The Landscape Species Approach: spatially-explicit conservation planning applied in the Adirondacks, USA, and San Guillermo-Laguna Brava, Argentina, landscapes

Didier, Karl; Glennon, Michale J.; Novaro, Andrés J.; Sanderson, Eric W.; Strindberg, Samantha; Walker, Susan; Martino, Sebástian Di

doi:10.1017/s0030605309000945

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“…Additionally, because of their relatively slow life history, aye-ayes may be particularly sensitive to rapid habitat changes. The combination of these factors would make aye-ayes a strong candidate for a focal species in a "landscape species" approach to conservation planning (59,60).…”

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Aye-aye population genomic analyses highlight an important center of endemism in northern Madagascar

Perry

Louis²,

Bedoya-Reina

et al. 2013

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

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We performed a population genomics study of the aye-aye, a highly specialized nocturnal lemur from Madagascar. Aye-ayes have low population densities and extensive range requirements that could make this flagship species particularly susceptible to extinction. Therefore, knowledge of genetic diversity and differentiation among aye-aye populations is critical for conservation planning. Such information may also advance our general understanding of Malagasy biogeography, as aye-ayes have the largest species distribution of any lemur. We generated and analyzed whole-genome sequence data for 12 aye-ayes from three regions of Madagascar (North, West, and East). We found that the North population is genetically distinct, with strong differentiation from other aye-ayes over relatively short geographic distances. For comparison, the average F ST value between the North and East aye-aye populations-separated by only 248 km-is over 2.1-times greater than that observed between human Africans and Europeans. This finding is consistent with prior watershed-and climate-based hypotheses of a center of endemism in northern Madagascar. Taken together, these results suggest a strong and long-term biogeographical barrier to gene flow. Thus, the specific attention that should be directed toward preserving large, contiguous aye-aye habitats in northern Madagascar may also benefit the conservation of other distinct taxonomic units. To help facilitate future ecological-and conservation-motivated population genomic analyses by noncomputational biologists, the analytical toolkit used in this study is available on the Galaxy Web site.conservation genomics | landscape species concept | genomics of non-model species

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Aye-aye population genomic analyses highlight an important center of endemism in northern Madagascar

Perry

Louis²,

Bedoya-Reina

et al. 2013

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

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“…The KBA approach provides transparent data for the precise application of conservation resources orienting private reserves, public protected areas creation and fine scale forest restoration initiatives. A complementary landscape scale approach (Didier et al 2009) would benefit a broader array of generalists and widespread species while taking into account landscape connectivity issues, landscape change, socioenvironmental drivers of land use change and conservation opportunity costs.…”

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Fine-scale sites of global conservation importance in the Atlantic forest of Brazil

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The Brazilian Atlantic Forest is a highly threatened biodiversity hotspot that has been the subject of several complementary conservation assessments and prioritysetting initiatives in the last 30 years. Results of these initiatives have relied on distinct types of distribution data for biodiversity features and differ in the objectivity and repeatability of their methodologies. Here we refine earlier priority-setting exercises using the key biodiversity areas (KBA) approach. We evaluate how well these KBAs are represented in the existing protected areas system, prioritize among them, and analyze critical aspects of the KBA methodology in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest context, such as its ability to guide specific conservation strategies. Building upon an extensive database with 1,636 species records and 122 previously identified Important Bird Areas, we demonstrate that conservation assessments in highly fragmented landscapes may be benefited by high resolution species data as is required by the KBA process. We identify 538 KBAs for 141 globally threatened vertebrate species. Prioritizing among these KBA, we highlight the 24 most irreplaceable sites for terrestrial vertebrate species conservation in the Atlantic Forest, based on existing data.

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“…The restoration project will have been effective as a 'large-scale project' if it attracts focal landscape species (Didier et al 2009; Wildlife Conservation Society 2001) that require a minimum sized range and a variety of habitats. Some of these species, for example, browsing animals such as roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) which have become resident in the project area, are themselves acting as vectors of habitat change.…”

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Monitoring and evaluating large-scale, ‘open-ended’ habitat creation projects: A journey rather than a destination

Hughes

Stroh

Adams

et al. 2011

Journal for Nature Conservation

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a b s t r a c tEcological restoration frequently involves setting fixed species or habitat targets to be achieved by prescribed restoration activities or through natural processes. Where no reference systems exist for defining outcomes or where restoration is planned on a large spatial scale, a more 'open-ended' approach to defining outcomes may be appropriate. Such approaches require changes to the definition of goals and the design of monitoring and evaluation activities. We suggest that in open-ended projects restoration goals should be framed in terms of promoting natural processes, mobile landscape mosaics and improved ecosystem services. Monitoring can then focus on the biophysical processes that underpin the development of habitat mosaics and the provision of ecosystem services, on the way habitat mosaics change through time and on species that can indicate the changing landscape attributes of connectivity and scale. Stakeholder response should be monitored since an open-ended restoration approach is unusual and can encounter institutional and societal constraints. Evaluation should focus on reporting changing restoration impacts and benefits rather than on achieving a pre-defined concept of ecological success.

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The Landscape Species Approach: spatially-explicit conservation planning applied in the Adirondacks, USA, and San Guillermo-Laguna Brava, Argentina, landscapes

Cited by 30 publications

References 24 publications

Aye-aye population genomic analyses highlight an important center of endemism in northern Madagascar

Aye-aye population genomic analyses highlight an important center of endemism in northern Madagascar

Fine-scale sites of global conservation importance in the Atlantic forest of Brazil

Monitoring and evaluating large-scale, ‘open-ended’ habitat creation projects: A journey rather than a destination

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