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Adams, Vanessa M.; Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University; National Environmental Research Program Northern Australia Hub; v.adams@uq.edu.au; Pressey, Robert L.; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University; National Environmental Research Program Northern Australia Hub; Bob.pressey@jcu.edu.au; Stoeckl, Natalie; School of Business and Cairns Institute, James Cook University; National Environmental Research Program Northern Australia Hub; natalie.stoeckl@jcu.edu.au. |
There is an increasing demand for development of natural resources, which can be accompanied by environmental degradation. Planning for multiple land uses requires navigating trade-offs between social, economic, and environmental outcomes arising from different possible futures. To explore these trade-offs, we use the Daly River catchment, in Australia’s Northern Territory, as a case study. The catchment contains areas of priority for both conservation and development. In response to the challenge of navigating the required trade-offs, the Daly River Management Advisory Committee (DRMAC) initiated a land-use plan for the region. Both development and conservation of natural resources in the catchment will affect human well-being and the... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Development; Human well-being; Land-use planning; Objective setting; Stakeholder engagement; Systematic conservation planning. |
Ano: 2014 |
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Roux, Dirk; CSIR; droux@csir.co.za; de Moor, Ferdy; Albany Museum; F.demoor@ru.ac.za; Cambray, Jim; Albany Museum; J.Cambray@ru.ac.za; Barber-James, Helen; Albany Museum; H.James@ru.ac.za. |
A strategy for assigning priorities in biodiversity conservation was developed for the rivers of the proposed Greater Addo Elephant National Park (GAENP) in South Africa. Due to the limited availability of biological information on the freshwater ecosystems of this area, a desktop approach, supplemented by aerial and land surveys, was used to devise a new river classification typology. This typology incorporated landscape attributes as surrogates for biodiversity patterns, resulting in defined physical "signatures" for each river type. Riverine biodiversity is considered to be conserved by including rivers of each type as defined by the respective signatures. Where options existed, and two or more rivers shared the same signature, a simple procedure was... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Greater Addo Elephant National Park; South Africa; Conservation targets; Ecosystem processes; Priority conservation options; Rivers; Signatures of physical pattern; Systematic conservation planning. |
Ano: 2002 |
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Reecht, Yves; Gasche, Loïc; Lehuta, Sigrid; Vaz, Sandrine; Smith, Robert J; Mahevas, Stephanie; Marchal, Paul. |
In the past decade, systematic conservation planning tools have been increasingly and successfully used to set spatial conservation plans that meet quantitative protection targets while minimizing enforcement and socioeconomic costs. However, when applied to fisheries, systematic conservation planning fails to account for (1) changes in fleet dynamics induced by new conservation constraints and their associated feedbacks on conservation costs or (2) their influence on fish population dynamics and distributions, which may in turn alter the achievement of conservation targets. Such a static approach may therefore lead to short- or medium-term misestimates in forecasted costs and target achievements. In order to circumvent such limitations of systematic... |
Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: MPAs; Systematic conservation planning; Mixed fisheries dynamics; Model coupling; Eastern English Channel; Marxan with Zones; ISIS-Fish. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00293/40421/39077.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... |
Tipo: Text |
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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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... |
Tipo: Text |
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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