Life history pattern and fitness of an endangered Hainan Eld’s deer population
作者机构：Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation BiologyInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina College of Life Science and TechnologyCentral South University of Forestry and TechnologyChangshaChina
出 版 物：《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2011年第6卷第1期
页 面：63-70页
核心收录：
学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0303[法学-社会学] 03[法学] 030302[法学-人口学] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 0906[农学-兽医学]
基 金：We are grateful to Mr Youfeng Zheng and Mr Daliang Fu of the Bangxi Natural Reserve of Hainan Province for their help in the course of field data collection.We sincerely thank anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions that helped to improve the manuscript.The research was supported by the Key National Natural Science Foundation(Fund No.30430120) China Postdoctoral Fund No.20070410635 and the Introduction of Higher-Level-Talents Foundation of Central South University of Forestry and Technology(Fund No.101-0630)
主 题：Cervus eldi hainanus conservation fitness Hainan Eld’s deer life history pattern
摘 要：Understanding life history patterns,individual fitness and population fitness can assist with conservation of endangered *** data on life history traits(*** specific fecundity,age specific mortality,age at first reproduction,litter size and adult life expectancy)were collected from 121 Hainan Eld’s deer(Cervus eldi hainanus Thomas,1918),an in situ herd of an endemic,rare and endangered cervid inhabiting Bangxi Natural Reserve of Hainan Island,from 1990 to ***,we constructed a dynamic life table to analyze the life history pattern of the population,which showed that the difference between the average lifespan of males and females was not significant(P0.05),and that the difference between the average lifespan of the whole Hainan Eld’s deer population and that of other Eld’s deer populations living in South Asia(P0.05),North America(P0.05)and Europe(P0.05)was not ***,we used individual reproductive success or number of offspring of a male over its lifetime to estimate male individual *** analysis showed that male individual fitness was not significantly correlated with total antler velvet ***,we used the population intrinsic rate of increase to measure population fitness,and population fitness of Hainan Eld’s deer was compared with similar indexes of 5 other cervid *** Eld’s deer population fitness index was 0.012,the second lowest value relative to other *** indicated that this rare species is still endangered and is in need of additional protection.
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