Avian Conservation Areas as a Proxy for Contaminated Soil Remediation.

ABSTRACT: Remediation prioritization frequently falls short of systematically evaluating the underlying ecological value of different sites. This study presents a novel approach to delineating sites that are both contaminated by any of eight heavy metals and have high habitat value to high-priority species. The conservation priority of each planning site herein was based on the projected distributions of eight protected bird species, simulated using 900 outputs of species distribution models (SDMs) and the subsequent application of a systematic conservation tool. The distributions of heavy metal concentrations were generated using a geostatistical joint-simulation approach. The uncertainties in the heavy metal distributions were quantified in terms of variability among 1000 realization sets. Finally

SUBMITTER: Lin WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4515724 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature