Key Topics in Conservation Biology 2 by David W. Macdonald

Author:David W. Macdonald [Macdonald, David W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Landscape conservation

Sites with ‘no’ or little human disturbance, and with high biodiversity and/or threat levels, are candidates for landscape conservation, a very effective strategy for protecting endangered species and biotopes (Bruner et al. 2001). The number of national park declarations, mainly for biodiversity conservation purposes, has increased in recent years. Resources for these national parks are finite, and must be directed to the most important sites. GIS-based prioritization exercises with a multitude of data layers, including forest structure change and sound distributional and modelled occupancy data of threatened species, are a prerequisite.

Figure 14.1 Fortnightly individual moth counts (log N + 1) (with SE) contrasting the effects of presence/absence of a hedgerow tree on moth abundance within areas where farmers had (•) and had not been () targeted to apply for agri-environment schemes. Reprinted from Merckx et al. (2009a), with permission from Elsevier.

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