Management Strategies Of Combating Declining Populations

The Sichuan partridge (Arborophila rufipectus): management strategies in combating declining populations Introduction The Sichuan partridge, one of the most threatened species, needs native habitats preserving to decrease the rate of decline (Dowell et al, 1999). The Sichuan partridge suffers from hunting and deforestation of native habitat in China. This was theorised using a population viability analysis (PVA) model, VORTEX, to model scenarios of varying management strategies. Laojunshan has been turned into a nature reserve in an attempt of protection (Liao et al, 2008). The aims of using VORTEX (Lacey and Pollak, 2014) was to analyse the success of management strategies including controlled hunting, supplementation, habitat restoration and corridors or a combination. VORTEX takes into account random events such as catastrophes running through iterations (replicas) to generate outcomes (Lacy, 1993). 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