College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

• Spatial and temporal patterns of fuelwood collection in Wolong Nature Reserve: Implications for panda conservation

  Published on March 21, 2013
  Approximately 3 billion people, half of the world's population, are still using fuelwood in their daily lives. Fuelwood collection has been recognized as an important factor in habitat fragmentation and degradation and biodiversity loss, especially in dev

• Performance and prospects of payments for ecosystem services programs: Evidence from China

  Published on June 23, 2013
  Systematic evaluation of the environmental and socioeconomic effects of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs is crucial for guiding policy design and implementation

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Multiple telecouplings and their complex interrelationships

  Published on October 1, 2015
  Even a protected area like the Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas in southwest China has multiple telecoupling processes with the rest of the world.

• Simulating Demographic and Socioeconomic Processes on Household Level and Implications for Giant Panda Habitats

  Published on June 15, 2001
  We developed a household-based, stochastic, and dynamic model that simulates the impacts of household demographic and socioeconomic interactions on fuelwood use, a key factor affecting the quantity and quality of habitats for the giant pandas.

• ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS - Changes in Human Well-being and Rural Livelihoods Under Natural Disasters

  Published on May 31, 2018
  Rural areas around the world are increasingly exposed to natural disasters.

• Spatial and temporal patterns of fuelwood collection in Wolong Nature Reserve: Implications for panda conservation

  Understanding spatial and temporal patterns of fuelwood collection is fundamental to understanding human–environment interactions and designing effective conservation policies.

• Space use by endangered giant pandas

  Published on March 29, 2015
  We studied 5 giant pandas using GPS telemetry and estimated home ranges, core areas, and space use using model-based approaches.

• Spatial and temporal patterns of fuelwood collection in Wolong Nature Reserve: Implications for panda conservation

  Published on February 27, 2009
  Understanding spatial and temporal patterns of fuelwood collection is fundamental to understanding human–environment interactions and designing effective conservation policies.

• Temporal changes in giant panda habitat connectivity across boundaries of Wolong Nature Reserve, China

  Published on June 1, 2007
  This study analyzed the changes in habitat for the giant panda inside Wolong Nature Reserve, Sichuan, China, and in a 3-km buffer area outside its boundaries, through a time series of classified satellite imagery and field observations.

• Accounting for ecosystem services in compensating for the costs of effective conservation in protected areas

  Published on October 3, 2017
  Protected areas are a major approach for conserving ecosystem services globally. Effective conservation in protected areas must integrate human livelihoods into the design and management of conservation.

• Factors affecting land reconversion plans following a payment for ecosystem service program

  Published on April 7, 2009
  We studied post-program land use plans for China’s Grain-to-Green Program (GTGP), one of the world’s largest ecosystem service payment programs, in Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas.

• Effects of payments for ecosystem services on wildlife habitat recovery

  Published on January 28, 2016
  A study on the conservation effectiveness of one of the world’s largest PES programs

• Temporal transferability of wildlife habitat models: implications for habitat monitoring

  Published on March 31, 2011
  This study provides useful guidance for habitat monitoring through the integration of remote sensing technology and habitat modelling, which may be useful for the conservation of the giant panda and many other species.

• Using cost-effective targeting to enhance the efficiency of conservation investments in payments for ecosystem services.

  Published on March 11, 2010
  Our results suggest that cost-effective targeting of land through the use of discriminative conservation payments can substantially improve the efficiency of investments in the Grain-to-Green program and other payment for ecosystem services programs.

• Human Impacts on Land Cover and Panda Habitat in Wolong Nature Reserve Linking Ecological, Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Behavioral Data

  Published on January 1, 2003
  We present an interdisciplinary study of human impacts on land cover and panda habitat in Wolong Nature Reserve.

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  A peek at the secret life of pandas

  Published on March 27, 2015
  A look at the panda's secretive society that has been closed off in the past.

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  Nature reserves aren't protecting pandas, research shows

  Published on April 5, 2001
  Panda habitat is being destroyed quicker inside the world's most high-profile protected nature reserve than in adjacent areas of China that are not protected.