Applying conservation reserve design strategies to define ecosystem monitoring priorities.

ABSTRACT: In an era of unprecedented ecological upheaval, monitoring ecosystem change at large spatial scales and over long-time frames is an essential endeavor of effective environmental management and conservation. However, economic limitations often preclude revisiting entire monitoring networks at high frequency. We aimed here to develop a prioritization strategy for monitoring networks to select a subset of existing sites that meets the principles of complementarity and representativeness of the whole ecological reality, and maximizes ecological complementarity (species accumulation) and the spatial and environmental representativeness. We applied two well-known approaches for conservation design, the "minimum set" and the "maximal coverage" problems, using a suite of alpha and beta biodiversit

SUBMITTER: Martin-Fores I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8668797 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature