Identifying priority areas for conservation and management in diverse tropical forests.

ABSTRACT: The high concentration of the world's species in tropical forests endows these systems with particular importance for retaining global biodiversity, yet it also presents significant challenges for ecology and conservation science. The vast number of rare and yet to be discovered species restricts the applicability of species-level modelling for tropical forests, while the capacity of community classification approaches to identify priorities for conservation and management is also limited. Here we assessed the degree to which macroecological modelling can overcome shortfalls in our knowledge of biodiversity in tropical forests and help identify priority areas for their conservation and management. We used 527 plant community survey plots in the Australian Wet Tropics to generate models and

SUBMITTER: Mokany K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3925232 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature