Landscape-scale conservation design across biotic realms: sequential integration of aquatic and terrestrial landscapes.

ABSTRACT: Systematic conservation planning has been used extensively throughout the world to identify important areas for maintaining biodiversity and functional ecosystems, and is well suited to address large-scale biodiversity conservation challenges of the twenty-first century. Systematic planning is necessary to bridge implementation, scale, and data gaps in a collaborative effort that recognizes competing land uses. Here, we developed a conservation planning process to identify and unify conservation priorities around the central and southern Appalachian Mountains as part of the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (App LCC). Through a participatory framework and sequential, cross-realm integration in spatial optimization modeling we highlight lands and waters that together achieve jo

SUBMITTER: Leonard PB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5673968 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature