Research priorities for maintaining biodiversity’s contributions to people in Latin America

Pearson, Richard G.; Martínez‐Meyer, Enrique; Velázquez, Mercedes Andrade; Caron, Mercedes; Corona-Núñez, Rogelio O.; Davis, Katrina; Durán, América Paz; García‐Morales, Rodrigo; Hackett, Talya D.; Ingram, Daniel J.; Díaz, Rafael Loyola; Lescano, Julián N.; Lira‐Noriega, Andrés; Lopez-Maldonado, Yolanda; Manuschevich, Daniela; Mendoza, Alma G.; Milligan, Ben; Mills, Simon C.; Moreira‐Arce, Darío; Nava, Luzma Fabiola; Oostra, Vicencio; Owen, Nathan; Prieto‐Torres, David A.; Rodríguez‐Soto, Clarita; Smith, Thomas Benjamin; Suggitt, Andrew J.; Tejo, Camila F.; Velásquez‐Tibatá, Jorge; Dı́az, Sandra; Marquet, Pablo A.

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“…Moreover, the network of protected areas (PAs) may be less effective for conserving species under future global change scenarios, mainly because they may no longer cover species' modified future distributions (Hannah et al 2007;Jones et al 2018;Maxwell et al 2020;Prieto-Torres et al 2020;2021a). Thus, there is clear evidence that rapid changes in Mexico are quickly restricting our last opportunities for the implementation of effective conservation planning and mitigation policies (Hannah et al 2007;Bitencourt et al 2016;Pearson et al 2019;Law et al 2021).…”

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Protecting breeding sites: a critical goal for the conservation of the golden eagle in Mexico under global change scenarios

Gama-Rodríguez,

García,

Lozano

et al. 2024

J Ornithol

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Impacts of global climate and land‐use changes on distribution patterns and breeding sites remain today poorly studied for several vulnerable emblematic bird species, including the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos). Herein, we analyzed the potential effect of global climate changes and agricultural activities on the distribution patterns of this top predator across Mexico. We assessed the long-term role of protected areas (PAs) for safeguarding the species’ overall distribution and its breeding sites. We evaluated current and future (2040s, 2060s, and 2080s) threats from global change using ecological niche modeling and geographic information system approaches to determine the percentage of the species’ distribution area that overlaps with highly human-modified areas and PAs under each climate scenario. We also used niche overlap tests to assess whether the species’ breeding sites show equivalence or similarity of climatic conditions over time. Our findings revealed shifts in the Golden Eagle’s distributional area, with an overall size reduction (by ~ 57% in the 2040s and ~ 78% in the 2080s) due to future environmental changes, mainly attributable to increasingly dry and warm conditions. Mexican PAs cover ~ 12% of the Golden Eagle’s range across country, but this decreased by > 33% on average under the species’ future distributions. Although the hypothesis of equivalent climatic conditions at breeding sites over time was rejected, those sites did have long-term climate similarity (niche overlap: 0.75–0.83; P < 0.05). Considering the species’ nest site fidelity and that colonization of new areas within Mexico seems unlikely, protection of these breeding sites is a critical step for the long-term conservation of this emblematic species in Mexico.

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Protecting breeding sites: a critical goal for the conservation of the golden eagle in Mexico under global change scenarios

Gama-Rodríguez,

García,

Lozano

et al. 2024

J Ornithol

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Marine Protected Area Expansion and Country-Level Age-Standardized Adult Mortality

Haque,

Bennett,

Brewer

et al. 2023

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Many countries have adopted targets to increase marine protected areas (MPAs) to limit the degradation of water bodies. Although there is evidence that MPAs can conserve marine life and promote biodiversity, there are limited data on the human health implications of MPAs. Using panel data from 1990, 2000, and 2014, we estimated the country-level associations between MPAs (i.e., percentage of territorial waters designated as marine reserves) and age-standardized mortality (i.e., age-standardized probability of dying between 15 and 60 years from all-causes among ages 15–60/100,000 population) by sex, among 110 countries. We fit mixed-effects linear regression models of mortality as a function of current MPA coverage, gross domestic product growth, year, the prior extent of MPA, electricity coverage, governance, and country-level random effects. We observed a significant inverse association between current MPA coverage and adult mortality. For each 5-percentage-point increase in current MPA coverage, a country had 0.982 times the geometric means of female and male mortality [geometric mean ratio: 0.982 (95% CI 0·976, 0·988)] conditional on past %MPA coverage and other modeled variables. The model showed no significant residual association of mortality with past %MPA conditional on current %MPA and other modeled variables. This is one of the first studies to show a positive association between increasing marine conservation and human health. This macro-level study suggests there may be important co-benefits for human health from expanding MPAs that merit further investigation.

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Climate warming affects spatio-temporal biodiversity patterns of a highly vulnerable Neotropical avifauna

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Research priorities for maintaining biodiversity’s contributions to people in Latin America

Cited by 8 publications

References 11 publications

Protecting breeding sites: a critical goal for the conservation of the golden eagle in Mexico under global change scenarios

Protecting breeding sites: a critical goal for the conservation of the golden eagle in Mexico under global change scenarios

Marine Protected Area Expansion and Country-Level Age-Standardized Adult Mortality

Climate warming affects spatio-temporal biodiversity patterns of a highly vulnerable Neotropical avifauna

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