title: Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when.
abstract: 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.
authors: The Ecology Centre, School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia. kwilson@tnc.org
authors: Kerrie A
authors: KA
authors: Wilson
authors: Emma C
authors: EC
authors: Underwood
authors: Scott A
authors: SA
authors: Morrison
authors: Kirk R
authors: KR
authors: Klausmeyer
authors: William W
authors: WW
authors: Murdoch
authors: Belinda
authors: B
authors: Reyers
authors: Grant
authors: G
authors: Wardell-Johnson
authors: Pablo A
authors: PA
authors: Marquet
authors: Phil W
authors: PW
authors: Rundel
authors: Marissa F
authors: MF
authors: McBride
authors: Robert L
authors: RL
authors: Pressey
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Bode
authors: Jon M
authors: JM
authors: Hoekstra
authors: Sandy
authors: S
authors: Andelman
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Looker
authors: Carlo
authors: C
authors: Rondinini
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Kareiva
authors: M Rebecca
authors: MR
authors: Shaw
authors: Hugh P
authors: HP
authors: Possingham
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017753:Ecosystem; D019083:Mediterranean Region
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