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Neugarten RA, Chaplin-Kramer R, Sharp RP, Schuster R, Strimas-Mackey M, Roehrdanz PR, Mulligan M, van Soesbergen A, Hole D, Kennedy CM, Oakleaf JR, Johnson JA, Kiesecker J, Polasky S, Hanson JO, Rodewald AD. Mapping the planet's critical areas for biodiversity and nature's contributions to people. Nat Commun 2024; 15:261. [PMID: 38199986 PMCID: PMC10781687 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43832-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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Meeting global commitments to conservation, climate, and sustainable development requires consideration of synergies and tradeoffs among targets. We evaluate the spatial congruence of ecosystems providing globally high levels of nature's contributions to people, biodiversity, and areas with high development potential across several sectors. We find that conserving approximately half of global land area through protection or sustainable management could provide 90% of the current levels of ten of nature's contributions to people and meet minimum representation targets for 26,709 terrestrial vertebrate species. This finding supports recent commitments by national governments under the Global Biodiversity Framework to conserve at least 30% of global lands and waters, and proposals to conserve half of the Earth. More than one-third of areas required for conserving nature's contributions to people and species are also highly suitable for agriculture, renewable energy, oil and gas, mining, or urban expansion. This indicates potential conflicts among conservation, climate and development goals.
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- Rachel A Neugarten
- Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Cornell University, 226 Mann Drive, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
- Conservation International, 2100 Crystal Drive #600, Arlington, VA, 22202, USA.
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA.
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- Global Science, WWF, 131 Steuart St, San Francisco, CA, 94105, USA
- Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, 1954 Buford Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Global Science, WWF, 131 Steuart St, San Francisco, CA, 94105, USA
- SPRING, 5455 Shafter Ave, Oakland, CA, 94618, USA
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- Nature Conservancy of Canada, 245 Eglinton Ave East, Suite 410, Toronto, ON, M4P 3J1, Canada
- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
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- Conservation International, 2100 Crystal Drive #600, Arlington, VA, 22202, USA
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- Department of Geography, King's College London, Bush House, North East Wing, 40 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG, UK
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- Department of Geography, King's College London, Bush House, North East Wing, 40 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG, UK
- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DL, UK
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- Conservation International, 2100 Crystal Drive #600, Arlington, VA, 22202, USA
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- Global Protect Oceans, Lands and Waters Program, The Nature Conservancy, Fort Collins, CO, 80524, USA
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- Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
- Natural Capital Project, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Global Protect Oceans, Lands and Waters Program, The Nature Conservancy, Fort Collins, CO, 80524, USA
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- Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
- Natural Capital Project, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Cornell University, 226 Mann Drive, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
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Dabalà A, Dahdouh-Guebas F, Dunn DC, Everett JD, Lovelock CE, Hanson JO, Buenafe KCV, Neubert S, Richardson AJ. Priority areas to protect mangroves and maximise ecosystem services. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5863. [PMID: 37735160 PMCID: PMC10514197 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41333-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023] Open
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Anthropogenic activities threaten global biodiversity and ecosystem services. Yet, area-based conservation efforts typically target biodiversity protection whilst minimising conflict with economic activities, failing to consider ecosystem services. Here we identify priority areas that maximise both the protection of mangrove biodiversity and their ecosystem services. We reveal that despite 13.5% of the mangrove distribution being currently strictly protected, all mangrove species are not adequately represented and many areas that provide disproportionally large ecosystem services are missed. Optimising the placement of future conservation efforts to protect 30% of global mangroves potentially safeguards an additional 16.3 billion USD of coastal property value, 6.1 million people, 1173.1 Tg C, and 50.7 million fisher days yr-1. Our findings suggest that there is a pressing need for including ecosystem services in protected area design and that strategic prioritisation and coordination of mangrove conservation could provide substantial benefits to human wellbeing.
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- Alvise Dabalà
- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia.
- Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Av. F.D. Roosevelt 50, CPi 264/1, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
- Ecology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Pleinlaan 2, VUB-APNA-WE, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
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- Systems Ecology and Resource Management Research Unit (SERM), Department of Organism Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Av. F.D. Roosevelt 50, CPi 264/1, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
- Ecology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Pleinlaan 2, VUB-APNA-WE, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
- Mangrove Specialist Group (MSG), Species Survival Commission (SSC), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Zoological Society of London, London, UK
- Interfaculty Institute of Social-Ecological Transitions, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Av. F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science (CBCS), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Environment, Queensland Biosciences Precinct (QBP), St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Centre for Marine Science and Innovation (CMSI), The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Mangrove Specialist Group (MSG), Species Survival Commission (SSC), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Zoological Society of London, London, UK
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science (CBCS), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Environment, Queensland Biosciences Precinct (QBP), St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science (CBCS), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Institute of Computer Science, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science (CBCS), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Environment, Queensland Biosciences Precinct (QBP), St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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Buenafe KCV, Dunn DC, Everett JD, Brito-Morales I, Schoeman DS, Hanson JO, Dabalà A, Neubert S, Cannicci S, Kaschner K, Richardson AJ. A metric-based framework for climate-smart conservation planning. Ecol Appl 2023; 33:e2852. [PMID: 36946332 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Climate change is already having profound effects on biodiversity, but climate change adaptation has yet to be fully incorporated into area-based management tools used to conserve biodiversity, such as protected areas. One main obstacle is the lack of consensus regarding how impacts of climate change can be included in spatial conservation plans. We propose a climate-smart framework that prioritizes the protection of climate refugia-areas of low climate exposure and high biodiversity retention-using climate metrics. We explore four aspects of climate-smart conservation planning: (1) climate model ensembles; (2) multiple emission scenarios; (3) climate metrics; and (4) approaches to identifying climate refugia. We illustrate this framework in the Western Pacific Ocean, but it is equally applicable to terrestrial systems. We found that all aspects of climate-smart conservation planning considered affected the configuration of spatial plans. The choice of climate metrics and approaches to identifying refugia have large effects in the resulting climate-smart spatial plans, whereas the choice of climate models and emission scenarios have smaller effects. As the configuration of spatial plans depended on climate metrics used, a spatial plan based on a single measure of climate change (e.g., warming) will not necessarily be robust against other measures of climate change (e.g., ocean acidification). We therefore recommend using climate metrics most relevant for the biodiversity and region considered based on a single or multiple climate drivers. To include the uncertainty associated with different climate futures, we recommend using multiple climate models (i.e., an ensemble) and emission scenarios. Finally, we show that the approaches we used to identify climate refugia feature trade-offs between: (1) the degree to which they are climate-smart, and (2) their efficiency in meeting conservation targets. Hence, the choice of approach will depend on the relative value that stakeholders place on climate adaptation. By using this framework, protected areas can be designed with improved longevity and thus safeguard biodiversity against current and future climate change. We hope that the proposed climate-smart framework helps transition conservation planning toward climate-smart approaches.
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- Kristine Camille V Buenafe
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- The Swire Institute of Marine Science and Area of Ecology and Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science (CBCS), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Environment, Queensland Biosciences Precinct (QBP), St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
- Centre for Marine Science and Innovation (CMSI), The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA
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- Ocean Futures Research Cluster, School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia
- Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Department of Organism Biology, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- Ecology and Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB, Brussels, Belgium
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Institute of Computer Science, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- The Swire Institute of Marine Science and Area of Ecology and Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biometry and Environmental Systems Analysis, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Environment, Queensland Biosciences Precinct (QBP), St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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Justeau‐Allaire D, Hanson JO, Lannuzel G, Vismara P, Lorca X, Birnbaum P. restoptr
: an R package for ecological restoration planning. Restor Ecol 2023. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.13910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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- MISTEA, Univ. Montpellier, INRAE Institut Agro Montpellier Montpellier France
- LIRMM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS Montpellier France
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- Centre de Génie Industriel IMT Mines Albi Albi France
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- AMAP, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD Univ Montpellier Montpellier France
- Institut Agronomique néo‐Calédonien (IAC) Nouméa New Caledonia
- CIRAD, UMR AMAP Montpellier France
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Schuster R, Buxton R, Hanson JO, Binley AD, Pittman J, Tulloch V, La Sorte FA, Roehrdanz PR, Verburg PH, Rodewald AD, Wilson S, Possingham HP, Bennett JR. Protected area planning to conserve biodiversity in an uncertain future. Conserv Biol 2023; 37:e14048. [PMID: 36661081 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Revised: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 12/04/2022] [Indexed: 04/13/2023]
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Protected areas are a key instrument for conservation. Despite this, they are vulnerable to risks associated with weak governance, land-use intensification, and climate change. We used a novel hierarchical optimization approach to identify priority areas for expanding the global protected area system that explicitly accounted for such risks while maximizing protection of all known terrestrial vertebrate species. To incorporate risk categories, we built on the minimum set problem, where the objective is to reach species distribution protection targets while accounting for 1 constraint, such as land cost or area. We expanded this approach to include multiple objectives accounting for risk in the problem formulation by treating each risk layer as a separate objective in the problem formulation. Reducing exposure to these risks required expanding the area of the global protected area system by 1.6% while still meeting conservation targets. Incorporating risks from weak governance drove the greatest changes in spatial priorities for protection, and incorporating risks from climate change required the largest increase (2.52%) in global protected area. Conserving wide-ranging species required countries with relatively strong governance to protect more land when they bordered nations with comparatively weak governance. Our results underscore the need for cross-jurisdictional coordination and demonstrate how risk can be efficiently incorporated into conservation planning. Planeación de las áreas protegidas para conservar la biodiversidad en un futuro incierto.
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- Richard Schuster
- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Nature Conservancy of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Conservation Decisions Lab, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
- Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Wildlife Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Hanson JO, McCune JL, Chadès I, Proctor CA, Hudgins EJ, Bennett JR. Optimizing ecological surveys for conservation. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Department of Biological Sciences University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Canada
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- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Ecosciences Precinct Dutton Park Australia
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Carter ZT, Hanson JO, Perry GLW, Russell JC. Incorporating management action suitability in conservation plans. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Zachary T. Carter
- School of Biological Sciences The University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences The University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
- Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
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Hanson JO, Vincent J, Schuster R, Fahrig L, Brennan A, Martin AE, Hughes JS, Pither R, Bennett JR. A comparison of approaches for including connectivity in systematic conservation planning. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jeffrey O. Hanson
- Department of Biology, 1125 Colonel By Drive Carleton University K1S 5B6 Ottawa ON Canada
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- Department of Biology, 1125 Colonel By Drive Carleton University K1S 5B6 Ottawa ON Canada
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- Department of Biology, 1125 Colonel By Drive Carleton University K1S 5B6 Ottawa ON Canada
- Nature Conservancy of Canada, 245 Eglinton Ave East, Suite 410 M4P 3J1 Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Biology, 1125 Colonel By Drive Carleton University K1S 5B6 Ottawa ON Canada
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- Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Program University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada
- Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada
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- Department of Biology, 1125 Colonel By Drive Carleton University K1S 5B6 Ottawa ON Canada
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, K1S 5B6 Ottawa ON
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- Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, K1S 5B6 Ottawa ON
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- Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, K1S 5B6 Ottawa ON
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- Department of Biology, 1125 Colonel By Drive Carleton University K1S 5B6 Ottawa ON Canada
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Naia M, Tarroso P, Sow AS, Liz AV, Gonçalves DV, Martínez-Freiría F, Santarém F, Yusefi GH, Velo-Antón G, Avella I, Hanson JO, Khalatbari L, Ferreira da Silva MJ, Camacho-Sanchez M, Boratyński Z, Carvalho SB, Brito JC. Potential negative effects of the Green Wall on Sahel's biodiversity. Conserv Biol 2021; 35:1966-1968. [PMID: 33891705 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Revised: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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- Marisa Naia
- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
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- Green Sahel Expertise: Bureau d'Études Spécialise en Environnement, Nouakchott, Mauritania
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
- School of Biosciences, Organisms and Environment Division, Cardiff, Wales, UK
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Vairão, Portugal
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Jung M, Arnell A, de Lamo X, García-Rangel S, Lewis M, Mark J, Merow C, Miles L, Ondo I, Pironon S, Ravilious C, Rivers M, Schepaschenko D, Tallowin O, van Soesbergen A, Govaerts R, Boyle BL, Enquist BJ, Feng X, Gallagher R, Maitner B, Meiri S, Mulligan M, Ofer G, Roll U, Hanson JO, Jetz W, Di Marco M, McGowan J, Rinnan DS, Sachs JD, Lesiv M, Adams VM, Andrew SC, Burger JR, Hannah L, Marquet PA, McCarthy JK, Morueta-Holme N, Newman EA, Park DS, Roehrdanz PR, Svenning JC, Violle C, Wieringa JJ, Wynne G, Fritz S, Strassburg BBN, Obersteiner M, Kapos V, Burgess N, Schmidt-Traub G, Visconti P. Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water. Nat Ecol Evol 2021; 5:1499-1509. [PMID: 34429536 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01528-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
To meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, the international community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and how multiple targets can be pursued concurrently. To support goal setting and the implementation of international strategies and action plans, spatial guidance is needed to identify which land areas have the potential to generate the greatest synergies between conserving biodiversity and nature's contributions to people. Here we present results from a joint optimization that minimizes the number of threatened species, maximizes carbon retention and water quality regulation, and ranks terrestrial conservation priorities globally. We found that selecting the top-ranked 30% and 50% of terrestrial land area would conserve respectively 60.7% and 85.3% of the estimated total carbon stock and 66% and 89.8% of all clean water, in addition to meeting conservation targets for 57.9% and 79% of all species considered. Our data and prioritization further suggest that adequately conserving all species considered (vertebrates and plants) would require giving conservation attention to ~70% of the terrestrial land surface. If priority was given to biodiversity only, managing 30% of optimally located land area for conservation may be sufficient to meet conservation targets for 81.3% of the terrestrial plant and vertebrate species considered. Our results provide a global assessment of where land could be optimally managed for conservation. We discuss how such a spatial prioritization framework can support the implementation of the biodiversity and climate conventions.
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- Martin Jung
- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT, USA
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmondy, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Geography, King's College London, London, UK
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Santiago, Chile.,Centro de Cambio Global UC, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA.,Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso (ISCV), Valparaíso, Chile
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- CEFE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ. Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- Rio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,International Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Programa de Pós Graduacão em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Environmental Change Institute, Centre for the Environment, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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Jung M, Arnell A, de Lamo X, García-Rangel S, Lewis M, Mark J, Merow C, Miles L, Ondo I, Pironon S, Ravilious C, Rivers M, Schepaschenko D, Tallowin O, van Soesbergen A, Govaerts R, Boyle BL, Enquist BJ, Feng X, Gallagher R, Maitner B, Meiri S, Mulligan M, Ofer G, Roll U, Hanson JO, Jetz W, Di Marco M, McGowan J, Rinnan DS, Sachs JD, Lesiv M, Adams VM, Andrew SC, Burger JR, Hannah L, Marquet PA, McCarthy JK, Morueta-Holme N, Newman EA, Park DS, Roehrdanz PR, Svenning JC, Violle C, Wieringa JJ, Wynne G, Fritz S, Strassburg BBN, Obersteiner M, Kapos V, Burgess N, Schmidt-Traub G, Visconti P. Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water. Nat Ecol Evol 2021; 5:1557. [PMID: 34556831 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01569-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Martin Jung
- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT, USA
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmondy, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Geography, King's College London, London, UK
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- School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Santiago, Chile.,Centro de Cambio Global UC, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA.,Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso (ISCV), Valparaíso, Chile
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- CEFE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ. Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- Rio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,International Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Programa de Pós Graduacão em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.,Environmental Change Institute, Centre for the Environment, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program (BNR), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
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Hanson JO, Veríssimo A, Velo‐Antón G, Marques A, Camacho‐Sanchez M, Martínez‐Solano Í, Gonçalves H, Sequeira F, Possingham HP, Carvalho SB. Evaluating surrogates of genetic diversity for conservation planning. Conserv Biol 2021; 35:634-642. [PMID: 32761662 PMCID: PMC8048567 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Revised: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/23/2020] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
Abstract
Protected-area systems should conserve intraspecific genetic diversity. Because genetic data require resources to obtain, several approaches have been proposed for generating plans for protected-area systems (prioritizations) when genetic data are not available. Yet such surrogate-based approaches remain poorly tested. We evaluated the effectiveness of potential surrogate-based approaches based on microsatellite genetic data collected across the Iberian Peninsula for 7 amphibian and 3 reptilian species. Long-term environmental suitability did not effectively represent sites containing high genetic diversity (allelic richness). Prioritizations based on long-term environmental suitability had similar performance to random prioritizations. Geographic distances and resistance distances based on contemporary environmental suitability were not always effective surrogates for identification of combinations of sites that contain individuals with different genetic compositions. Our results demonstrate that population genetic data based on commonly used neutral markers can inform prioritizations, and we could not find an adequate substitute. Conservation planners need to weigh the potential benefits of genetic data against their acquisition costs.
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- Jeffrey O. Hanson
- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoCampus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, no. 7Vairão4485‐661Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoCampus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, no. 7Vairão4485‐661Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoCampus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, no. 7Vairão4485‐661Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoCampus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, no. 7Vairão4485‐661Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoCampus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, no. 7Vairão4485‐661Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoCampus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, no. 7Vairão4485‐661Portugal
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales‐CSICCalle de José Gutiérrez Abascal2Madrid28006Spain
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoCampus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, no. 7Vairão4485‐661Portugal
- Museu de História Natural e da CiênciaUniversidade do PortoPraça Gomes TeixeiraPorto4099‐002Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoCampus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, no. 7Vairão4485‐661Portugal
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- The Nature ConservancyMinneapolisMN55415U.S.A.
- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological SciencesThe University of QueenslandBrisbaneQLD 4072Australia
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- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do PortoCampus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, no. 7Vairão4485‐661Portugal
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- Federico Morelli
- Community Ecology and Conservation, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague Czech Republic
- Institute of Biological Sciences University of Zielona Gora Zielona Gora Poland
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- Community Ecology and Conservation, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague Czech Republic
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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- School of Biological Sciences The University of Queensland St Lucia Queensland Australia
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Camacho-Sanchez M, Velo-Antón G, Hanson JO, Veríssimo A, Martínez-Solano Í, Marques A, Moritz C, Carvalho SB. Comparative assessment of range-wide patterns of genetic diversity and structure with SNPs and microsatellites: A case study with Iberian amphibians. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:10353-10363. [PMID: 33072264 PMCID: PMC7548196 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Reduced representation genome sequencing has popularized the application of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to address evolutionary and conservation questions in nonmodel organisms. Patterns of genetic structure and diversity based on SNPs often diverge from those obtained with microsatellites to different degrees, but few studies have explicitly compared their performance under similar sampling regimes in a shared analytical framework. We compared range‐wide patterns of genetic structure and diversity in two amphibians endemic to the Iberian Peninsula: Hyla molleri and Pelobates cultripes, based on microsatellite (18 and 14 loci) and SNP (15,412 and 33,140 loci) datasets of comparable sample size and spatial extent. Model‐based clustering analyses with STRUCTURE revealed minor differences in genetic structure between marker types, but inconsistent values of the optimal number of populations (K) inferred. SNPs yielded more repeatable and less admixed ancestries with increasing K compared to microsatellites. Genetic diversity was weakly correlated between marker types, with SNPs providing a better representation of southern refugia and of gradients of genetic diversity congruent with the demographic history of both species. Our results suggest that the larger number of loci in a SNP dataset can provide more reliable inferences of patterns of genetic structure and diversity than a typical microsatellite dataset, at least at the spatial and temporal scales investigated.
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- Miguel Camacho-Sanchez
- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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- Centre for Biodiversity Analysis and Research School of Biology The Australian National University Canberra ACT Australia
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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Hanson JO, Marques A, Veríssimo A, Camacho‐Sanchez M, Velo‐Antón G, Martínez‐Solano Í, Carvalho SB. Conservation planning for adaptive and neutral evolutionary processes. J Appl Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jeffrey O. Hanson
- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales‐MNCN‐CSIC Madrid Spain
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- CIBIO/InBIO Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto Vairão Portugal
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Schuster R, Hanson JO, Strimas-Mackey M, Bennett JR. Exact integer linear programming solvers outperform simulated annealing for solving conservation planning problems. PeerJ 2020; 8:e9258. [PMID: 32518737 PMCID: PMC7261139 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
Abstract
The resources available for conserving biodiversity are limited, and so protected areas need to be established in places that will achieve objectives for minimal cost. Two of the main algorithms for solving systematic conservation planning problems are Simulated Annealing (SA) and exact integer linear programing (EILP) solvers. Using a case study in BC, Canada, we compare the cost-effectiveness and processing times of SA used in Marxan versus EILP using both commercial and open-source algorithms. Plans for expanding protected area systems based on EILP algorithms were 12–30% cheaper than plans using SA, due to EILP’s ability to find optimal solutions as opposed to approximations. The best EILP solver we examined was on average 1,071 times faster than the SA algorithm tested. The performance advantages of EILP solvers were also observed when we aimed for spatially compact solutions by including a boundary penalty. One practical advantage of using EILP over SA is that the analysis does not require calibration, saving even more time. Given the performance of EILP solvers, they can be used to generate conservation plans in real-time during stakeholder meetings and can facilitate rapid sensitivity analysis, and contribute to a more transparent, inclusive, and defensible decision-making process.
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- Richard Schuster
- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.,Ecosystem Science and Management Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Ambrose L, Hanson JO, Riginos C, Xu W, Fordyce S, Cooper RD, Beebe NW. Population genetics of Anopheles koliensis through Papua New Guinea: New cryptic species and landscape topography effects on genetic connectivity. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:13375-13388. [PMID: 31871651 PMCID: PMC6912914 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2019] [Revised: 07/19/2019] [Accepted: 07/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
Abstract
New Guinea is a topographically and biogeographically complex region that supports unique endemic fauna. Studies describing the population connectivity of species through this region are scarce. We present a population and landscape genetic study on the endemic malaria-transmitting mosquito, Anopheles koliensis (Owen). Using mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data, as well as microsatellites, we show the evidence of geographically discrete population structure within Papua New Guinea (PNG). We also confirm the existence of three rDNA ITS2 genotypes within this mosquito and assess reproductive isolation between individuals carrying different genotypes. Microsatellites reveal the clearest population structure and show four clear population units. Microsatellite markers also reveal probable reproductive isolation between sympatric populations in northern PNG with different ITS2 genotypes, suggesting that these populations may represent distinct cryptic species. Excluding individuals belonging to the newly identified putative cryptic species (ITS2 genotype 3), we modeled the genetic differences between A. koliensis populations through PNG as a function of terrain and find that dispersal is most likely along routes with low topographic relief. Overall, these results show that A. koliensis is made up of geographically and genetically discrete populations in Papua New Guinea with landscape topography being important in restricting dispersal.
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- Luke Ambrose
- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneQldAustralia
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneQldAustralia
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneQldAustralia
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneQldAustralia
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- Department of Forensic MedicineUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagenDenmark
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- ADF Malaria and Infectious Disease InstituteEnoggeraQldAustralia
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneQldAustralia
- CSIROSt LuciaQldAustralia
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- Jeffrey O. Hanson
- School of Biological Sciences The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD Australia
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- Department of Biology Carleton University Ottawa ON Canada
- Ecosystem Science and Management Program University of Northern British Prince George BC Canada
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- Jeffrey O. Hanson
- School of Biological SciencesThe University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- School of Biological SciencesThe University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- School of Earth and Environmental SciencesThe University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- Jeffrey O. Hanson
- School of Biological Sciences University of Queensland Brisbane Qld. Australia
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Queensland Brisbane Qld. Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences University of Queensland Brisbane Qld. Australia
- The Nature Conservancy South Brisbane Qld. Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences University of Queensland Brisbane Qld. Australia
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Migratory species depend on a suite of interconnected sites. Threats to unprotected links in these chains of sites are driving rapid population declines of migrants around the world, yet the extent to which different parts of the annual cycle are protected remains unknown. We show that just 9% of 1451 migratory birds are adequately covered by protected areas across all stages of their annual cycle, in comparison with 45% of nonmigratory birds. This discrepancy is driven by protected area placement that does not cover the full annual cycle of migratory species, indicating that global efforts toward coordinated conservation planning for migrants are yet to bear fruit. Better-targeted investment and enhanced coordination among countries are needed to conserve migratory species throughout their migratory cycle.
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- Claire A Runge
- School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA.
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- School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia. Global Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, England, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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Dudaniec RY, Worthington Wilmer J, Hanson JO, Warren M, Bell S, Rhodes JR. Dealing with uncertainty in landscape genetic resistance models: a case of three co-occurring marsupials. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:470-86. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2014] [Revised: 11/08/2015] [Accepted: 11/10/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Rachael Y. Dudaniec
- Department of Biological Sciences; Macquarie University; Sydney NSW 2109 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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- School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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- School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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Auerbach NA, Wilson KA, Tulloch AIT, Rhodes JR, Hanson JO, Possingham HP. Effects of threat management interactions on conservation priorities. Conserv Biol 2015; 29:1626-1635. [PMID: 26171646 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2014] [Accepted: 03/24/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Decisions need to be made about which biodiversity management actions are undertaken to mitigate threats and about where these actions are implemented. However, management actions can interact; that is, the cost, benefit, and feasibility of one action can change when another action is undertaken. There is little guidance on how to explicitly and efficiently prioritize management for multiple threats, including deciding where to act. Integrated management could focus on one management action to abate a dominant threat or on a strategy comprising multiple actions to abate multiple threats. Furthermore management could be undertaken at sites that are in close proximity to reduce costs. We used cost-effectiveness analysis to prioritize investments in fire management, controlling invasive predators, and reducing grazing pressure in a bio-diverse region of southeastern Queensland, Australia. We compared outcomes of 5 management approaches based on different assumptions about interactions and quantified how investment needed, benefits expected, and the locations prioritized for implementation differed when interactions were taken into account. Managing for interactions altered decisions about where to invest and in which actions to invest and had the potential to deliver increased investment efficiency. Differences in high priority locations and actions were greatest between the approaches when we made different assumptions about how management actions deliver benefits through threat abatement: either all threats must be managed to conserve species or only one management action may be required. Threatened species management that does not consider interactions between actions may result in misplaced investments or misguided expectations of the effort required to mitigate threats to species.
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- Nancy A Auerbach
- The University of Queensland, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, the NERP Environmental Decisions Hub, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, the NERP Environmental Decisions Hub, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, the NERP Environmental Decisions Hub, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
- The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
- The Australian National University, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 0200, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, the NERP Environmental Decisions Hub, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
- The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, the NERP Environmental Decisions Hub, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
- The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
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- The University of Queensland, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, the NERP Environmental Decisions Hub, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College-London, Silwood Park, Ascot, SL5 7 PY, United Kingdom
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Dhouib R, Pg Othman DSM, Essilfie AT, Hansbro PM, Hanson JO, McEwan AG, Kappler U. Maturation of molybdoenzymes and its influence on the pathogenesis of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:1219. [PMID: 26594204 PMCID: PMC4633490 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2015] [Accepted: 10/19/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Mononuclear molybdenum enzymes of the dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) reductase family occur exclusively in prokaryotes, and a loss of some these enzymes has been linked to a loss of bacterial virulence in several cases. The MobA protein catalyzes the final step in the synthesis of the molybdenum guanine dinucleotide (MGD) cofactor that is exclusive to enzymes of the DMSO reductase family. MobA has been proposed as a potential target for control of virulence since its inhibition would affect the activities of all molybdoenzymes dependent upon MGD. Here, we have studied the phenotype of a mobA mutant of the host-adapted human pathogen Haemophilus influenzae. H. influenzae causes and contributes to a variety of acute and chronic diseases of the respiratory tract, and several enzymes of the DMSO reductase family are conserved and highly expressed in this bacterium. The mobA mutation caused a significant decrease in the activities of all Mo-enzymes present, and also resulted in a small defect in anaerobic growth. However, we did not detect a defect in in vitro biofilm formation nor in invasion and adherence to human epithelial cells in tissue culture compared to the wild-type. In a murine in vivo model, the mobA mutant showed only a mild attenuation compared to the wild-type. In summary, our data show that MobA is essential for the activities of molybdenum enzymes, but does not appear to affect the fitness of H. influenzae. These results suggest that MobA is unlikely to be a useful target for antimicrobials, at least for the purpose of treating H. influenzae infections.
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- Rabeb Dhouib
- Centre for Metals in Biology, Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Metals in Biology, Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Diseases and Hunter Medical Research Institute, The University of Newcastle Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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- Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Diseases and Hunter Medical Research Institute, The University of Newcastle Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Metals in Biology, Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Metals in Biology, Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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Hanson JO, Salisbury SW, Campbell HA, Dwyer RG, Jardine TD, Franklin CE. Feeding across the food web: The interaction between diet, movement and body size in estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus). AUSTRAL ECOL 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Jeffrey O. Hanson
- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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- Australian Rivers Institute; Griffith University; Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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Rossiter DL, Robinson RA, O'Leary TP, Hanson JO. Lingual abscesses in suckling and weaned lambs. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1984; 185:1552. [PMID: 6392266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
Lingual abscesses were found in lambs from 2 midwestern flocks. Lesions resulted in reluctance to feed, emaciation, and death. Plant material was demonstrated at the center of abscesses in 1 flock. Veterinarians should examine tongues carefully when investigating lamb mortalities.
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