Conservation strategies for endangered arable plant Euphorbia gaditana
Abstract Fragmentation and habitat loss are considered among the most important threats to biodiversity. More precisely, transformation of natural habitats into farmlands has been identified as one of the primary causes of plant species extinction. Therefore, understanding the effects of habitat fra...
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| author | Sonia G. Rabasa Rut Sánchez de Dios Francisco José Cabezas Fuentes María Beatriz Pías Couso Felipe Domínguez Lozano |
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| description | Abstract Fragmentation and habitat loss are considered among the most important threats to biodiversity. More precisely, transformation of natural habitats into farmlands has been identified as one of the primary causes of plant species extinction. Therefore, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation is crucial to the successful conservation of threatened species. Metapopulation modeling is one of the prospective tools used in conservation biology to evaluate long‐term survival in fragmented landscapes. In this work, we applied a metapopulation approach to the conservation of the rare plant Euphorbia gaditana Coss., an endangered species growing on the margins of crops in southern Spain. The species is threatened due to herbicide application and intensification of cultivation, which results in a highly patchy distribution, with more than 50 patches of habitat across three separate networks of patches. We used IFM (Incidence Function Modeling) to compare the relative effectiveness of four conservation management scenarios and the effect of three threat scenarios on the risk of extinction of the species. The results of our simulations of population dynamics under plausible management scenarios will aid conservation decision‐making, for example, allowing priority conservation areas to be identified or assessing the effect of future reintroductions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f7c27fe88e204e90a3e6ee8dfff3be2a2022-12-22T00:19:14ZengWileyConservation Science and Practice2578-48542022-05-0145n/an/a10.1111/csp2.12657Conservation strategies for endangered arable plant Euphorbia gaditanaSonia G. Rabasa0Rut Sánchez de Dios1Francisco José Cabezas Fuentes2María Beatriz Pías Couso3Felipe Domínguez Lozano4Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid SpainDepartamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid SpainDepartamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid SpainDepartamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid SpainDepartamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid SpainAbstract Fragmentation and habitat loss are considered among the most important threats to biodiversity. More precisely, transformation of natural habitats into farmlands has been identified as one of the primary causes of plant species extinction. Therefore, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation is crucial to the successful conservation of threatened species. Metapopulation modeling is one of the prospective tools used in conservation biology to evaluate long‐term survival in fragmented landscapes. In this work, we applied a metapopulation approach to the conservation of the rare plant Euphorbia gaditana Coss., an endangered species growing on the margins of crops in southern Spain. The species is threatened due to herbicide application and intensification of cultivation, which results in a highly patchy distribution, with more than 50 patches of habitat across three separate networks of patches. We used IFM (Incidence Function Modeling) to compare the relative effectiveness of four conservation management scenarios and the effect of three threat scenarios on the risk of extinction of the species. The results of our simulations of population dynamics under plausible management scenarios will aid conservation decision‐making, for example, allowing priority conservation areas to be identified or assessing the effect of future reintroductions.https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12657arable plantconservationfragmentationmetapopulationweed |
| spellingShingle | Sonia G. Rabasa Rut Sánchez de Dios Francisco José Cabezas Fuentes María Beatriz Pías Couso Felipe Domínguez Lozano Conservation strategies for endangered arable plant Euphorbia gaditana Conservation Science and Practice arable plant conservation fragmentation metapopulation weed |
| title | Conservation strategies for endangered arable plant Euphorbia gaditana |
| title_full | Conservation strategies for endangered arable plant Euphorbia gaditana |
| title_fullStr | Conservation strategies for endangered arable plant Euphorbia gaditana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conservation strategies for endangered arable plant Euphorbia gaditana |
| title_short | Conservation strategies for endangered arable plant Euphorbia gaditana |
| title_sort | conservation strategies for endangered arable plant euphorbia gaditana |
| topic | arable plant conservation fragmentation metapopulation weed |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12657 |
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