Restoration planning to guide Aichi targets in a megadiverse country

Abstract

Ecological restoration has become an important strategy to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems services. To restore 15% of degraded ecosystems as stipulated by the Convention on Biological DiversityPalabras Clave: análisis espacial multicriterio, planificación sistemática de la conservación, proceso participativo, sitios clave de biodiversidad, factibilida de restauración

Decision support tools for forest landscape restoration: Current status and future outlook

“…Different types of spatially based biodiversity information can and should be incorporated into systematic restoration planning at a range of spatial scales, but there are no tools that provide broadly applicable models, as is the case for ecosystem services. At a national or regional scale, inventory data on the geographic distribution and abundance of species can be used to indicate priority areas for reserves and biological corridors based on criteria such as local species richness, richness of endemic or rare species, refugia for endangered species or assessing species complementarity in protected area networks (Tobón et al 2017). At the landscape scale, biodiversity assessment data can play an integral role in FLR planning, including prioritizing locations and types of biological corridors, assessing species complementarity networks, and evaluating potential outcomes of different restoration interventions on local-and landscape-scale species and functional diversity.…”

“…Yoshioka et al (2014) identified priority restoration areas in Japan based on past and current distributions of breeding bird species regarded as endangered, the total area targeted for restoration and the feasibility of restoration. Tobón et al (2017) used a six-step approach to prioritize potential sizes for restoration that support national scale biodiversity conservation goals in the megadiverse country of Mexico. Their highly robust analysis was based on species distribution models for over 80% of the described species of Mexican amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, distribution models of threatened plant and tree species, plant family occurrence data, and locations of critical vegetation types.…”

“…Similar complexities and challenges confront conservation practitioners who strive to maximize cost-effectiveness when making decisions regarding allocation of limited funds to protect habitats for endangered or threatened species. The systematic conservation planning approach has been widely used to identify areas of high conservation value based on concepts of representation (Crossman and Bryan 2006;Tobón et al 2017), complementarity of biodiversity (Ikin et al 2016) and landscape ecology principles (Margules and Pressey 2000;…”

“…In some cases, experts were consulted to select appropriate prioritization criteria and indicators (Orsi et al 2011;Uribe et al 2014;Tobón et al 2017). Criteria for prioritization are selected to reflect the overall objectives of prioritization, as well as the constraints on available spatial data sets.…”

“…Three studies emphasize social feasibility and biophysical suitability criteria (Orsi and Geneletti 2010;Uribe et al 2014;Vogler et al 2015) and one study includes political feasibility, based on government restrictions on land use for agroforestry in production forests (Budiharta et al 2016). The study by Tobón et al (2017) identifies priority sites for restoration within the entire country of Mexico, to achieve the Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Target 15 to restore 15% of terrestrial ecosystems at minimal cost. In this case, criteria for prioritization were biological importance and restoration feasibility.…”