caa a22 4500 388051922 CHVBK 20180307125055.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0959270900002112 doi S0959270900002112 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0959270900002112 Conservation status of the Sichuan Hill-partridge Arborophila rufipectus in China [Elektronische Daten] The critically endangered Sichuan Hill-partridge Arborophila rufipectus occupies a restricted range in south-central China. Field surveys within this range were undertaken using line transects in 1996 and 1997. Calling males were recorded from nine subtropical forest tracts within an area totalling 1,793 km2 and consisting of primary, natural secondary and replanted broadleaf forest between 1,100 and 2,235 m elevation. The only sightings obtained were in primary forest. The mean density of calling males estimated from data collected during transect surveys was 0.48 ± 0.06 and 0.24 ± 0.16 calling birds km−2 in 1996 and 1997 respectively. There was no difference in density estimates for calling males between primary forest and secondary/replanted broadleaf forest. The principal threat to the continued survival of the species is clear-felling of primary forest, but clear-felled areas are often replanted with native broadleaf trees and records of Sichuan Hill-partridge calls in such plantations offers hope for its future survival. Forest management should be modified to make forestry practices more sympathetic to the conservation of the Sichuan Hill-partridge. Copyright © Birdlife International 1998 Bo Dai Wildlife Conservation Division, Sichuan Provincial Forestry Department, No. 15 Section 1st of Renminbeilu Street, Chengdu 610082, Sichuan Province, P.R. of China Dowell Simon D. School of Biological & Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, U.K. Martins Rodney P. 6, Connaught Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 3BP, U.K. Williams Robert S. R. Biosphere Consultants, 6, Waldeck Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 4PG, U.K. Bird Conservation International Cambridge University Press 8/4(1998-12), 349-359 0959-2709 8:4<349 1998 8 BCI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270900002112 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270900002112 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bo Dai Wildlife Conservation Division, Sichuan Provincial Forestry Department, No. 15 Section 1st of Renminbeilu Street, Chengdu 610082, Sichuan Province, P.R. of China NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dowell Simon D. School of Biological & Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, U.K NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Martins Rodney P. 6, Connaught Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 3BP, U.K NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Williams Robert S. R. Biosphere Consultants, 6, Waldeck Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 4PG, U.K NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Bird Conservation International Cambridge University Press 8/4(1998-12), 349-359 0959-2709 8:4<349 1998 8 BCI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge