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| Provedor de dados: |
Ecology and Society
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| País: |
Canada
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| Título: |
Viable Reserve Networks Arise From Individual Landholder Responses To Conservation Incentives
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| Autores: |
Chomitz, Kenneth M; World Bank; kchomitz@worldbank.org
da Fonseca, Gustavo A. B.; Conservation International; g.fonseca@conservation.org
Alger, Keith; Conservation International; k.alger@conservation.org
Stoms, David M; University of California, Santa Barbara; stoms@bren.ucsb.edu
Landau, Elena Charlotte; Federal University of Minas Gerais; landau@icb.ufmg.br
Thomas, Timothy S.; World Bank; tthomas2@worldbank.org
Thomas, W. Wayt; New York Botanical Gardens; wthomas@nybg.org
Davis, Frank; University of California, Santa Barbara; fd@bren.ucsb.edu
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| Data: |
2006-12-26
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| Ano: |
2006
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| Palavras-chave: |
Bahia
Biodiversity
Conservation
Conservation planning
Economic instruments
Land use.
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| Resumo: |
Conservation in densely settled biodiversity hotspots often requires setting up reserve networks that maintain sufficient contiguous habitat to support viable species populations. Because it is difficult to secure landholder compliance with a tightly constrained reserve network design, attention has shifted to voluntary incentive mechanisms, such as purchase of conservation easements by reverse auction or through a fixed-price offer. These mechanisms carry potential advantages of transparency, simplicity, and low cost. However, uncoordinated individual response to these incentives has been assumed incompatible with the conservation goal of viability, which depends on contiguous habitat and biodiversity representation. We model such incentives for southern Bahia in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, one of the biologically richest and most threatened global biodiversity hotspots. Here, forest cover is spatially autocorrelated and associated with depressed land values, a situation that may be characteristic of long-settled areas with forests fragmented by agriculture. We find that in this situation, a voluntary incentive system can yield a reserve network characterized by large, viable patches of contiguous forest, and representation of subregions with distinct vegetation types and biotic assemblages, without explicit planning for those outcomes.
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Peer-Reviewed Reports
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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vol11/iss2/art40/
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| Editor: |
Resilience Alliance
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text/html application/pdf
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| Fonte: |
Ecology and Society; Vol. 11, No. 2 (2006)
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