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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1909896116
论文题名:
Long-term effects of cultural filtering on megafauna species distributions across China
作者: Teng S.N.; Xu C.; Teng L.; Svenning J.-C.
刊名: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 0027-8424
出版年: 2020
卷: 117, 期:1
起始页码: 486
结束页码: 493
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Agricultural intensification ; Biodiversity conservation ; Cultural evolution ; Extinction ; Human migration
Scopus关键词: agricultural land ; Antiquity ; article ; biosphere ; black bear ; brown bear ; China ; climate change ; conservation biology ; cultural anthropology ; elephant ; filtration ; human ; nonhuman ; species distribution ; tiger
英文摘要: Human activities currently play a dominant role in shaping and eroding Earth’s biodiversity, but the historical dynamics leading to this situation are poorly understood and contentious. Importantly, these dynamics are often studied and discussed without an emphasis on cultural evolution, despite its potential importance for past and present biodiversity dynamics. Here, we investigate whether cultural filtering, defined as the impact of cultural evolution on species presence, has driven the range dynamics of five historically widespread megafauna taxa (Asiatic elephant, rhinoceroses, tiger, Asiatic black bear, and brown bear) across China over the past 2 millennia. Data on megafauna and sociocultural history were compiled from Chinese administrative records. While faunal dynamics in China are often linked to climate change at these time scales, our results reveal cultural filtering as the dominant driver of range contractions in all five taxa. This finding suggests that the millennia-long spread of agricultural land and agricultural intensification, often accompanied by expansion of the Han culture, has been responsible for the extirpation of these megafauna species from much of China. Our results suggest that cultural filtering is important for understanding society’s role in the assembly of contemporary communities from historical regional species pools. Our study provides direct evidence that cultural evolution since ancient times has overshadowed climate change in shaping broadscale megafauna biodiversity patterns, reflecting the strong and increasing importance of sociocultural processes in the biosphere. © 2020 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/164372
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作者单位: Teng, S.N., School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China, Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, DK-8000, Denmark, Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, DK-8000, Denmark; Xu, C., School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China; Teng, L., Jiangdu Urban Development Archives, Yangzhou, 225200, China; Svenning, J.-C., Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, DK-8000, Denmark, Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, DK-8000, Denmark

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Teng S.N.,Xu C.,Teng L.,et al. Long-term effects of cultural filtering on megafauna species distributions across China[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,2020-01-01,117(1)
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