生境是动物生存和繁衍的场所,生境的质量及其可利用程度是决定动物种群存亡的关键。因此,研究生境利用成为如何有效保护和管理野生动物中一个不可回避的课题。生境利用研究的方法自20世纪20年代开始经历了漫长的发展过程,形成了多种相关的研究方法和技术手段。在实际应用中各种方法有其优点,同时也存在着不足,给数据的收集带来了一定的困难。本文重点分析了现有的动物生境利用研究的各种方法/手段的优点及其不足之处,并提出了未来动物生境利用方法/技术的发展方向,以期对今后开展生境利用研究工作时在方法的选取以及创新方面给予一定的指导。
Quality and availability of habitat are critical factors for animal survival. Habitat use becomes a vital important problem for wildlife protection and management. The development of habitat use is a long process from 1920s including vari- ous current research methods and techniques. However, there are advantages and disadvantages of each method in practice work, which may affect the data collection. This study mainly illustrated the advantages and disadvantages of current meth- ods/techniques on data collection of habitat use, and showed the direction of future method/technique development. This can help the researchers in choosing or creating methods on habitat use study.