各位会员：
如果有兴趣合作，希望看看下面信，并进一步联系相关教授。
李保国
With the help of some colleagues at the IUCN Global Mammal Assessment lab, we have collected data on the 1970s distribution of mammalian species, especially those subject to hunting in recent decades (if you want to read the methods in detail, I attach a paper we published in 2019 in Ecology for a sample of 206 species, description of the methods is in the SI).
My colleague Andrea Cristiano (in cc) has already produced 1970s maps for most of the great apes, but we could find reliable data for only a few smaller species, also due to the taxonomic changes experienced by primates in recent decades. We would like to compare past and current maps to identify the areas lost by each species in the last 50 years. By combining the experts' knowledge on the species and our expertise with global change, we would like to find a way to assess the main threats to the species, with a special focus on hunting in the lost areas. The main experts on the most impacted groups (e.g. David Mallon, Luigi Boitani, Mike Hoffmann) are part of our project.
These are species for which maps in the 1970s have already been made:
Allochrocebus_lhoesti
Allochrocebus_preussi
Allochrocebus_solatus
Cercopithecus_hamlyni
Gorilla_beringei
Gorilla_gorilla
Hylobates_albibarbis
Hylobates_moloch
Hylobates_muelleri
Hylobates_pileatus
Leontopithecus_chrysomelas
Leontopithecus_rosalia
Pan_paniscus
Pan_troglodytes
Pongo_abelii
Pongo_pygmaeus
Saguinus_oedipus
Saimiri_oerstedii
Symphalangus_syndactylus
I am writing to ask you whether you will be interested in collaborating on our work. Ideally, we would need info on the 1970s range of the primates that, according to your opinion, have suffered the most due to hunting. It would be great if you or your collaborators could produce the digitized maps (shapefiles), otherwise we could do that after receiving the images of the maps in other formats (e.g. pdf, jpg, png).
BE-FOR-ERC Research Fellow
Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "Charles Darwin"
Sapienza Università di Roma
