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Volume 8 Journal of Ecosystem & Ecography Biodiversity Congress 2018
July 26-27, 2018
July 26-27, 2018 Melbourne, Australia
7th International Conference on
Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management
Activity pattern of Asiatic black bear and its hibernation related to the climate change by analyzing the
camera trapping data
Xuehua Liu1 , Babar Zahoor1, Wanlong Sun1, Pengfen Wu1, Xiaodong Jia 1, Zixin Lv1, Xiangyu Zhao1, Xiangbo He 2, Baishuo He3, Qiong Cai4 and Melissa Songer5
1Tsinghua University, China
2Shaanxi Foping Nature Reserve, China
3Shaanxi Changqing Nature Reserve, China
4Shaanxi Guanyingshan Nature Reserve, China
5Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, USA
Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) is a protected wildlife species with conservation rank of Grade II. Due to its dangerous
characteristics, black bear has been hardly researched for its detailed activity pattern. Currently, the quick development of
camera tracking technique has made this research gap possible to be filled. In addition, the gradually serious conflicts between
human and black bear call for more information on this animal. The hibernation behavior of black bear also can be a good
indicator of climate change. This study is aiming at using camera trapping technique to catch the photos of black bear, mining
the detailed information from infrared camera photos and analyzing the activity pattern of the animal. The camera trapping
has been applied in the southern slopes of the Qinling Mountains for more than 5 years. We obtained total 429 camera photos
of black bear from 2013 to 2016 and about 1/3rd of them were used for this study after preprocessing the data set. Our results
showed that black bears in the Qinling Mountains: (1) Greatly occur in the daytime, (2) are active in the daytime and (3) are
definitely absent from the trapping in January and February, and occasionally appear in November, December and March,
which means the black bears’ hibernation duration is 5 months from November to March generally, (4) the black bears use the
forest habitat in a various way among high and low elevation natural forests, secondary forests and man-made forests. All these
results can benefit the conservation of Asiatic black bear.
Biography
Xuehua Liu has her expertise in wildlife conservation and habitat assessment. She has been focusing on the giant panda and its habitat research for a long period.
During the recent 10 years, she expanded her interests on other biodiversity species by applying the camera trapping techniques. She used the minded information
from the animal pictures recorded by the infrared cameras to analyze the wildlife diversity, animal behaviors and patterns, habitat use and so on.
Xuehua Liu et al., J Ecosyst Ecogr 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7625-C4-041