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| Metcalfe, Kristian; Vaz, Sandrine; Engelhard, Georg H.; Villanueva, Ching-maria; Smith, Robert J.; Mackinson, Steven. |
| Well-designed marine protected area (MPA) networks can deliver a range of ecological, economic and social benefits, and so a great deal of research has focused on developing spatial conservation prioritization tools to help identify important areas. However, whilst these software tools are designed to identify MPA networks that both represent biodiversity and minimize impacts on stakeholders, they do not consider complex ecological processes. Thus, it is difficult to determine the impacts that proposed MPAs could have on marine ecosystem health, fisheries and fisheries sustainability. Using the eastern English Channel as a case study, this paper explores an approach to address these issues by identifying a series of MPA networks using the Marxan and Marxan... |
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Palavras-chave: Ecopath with Ecosim; Ecospace; Marine spatial zoning; Marine trophic index; Marxan; Marxan with Zones; Systematic conservation planning. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00254/36538/37818.pdf |
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| Metcalfe, Kristian; Delavenne, Juliette; Garcia, Clement; Foveau, Aurelie; Dauvin, Jean-claude; Coggan, Roger; Vaz, Sandrine; Harrop, Stuart R.; Smith, Robert J.. |
| Aim : The speciesarea relationship (SAR) is increasingly being used to set conservation targets for habitat types when designing protected area networks. This approach is transparent and scientifically defensible, but there has been little research on how it is affected by data quality and quantity. Location : English Channel. Methods : We used a macrobenthic dataset containing 1314 sampling points and assigned each point to its associated habitat type. We then used the SAR-based approach and tested whether this was influenced by changes in (i) the number of sampling points used to generate estimates of total species richness for each habitat type; (ii) the nonparametric estimator used to calculate species richness; and (iii) the level of habitat... |
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Palavras-chave: English Channel; Habitat targets; Marine Conservation Zones; Marine protected areas; Species-area relationship; Systematic conservation planning. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00116/22745/20689.pdf |
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| Delavenne, Juliette; Metcalfe, Kristian; Smith, Robert J.; Vaz, Sandrine; Martin, Corinne S.; Dupuis, Ludovic; Coppin, Franck; Carpentier, Andre. |
| The systematic conservation approach is now commonly used for the design of efficient marine protected area (MPA) networks. Identifying these priority areas often involves using specific conservation-planning software. Several of these software programmes have been developed in recent years, each of which differs in the underlying algorithms used. Here, we investigate whether the choice of software influences the location of priority areas by comparing outputs from Marxan and Zonation, two widely used conservation-planning, decision-support tools. Using biological and socio-economic data from the eastern English Channel, we compared their outputs and showed that the two software packages identified similar sets of priority areas, even though the relatively... |
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Palavras-chave: Eastern English Channel; Marine conservation planning; Marxan; Spatial conservation prioritization; Zonation. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00054/16518/14088.pdf |
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