Systematic conservation planning / Christopher R. Margules, Sahotra Sarkar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Margules, C. R. (Christopher Robert)

Contributor:

Sarkar, Sahotra.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservation of natural resources--Planning.

Conservation of natural resources.

Biodiversity conservation--Planning.

Biodiversity conservation.

Physical Description:

vii, 270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Systematic Conservation Planning provides a clear, comprehensive guide to the process of deriving conservation area networks that will represent biodiversity in cost-effective ways. The measurement of biodiversity, the design of field collections to sample biodiversity and data treatment methods together provide baseline information on the distribution patterns of biodiversity. The book then describes methods for identifying biodiversity priority areas underpinned by the concept of complementarity. It goes on to describe how biodiversity targets can be set and how multi-criteria analyses can incorporate costs and other constraints into the area selection process, enabling trade-offs between production and protection to be made. The book finishes with a series of case studies and a conclusion that emphasizes the socio-economic and cultural contexts in which conservation planning takes place. A clear procedure is provided for identifying biodiversity priority areas, underpinned by current best science practice and sound common sense, making this volume of interest not only to graduate students and academic conservation biologists, but also planners and decision-makers dealing with natural resource management together with conservation NGOs.

Contents:

1.1 Conservation-area networks 2

1.2 What do we mean by biodiversity? 5

1.3 Systematic conservation planning 8

2 Biodiversity surrogates 19

2.1 True and estimator surrogates 20

2.2 Establishing the adequacy of an estimator-surrogate set 22

2.3 Traditional species-based surrogates 27

2.4 Systematic surrogate sets 30

2.5 Surrogacy and spatial scale 42

2.6 A protocol for the identification of an adequate surrogate set 43

2.7 Diversity of ecological processes 44

3 Data collection 47

3.1 Areas and features 47

3.3 Collecting new data with field surveys 56

4 Data treatments 79

4.1 Conceptual framework 79

4.2 Multi-variate pattern analysis 83

4.3 Heuristic models 90

4.4 Regression models 93

4.5 Machine-learning methods 100

5 Conservation-area networks 105

5.1 The role of conservation-area networks 105

5.2 The goals of networks: representativeness, persistence and economy 108

5.3 Selecting networks: complementarity 112

5.4 Selecting networks: rarity and adjacency 120

5.5 Subsidiary goals: flexibility, transparency, modularity, genericity and irreplaceability 121

5.6 Algorithms for the selection of networks 124

5.7 The trouble with scoring and ranking procedures 127

6 Persistence and vulnerability 131

6.1 Incorporating biological processes 132

6.2 Viability analysis 135

6.3 Targets for representation 151

6.4 Formal decision analysis 162

7 Satisfying multiple criteria 169

7.1 Iterative- and terminal-stage procedures 171

7.2 The valuation framework 172

7.3 Non-dominated alternatives 176

7.4 Refining non-dominated sets 180

7.5 Sensitivity analysis 188

8 Systematic conservation plans 197

8.1 Complementarity by inspection in the Nullarbor region, Australia 197

8.2 Complementarity using species records in Quebec 205

8.3 A marine conservation plan for the California Channel Islands, United States 209

8.4 A conservation plan for the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa 214

8.5 A conservation plan for Papua New Guinea 219

9.1 Coping with uncertainty 228

9.2 Practicing conservation science in a complex world 231

9.3 Future directions 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-263) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780521878753

0521878756

9780521703444

0521703441

OCLC:

144226150