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Nonhuman Primates in China and Their Conservation Challenges.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wei, Fuwen.
- Series:
- Hors Collection:-
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Les Ulis : EDP Sciences, 2025.
- Summary:
- This book compiles contemporary records of 28 primate species with confirmed distribution within China. It proposes prioritized conservation measures for key Chinese primates and develops comprehensive protection strategies.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Book Review
- Contents
- Chapter one: Dispersal, Migration, and Historical Dynamics of Primates in China
- Introduction
- Fossil data of primates in China
- Historical distribution data of primates in China
- Dispersion and radiation of the catarrhines in the Pleistocene
- Hylobatidae
- Colobinae
- Cercopithecinae
- Dispersion and radiation of the catarrhines in East Asia
- Reduction of existing catarrhines in the Holocene
- Summary
- Chapter two: Evaluation Report of the Survival Status of Primates in China
- Evaluation methodology
- Assessment criteria and definitions
- Division principle of threatened species
- Data sources for assessment
- The evaluation results of primates in China
- Nycticebus bengalensis (Lacépède, 1800)
- Nycticebus pygmaeus (Bonhote, 1907)
- Macaca arctoides (Geoffroy, 1831)
- Macaca cyclopis (Swinhoe, 1862)
- Macaca mulatta (Zimmermann, 1780)
- Macaca leonina (Blyth, 1863)
- Macaca assamensis (McClelland, 1839)
- Macaca leucogenys (Li et al., 2015)
- Macaca munzala (Sinha et al., 2005)
- Macaca thibetana (Milne-Edwards, 1870)
- Rhinopithecus bieti (Milne-Edwards, 1897)
- Rhinopithecus brelichi (Thomas, 1903)
- Rhinopithecus roxellana (Milne-Edwards, 1870)
- Rhinopithecus strykeri (Geissmann et al., 2011)
- Semnopithecus schistaceus (Hodgson, 1840)
- Trachypithecus francoisi (Pousargues, 1898)
- Trachypithecus leucocephalus (Tan, 1957)
- Trachypithecus crepusculus (Elliot, 1909)
- Trachypithecus melamera (Elliot, 1909)
- Trachypithecus pileatus (Blyth, 1843)
- Trachypithecus shortridgei (Wroughton, 1915)
- Hoolock hoolock (Harlan, 1834)
- Hoolock tianxing (Fan et al., 2017)
- Hylobates lar (Linnaeus, 1771)
- Nomascus concolor (Harlan, 1826)
- Nomascus hainanus (Thomas, 1892)
- Nomascus leucogenys (Ogilby, 1840).
- Nomascus nasutus (Kunkel d'Herculais, 1884)
- Chapter three: Achievements and Challenges of Primate Conservation in China
- Result of the evaluation report
- IUCN Red List for Threatened Species Assessment Results
- Results of the Red List assessment of threatened species in China
- Results of national protection level for wildlife assessment
- Proposed class variation for IUCN Red List threatened species categories
- Proposed class variation for Chinese Red List threatened species categories
- Changes in the protection levels of Nationally Key Protected Wildlife in China
- Conservation strategies
- Enhancing habitat protection and restoration
- Enhancing cross-border cooperation with neighboring countries
- Enhancing primatological research
- Monitoring ecotourism
- Promoting conservation awareness
- Chapter four: Bridging Conservation Boundaries - A New Conservation Platform Initiated with Primates in China
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 2-7598-3827-7
- OCLC:
- 1527933910
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