Habitat Patch Utilization Frequencies of Wildness Training Giant Panda and Its Relationship with Patch Resources

The habitat utilization frequencies of the wildness training giant panda Xiangxiang and the relationship with patch resources were studied from July 2003 to September 2004 in Wolong Nature Reserve.We determined the behavior exhibitions and the habitat patch sites from the direct observations,and the habitat patch resources were investigated by the pilot sampling methods.The utilization patch quantities of giant panda were summed to 230(80.99%) of the total patches.There were 190 patches of bamboo,and 87.16% of the all bamboo distribution patches,82.61% of the using patches of the wildness training panda,respectively.The used total area of wildness training panda was analyzed and the results were changed.There were three ecological adaptive processes passed by wildness training panda,the dread phases,the tentative and search phases and the stabilization phases.The territories and the randomicities were small at the beginning released to training enclosure.The second,the territories of wildness panda were augmented and the randomicity was increased,and last,the territories of wildness panda were stabilized gradually along with its adaptability to the environment.Because of small training enclosure and simplex habitat structure,the relationship of the frequency of habitat patch utilization and the patch behavioral exhibition to the one or two compositive factors of the habitat patches was more significant,but no significant to the other factors.