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Fig. 6.5 Change in the
amount of panda habitat in
Wolong Nature Reserve
before and after the reserve
was established in March
1975. a Highly suitable
habitat, b suitable habitat, c
marginally suitable habitat,
and d unsuitable habitat (Liu
et al.
2001
)
exhaustion of forests near households, local residents went to areas far away from
their homes to collect more fuelwood. Consequently, the average distance between
homes and locations of fuelwood collection increased over time (He et al.
2009
).
Fuelwood collection in those remote areas is more damaging to pandas because
they are the most suitable panda habitat (Fig.
6.6
).
The quantity of panda habitat is more sensitive to factors related to household
numbers than to population sizes (An and Liu
2010
). Simulations using an agent-
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