Identification of Prime Butterfly Areas in Turkey using systematic conservation planning: Challenges and opportunities

Zeydanlı, Uğur; Turak, Ayşe; Balkız, Özge; Özüt, Deniz; Ertürk, Alper; Welch, Hilary; Karaçetin, Evrim; Ambarlı, Didem; Durmuş, Mustafa; Bilgin, C. Can

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2012.02.025

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“…Some relatively small provinces such as Artvin and Hakkari had among the highest number of overall and threatened butterfly species. This is consistent with the findings of Zeydanlı et al (), who recently identified localities within Artvin and Hakkari provinces as “prime butterfly areas” on the basis of a multicriteria approach that included species richness and rarity.…”

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“…Turkey intersects 3 of the world's biodiversity hotspots (Mediterranean, Irano-Anatolian, Caucasus) and has a large number of plant and animal taxa relative to its size, especially for a temperate country (Şekercioglu et al 2011). For example, all of Europe has a total of 482 butterfly species (van Swaay & Warren 1999;van Swaay et al 2011), whereas 381 butterfly species are currently extant in Turkey alone (Karaçetin & Welch 2011;Zeydanlı et al 2012). Furthermore, many of the butterfly species that are rare or threatened in Europe are relatively common in Turkey (van Swaay & Warren 1999).…”

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Effect of Widespread Agricultural Chemical Use on Butterfly Diversity across Turkish Provinces

Pekin

2013

Conservation Biology

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Although agricultural intensification is thought to pose a significant threat to species, little is known about its role in driving biodiversity loss at regional scales. I assessed the effects of a major component of agricultural intensification, agricultural chemical use, and land-cover and climatic variables on butterfly diversity across 81 provinces in Turkey, where agriculture is practiced extensively but with varying degrees of intensity. I determined butterfly species presence in each province from data on known butterfly distributions and calculated agricultural chemical use as the proportion of agricultural households that use chemical fertilizers and pesticides. I used constrained correspondence analyses and regression-based multimodel inference to determine the effect of environmental variables on species composition and richness, respectively. The variation in butterfly species composition across the provinces was largely explained (78%) by the combination of agricultural chemical use, particularly pesticides, and climatic and land-cover variables. Although overall butterfly richness was primarily explained by climatic and land-cover variables, such as the area of natural vegetation cover, threatened butterfly richness and the relative number of threatened butterfly species decreased substantially as the proportion of agricultural households using pesticides increased. These findings suggest that widespread use of agricultural chemicals, or other components of agricultural intensification that may be collinear with pesticide use, pose an imminent threat to the biodiversity of Turkey. Accordingly, policies that mitigate agricultural intensification and promote low-input farming practices are crucial for protecting threatened species from extinction in rapidly industrializing nations such as Turkey. Efectos del Uso Extensivo de Agroquímicos sobre la Diversidad de Mariposas en Provincias Turcas.

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Effect of Widespread Agricultural Chemical Use on Butterfly Diversity across Turkish Provinces

Pekin

2013

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“…Identification of important habitat areas has been completed for various species groups, using many different approaches and criteria for site choice. Generally, these methods for protected area identification can be labelled either 'scoring-based approaches' or 'complementarity approaches' (Zeydanlı et al, 2012). The most commonly applied protected area selection methodology is based on the concept of Important Bird Areas (IBA), where the selection of sites is criteriadriven, using a scoring-based approach.…”

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Prime Hoverfly (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) Areas (PHA) as a conservation tool in Serbia

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Hoverflies are a valuable group of species in need of conservation and monitoring, due to their large contribution to pollination, biological control, and role as indicators of ecosystem change. Though hoverflies are a well-known group of insects, there has been little documentation of their current conservation status. Using long-term hoverfly monitoring data, this study reports on their prevalence in Serbia and presents priority areas for their conservation. An expert-generated, criteria-driven approach was used to identify core areas for conservation of hoverflies, named Prime Hoverfly Areas (PHA); 34% of the identified area lies outside of a national protection area (NPA) network. A systematic conservation approach (gap and irreplaceability analysis) was then applied to evaluate: 1) sufficiency of the NPA for hoverfly conservation, and 2) degree of improvement in hoverfly conservation conferred by the expert-generated PHA network. The networks were evaluated for the achievement of predefined representation targets for each of the 155 hoverfly species identified as important for conservation. We found that the NPA network is insufficient, as it does not cover the ranges of 18% of considered species. The area of the proposed PHA outside of the NPA is small (1.36% of the national territory), but its protection would greatly improve hoverfly conservation by increasing the inclusion of hoverfly habitats for previously unprotected species and by including hoverfly biodiversity hot spots. The suggested PHA network was then compared to a similarly designed habitat network aimed to conserve butterflies. There was partial overlap between the two networks, highlighting the importance of considering multiple groups in planning comprehensive conservation strategies for pollinators.

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Studying and Sampling Lepidoptera for Conservation

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Lepidoptera and Conservation

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Identification of Prime Butterfly Areas in Turkey using systematic conservation planning: Challenges and opportunities

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Effect of Widespread Agricultural Chemical Use on Butterfly Diversity across Turkish Provinces

Effect of Widespread Agricultural Chemical Use on Butterfly Diversity across Turkish Provinces

Prime Hoverfly (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) Areas (PHA) as a conservation tool in Serbia

Studying and Sampling Lepidoptera for Conservation

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