Advances in conservation biogeography: towards protected area effectiveness under anthropogenic threats

Hoffmann, Samuel

doi:10.21425/f5fbg49679

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“…The methodological approach used has already found many applications in natural areas, especially in marine and coastal areas; however, there are no guidelines for the construction of the pressure factor dataset or the related threat estimate. This method is therefore still under development and demonstrates the need to deepen the study of decision support tools and specific methodologies to support planning in parks and nature reserves and is crucial for effective protected area management [104].…”

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Cumulative Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Anthropogenic Impacts in the Protected Area of the Gran Paradiso National Park in the NW Alps, Italy

Richiardi

Minciardi

Siniscalco

et al. 2023

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Anthropogenic threats are responsible for habitat degradation and biodiversity decline. The mapping of the distribution and intensity of threats to biodiversity can be useful for informing efficient planning in protected areas. In this study, we propose a cumulative spatial and temporal analysis of anthropogenic impacts insisting on an alpine protected area, the Gran Paradiso National Park. The applied methodology starts with the construction of a spatial and temporal dataset of anthropogenic impacts and normalization based on relative intensity. The impacts analyzed include overgrazing, helicopter flights, road networks, built-up areas, worksites, derivations and discharges, sports activities, and dams and hydroelectric power plants. Each impact was assigned a weight based on its temporal persistence. Threats maps obtained from the collected, normalized, and weighted geodata are thus obtained. Finally, the risk map is calculated by combining the impact map with the vulnerability map, estimated through the methodology outlined in the Green Guidelines of the Metropolitan City of Turin. The risk map obtained was cross-referenced with the Park’s cartography to highlight any critical issues to specific habitats. Results show that most of the territory falls in low-risk (63%) or no-risk (35%) areas. However, there are some habitats that are totally or nearly totally affected by some degree of risk, although different to zero, such as the “Lentic waters with aquatic vegetation [incl. cod. 3130]”, the “Lentic waters partially buried”, the “Mountain pine forests (Pinus uncinata) [cod. 9430]”, and the “Mixed hygrophilous woods of broad-leaved trees [incl. cod. 91E0]”. This study highlights both the potential of these analyses, which enable informed management and planning of the fruition of protected areas, and the limitations of such approaches, which require in-depth knowledge of the territory and ecosystems and how they respond to threats in order to refine the model and obtain realistic maps.

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Cumulative Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Anthropogenic Impacts in the Protected Area of the Gran Paradiso National Park in the NW Alps, Italy

Richiardi

Minciardi

Siniscalco

et al. 2023

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“…While our priorities do capture hotspots of endemism (e.g., Bi Doup, Ha Giang, and Lao Cai in Vietnam and Kanchanaburi in Thailand), unique ecosystems such as these require additional consideration, such as inclusion of the red list of ecosystems or ecosystem typologies to ensure representative protection coverage. It should also be noted that, even when implemented, measures of protected area effectiveness and monitoring are still needed and are lacking for the majority of protected areas across the Asian region ( https://pame.protectedplanet.net/ ) ( 63 , 64 ).…”

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“…It should also be noted that, even when implemented, measures of protected area effectiveness and monitoring are still needed and are lacking for the majority of pro tected areas across the Asian region (https://pame.protectedplanet. net/) (63,64).…”

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Regional scalable priorities for national biodiversity and carbon conservation planning in Asia

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To achieve the goals of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, we must identify representative targets that effectively protect biodiversity and can be implemented at a national level. We developed a framework to identify synergies between biodiversity and carbon across the Asian region and proposed a stepwise approach based on scalable priorities at regional, biome, and national levels that can complement potential Convention on Biological Diversity targets of protecting 30% land in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Our targets show that 30% of Asian land could effectively protect over 70% of all assessed species relative to only 11% now (based on analysis of 8932 terrestrial vertebrates), in addition to 2.3 to 3.6 hundred billion metric tons of carbon. Funding mechanisms are needed to ensure such targets to support biodiversity-carbon mutually beneficial solutions at the national level while reflecting broader priorities, especially in hyperdiverse countries where priorities exceed 30% of land.

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“…Nevertheless, significant resistance to implementation can come from the presence of social and economic tradeoffs ( 14 , 23 – 30 ), as land set aside for nature can impede local livelihood options ( 14 , 22 , 28 , 30 – 33 ). Mainstream conservation—stemming historically from Western knowledge systems—has often resulted in the establishment of protected areas that exclude people and their activities from such landscapes ( 18 , 19 , 27 , 32 – 40 ). This has often exacerbated issues of poverty, landlessness, and food insecurity in regions where communities were already marginalized ( 18 , 27 , 32 , 33 , 35 , 37 , 41 – 46 ).…”

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Avoiding an unjust transition to sustainability: An equity metric for spatial conservation planning

Venier-Cambron,

Malek,

Verburg

2023

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The need for rapid and ambitious conservation and restoration is widely acknowledged, yet concern exists that the widespread reallocation of land to nature would disproportionately affect the world’s poor. Conservation and restoration may limit nutrition and livelihood options and thus negatively affect social development objectives. Although much research looks into global-scale scenarios and planning of conservation and restoration, spatial evaluations of these trade-offs in terms of equity remain limited. We fill this gap by identifying areas where conservation or restoration under different future scenarios and prioritization maps expand nature into landscapes that likely support land-dependent communities in their local food security. By contrasting the expansion of nature into areas supporting land-dependent communities vs. places where the food system is supported by regional to global markets, we highlight the need for disaggregated indicators that reflect the diversity of human land-use needs in order to identify more equitable pathways. Conservation prioritizations were found to result in more equitable land-use outcomes than the land-use outcomes of widely used socioeconomic scenarios. Accounting for differentiated social impacts in model-based conservation and restoration planning and global scale scenario assessment can help achieve a more inclusive transition to sustainability as well as reduce barriers to meaningful change.

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Advances in conservation biogeography: towards protected area effectiveness under anthropogenic threats

Cited by 9 publications

References 157 publications

Cumulative Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Anthropogenic Impacts in the Protected Area of the Gran Paradiso National Park in the NW Alps, Italy

Cumulative Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Anthropogenic Impacts in the Protected Area of the Gran Paradiso National Park in the NW Alps, Italy

Regional scalable priorities for national biodiversity and carbon conservation planning in Asia

Avoiding an unjust transition to sustainability: An equity metric for spatial conservation planning

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