Delimiting priority areas for the conservation of endemic and threatened Neotropical birds using a niche-based gap analysis.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge of spatiotemporal distribution of biodiversity is still very incomplete in the tropics. This is one of the major problems preventing the assessment and effectiveness of conservation actions. Mega-diverse tropical regions are being exposed to fast and profound environmental changes, and the amount of resources available to describe the distribution of species is generally limited. Thus, the tropics is losing species at unprecedented rates, without a proper assessment of its biodiversity. Species distribution models (SDMs) can be used to fill such biogeographic gaps within a species' range and, when allied with systematic conservation planning (e.g. analyses of representativeness, gap analysis), help transcend such data shortage and support practical conservation actions. Within th

SUBMITTER: de Carvalho DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5302823 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature