Sundaic elephants prefer habitats on the periphery of protected areas

1. Protected Areas (PAs) are a cornerstone of global conservation strategies. PAs, however, are not equally effective for all threatened taxa, and it is important to understand taxa-specific effectiveness of PAs networks.
2. In this study we evaluate the role of the PAs network on the protection of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and their habitats in Southeast Asia’s Sundaic region. Since Asian elephants tend to prefer secondary forests or forest gaps, we predicted that PAs would not represent the species' preferred habitats. We conducted the most comprehensive analysis of Asian elephant space and habitat use to date through home range estimations and Step Selection Function analyses using over 600,000 GPS locations from 102 different elephants from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.
3. Our results revealed important similarities in the habitat use of elephants in both regions, with both females and males in Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah preferring secondary forest, forest gaps, and a...

1. 保护区（Protected Areas，PAs）是全球保护战略的基石。然而，保护区对所有受威胁类群（taxa）的有效性并非均等，因此理解保护区网络针对特定类群的有效性至关重要。
2. 本研究评估了保护区网络在东南亚巽他（Sundaic）地区对亚洲象（Elephas maximus）及其栖息地的保护作用由于亚洲象倾向于偏好次生林或林隙我们推测保护区无法代表该物种的首选栖息地。我们利用来自马来半岛和婆罗洲的102头大象的60多万个GPS定位数据，通过家域估算和步选择函数（Step Selection Function）分析开展了迄今为止最全面的亚洲象空间与栖息地利用研究
3. 研究结果揭示两个地区大象栖息地利用的重要相似性马来半岛和沙巴的雌性与雄性大象均偏好次生林、林隙以及……