Strengths and complementarity of systematic conservation planning and Key Biodiversity Area approaches for spatial planning.

ABSTRACT: Developing biodiversity-inclusive spatial plans at a national level is the focus of Target 1 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF). There are 2 general approaches to identifying areas of value for biodiversity plans: criteria-based, such as the Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) process, and systematic conservation planning (SCP) approaches, which apply complementarity to efficiently achieve specific quantitative targets. We examined the benefits of both approaches and considered how the KBA approach can best complement SCP. We reviewed 200 papers articles that applied SCP to real-world data with the Marxan conservation design software. Our review showed that targets for biodiversity elements are poorly selected in many SCP publications, with more than 75% of the studies

SUBMITTER: Plumptre A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11959315 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature