Identification of areas of very high biodiversity value to achieve the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 key commitments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The European Union strives to increase protected areas of the EU terrestrial surface to 30% by year 2030, of which one third should be strictly protected. Designation of the Natura 2000 network, the backbone of nature protection in the EU, was mostly an expert-opinion process with little systematic conservation planning. The designation of the Natura 2000 network in Romania followed the same non-systematic approach, resulting in a suboptimal representation of invertebrates and plants. To help identify areas with very high biodiversity without repeating past planning missteps, we present a reproducible example of spatial prioritization using Romania's current terrestrial Natura 2000 network and coarse-scale terrestrial species occurrence.

Methods

We used 371 terres

SUBMITTER: Miu IV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7532765 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature