本项目以大熊猫栖息地为研究对象，结合全国历次大熊猫调查的基础数据，利用野外监测、栖息地评价、模型模拟等手段，在多个时间、空间尺度下，对近40年来四川省大熊猫种群动态变化规律以及栖息地植被及景观的动态演变特征进行研究。本项目主要探索：在人类干扰和环境自然演替的影响下，近40年来四川省大熊猫栖息地生态环境变化及其过程对大熊猫种群动态分布的影响机制及相对重要性；深入解析大熊猫种群动态变化与栖息地森林景观演变的相互关系，以及栖息地适宜性空间分布变化与栖息地森林景观演变之间的相关性，进而提出在我国西南地区的森林景观中如何有效保护珍稀濒危物种及其栖息地的方法，为野生大熊猫的就地保护提供理论和技术支持，同时也为圈养大熊猫野外放归前的野化培训基地的选择和建设提供理论依据，并为野外放归栖息地的选择和建设提供科学依据。

This project will research the population dynamics pattern of giant panda and the transitions of habitat vegetation and landscape in recent 40 years in Sichuan Province at multiple spatial and temporal scales, with the data of field monitoring, habitat assessment and model simulation, combined with the results of the four panda surveys. The project will focus on the mechanism of the giant pandas population’s response to the forest habitat change, in the contexts of human activity disturbance and natural succession in recent 40 years. The relative importance of human activity disturbance and natural succession will be compared. The relationship between the giant panda population dynamics and the habitats’ forest landscape evolution will be explored. The effects of habitats’ forest landscape evolution on the spatial dynamics of habitat suitability will be studied too. Conservation measures foe the endangered species and their habitat in forest .landscape of the Southwest China will be proposed based on those studies. This project will provide theoretical and technical supports for the in situ conservation of wild giant pandas. The results will also be significant to the construction of the captive pandas’ wild-training facilities and the selection of proper habitat for pandas to be released.