Title
Conserving the World's Finest Grassland Amidst Ambitious National Development
Author(s)
Batsaikhan, N.;Buuveibaatar, B.;Chimed, B.;Enkhtuya, O.;Galbrakh, D.;Ganbaatar, O.;Lkhagvasuren, B.;Nandintsetseg, D.;Berger, J.;Calabrese, J. M.;Edwards, A. E.;Fagan, W. F.;Fuller, T. K.;Heiner, M.;Ito, T. Y.;Kaczensky, P.;Leimgruber, P.;Lushchekina, A.;Milner-Gulland, E. J.;Mueller, T.;Murray, M. G.;Olson, K. A.;Reading, R.;Schaller, G. B.;Stubbe, A.;Stubbe, M.;Walzer, C.;Von Wehrden, H.;Whitten, T.
Published
2014
Publisher
Conservation Biology
Published Version DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12297
Abstract
Animal migration, one of the most fascinating of all behaviors, links ecosystems and has profound ecological consequences over very large scales. Ungulate migrations are among the most imperiled ecological phenomena in the world (Harris et al. 2009). Substantial populations of migratory ungulates are found in Mongolia's Gobi–Steppe Ecosystem (GSE), which is the largest area of intact steppe in the world and hence is of global importance (Fig. 1). The region hosts as many as one million Mongolian gazelles (Procapra gutturosa); the largest populations of Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus—khulan in Mongolian); perhaps half the world's remaining wild bactrian camels (Camelus ferus); and what might be the largest population of goitered gazelles (Gazella subgutturosa) anywhere (Reading et al. 2001; Olson et al. 2011).

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