Prioritizing multiple-use landscapes for conservation: methods for large multi-species planning problems.
Across large parts of the world, wildlife has to coexist with human activity in highly modified and fragmented landscapes. Combining concepts from population viability analysis and spatial reserve design, this study develops efficient quantitative methods for identifying conservation core areas at large, even national or continental scales. The proposed methods emphasize long-term population persistence, are applicable to both fragmented and natural landscape structures, and produce a hierarchical zonation of regional conservation priority. The methods are applied to both observational data for threatened butterflies at the scale of Britain and modelled probability of occurrence surfaces for indicator species in part of Australia. In both cases, priority landscapes important for conservation management are identified.
Moilanen
Atte
A
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Metapopulation Research Group, PO Box 65, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. atte.moilanen@helsinki.fi
Franco
Aldina M A
AM
Early
Regan I
RI
Fox
Richard
R
Wintle
Brendan
B
Thomas
Chris D
CD
D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D002080:Butterflies / Q000502:physiology; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D017753:Ecosystem; D004777:Environment; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011157:Population Dynamics; D006113:United Kingdom