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Designing criteria suites to identify discrete and networked sites of high value across manifestations of biodiversity
Gilman, E.; Dunn, D.; Read, A.; Hyrenbach, K.D.; Warner, R. (2011). Designing criteria suites to identify discrete and networked sites of high value across manifestations of biodiversity. Biodivers. Conserv. 20(14): 3363-3383. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-011-0116-y
In: Biodiversity and Conservation. Kluwer Academic Publishers/Springer: London. ISSN 0960-3115; e-ISSN 1572-9710, more
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Author keywords
    Biodiversity, Criteria, Data quality, Protected area, Reserve, Site network, Spatial planning, Systematic conservation planning

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  • Gilman, E.
  • Dunn, D., more
  • Read, A.
  • Hyrenbach, K.D.
  • Warner, R.

Abstract
    Suites of criteria specifying ecological, biological, social, economic, and governance properties enable the systematic identification of sites and networks of high biodiversity value, and can support balancing ecological and socioeconomic objectives of biodiversity conservation in terrestrial and marine spatial planning. We describe designs of suites of ecological, governance and socioeconomic criteria to comprehensively cover manifestations of biodiversity, from genotypes to biomes; compensate for taxonomic and spatial gaps in available datasets; balance biases resulting from conventionally-employed narrow criteria suites focusing on rare, endemic and threatened species; plan for climate change effects on biodiversity; and optimize the ecological and administrative networking of sites. Representativeness, replication, ecological connectivity, size, and refugia are identified as minimum ecological properties of site networks. Through inclusion of a criterion for phylogenetic distinctiveness, criteria suites identify sites important for maintaining evolutionary processes. Criteria for focal species are needed to overcome data gaps and address limitations in knowledge of factors responsible for maintaining ecosystem integrity.

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