Yixin Diao

Fudan University · Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering

Aims: Rapid urbanization processes have brought great challenges to the conservation of urban biodiversity. The small Indian civet (Viverricula indica) is a national first-class key protected wild animal, yet ecological research about its wild populations in urban environments is rare. The aims of this study are to: (1) understand how small Indian...

Establishing adequate nature reserves and managing them effectively requires an enormous amount of resources, and is particularly challenging when species and communities are believed to have diverse needs. Decision-makers need to understand how wildlife survives in human-disturbed habitat and how they can coexist with anthropogenic activities. For...

Human-wildlife conflicts in cities are becoming increasingly common worldwide and are a challenge to urban biodiversity management and landscape planning. In comparison to compensatory management, which often focuses on addressing emergency conflicts, precautionary management allows decision-makers to better allocate limited resources on prioritize...

Rapid urbanization has caused drastic changes in urban ecosystems, resulting in various urgent management needs from mitigating biodiversity loss to preventing human-wildlife conflicts. Using species distribution modeling to understand urban species’ distributional patterns and predict their future changes is thus important to support decision-maki...

Nature reserves are an effective tool in protecting species that are threatened by anthropogenic factors. However, various subtle but significant human disturbances still negatively affect wildlife, such as the incursion of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) into wildlife communities. We conducted camera trap surveys and tracked GPS-collared do...

Threatened species are inadequately represented within protected areas (PAs) across the globe. Species conservation planning may be improved by using public species-occurrence databases, but empirical evidence is limited of how that may be accomplished at local scales. We used the Three Parallel Rivers Region of China as a case to investigate the u...

Conservation decision-making often relies on species’ distribution changes in response to anthropogenic disturbances but overlook their temporal responses. Filling the knowledge gap on the temporal shifts as elusive responses of wild animals to human activity is important because this may provide information for more proactive conservation planning...

Under the disturbance of natural conditions or human activities, the normal function of the ecosystem is more or less affected. The acquisition of ecosystem disturbance information can provide an important reference for tracking the responses of climate change, exploring global carbon cycle paths and sustaining normal ecosystem functions. The rapid...

Many studies have evaluated the overall effectiveness of protected areas (PAs) in halting deforestation from a perspective of the entire PA system. However, few studies assess PA performance at an individual level, and investigate the effects of management level and establishment age of PAs. With nature reserves (NRs) in southwest China as the case...

Capturing the full range of climatic diversity in a reserve network is expected to improve the resilience of biodiversity to climate change. Therefore, a study on systematic conservation planning for climatic diversity that explicitly or implicitly hypothesizes that regions with higher climatic diversity will support greater biodiversity is needed....