Principles for area-based biodiversity conservation

IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI:10.1111/ele.14459
Federico Riva, Nick Haddad, Lenore Fahrig, Cristina Banks-Leite
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Recent international agreements have strengthened and expanded commitments to protect and restore native habitats for biodiversity protection (“area-based biodiversity conservation”). Nevertheless, biodiversity conservation is hindered because how such commitments should be implemented has been strongly debated, which can lead to suboptimal habitat protection decisions. We argue that, despite the debates, there are three essential principles for area-based biodiversity conservation. These principles are related to habitat geographic coverage, amount, and connectivity. They emerge from evidence that, while large areas of nature are important and must be protected, conservation or restoration of multiple small habitat patches is also critical for global conservation, particularly in regions with high land use. We contend that the many area-based conservation initiatives expected in the coming decades should follow the principles we identify, regardless of ongoing debates. Considering the importance of biodiversity for maintenance of ecosystem services, we suggest that this would bring widespread societal benefits.

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以地区为基础的生物多样性保护原则。
最近的国际协定加强并扩大了为保护生物多样性而保护和恢复本地栖息地的承诺("基于区域的生物多样性保护")。然而,生物多样性保护工作受到了阻碍,因为如何履行这些承诺一直存在着激烈的争论,这可能会导致做出次优的栖息地保护决策。我们认为,尽管存在争论,但基于区域的生物多样性保护有三个基本原则。这些原则与栖息地的地理覆盖范围、数量和连通性有关。这些原则源于以下证据:虽然大面积的自然环境非常重要,必须加以保护,但保护或恢复多个小块的栖息地对全球保护也至关重要,尤其是在土地使用率较高的地区。我们认为,无论目前的争论如何,预计未来几十年中许多基于区域的保护措施都应遵循我们确定的原则。考虑到生物多样性对维持生态系统服务的重要性,我们认为这将带来广泛的社会效益。
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Ecology Letters
Ecology Letters 环境科学-生态学
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201
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1.8 months
期刊介绍: Ecology Letters serves as a platform for the rapid publication of innovative research in ecology. It considers manuscripts across all taxa, biomes, and geographic regions, prioritizing papers that investigate clearly stated hypotheses. The journal publishes concise papers of high originality and general interest, contributing to new developments in ecology. Purely descriptive papers and those that only confirm or extend previous results are discouraged.
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