Change in the Distribution of National Bird (Himalayan Monal) Habitat in Gandaki River Basin, Central Himalayas

RAI Raju; PAUDEL Basanta; Changjun GU; Raj KHANAL Narendra

doi:10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2020.02.010

Journal of Resources and Ecology, Volume. 11, Issue 2, 223(2020)

Change in the Distribution of National Bird (Himalayan Monal) Habitat in Gandaki River Basin, Central Himalayas

RAI Raju^1,2、*, PAUDEL Basanta¹, Changjun GU^1,2, and Raj KHANAL Narendra¹

¹Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

²College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Fig. 1. Location of the GRB and species occurrences

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Fig. 2. Current (a, 2010) and projected (b, 2050) LULC

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Fig. 3. Land cover changes along the altitudinal gradient

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Fig. 4. Environmental variables and contributions Note: See Table 1 for descriptions of the variables.

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Fig. 5. Projected habitat changes of HM within the GRB in the future (by 2050)

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Fig. 6. Current (a) and predicted (b) habitat distributions in the GRB

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Fig. 7. Changes in very high suitability habitat at different elevation ranges in the GRB

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Table 1.
Environmental variables and their descriptions

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Table 1.
Environmental variables and their descriptions

Variable		Description	Retained or excluded
Climate	Bio 1	Annual mean temperature	√
	Bio 2	Mean diurnal range	√
	Bio 3	Isothermality	√
	Bio 4	Temperature seasonality	√
	Bio 5	Max temperature of warmest month	√
	Bio 6	Min temperature of coldest month	√
	Bio 7	Temperature annual range (Bio 5, 6)	×
	Bio 8	Mean temperature of wettest quarter	√
	Bio 9	Mean temperature of driest quarter	×
	Bio 10	Mean temperature of warmest quarter	√
	Bio 11	Mean temperature of coldest quarter	×
	Bio 12	Annual precipitation	√
	Bio 13	Precipitation of wettest month	×
	Bio 14	Precipitation of driest month	√
	Bio 15	Precipitation seasonality	√
	Bio 16	Precipitation of wettest quarter	√
	Bio 17	Precipitation of driest quarter	√
	Bio 18	Precipitation of warmest quarter	√
	Bio 19	Precipitation of coldest quarter	√
Topography		Elevation, slope, aspect	√
Land cover		Land cover data at 30 m spatial resolution	√

Table 2.
Current (2010) and projected (2050) land use and land cover (LULC) types

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Table 2.
Current (2010) and projected (2050) land use and land cover (LULC) types

LULC types	2010		2050
LULC types	Area (km²)	Percentage (%)	Area (km²)	Percentage (%)
Forest	13174	40.15	11344	34.58
Shrubland	821	2.50	1072	3.27
Grassland	3798	11.58	3366	10.26
Agricultural land	7574	23.09	8379	25.54
Barren land	3284	10.01	3147	9.59
Water body	168	0.51	115	0.35
Snow/Glacier	3887	11.85	5218	15.91
Built-up area	101	0.31	166	0.51
Total	32807	100	32807	100

Table 3.
The suitability status of current and predicted future habitat areas (km²)
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Table 3.
The suitability status of current and predicted future habitat areas (km²)
Habitat suitability Current Future
Very high 748.50 560.54
High 1532.99 846.76
Medium 2625.70 1849.90
Low 4520.88 9201.65
Very low 23379.74 20349.06

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RAI Raju, PAUDEL Basanta, Changjun GU, Raj KHANAL Narendra. Change in the Distribution of National Bird (Himalayan Monal) Habitat in Gandaki River Basin, Central Himalayas[J]. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2020, 11(2): 223

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Paper Information

Received: Oct. 25, 2019

Accepted: Jan. 20, 2020

Published Online: Apr. 23, 2021

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DOI:10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2020.02.010

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Table 1. Environmental variables and their descriptions

Table 1. Environmental variables and their descriptions

Table 2. Current (2010) and projected (2050) land use and land cover (LULC) types

Table 2. Current (2010) and projected (2050) land use and land cover (LULC) types

Table 3. The suitability status of current and predicted future habitat areas (km2)

Table 3. The suitability status of current and predicted future habitat areas (km2)

Table 1.
Environmental variables and their descriptions

Table 1.
Environmental variables and their descriptions

Table 2.
Current (2010) and projected (2050) land use and land cover (LULC) types

Table 2.
Current (2010) and projected (2050) land use and land cover (LULC) types

Table 3.
The suitability status of current and predicted future habitat areas (km²)

Table 3.
The suitability status of current and predicted future habitat areas (km²)