Journal
PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 4, Pages 1507-1510Publisher
ZOOLOGICAL SOC PAKISTAN
DOI: 10.17582/journal.pjz/2017.49.4.sc3
Keywords
Tibetan antelope; Tibetan gazelle; Wild yak; Kiang road ecology
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- National Key Technology Research & Development Program [2014 BAG 05B 06]
- Central level, scientific research institutes for basic R & D special fund business [20150605]
- Western China Communications construction and Technology Project [2013 318 490 010]
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Qinghai to Tibet highway (QTH) and railway (QTR) tracks are running parallel to each other with an in between distance of 0 to 2.5 km from Kunlunshankou to Wudaoliang sections which is about 107 km. An expressway will be built along these two lines in the near future to improve further accessibility between Qinghai and Tibet. Understanding the overlapping impact of QTH and QTR on ungulates will facilitates locating the route selection parameters for the proposed upcoming expressway. Using the procedures of field investigation along QTH during months of May, August and December in 2014 and 2015, we recorded the occurrence frequency, number of ungulates, and the perpendicular distance between QTH and QTR. To improve the protection mechanism for the four large ungulates voz., Tibetan antelope Pantholops hodgsonii, Tibetan gazelle Procapra picticaudata, Kiang Equus kiang) and Wild Yak Bus grunniens; we suggest that the distance between the proposed route for the expressway and the present highway and railway should at least be 1500m, and ideally, it should be 2500m.
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