Advances in Giant Panda Habitat Researches

The change trend of giant panda habitats exhibits that the overall fragmentation degree is increasing, the area is reducing, and the giant pandas are forced to move to places with higher altitude and latitude. This article analyzes the domestic and international research progress of giant panda habitats from five aspects:habitat evaluation, habitat ecological landscape, habitat disturbance factors, habitat biodiversity and habitat protection and management.Hence it is concluded that the existing habitat evaluation system is not comprehensive and scientific enough, and there are few studies on the spatial utilization and activity patterns of giant pandas under different spatial and temporal scales, the economic development of biodiversity and the biodiversity conservation conflicts of giant panda habitats, and the biodiversity of habitats. There fore, the future research should focus on the comprehensive evaluation of habitats from a macro scale and the relationship between habitat fragmentation and its functions, and in-depth study of the causes and development trends of the dynamic changes of the coupling system between humans and giant pandas, and the processes of human-natural interactions in the giant panda conservation area and the temporal and spatial changes, and on identifying hotspots with significant biodiversity.