmaticus reevesii to forest edges in the Dabie Mountains, central China

AbstractMany recently designated or expanded nature reserves in China were forest farms that ceased operations in the aftermath of the catastrophic Yangtze River floods of 1998. Although the vegetation in many of these areas has been altered significantly during forestry operations, there is now an opportunity to reduce, or even reverse, habitat loss for wildlife species that inhabit these forests. One such species is the globally threatened Reeves's Pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii that is endemic to the forested mountains of central and south-west China. From April 2000 to August 2003, the habitat use by 14 male Reeves's Pheasants was studied by radio-tracking at Dongzhai National Nature Reserve in the Dabie Mountains, central China. Conifer-broadleaf mixed forest was used preferentially in all seasons at the study area scale, as were mature fir plantations and shrubby vegetation. Moreover, young fir plantations were used preferentially during the breeding season at the scale of the home range. Surveys recorded the pheasant in 13 other protected areas in the Dabie Mountains, and indicated that broadly similar habitat types were available in all of them. Furthermore, Reeves's Pheasant were found in habitats similar to those used preferentially at Dongzhai National Nature Reserve. It seems likely that a mosaic of habitats is crucial to meet the various requirements of male Reeves's Pheasants throughout the year and management should therefore concentrate on maintaining this mosaic. It is now important to identify the habitats that produce the most young pheasants so that nesting and brood-rearing habitats can be clearly identified. Further studies on the habitat mosaic would be useful, both at a local scale and also at a larger, landscape scale.

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Mesozoic high-K granitic rocks from the eastern Dabie Mountains, Central China and their geological implications

Science in China Series D Earth Sciences ◽

10.1007/bf02876212 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 44 (6) ◽

pp. 525-534 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Chunjing Wei ◽

Lifei Zhang ◽

Shiguang Wang

Keyword(s):

Central China ◽

Granitic Rocks ◽

Dabie Mountains ◽

High K ◽

Geological Implications

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Variability of throughfall quantity in a mixed evergreen-deciduous broadleaved forest in central China

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics ◽

10.2478/johh-2019-0008 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 67 (3) ◽

pp. 225-231 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lei Su ◽

Zongqiang Xie ◽

Wenting Xu ◽

Changming Zhao

Keyword(s):

Rainfall Intensity ◽

Forest Type ◽

Terrestrial Ecosystem ◽

Rainfall Amount ◽

Central China ◽

Rainfall Characteristics ◽

Evergreen Broadleaved Forest ◽

Transitional Type ◽

The Mean ◽

Spatio Temporal

Abstract Mixed evergreen-deciduous broadleaved forest is the transitional type of evergreen broadleaved forest and deciduous broadleaved forest, and plays a unique eco-hydrologic role in terrestrial ecosystem. We investigated the spatio-temporal patterns of throughfall volume of the forest type in Shennongjia, central China. The results indicated that throughfall represented 84.8% of gross rainfall in the forest. The mean CV (coefficient of variation) of throughfall was 27.27%. Inter-event variability in stand-scale throughfall generation can be substantially altered due to changes in rainfall characteristics, throughfall CV decreased with increasing rainfall amount and intensity, and reached a quasi-constant level when rainfall amount reached 25 mm or rainfall intensity reached 2 mm h−1. During the leafed period, the spatial pattern of throughfall was highly temporal stable, which may result in spatial heterogeneity of soil moisture.

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Compound Droughts and Heat Waves in China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11123270 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 3270 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Lei Ye ◽

Ke Shi ◽

Zhuohang Xin ◽

Chao Wang ◽

Chi Zhang

Keyword(s):

Heat Wave ◽

North China ◽

Heat Waves ◽

Northwest China ◽

Central China ◽

Spatio Temporal ◽

The 1960S ◽

Increasing Trends ◽

Climate Events ◽

The Impact

Droughts and heat waves both are natural extreme climate events occurring in most parts of the world. To understand the spatio-temporal characteristics of droughts and heat waves in China, we examine changes in droughts, heat waves, and the compound of both during 1961–2017 based on high resolution gridded monthly sc_PDSI and daily temperature data. Results show that North China and Northwest China are the two regions that experience the most frequent droughts, while Central China is the least drought-affected region. Significant drought decreasing trends were mostly observed Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Tibet provinces, while the belt region between Yunnan and Heilongjiang provinces experienced significant drought increasing trends. Heat waves occur more frequently than droughts, and the increase of heat wave occurrence is also more obvious. The increasing of heat wave occurrence since the 2000s has been unprecedented. The compound droughts and heat waves were mild from the 1960s to 1980s, and began to increase in 1990s. Furthermore, the significant increasing trends of the percentage of compound droughts and heat waves to droughts are observed in entire China, and more than 90% drought occurrences are accompanied by one or more heat waves in the 2010s. The results highlight the increased percentage of compound droughts and heat waves and call for improved efforts on assessing the impact of compound extremes, especially in an era of changing climate.

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A high precision U–Pb age of metamorphic rutile in coesite-bearing eclogite from the Dabie Mountains in central China: a new constraint on the cooling history

Chemical Geology ◽

10.1016/s0009-2541(03)00194-3 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 200 (3-4) ◽

pp. 255-265 ◽

Cited By ~ 58

Author(s):

Qiuli Li ◽

Shuguang Li ◽

Yong-Fei Zheng ◽

Huimin Li ◽

Hans Joachim Massonne ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High Precision ◽

Central China ◽

Dabie Mountains ◽

Cooling History

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Dramatic decline of the Vulnerable Reeves's pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii, endemic to central China

Oryx ◽

10.1017/s0030605313000914 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 529-534 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Chunfa Zhou ◽

Jiliang Xu ◽

Zhengwang Zhang

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

Population Decline ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Central China ◽

Current Status ◽

Term Survival ◽

Field Surveys ◽

Dramatic Decline ◽

Syrmaticus Reevesii

AbstractThe current status and distribution of the Vulnerable Reeves's pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii, endemic to central China, is poorly known. To obtain updated information on its status we selected 89 candidate sites in six provinces and one municipality in central China and conducted interviews and field surveys from April 2011 to April 2012. Interviews demonstrated the pheasant has disappeared from 46% of the surveyed sites. Our results also revealed a population decline at 46 sites, including protected areas, although population densities in protected areas were higher than those in non-protected areas. Eighty-three, 26 and 20% of the surveyed sites had evidence of poaching, habitat loss and use of poison, respectively, which were the three major threats to this species. To ensure the long-term survival of Reeves's pheasant in China, protection and management need to be enforced in both protected and non-protected areas. We recommend that this species should be upgraded to a national first-level protected species in China and recategorized as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.

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Recycling of deeply subducted continental crust in the Dabie Mountains, central China

Lithos ◽

10.1016/j.lithos.2006.09.019 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 96 (1-2) ◽

pp. 151-169 ◽

Cited By ~ 89

Author(s):

Fang Huang ◽

Shuguang Li ◽

Feng Dong ◽

Qiuli Li ◽

Fukun Chen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Continental Crust ◽

Central China ◽

Dabie Mountains

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Interaction between subducted continental crust and the mantle — evidences from dabie mountains, Central China

Chinese Science Bulletin ◽

10.1007/bf02891494 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 43 (S1) ◽

pp. 75-75

Author(s):

S. Li ◽

Y. Nie ◽

D. Liu ◽

S. R. Hart ◽

Z. Zhang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Continental Crust ◽

Central China ◽

Dabie Mountains

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Determination and geological significance of the eclogites from the northern Dabie Mountains, central China

Chinese Science Bulletin ◽

10.1007/bf02898924 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 253-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Chunjing Wei ◽

Zhengang Shan ◽

Lifei Zhang ◽

Shiguang Wang ◽

Zongguang Chang

Keyword(s):

Central China ◽

Dabie Mountains ◽

Geological Significance

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Regionally divergent drivers of historical diversification in the late Quaternary in a widely distributed generalist species, the common pheasant Phasianus colchicus

10.1101/2019.12.21.881813 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Simin Liu ◽

Yang Liu ◽

Edouard Jelen ◽

Mansour Alibadian ◽

Cheng-Te Yao ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Central Asia ◽

Demographic History ◽

Central China ◽

Phylogeographic Structure ◽

Phasianus Colchicus ◽

Widespread Species ◽

South Central ◽

Common Pheasant ◽

The Common ◽

Spatio Temporal

ABSTRACTAimHistorical factors such as Pleistocene climate cycles and associated environmental changes have influenced the phylogeographic structure and demographic dynamics of many species. Resulting patterns not only depend on species’ life-history but also vary regionally. Consequently, different populations of species with large ranges over different biomes might have experienced divergent drivers of diversification and show different population histories. Such a representative species is the common pheasant Phasianus colchicus, an ecological generalist with a wide distribution in the Palearctic and at the edge of the Oriental region. We aimed at identifying distinct phylogeographic lineages of the common pheasant and investigating their evolutionary trajectories.Study locationAsiaMethodsWe used coalescent approaches to describe the phylogeographic structure and to reconstruct the spatio-temporal diversification and demographic history of the common pheasant based on a comprehensive geographic sampling of 265 individuals genotyped at seven nuclear and two mitochondrial loci.ResultsThe common pheasant diversified during the late Pleistocene into eight distinct evolutionary lineages which only partly correspond to traditional morphological groups. It originated at the edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau and spread from there to East and Central Asia. Only the widely distributed genetically uniform lowland lineage of East Asia showed a recent range and population expansion, starting during last glacial. More phylogeographic structure was found elsewhere with lineages showing no signs of recent range expansions. One lineage of subtropical south-central China this is the result of long-term isolation in a climatically stable and topographically complex region. In others from arid Central Asia and China, demographic and range expansions were impeded by repeated population fragmentation during dry glacial and recent aridification. Given such a phylogeographic structure and demographic scenarios among lineages, we proposed split the range-wide common pheasant into three species.Main conclusionsSpatio-temporal phylogeographic frameworks of widespread species complexes such as the common pheasant provide valuable opportunities to identify regionally divergent drivers of diversification.

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