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Field Sites in China: Hainan Island

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Bawangling Nature Reserve: Habitat selection behavior and its mechanism of the Hainan gibbon

Field study:
Habitat selection behavior and its mechanism of the Hainan gibbon
South China Institute of Endangered Animals

Location of field site:
Bawangling Nature Reserve, Hainan

Project director:
Dr. Jiang Haisheng

Contact person:
Dr. Jiang Haisheng
Email:
jianghs@gdei.gis.sti.gd.cn
Phone: +86-20-84 19 25 36
Fax: +86-20-84 18 37 04

Mailing address:
Dr. Jiang Haisheng (Project Director)
South China Institute of Endangered Animals
105 Xingang Road
Guangzhou, Guangdong 510260
China

Research objectives:
Study the habitat structure of gibbons and the habitat values of rainforests influenced by humans in different degrees.

Field positions and volunteers:
N/A

Species studied:
Hainan black crested gibbon (Nomascus sp. cf. nasutus hainanus)

Other species found at site:
Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)

Affiliations:
South China Institute of Endangered Animals

Project begin/end dates:
ongoing


Status and conservation of the Hainan gibbon

Field study:
Population structure, social behaviour of the Hainan Gibbon.
Environment and peripherical anthropical activities in Bawanglin Nature Reserve

Location of field site:
Bawanglin Nature Reserve, Hainan island.

Project directors:
China : Pr. Xiaoming Wang
France : Dr Françoise Hergueta-Claro

Contact person:
Prof. Xiaoming Wang
E-mail:
wxming@public3.sta.net.cn
Phone: +86-21 62 23 28 95 or +86-21 62 57 62 17

Dr Françoise Hergueta-Claro
E-mail:
claro@mnhn.fr
Phone: +33-1 44 75 20 31
Fax: +33-1-43 43 54 73

Mailing address:
Prof. Xiaoming Wang
Department of Biology
East China Normal University
Shangai 200 000
China

Dr Françoise Hergueta-Claro
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Laboratoire de Conservation des Espèces Animales
53, Avenue St Maurice
75012 Paris
France

Research objectives:
- Study the population structure, the social behaviour of the Hainan black crested gibbon in Bawanglin
- Characterize the Bawanglin Nature Reserve and the peripheral anthropical activities
- Carry out a non-invasive genetic study of the gibbon population

Field positions and volunteers:
N/A

Species studied:
Hainan black crested gibbon (Nomascus sp. cf. nasutus hainanus)

Other species found at site:
Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)

Affiliations:
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and East China Normal University, Shanghai

Project begin/end dates:
ongoing until 2004



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