Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when.
Conservation priority-setting schemes have not yet combined geographic priorities with a framework that can guide the allocation of funds among alternate conservation actions that address specific threats. We develop such a framework, and apply it to 17 of the world's 39 Mediterranean ecoregion...
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| author | Kerrie A Wilson Emma C Underwood Scott A Morrison Kirk R Klausmeyer William W Murdoch Belinda Reyers Grant Wardell-Johnson Pablo A Marquet Phil W Rundel Marissa F McBride Robert L Pressey Michael Bode Jon M Hoekstra Sandy Andelman Michael Looker Carlo Rondinini Peter Kareiva M Rebecca Shaw Hugh P Possingham |
| author_facet | Kerrie A Wilson Emma C Underwood Scott A Morrison Kirk R Klausmeyer William W Murdoch Belinda Reyers Grant Wardell-Johnson Pablo A Marquet Phil W Rundel Marissa F McBride Robert L Pressey Michael Bode Jon M Hoekstra Sandy Andelman Michael Looker Carlo Rondinini Peter Kareiva M Rebecca Shaw Hugh P Possingham |
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| description | Conservation priority-setting schemes have not yet combined geographic priorities with a framework that can guide the allocation of funds among alternate conservation actions that address specific threats. We develop such a framework, and apply it to 17 of the world's 39 Mediterranean ecoregions. This framework offers an improvement over approaches that only focus on land purchase or species richness and do not account for threats. We discover that one could protect many more plant and vertebrate species by investing in a sequence of conservation actions targeted towards specific threats, such as invasive species control, land acquisition, and off-reserve management, than by relying solely on acquiring land for protected areas. Applying this new framework will ensure investment in actions that provide the most cost-effective outcomes for biodiversity conservation. This will help to minimise the misallocation of scarce conservation resources. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-63cba638e8394263865d1c1054e301a42022-12-21T22:55:20ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Biology1544-91731545-78852007-09-0159e22310.1371/journal.pbio.0050223Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when.Kerrie A WilsonEmma C UnderwoodScott A MorrisonKirk R KlausmeyerWilliam W MurdochBelinda ReyersGrant Wardell-JohnsonPablo A MarquetPhil W RundelMarissa F McBrideRobert L PresseyMichael BodeJon M HoekstraSandy AndelmanMichael LookerCarlo RondininiPeter KareivaM Rebecca ShawHugh P PossinghamConservation priority-setting schemes have not yet combined geographic priorities with a framework that can guide the allocation of funds among alternate conservation actions that address specific threats. We develop such a framework, and apply it to 17 of the world's 39 Mediterranean ecoregions. This framework offers an improvement over approaches that only focus on land purchase or species richness and do not account for threats. We discover that one could protect many more plant and vertebrate species by investing in a sequence of conservation actions targeted towards specific threats, such as invasive species control, land acquisition, and off-reserve management, than by relying solely on acquiring land for protected areas. Applying this new framework will ensure investment in actions that provide the most cost-effective outcomes for biodiversity conservation. This will help to minimise the misallocation of scarce conservation resources.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1950771?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Kerrie A Wilson Emma C Underwood Scott A Morrison Kirk R Klausmeyer William W Murdoch Belinda Reyers Grant Wardell-Johnson Pablo A Marquet Phil W Rundel Marissa F McBride Robert L Pressey Michael Bode Jon M Hoekstra Sandy Andelman Michael Looker Carlo Rondinini Peter Kareiva M Rebecca Shaw Hugh P Possingham Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when. PLoS Biology |
| title | Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when. |
| title_full | Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when. |
| title_fullStr | Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when. |
| title_short | Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when. |
| title_sort | conserving biodiversity efficiently what to do where and when |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1950771?pdf=render |
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