Defining performance thresholds for effective management of biodiversity within protected areas.

ABSTRACT: Performance thresholds are an important tool for determining successful conservation outcomes. They provide an objective means of defining good ecological condition and have been endorsed as an essential part of best practice in protected area (PA) management within the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas Standard. With a growing number of PAs attaining Green List status globally, thresholds developed by PAs on the Green List present an excellent resource with which to identify the attributes of well-defined performance thresholds. We examined 349 thresholds associated with PAs on the Green List to determine whether they were specific and measurable (i.e., factors recognized as essential for setting well-defined targets). We assess

SUBMITTER: Hilton M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10087165 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature