How to prioritize allocating conservation efforts: An alternative method tested with imperilled herpetofauna
- Kacoliris, Federico Pablo
- Velasco, Melina Alicia
- Berkunsky, Igor
- Celsi, C. E.
- Williams, Jorge Daniel
- Di Pietro, Diego Omar
- Rosset, Sergio Daniel
DOIAbstract
Several methods were developed with the aim of prioritizing conservation efforts. However, most of these methods were focused on ranking areas for land protection, without offering alternatives for sites poorly ranked. We propose an alternative method that allows prioritizing conservation efforts independently of the status of a specific area. The conservation priorities method considers data related with biodiversity, availability of suitable habitat and human pressure, on area-based units. This information is then standardized, obtaining a vector of three values, which reflects the situation of a specific area categorically (positive and negative) and quantitatively (how far from zero). Based on these values, specific conservation efforts...
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