Introduction to systematic conservation planning in the Cape Floristic Region

Cowling, R. M.; Pressey, Robert L.

doi:10.1016/s0006-3207(02)00418-4

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“…Conservation scientists and practitioners have used regional and global conservation assessments to support and guide comprehensive and representative biodiversity protection [53][54][55]. In addition to identifying important places, these assessments help organize, update, and make available biodiversity information; develop, implement and prioritize strategies; evaluate success, and inform adaptive management of conservation investments and actions.…”

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Tailoring Global Data to Guide Corporate Investments in Biodiversity, Environmental Assessments and Sustainability

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Abstract:Companies make significant investments in environmental impacts assessments, biodiversity action plans, life-cycle assessments, and environmental management systems, but guidance on where and when these tools can be best used, and how they may scale-up to inform corporation-wide planning, is sorely lacking. A major barrier to informed environmental decision-making within companies, especially in data poor regions of the world, is the difficulty accessing, analyzing, and interpreting biodiversity information. To address this shortcoming, we analyzed nine publicly available environmental datasets, and created five globally-relevant metrics associated with biodiversity: habitat intactness, habitat protection, species richness (globally and biome normalized), and threatened species. We demonstrate how packaging these metrics within an open-source, web-based mapping tool can facilitate corporations in biodiversity prioritization of their sites (or their supply chains), ultimately guiding potential investments in the environment.

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“…The assessment problem becomes particularly severe in the context of systematic conservation planning (SCP) which emerged as a central sub-discipline within conservation biology in the 1990s and 2000s (Margules and Pressey 2000, Cowling and Pressey 2003, Margules and Sarkar 2007, Pressey and Bottrill 2009, Sarkar and Illoldi-Rangel 2010, Sarkar 2012a. SCP is "a structured step-wise approach to mapping conservation area networks, with feedback, revision and reiteration, where needed, at any stage" (Sarkar and Margules 2007).…”

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Biodiversity and Systematic Conservation Planning for the Twenty-first Century: A Philosophical Perspective

Sarkar

2015

Conservation Sci

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SummaryThe concept of biodiversity, its introduction in conservation biology, and its evolution in the framework of systematic conservation planning, are analyzed. Attempts to quantify biodiversity and to find surrogate measures for it are described. It is shown that biodiversity originated as and remains a fundamentally normative concept. However, while attempts to reduce biodiversity conservation to the achievement of sustainability are misplaced, natural values other than biodiversity also merit promotion. Multi-criteria analysis can be used to capture necessary trade-offs between these values when they are in conflict. Moreover, given the possibility of trade-off analysis, socio-cultural values can also be integrated into habitat use decisions along with natural values. Thus biodiversity conservation can be integrated into more general framework of habitat use planning.

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“…1), the Cape Floristic Region (CFR) of South Africa is a biodiversity hotspot of global significance (Myers et al 2000) consisting of a Mediterranean-type ecosystem with high species turnover across the landscape and high endemicity. Systematic conservation planning has been conducted for the region but focused on pristine habitat that could be formally protected (see Cowling and Pressey 2003). Because spatial turnover of species is so high, however, successful conservation will depend heavily on efforts in human-modified landscapes beyond PAs (Cox and Underwood 2011).…”

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Supporting conservation with biodiversity research in sub-Saharan Africa’s human-modified landscapes

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Aarde

2014

Biodivers Conserv

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Protected areas cover 12% of terrestrial sub-Saharan Africa. However, given the inherent inadequacies of these protected areas to cater for all species in conjunction with the effects of climate change and human pressures on protected areas, the future of biodiversity depends heavily on the 88% of land that is unprotected. The study of biodiversity patterns and the processes that maintain them in human-modified landscapes can provide a valuable evidence base to support science-based policy-making that seeks to make land outside of protected areas as amenable as possible for biodiversity persistence. We discuss the literature on biodiversity in 2 sub-Saharan Africa"s human-modified landscapes as it relates to four broad ecosystem categorizations (i.e. rangelands, tropical forest, the Cape Floristic Region, and the urban and rural built environment) within which we expect similar patterns of biodiversity persistence in relation to specific human land uses and land management actions. Available research demonstrates the potential contribution of biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes within all four ecosystem types and goes some way towards providing general conclusions that could support policy-making. Nonetheless, conservation success in humanmodified landscapes is hampered by constraints requiring further scientific investment, e.g. deficiencies in the available research, uncertainties regarding implementation strategies, and difficulties of coexisting with biodiversity. However, information currently available can and should support efforts at individual, community, provincial, national, and international levels to support biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes.

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Introduction to systematic conservation planning in the Cape Floristic Region

Cited by 127 publications

References 46 publications

Tailoring Global Data to Guide Corporate Investments in Biodiversity, Environmental Assessments and Sustainability

Tailoring Global Data to Guide Corporate Investments in Biodiversity, Environmental Assessments and Sustainability

Biodiversity and Systematic Conservation Planning for the Twenty-first Century: A Philosophical Perspective

Supporting conservation with biodiversity research in sub-Saharan Africa’s human-modified landscapes

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