Application of land-use simulation to protected area selection for efficient avoidance of biodiversity loss in Canada’s western boreal region

Carlson, Matthew J.; Browne, David R.; Callaghan, Carolyn

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.01.015

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“…However, such strategies come with economic costs, so it is important to assess the environmental benefits of different harvesting strategies. Future simulation tools that project outcomes for forestry yields, harvesting costs, and habitat quantity or quality for different species (e.g., caribou, boreal birds) are a crucial component of such evaluations (Sturtevant et al, 2007;Carlson et al, , 2019.…”

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“…Decision support tools that simulate and incorporate multiple land uses (e.g., energy, forestry, agriculture, settlements, transportation, mining) and natural disturbances are needed . By linking SDMs to simulation tools, the consequences of management strategies in the presence of the full suite of drivers can be assessed (Carlson et al, , 2019.…”

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“…and natural disturbance (fire, insects, storms, etc.). It has been widely employed to explore future environmental trajectories and guide land use decisions in North and South America, Australia, India, and elsewhere 5,23 .…”

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Modelling regional futures at decadal scale: application to the Kimberley region

Boschetti

Lozano-Montes

Stelfox³

2020

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We address the question of how to provide meaningful scientific information to support environmental decision making at the regional scale and at the temporal scale of several decades in a network of marine parks in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Where environmental sustainability is affected by slow-dynamics climate change processes and one-off investments in large infrastructure which can affect a region for decades to come, both strategic and reactive planning is necessary and prediction becomes as urgent as standard adaptive management. At the interface between future studies, socioeconomic modelling and environmental modelling, we define 18 scenarios of economic development and climate change impacts and five management strategies. We explore these potential futures using coupled models of terrestrial and marine ecosystem dynamics. We obtain a projection of the Kimberley marine system to the year 2050, conditional on the chosen scenarios and management strategies. our results suggest that climate change, not economic development, is the largest factor affecting the future of marine ecosystems in the Kimberley region, with site-attached species such as reef fish at greatest risk. These same species also benefit most from more stringent management strategies, especially expansion of sanctuary zones and Marine protected Areas. The Kimberley region of Western Australia comprises ~420,000 km 2 of land area and ~320,000 km 2 of marine waters (including waters out of to the edge of EEZ) with a population of ~40,000. It is renowned for its remoteness, physical beauty, pristine ecosystems, diverse biota, complex coastline, and rich Aboriginal history. Large portions of the marine region are recognised as part of a conservation reserve network, including national parks and indigenous protected areas. It also possesses considerable natural resources in terms of minerals and offshore/ onshore hydrocarbons, food production (agriculture, fishing and aquaculture) and a growing tourism industry. Both State and regional governments are committed to balance growth in population, economic activity and land, coastal and marine uses to ensure employment and improved standard of living for its current and future population with environmental and social objectives, including preservation of the natural heritage and the cultural values of its Aboriginal population. In 2012 the Australian government established the Northwest Network Marine Parks to protect one of the world's most ecologically diverse marine areas 1. These national parks (Kimberley, 80 Mile Beach, Roebuck Bay, Ashmore Reef, Argo-Rowley Terrace) are located in Commonwealth waters (3-200 NM). The Kimberley also includes the Great Kimberley Marine Park (a network of six marine parks) declared by the state government of Western Australia (2018) located up to 3 nautical miles from the coast (80 Mile Beach, Lalang-garram/Camden Sound, Yawuru Nagulagun/Roebuck Bay, North Lalang-garram, Lalang-garram/Horizontal Falls, and North Kimberley) (see Supplementary Fig. ...

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“…Land resources are the main means of production in agriculture [1]. They influence the yield of agricultural crops, productivity of land, nutritional value of feed, quality of the products produced, and ultimately the result of the activities of agricultural enterprises [2].…”

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Improving efficiency of agricultural machinery exploitation as factor of optimization use of agricultural land

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Yanzin

Mamai

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Engineering for Rural Development

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Improving the efficiency of agricultural land use depends primarily on the return on investment and rational use of resources. Agricultural machinery (tractors, aggregates, machines, etc.) is one of the important resources. The use of agricultural tractors in conditions of high air dustiness leads to the ingress of abrasive particles into the internal cavities of the transmission, which causes increased wear of parts and impairs the performance properties of transmission oil. This process is mainly due to transmission gas exchange with the environment, occurring with insufficient tightness of power transmission aggregates. Studies were conducted to determine the magnitude of transmission gas transmission, changes in the tightness of transmission cavities, as well as the accumulation of mechanical impurities and iron in the transmission oil during the operation of the tractor. The BELARUS-80.1 tractor was used as an object of the study. Studies were carried out both in bench and in operational conditions. To assess the tightness of tractor transmissions, an installation was developed that allows determining the qualitative and quantitative indicators of tightness. Based on the research, it was found that the change in the temperature and air volume contained in the transmission cavity has the greatest effect on the gas exchange rate. So, when the transmission temperature of the tractor BELARUS-80.1 changes by 1ºC, the transmission gas exchange with the environment is 0.5-0.6 dm 3. It was established that, while improving the tightness of the transmission by 10-15 %, the wear of parts, estimated by the change in the mass fraction of iron in oil, decreased by 15-17 %.

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Application of land-use simulation to protected area selection for efficient avoidance of biodiversity loss in Canada’s western boreal region

Cited by 20 publications

References 41 publications

Quantifying Long-Term Bird Population Responses to Simulated Harvest Plans and Cumulative Effects of Disturbance

Quantifying Long-Term Bird Population Responses to Simulated Harvest Plans and Cumulative Effects of Disturbance

Modelling regional futures at decadal scale: application to the Kimberley region

Improving efficiency of agricultural machinery exploitation as factor of optimization use of agricultural land

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