Xuewei Shi

TL;DR: It is found that China’s nature reserves serve moderately well for mammals and birds, but not for other major taxa, nor for these key regulating ecosystem services, and a new category of PAs globally is proposed, for sustaining the provision of ecosystems services and achieving sustainable development goals.

TL;DR: This study assessed 810 key protected species from seven taxa by indicator value analysis, correlation analysis, and factor analysis, selecting 32 species as umbrella species, whose habitats overlapped the habitats of 97% of the total species.

TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between giant panda populations and three ecosystem services: carbon sequestration, water retention, and soil retention and found that pandas prefer areas with higher than average values of these services.

TL;DR: There is a strong imperative for establishing a protected area (PA) category focused specifically on protecting ecosystem services, for several key reasons articulated in the paper (2) and below.

TL;DR: The paper in PNAS focuses on the general representation of protected areas for endangered species and ecosystem services and did not emphasize the representation in nature reserves of coastal wetlands for endangered migratory birds.