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DOI	10.1038/s41598-020-59969-2
	Hidden treasure of the Gobi: understanding how water limits range use of khulan in the Mongolian Gobi
	Payne, John C.; Buuveibaatar, Bayarbaatar; Bowler, Diana E.; Olson, Kirk A.; Walzer, Chris; Kaczensky, Petra
通讯作者	Kaczensky, P
来源期刊	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN	2045-2322
出版年	2020
卷号	10 期号:1
英文摘要	Most large herbivores in arid landscapes need to drink which constrains their movements and makes them vulnerable to disturbance. Asiatic wild ass or khulan (Equus hemionus) were widespread and abundant throughout the arid landscapes of Central Asia and Mongolia, but have undergone dramatic population declines and range constrictions; denying khulan access to water is believed to have played a major role. Mongolia's South Gobi Region now houses the world largest remaining khulan population, but is undergoing rapid land use changes. Khulan water use is poorly understood, largely due to the difficulty of mapping waterpoints used by khulan throughout their exceptionally large ranges, prone to high variations in precipitation. We used the special movement path characteristics of GPS tagged khulan to show us where water is located. We identified 367 waterpoints, 53 of which were of population importance, characterized the seasonal and circadian use, and identified snow cover as the most important variable predicting khulan visits during the non-growing season, and vegetation greenness during the growing season. Our results provide a data layer to help guide a regional khulan conservation strategy, allow predictions for other part of the global khulan range, and illustrates the overall importance of waterpoints for dryland herbivores.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000560381100010
WOS关键词	EQUUS-HEMIONUS ; NATIONAL-PARK ; DESERT ; PRECIPITATION ; DYNAMICS ; PATTERNS ; ANTELOPE ; DROUGHTS ; POINTS ; IMPACT
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/325664
作者单位	[Payne, John C.; Walzer, Chris; Kaczensky, Petra] Univ Vet Med Vienna, Res Inst Wildlife Ecol, Vienna, Austria; [Payne, John C.; Buuveibaatar, Bayarbaatar; Olson, Kirk A.; Walzer, Chris] Wildlife Conservat Soc WCS, Ulan Bator, Mongolia; [Payne, John C.; Buuveibaatar, Bayarbaatar; Olson, Kirk A.; Walzer, Chris] Wildlife Conservat Soc WCS, New York, NY USA; [Bowler, Diana E.; Kaczensky, Petra] Norwegian Inst Nat Res NINA, Trondheim, Norway; [Bowler, Diana E.] German Ctr Integrat Biodivers Res iDiv, Leipzig, Germany; [Bowler, Diana E.] Friedrich Schiller Univ Jena, Inst Biodivers, Jena, Germany; [Bowler, Diana E.] UFZ Helmholtz Ctr Environm Res, Dept Ecosyst Serv, Leipzig, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Payne, John C.,Buuveibaatar, Bayarbaatar,Bowler, Diana E.,et al. Hidden treasure of the Gobi: understanding how water limits range use of khulan in the Mongolian Gobi[J],2020,10(1).
APA	Payne, John C.,Buuveibaatar, Bayarbaatar,Bowler, Diana E.,Olson, Kirk A.,Walzer, Chris,&Kaczensky, Petra.(2020).Hidden treasure of the Gobi: understanding how water limits range use of khulan in the Mongolian Gobi.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,10(1).
MLA	Payne, John C.,et al."Hidden treasure of the Gobi: understanding how water limits range use of khulan in the Mongolian Gobi".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 10.1(2020).