The importance of protected areas for overexploited plants: Evidence from a biodiversity hotspot

Souza, Aline Cavalcante de; Prevedello, Jayme Augusto

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108482

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“…Current knowledge also suggests that T. jacquesii does not occur in any protected areas, yet our model lacks the resolution to confidently assess this. Given the importance of protected areas for plant conservation (Chape et al 2008;Souza and Prevedello 2020), the limited coverage provided for Threatened tulips needs to be addressed. Here, our models together with previous work (Botschantzeva 1982;Everett 2013) show that large areas of suitable habitat for these species are situated away from settlements in remote mountainous areas where increased protected area coverage may be feasible (Venter et al 2018).…”

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Central Asian wild tulip conservation requires a regional approach, especially in the face of climate change

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Tulips (Tulipa spp.) are one of the most widely appreciated plants worldwide, nevertheless species taxonomy and biogeography are often poorly understood. Most wild tulips inhabit the mountains of Central Asia, a recognised biodiversity hotspot, and a centre of tulip diversity. Despite the presence of several country-level endemic Tulipa species, most taxa span the borders of several nations. With no globally Red Listed tulip taxa from this region national level conservation assessments are an important resource. Nonetheless, threats posed to tulips are still inadequately understood, especially climate change, and given the trans-national nature of most species, distributional information is restricted and often misleading. Here we collate 330 species records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility with 85 newly collected records, to undertake species distribution modelling (MaxEnt) for ten native Central Asian species. This work showed that regional level models provide a much more comprehensive understanding of species’ extinction risks, proportions of habitat in different countries, and limitations in protected area coverage. Furthermore, our climate modelling, the first of its kind for tulips, suggests that climate change will have a significant negative impact on the range size of all species; including those that are currently widespread. We therefore add climate change to the list of threats affecting tulip populations in Central Asia, which already includes livestock overgrazing, urbanisation, wild collection, and mining. Overall, our work shows that although national information is important, a regional approach is crucial not just for tulip conservation efforts, but likely for Central Asian plant conservation in general.

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Central Asian wild tulip conservation requires a regional approach, especially in the face of climate change

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“…The protection of forests through a land-sparing approach [31] has been proposed as an effective way to sustain environmental services, ecological interactions, and to maintain habitat for endemic and threatened species (e.g., [47,48]). This strategy is particularly important in regions where land is scarce, intensively used, or where natural ecosystems have been replaced.…”

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Changes in the Socio-Ecological System of a Protected Area in the Yucatan Peninsula: A Case Study on Land-Use, Vegetation Cover, and Household Management Strategies

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Rivera

Garcı́a-Frapolli

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Protected areas (PA) are effective means for protecting biodiversity, but less is known about their effect on the social-ecological system (SES). Using a semi-experimental approach and a descriptive case study based evaluation, we analyzed the effect of a PA in the Yucatan Peninsula on land-cover and household resource management strategies in time and space (before and after the PA establishment; inside and outside its limits). To assess the changes of land-use practices in the areas surrounding the communities inside and outside the PA, and their change over time (from 2003 to 2015), we used remote sensing analysis and semi-structured interviews. Our results show that after the PA was established, the forest increased and agricultural plots decreased inside and to a lesser extent outside the PA. However, fires reduced the area of old-growth forest and increased young secondary forest, highlighting the system’s vulnerability to uncommon events. Resource management strategies were also affected: while inside the PA households tended toward specializing on tourism, outside the PA household strategies implied a diversification of productive activities. Overall, the establishment of the PA proved to be an effective tool to promote forest recovery and prevent deforestation in the regions surrounding the communities both inside and outside the PA.

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“…The universe faces a lot of troubles including the population explosion, climate changes and global warming as well as the overexploitation of natural resources, which threaten the loss of global biodiversity (Souza and Prevedello, 2020). The changing in climate could threaten the crop production throughthe physical damage resulting from extreme climate events such as flooding and drought as well asthe physiological changes induced by heat stress (Wan, 2015).…”

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Management of Heat Stress in Tomato Seedlings under Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Review

Abdalla¹,

Taha

El-Ramady

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T HE production of protected cultivation of vegetables could be considered as a sustainable solution in arid and semi-arid regions.These regions already suffer from raising temperature andthe global warmingwill aggravate this, whichrepresents a great challenge facing our universe nowadays. Hence, the production of vegetables and tomato under greenhouse system during the high temperatures may be considered a serious problem should be avoided in these arid zonesin summer due to heat stress.The heat stress may cause a lot of troubles for the tomato seedlings in greenhouses in summer starting with the photosynthetic rate, and the metabolism processes in seedlings and in turn the growth and development of these seedlings. Although studies have recognized heat stress on tomato seedlings, research has yet to systematically investigate the effect of heat stress on tomato seedlings in greenhouse in summer under arid and semi-arid regions particularly in developing countries, which their greenhouses have not any climate controllers. Therefore, the management of tomato seedlings may need to address the production problems caused by heat stress in greenhouse conditions particularly in arid and semi-arid zones

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The importance of protected areas for overexploited plants: Evidence from a biodiversity hotspot

Cited by 32 publications

References 53 publications

Central Asian wild tulip conservation requires a regional approach, especially in the face of climate change

Central Asian wild tulip conservation requires a regional approach, especially in the face of climate change

Changes in the Socio-Ecological System of a Protected Area in the Yucatan Peninsula: A Case Study on Land-Use, Vegetation Cover, and Household Management Strategies

Management of Heat Stress in Tomato Seedlings under Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Review

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