Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Larson, Greger

Titel

Reconsidering the distribution of gray wolves

Ist Teil von

• Dōngwùxué yánjiū, 2017-05, Vol.38 (3), p.115-116

Ort / Verlag

Kunming: Kunming Institute of Zoology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Larson talks about a study by Wang and colleagues which systematically searched for evidence for the presence of wolves in China. Result from the study demonstrates the pitfalls of taking species distribution maps at face value as the line demarking the southern boundary of the grey wolf distribution has enormous ramifications. If wolves were present in central and southern China as recently as the second half of the 20th century, they were likely present in the preceding millennia and thus, they could have been the source of a domestication process in East Asia.